I didn't really have an idea of what to post on this here blog thingy this morning, so here is a link to last week's month-end speeches by our 1st-2nd-3rd graders ("Stars" level). Cute, if sometimes a bit hard to understand.
Day: December 4, 2013
Caveat: Five Months Cancer-Free
I came out of surgery for tumor-removal five months ago this evening.
Quality of life, compared to 6 months ago, when the tumor in my mouth was rampant and as yet undiagnosed? Marginally improved. Less pain, overall – by quite a bit – but a lot of annoyance around the eating issues. Although slow, however, I do think there are small increments of improvement in that situation over time. So I look forward to returning more to "normal."
It was very foggy this evening when I did my circle in the park around the lake – so thick that the lights from the buildings in Ilsan were invisible from inside the park. The fog had that vaguely smoky smell that makes me wonder whether I'm inhaling toxic chemicals that have drifted across the Yellow Sea from China. Ah well.
The fog makes me think of my hometown of Arcata. Go figure.
What I'm listening to right now.
Kate Bush, "Hounds of Love." This song is old. It makes me think of cold winter days in St Paul in the mid to late 1980s.
[daily log: walking, 7.5 km; running, 3 km]