My electronic world is almost fully restored. I am grateful that FaceBook refunded the $1500 that the crook had them take out of my pay-pal account. I had a Face Book account associated with this blog (not my personal FB account) and that appears to be where the crocks entered my electronic world. I have…

Hi, it has been a little crazy lately and I will try to cram in several thoughts as quickly as I can. I sat down to do my taxes a couple of weeks ago and started but discovered that I’d been hacked. I had no access to the internet and all my e-mails had been…

Throughout my life, when asked about my dream job, I would always say that it was sitting by a fire in a cabin, on a mountain lake, writing fiction, with my Saint Bernard (my wife and kids are a given so not mentioned in this dream). Yesterday it dawned on me that I was sitting…

Good News! I have  my labs back, which looks directly at the cancer. We do this one every three months. My last one, done 3 months after my stem cell transplant, was confusing and mixed (too complicated to explain here). This one, which just came back today, was clear and shows only a “faint” trace…

I’ve mentioned here that I’ve been working on a novel for three years. I was pretty far along with it. . .  until I got sick. It got put on the back-burner when I was going through my stem cell transplant and recovery (although I did write another book, Christina Athena, during that time). I…

The first round of labs are back with an over-all slight improvement (my hemoglobin when from 12 to 12.5 and my estimated GFR, which is kidney function, went from 20 to 21). Probably the highlight is the fact that my electrolytes were normal despite the fact I had been more lenient in my diet. Just…

No, I have no lab results. However, I was thinking this morning (once again) about this strange world that we who have active cancer face, as well as people with other serious diseases. It is where numbers on a paper (blood tests, biopsies, etc.) will tell you if life goes on the way it is,…

I know I’ve spread this thought out over weeks due to the (pleasant) interruption of my novel, which I’m editing at this time. I want to do a quick review before I continue and then in the very end, I want to sew this all up—I hope—to a simple synopsis. Summary: The fragmentation of information…

Welcome to February! A year ago I was doubtful I would ever seen February 2020 and I’m glad I am here. Summary: Monday 2/3/20 I will have labs to look at my kidneys and I will get my, every 90 day, direct look at my cancer (via serum protein immunofixation). My neurological symptoms are still…

My definitions: truth=anything a particular group calls truth using terms like, “my truth” or “Biblical truth.” TRUTH = that which is consistent with reality, or the classical sense of truth. It was very hard for me to pry my fingers away from the keyboard, where I’m editing my novel Rock Harbor, to return writing on…