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    Tuesday, September 11. 2012

    Big C update



    Welcome to those of you arriving from Instapundit and my thanks to Glenn for the helpful link.  My original post on this gruesome subject is here and the Save-Our-Doc donation page is here.


    And welcome to Maggie's Farm, the oldest and bestest eclectic site in the sphereoblogs.  It's the only site in town where you'll see a penetrating look into the human psyche by a renown psychiatrist, an exposé of the rotten core we call our educational system, a warning about the latest nasty computer virus, all followed by an endearing piece titled 'Chipmunk of the Week'.  Quality eclecticity, all the way.


    As far as who the hell I am, I was blogging ten years before the word was invented and had a page of the latest hot web links up a decade before Instapundit launched.  Details here.  As I said to Ed Driscoll today, relics like me should be preserved.  As for some of my recent posts, if you like music, check this out.  If you like horses, check this out.  The genetics post Ed once referred to as "epic" is here, and my home site is here.


    As for the rest of you lugs (and lugesses), I'm still tentatively scheduled for the 24th, but I might push it back a bit.  The problem with the entire medical field is that it's full of 'ifs'.  If the operation goes routinely, I might have enough money.  If the post-operative costs are normal, I might have enough money.  If the drugs are still available (a number of post-operative cancer drugs have recently become harder to find because of — you guessed it — government over-regulation by the FDA), I might have enough money.


    It's the not-ifs that are worrying me.


    The good news is that a subsidiary of the company I normally do the web work for hired me to do a big project for them (Ever put an Excel database online?  It's not a pretty site.) so that'll keep me busy for a while.  It should be worth about $800, but the pisser is that I won't get it for almost two months.


    I also dusted off my plumbing tools the other day and made $350 replacing a water heater and two faucets.  I modestly admit I haven't lost my touch.  I had those puppies replaced in no time flat.


    And, of course, no Big C update would be complete without including one of the many, many (many) happy-go-lucky, cheer-me-up cartoons and pics my two best friends have sent me since this all began.  I'm sure lucky to have such support!







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