Apr 18

Two for One!

Today I get 2 medical appointments!

PET Scan Number Five.

Jump up and down and move it all around.
Shake your head to the sound, put your hands on the ground.
Take one step left and one step right.
One to the front and one to the side.
Clap your hands once and clap your hands twice
And if it look like this then you’re doing it right.

PET Scan

What a way to start out a week on Monday. This morning I will be going in for another PET, which “will be key in determining our plan of action for treatment,” say the doctors.

They’ve got one coming to them.

After the PET, I will go back to the thoracic surgeon for my post-surgery check-up. I’ll take him my chest X-ray from last week and we’d like for it to show that my chest and lungs are healthy.

It would also be nice if it showed my lymph nodes shrinking. That has been Sunday’s goal in preparation for Monday’s PET scan. The lymph nodes got a talking to, and they understand that their mission is to shrink back down to normal size and stay that way. I told them they had no choice but to accept their mission. Hopefully they will act in a speedy and efficient manner.

I hope to ask the doctor tomorrow how the chest Xray from last Wednesday compares to the chest Xrays taken before and after surgery. I’m hoping the comparison will be good.

If TWO appointments in one day isn’t enough for me, I can make up for it by going to see my oncologist at Thompson on Tuesday morning. We will discuss the results of the PET scan, and discuss what my options are.

Here’s to GOOD NEWS on Tuesday, and continuing no more getting a little sideways on Tuesdays. 🙂 After all I’ve been looking forward to 2011 and No Cancer since I started this blog.

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Apr 17

Habitat Pictures, Blitz 2011 Day 8 Saturday Dedication Day

Day 8 of Blitz Week 2011 for Habitat for Humanity! We were working on the center house with the UT Interfraternity and Panhellenic Groups.

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Saturday! Dedication Day for all the blitz houses. It’s hard to believe these house were nothing more than a concrete slab a week ago. The Dedication Service began at 11AM, and lots of people arrived around 10AM to tour the houses and see what a wonderful job all the volunteers did. I hooked my ipod up to the sound system so people could have music before the dedication. Of course I had to play Don’s song, “We Built This City (on Rock and Roll)”, and Jacqui’s song, “This is the House that Jack “Jax” Built.” The music was very good.

The good news about today is that it wasn’t raining, and the sun shone some of the time. The bad news is that the sky was overcast a lot, it was VERY VERY VERY WINDY, (did I say it was windy? It was very windy.), and the temperature kept getting colder and colder. There must have been a cold front blowing in.

The dedication service was very special, and very touching. The City and County Mayors were there, as well as many Habitat Board members, the covenant partners, house leads, crew leads, and lots of volunteers as well. My parents even came out for the dedication, which means a lot to me. See if you can spot them in the pictures. It’s amazing what can happen when all these people get together to help their fellow neighbors in our community. Everyone did a wonderful job, especially our homeowners. The homeowners have a done an amazing job to get where they are today, and we are all very proud of them.

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Apr 17

Habitat Pictures, Blitz 2011 Day 7 Friday

Day 7 of Blitz Week 2011 for Habitat for Humanity! We were working on the center house with the UT Interfraternity and Panhellenic Groups.

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Friday! Last day of Blitz Week before dedication day. Lunch today was pizza, spaghetti, and salad from Papa John’s, the Pizza Palace, and a few other places. Some of the pizza was late because Papa John’s was confused between 11:30AM and 11:30PM, and the delivery driver got there shortly after noon in his little red car with lots of pizza for us.

Today we were a bit thin on volunteers, and we still managed to get a lot done. Lee did a great job putting the porch swing together. Dora and Jacqui caulked everything in the house and then some. Don did a little bit of everything. Volunteers installed door knobs, and I even got to install a few door knobs. The proof is in the pictures, and the house looks REALLY nice!

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