You know what a shell is, right? I seem to remember getting my first good look at a shell when I spent a summer on my Grandfather's farm in southern Missouri back in 1960. (I also remember the Beatles hit the world that summer as well. That was all we …

Yesterday, Cheryl, Cousin Bill, and I headed back to Houston for another evaluation. This time it was to see how my eating and drinking was progressing following surgery.

We had a 1:00pm appointment, so we headed out at 8:30am. That gave us enough time to make the required …

Yesterday, Cheryl and I visited our GP doctor. This guy was recommended to us my Austin "top doc", He is pretty cool. He worked as an ER doctor for many years, taught ER procedures for many more years before he decided he just wanted to be a doctor. He knows …

It has been two weeks since modification v5.0, and we are back at M.D. Anderson for tests and follow-up visits with Dr. Yu, the plastic Surgeon.

We found out Monday evening that we had a 1PM Tuesday appointment to have a "Modified Barium Swallow" test, so we had …

Home Again!

The cat has forgiven us for abandoning him to cat-sitters for 10 days!

I can lay in my own Sleep-Number adjustable bed!

Well, that last one is nice, but it is sure not as adjustable as the one in the hospital!

All I have to do now, is …

I must have gotten on the nerves of the nurses today. They threw me out!

Actually, one of the nurses said she was going to miss me and would have to deal with one of those "normal" patients. You know those: the ones who complain a lot.

I have run …

Today is day six after surgery. I had another eventful night, visiting with nurses, checking email, watching TV. Wait! That was from 2AM-7AM. Sleep? Naw! We don't need no stinking sleep!

I am actually getting into this nighttime routine. The clock moves in mysterious ways in the middle of the …

No one gets much sleep at M.D. Anderson!

Here I am, at Version 5.0, hanging out with my night nurse, Yesinia (whose parents got the idea for her name from a Soap Opera! Parents sure come up with weird names for their poor kids!)

Yesinia has been working …

Today, Cheryl, me, and my two sisters, Connie and Karen from D.C, drove over to Houston to have a last minute visit with Dr. Yu (not to be confused with Dr. Vu who we saw last week!) Dr. Yu is my plastic surgeon. He will be working on me …

Numbers (in case you can't make out that weird spelling)!

Yesterday, for my visit to M.D. Anderson in preparation for another cancer surgery, Cheryl and I had to handle a boatload of numbers!