I have made it through my first (hopefully my last) round of surgery to remove cancer from my body. As I sit here, on my first day back at work, I am remembering the emotions I’ve felt over the past two months. A whirlwind two months…. I have been all over the Internet looking for […]
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Antibiotics and Super Bacteria
October 11, 2008 
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Two weeks ago, a local 18-year-old athlete died from MRSA. MRSA is a bad-ass form of staph that is resistant to most antibiotics. This kid – young and strong – was brought down by this bacteria. Now, at least one other student at his school has been diagnosed with the same infection (but it looks […]
Continue readingPoetry Contest Winner
October 7, 2008 0 Comments
I have been writing a form of poetry, called Cinquain, for years. There is a modest bu creative group of us on the Internet and we band together in online message boards and groups. One particular group I am associated with holds a monthly contest for the best Cinquain along a theme for the month. […]
Continue reading Surgery Post-Op Results
October 6, 2008 1 Comment
So I am starting to feel human again. It’s taken some time but I can begin to swallow again and am trying to get more than 20 minutes of sleep at a time. Insomnia has set in, though. Now that I am off the pain medications I am all jittery and unable to sleep most […]
Continue readingPost Operation Details
October 3, 2008 3 Comments
I am on Day 5 of my recovery. I won’t spend a lot of time in this blog today because the pain medications make me a little loopy still. Still, I figured I would share a few details with the masses. (pun intended because a cancerous tumor is called a “mass”) I am sore mostly […]
Continue reading Cancer Surgery Date and Details
September 22, 2008 1 Comment
My surgery is on Monday the 29th of this month at 12:30pm. It will be performed at Winter Park Memorial Hospital in Winter Park, Florida. The surgery is expected to last between 2.5 – 4 hours. My surgeon is doing the following: 1. Biopsy my voice box 2. Biopsy my tongue 3. Biopsy the back […]
Continue reading John Stamos Cell Carcinoma
September 15, 2008 3 Comments
Last week I got a core biopsy on the mass in my neck. The original FNA (fine needle aspiration) biopsy suggested that the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes from somewhere else, but it was inconclusive. Additionally, blood tests showed that my hemoglobin IGG level was low – a possible indicator of lymphoma. (I […]
Continue reading The Scariest Words
August 27, 2008 1 Comment
The scariest words you ever want to hear are “Mr. Sparks, we don’t know what that mass is in your neck and it may be malignant.” Let me start from the beginning. Last Saturday Carey and I were getting ready to go out to dinner with friends. One of her friends has had an extremely […]
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