Visiting M/SO on Saturday

I'm planning to head to m/so on Saturday afternoon where I'm going to help the theatre group set up for the new show (which opens the following week) and then I'm going to get together w/Dave and Jerry to hang out for the evening. Hopefully I'll see a lot of you at some point or other during my visit.

I've been having a great week, feeling good and have been trying to do as much as possible while I have the opportunity. Guess I've been eating out a bit too much because I've put on 8 lbs in the last week or so (tho I think Dr. I will be pretty happy about). Just got a care package from my sister GOC - lots of salty snacks along w/a t-shirt and baseball cap. All very cool and much appreciated :) Putting the snacks away until treatment starts up again at which point I'll need them (but will be wearing the hat tomorrow).

Have to get up early tomorrow. My pet and cat scans are scheduled for 8:00 but that will allow me to get to work at a semi-reasonable time. I also have an appointment at 2:00 for a trial run of my radiation treatment (which begins for real on Monday) but that shouldn't take too long.

I'm probably not going to write a new entry in the blog until Sunday evening but I will, of course, be reading and responding to comments.


--Dr. D

Help: Netflix Queue is Anemic!!!

So my netflix queue is running low and what's there is hardly inspiring. I need suggestions on good movies so please chime in. Anything but the horror genre; comedies are particularly appreciated at this point.

Probably my favorite recent movie suggestion was 'Serenity', a science fiction movie w/a good sense of humor (watched the entire 'firefly' tv series, on which it was based, afterwards). My sister sent 'The God's Must Be Crazy', one of my all time favorites which I dragged her to see when I was in high school (she liked even more than I did). And extra credit if you get 'I'm Hysterical and I'm Wet!' (bit of a non-sequitor but I've always liked the way it sounds).

Turns out my test today was an esophogram rather than an edoscopy. This is the test where they take x-rays of you while you drink barium. Nice that I didn't have to get knocked out but drinking barium makes me kinda wish I had been :) I'll post the results when I get them but it probably won't be until next Monday when I see Dr. I.

And now for something completely different, here are the boys:

Survey Says: A Good Weekend

It's been a good weekend. Didn't do a whole lot yesterday but did get out for a while for lunch, a bit of walking around, and a some grocery shopping. Min hung out w/me for the evening - we thought about going out to see a movie but, in the end, I decided I was a bit too tired so we ended up watching a dvd instead (Truffaut's 'Day for Night', which I rather enjoyed). Today I headed out to central park and spent the afternoon trading off walking around and reading. It was a little overcast but the leaves are changing and it was quite pleasant overall.

I still don't feel 100% at the moment but I feel pretty damn good and expect I will feel pretty good this upcoming week - really nice to look forward to. Tomorrow morning I am having another endoscopy and on Friday morning I am having a pet scan and a cat scan (still no dog scan); I am having these tests so that they can evaluate how well I am responding to the treatment. As you'd expect, I'm quite interested in the results too :).

Thanks again for the comments and feedback on the bald vs short-hair issue.

--Dr. D