A Date That Will Live In Infamy!

Update from yesterday…

We have a scheduled date for surgery – mark your calendars, call your friends, alert the media… I will have surgery on February 6, 2013.  That means you have 4 weeks to get your gifts bought, wrapped and sent.  I’ll put the info on the hospital and my room number when I get it.  Remember – only gifts with intrinsic value (gold, silver, platinum, frankincense, myrrh or chocolate.)

But seriously, I won’t kid you – this is, like they say in baseball, the bigs.  There’s no going back. Funny how things that are in the future are no big deal but when they end up on the calendar in bold letters and underlined they seem much bigger than you thought.  And this is big.

The procedure is called a cystectomy for those of you who are curious.

I would like to have it done sooner but the procedure is a 6-8 hour surgery and requires a special robotic machine and coordinating the schedules for those two things is difficult.  They will have me on waiting list in case something opens up but I’m betting it will be Feb 6.

In the meantime we’re not doing chemo – just sitting and waiting.  That’s the tough part.  It is really frustrating to know you’re just sitting there, doing nothing, waiting.  Damn.

So… to lighten the mood here I give you a little ditty by Mr. Jack Johnson.  (Email subscribers will need to click here to see the video.)