Wow, no post since October 2009?  Six years and four months???  Where has the time gone?  I guess I was having so much fun I didn't notice. I have thought many times I needed to put up a post and then didn't.  Not that I'm a procrastinator or anything, but that is ridiculous.  Tonight I got an email from a person that might be newly diagnosed with CLL.  He will find out later this week.  The email was rather tentative but basically wanting to know if I was still alive.  When I mentioned it to Cheryl, she said she has felt for a long time I really need t ..read more

[NOTE: I wrote this in November 2020, but only saved it as a draft and forgot to come back and finish.]  I left off with the possibility of the lung cancer returning, but perhaps I was in denial because I didn't think it had come back. Probably more truthfully, I didn't want it to be true that it came back. We planned like normal and our plan included leaving for our Drive to Texas to our winter home on the 28th of October and I also made our hotel reservations along the route.  As I said on Facebook, "Man plans and God laughs." I had the CT scan on October 12th, I had two appointmen ..read more

 I was notified a Spammer had posted on one of my old posts and I came to remove it just in case anyone still reads this.  It was a doozy. He or she claimed they had a cure for CLL, HIV, and a host of others. Just go to the link he left and buy Dr. Bozo's miracle snake oil cure in capsule form.  Of course I placed my order before deleting his comment on my Blog.  Sigh. I figured I might as well leave another update since last time. Non medical stuff: Besides my five grandchildren, we now have five great-grandchildren. Four boys and a girl. We sold our cabin. Boo Hoo. We we ..read more

Wow, no post since October 2009?  Six years and four months???  Where has the time gone?  I guess I was having so much fun I didn't notice. I have thought many times I needed to put up a post and then didn't.  Not that I'm a procrastinator or anything, but that is ridiculous.  Tonight I got an email from a person that might be newly diagnosed with CLL.  He will find out later this week.  The email was rather tentative but basically wanting to know if I was still alive.  When I mentioned it to Cheryl, she said she has felt for a long time I really need t ..read more