We are storming he beach, literally!  We arrived tonight, after an eleven hour drive, at our vacation destination:  South Padre Island, Texas.  This is out third time down here as a family, and we do like it.  The condo is great and the weather has been fairly cooperative the times we have been here.  One [...]

We met with a possible treating oncologist yesterday.  He seemed very knowledgeable, but was just reading through his script.  I have this type of lymphoma….this is the treatment for it.  He was not really thinking, just going through the motions.  But, for the most part, he goes through the motions because that is what works.  [...]

I took that meaning literally today.
I voted this morning on my way in to work.  I will at MD Anderson on Monday, November 3rd, and am not sure if I will home on election day.  So, I voted today.  I have voted early.  Should I vote on Tuesday the 4th to vote often?  I’ll have [...]

Okay, Hodgkin’s does have very few advantages.  One being how much I have already learned about it.  The other learning about hospitals.  I have had people come out of the woodwork to help me during this time in my life.  I have suggestions of drinking certain products, do this, don’t do that, etc.  I have [...]

What do you get when you cross the South Beach diet with the coping diet?  This past week.  This past week I bottomed out with a total weight loss of 30 pounds!  Yeah.  I gained all 30 back this week.  Well, the wheels did not fall completely off, but it was a tough week.  The [...]

Well, we received the final diagnosis today.  The is the final “stand up in court” diagnosis.  I have cancer.  Not very dramatic, huh?  The official title is Lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin’s disease (LPHD).  Whadda ya think of that?  Quite the mouthful.  It pretty means the same thing we have been saying for several weeks now…..Hodgkin’s.  We [...]

This weekend I had a vacation at an all inclusive resort… uhm… err… uhhh… hospital….yeah, that’s right.
Friday morning, very early in the morning, I went checked into this swanky resort….uhhh…hospital.  It was for day surgery.  I believe the term is, “excisional biopsy of the left neck.”  I was not too worried.  I handle anesthesia well, [...]

THE SOUTH BEACH UPDATE HAS BEEN PRE-EMPTED FOR THIS IMPORTANT NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT!
There will be no South Beach update this week due to an unforeseen hospital stay.  Please come back next Sunday for the next scheduled update.  Thank You.

Home at last….home at last….thank God Almighty I am home at last.  (with apologies to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Today my ‘day’ surgery ended and I am home.  That was a helluva ‘day’.  I have been home for some five hours or so.  In that time the Cowboys managed to find a way to [...]

I’m not dead yet….I’m feeling much bettah!
They say Hodgkin’s you say non-Hodgkin’s…let’s just call the whole thing off.  Well, we have the 100% official diagnosis.  I do have lymphoma.  We do not know exactly what kind yet.  I spent Thursday having scans so that we can stage it.  We are still awiting those results.  My [...]