Twenty-six

Yeah so it's been a while since I've posted. There just isn't much going on.

I'm still on the chemo Gemzar. The cancer appears to be growing, but very slowly, so the drugs are helping at the moment. It's playing hell with my blood counts tho and I have to drink a ton of fluids to keep my blood pressure up. Unfortunately, they told me beer and whisky do not count as fluids in this case.

Wound care continues as before. The docs and nurses at the wound clinic think it won't close up/heal over while the tumor is there behind putting pressure on it. I saw another surgeon for a second opinion but no dice. The tumor is down into muscle so it's inoperable, and removing some of the tumor or some of the tissue isn't good because the body will know something's been removed and will step up efforts to regrow things there - I'd have a bigger mess than I do now.

The trip to Florida was great. We didn't see the shuttle launch, but the space center is amazing. We also spent a couple of days at Disneyworld. Sandra says she doesn't have to excercise for the rest of the year now - she got quite a workout pushing me around the parks in my wheelchair so I could save my energy for the fun stuff.

My sister's baby is a boy! He'll arrive sometime in July. I got to go to the ultrasound with her and her husband and it was very cool. He's big and healthy and developing right on track. He kept clutching and burying his head in the placenta during the ultrasound, just like a shy little kid might do with a blanket - it was cute.

Cheers