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britgeekgrrl's journal (and shame on you if you haven't), you'll know we've had some ups and downs lately, and those have kind of pre-occupied me as well. Hopefully I'll get around to posting more often, if only as a means of getting me away from the computer games I've been playing incessantly.However, just to keep you updated, I do have another surgery coming up sometime before the end of January. This time it's to get a small tumor off my liver. To add to the fun, my gall bladder will have to go as well, as the tumor is just pressing into it, and the surgeon feels it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm probably looking at three to four days recovery in the hospital, which won't be so bad as long as I don't get a next-door neighbor who screams all the time, as I did my last visit. In any case, I should be up and around in plenty of time for DunDraCon.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
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In other news (and this pertains solely to gaming), does anyone out there know of a really good wiki hosting site? I want to make some pages for my ongoing 7th Sea game, but I know exactly diddily about making and maintaining wikis, and I'd like the process to be as painless as possible. Help?
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Damn, but does watching New Hampshire Primary results rolling in make me want to run a West Wing-ish LARP when the Democratic and Republican National conventions kick off. Rent a hotel room someplace, invite all my LARP friends to wear their best power suits, and set up a couple of TV's to watch the fun as lobbyists and White House staffers.
I might have to give that some thought.
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Almost forgot. Got my mail-in ballot for the California Primary today, so that's my reminder for my annual "go out and vote, f*ckers" message. Ready?
Go out and vote, f*ckers.
- Mood:
calm - Music:Ben Foster - The Impossible Planet (Dr. Who)
So.
The date's been set. July 10th is now the day I go into Kaiser for my operation. Some of you may already know this from
britgeekgrrl's post yesterday.How'm I feeling? Mostly relieved. I've wanted to know the date for a while now, so I could get my affairs in order (get the house cleaned, get some bills pre-paid so that I don't have to worry about them...things like that) and get in the right mind set. And for the most part I *am* looking forward to this. Oh, the couple of weeks just after the surgery are going to be fifteen kinds of pure hell, but at least I know that it's the beginning of the end. From that date, I'll slowly start getting better and better, until maybe around Christmas I can finally put all this worry and pain behind me.
Now, that's not to say that I'm also not freaking out a bit. I've got some issues with going under the knife that stem back from an accident I had when I was six, and I had to go into the hospital for an operation. That time was pretty traumatic, and I don't think I've ever dealt with the psychic scars that incident left me. So I'm trying to find ways to deal with that in a hurry. Alcohol helps ;-)
There's other concerns too. If the lymph nodes are involved (unlikely, but possible), my chances of making it through the next five years with no recurrence drops down to about 65-70%, but my oncologist thinks that number is actually a little higher because of the intense chemotherapy and radiation I've already received. The bad news is that I'll get fitted with a shunt during the operation, and that I'm looking at about four months of additional chemotherapy after the surgery, and it ain't the pill form this time. So that won't be much fun. And of course I'm worried about taking so much time away from work. Will they let me come back afterwards? It's all well and good to say that they wouldn't dare let me go during convalescence from surgery, but companies do it all the time without fear of retribution. But that's not as much a worry as everything else.
I'm talking to my surgeon this coming Monday, the 2nd of July. I imagine he'll have instructions for what I'll need to do over the next week to get ready. I know for sure that after the surgery, I'll be in Kaiser for about four to five days, and then back at the house to convalesce for another four weeks after that. If you're interested in visiting, Johanna is drawing up a schedule in her post from yesterday, and I'm happy to let her take the lead on this sort of thing - she's ever more social than I am, and good at this sort of coordination.
Anyway, more bulletins as I get information.
- Mood: nervous
- Music:Queen - Bicycle Race
( Chemo/Radiation Therapy )
( It's Not *All* Bad )
( So When Is The Surgery? )
There you go. That's my life in a snapshot right now. Aside from work, I mean.
Even with all this that's going on for me physically, I'm still dragging my tired (and sore) butt to KublaCon and BayCon this weekend. Why? Because with as wiped out as I feel every day, I haven't had much social time with my friends. And I'm fed up with sitting around, watching television or goofing on my computer (although I'm all caught up on The West Wing and Heroes now, which isn't a bad thing). I want to go out and have some fun, and if I have to heavily medicate myself in order to make this work, then that's a burden I'm willing to carry. So if you're going to be at either con, keep an eye out for me and maybe I'll let you buy me a small drink. I'm a giving guy like that ;-)
And if you're at BayCon on Friday night, look around - you might see a certain general of our acquaintance stomping about, flashing his Eye Lasers of Death (TM)...word has it he's going to make *someone* do some serious kneeling...
- Music:Marti Jones - Inside These Arms
