I Have a Shiny New Port

So I've survived yet another surgery, not that there was really ever any risk that I wouldn't. It's really more emotional survival. I found a pain killer I can use! It won't work for major surgery but for this one it's just fine. The worst part about this surgery is my tape/glue/bandage allergy. My chest is all red and swollen from where the bandages were. I just took them off today so it looks particularily nasty, but on the plus side I also showered today so I'm feeling human again. I skipped chemo the day after and postponed it for a week. Dr. Lee was out of town so I did it without his okay. He'll just have to deal. My body. I get to do what I want with it. Kinda. Because my schedule is all messed up now. I'll have treatment three weeks in a row followed by three glorious weeks off. Whatever will I do with myself? Oh, and I have super good news...I have money! The government is going to give me money because I can't work. It's only half of what I was making when I was working, but it's better then nothing. I'm not going on any lavish vacations, but I might buy a new rug for the kitchen...and maybe a new pair of jeans.

never forget, and forever uphold the ideals of democracy

On this, the remaining minutes of September 11th, 2007, I give you a part of the Gettysburg Address by our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."