Saturday morning

Hi,

  Sorry for the delay in posting this week. I've been back at work everyday and found myself going to sleep very early and sleeping a full night. There was a day this week where I slept for 10 hours and that is not something I usually do. It was great to get back to work and I was glad to see that most of the chemo/cancer questions died down by mid week. Some people would still stop by my office and say they were glad to hear everything is cleared up, which is really nice, and it's good that they didn't want to continue the conversation as I'm pretty tired of talking about it. Of course, people ask questions and I figured if someone asked, maybe you want to know also.

1). Are you going to grow your hair back or stay bald?  My hair has just started to come back and I will grow it back. I think I will wear it a little shorter than I used to and the bald thing needs to go - it's too cold.

2). Will I read the Blog?  Hell no - I have No interest in remembering anything that happened or reading what I said.

3). Do I think, with time, the Chemo won't seem as bad as it was?  Although I think it's fair to say that time deminishes the pain of most things, I believe I will always look back on those 12 weeks as the most horrible thing I've ever gone through. Of course, I could be wrong and maybe as I get farther away from it, I will forget the physical aspect of it and only remember the good stuff which included the family support, support of friend and strangers, etc. I'd like to say that will be the case and it might be but not for a long time.

I think this cancer stuff is a little like school where there are a lot of questions and people just don't want ask them. So, I will open it up to questions. You can email or post on the blog and I will do my best to answer them.

I will get the port taken out next Tuesday. I'm really looking forward to it being out but not how they take it out. When the port was installed, I was knocked out and in surgery. To get it out, they numb the local area only, cut along the scar and pull it out. All the while I am aware of what is going on. They said it takes just a couple minutes and I hope there is a blindfold or something so I do not need to see any of it.

I'm traveling to Sacramento on Wed for a meeting and will be back Thursday night. I know it seems a little quick but they held off waiting for me.

Thanks for reading and I will post soon. There is some preliminary info on the 24 hours of hockey coming in this week and I will post the web page and more info.

Sam