The Caveat Emptor Advisory Board felt yesterday's post was entirely too thinky. "What the hell does it even mean?" asked Richard Arthur Pemberton III, the distinguished Chairman. "I have twelve doctoral degrees and am professor emeritus at four ivy league universities and I didn't understand it at all. I think it was just gibberish." Rick is never a fan of the thinky stuff.
So, today I've been "advised" (ordered) to post something more "bloggy." Here goes.
Went to dinner last night at a place called the Chef Point Cafe. It's not much to look at. In fact, it's a gas station. Not even a nice gas station. To be honest, I don't think I would buy gas there. Here's the thing, though, it also has an amazing restaurant in it. Who knew? Apparently it was recently featured on the Food Network's show "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" or, as I like to call it, "Throw Up! with Guy Fieri!" Here are some photos of the filming.
The food? It was amazing. Susan had the Blackened Stuffed Pork Chops featured on the show. I had the same thing, but chicken. We didn't have the renowned bread pudding, but we should have. My soul weeps for not having tasted it.
Hmmm... what else is going on in my life that's blog worthy. Hmmm...
Oh! The Internet is sending me cookies! Again! Don't you love it when the Internet sends you cookies? It's so awesome and makes you feel so... What? The Internet has never sent you cookies? Really? How strange. It's happened to me twice now. Funny. Well, I wouldn't take it personally. I'm sure it will happen for you.
I'm trying to avoid the C word. (Not THAT C word, the other one.)
On the cancer front, we're still in information gathering mode. We know it's an adenocarcinoma, about 5cm in length, in the distal esophagus and proximal stomach, the area known as the Gastroesophageal or Esophagogastric Junction. My working theory (Thanks, Google!) is that it's a Siewert type II or type III, but I'm not a professional oncologist, having only studied the subject for four or five days on Google. The CT scan we got on Wednesday showed that the cancer doesn't seem to have spread much, if at all. There's one spot they're going to look at more closely with ultrasound and a PET scan, but things aren't as bad as they might have been. They still haven't told us what "stage" the cancer is, so we're just being patient (NOT) and waiting. We're having meetings with doctors and phone calls and appointments over the next week. Hopefully we'll have a plan soon. Until then, we'll just keep waiting. And eating. (Do you eat when you're stressed? Do I? I can't answer right now because my mouth is full of food.)
Rereading this, I can see that it's very "we"-centric. I should probably mention Susan. You remember Susan, right? She's the one that actually has the cancer? Susan is going to work as usual and being a patient patient, though she's understandably anxious. She still has the ocassional discomfort and trouble swallowing that led her to get the initial test that found the cancer, but she's otherwise fine for now. Her spirits have been remarkably good and she's able to talk about both the hopeful scenarios and the worst ones with candor and honesty. She's a very strong and realistic person.
That's all I've got. What about you? How are you today?
Later. Love.
