On To Summer Break...

Hey all,

All of you here at Loyola are probably starting to get into your finals and then onto your board review stuff. That's excellent, but it means that I need to stay away from your laps. If I don't see you again until late July or August, it's been an unbelievable trip working with you. Especially, Boyce who completely I missed his birthday (damn)! If all goes as planned, I'll be back in August to audit the classes then take them for real in January.

My plan thus far is to go on Thursday or Friday out to South Dakota and Wyoming to see some very rural areas and then head south to Boulder, CO for my Grandma's birthday. My poor grandmother hasn't seen me since all of this happened. Anyhow, hopefully I'll get to see the entire Colorado contingent of my family who I miss an aweful lot.

Then I'll need to be back here on May 10 to routinely chat with my oncologist here. I don't expect anything to be a problem there. After a day or two I'd like to head back and spend some time with the family and my brother who will be in West Virginia. I've got to say I still cannot believe I haven't been up to see him at school (in Pennsylvania)... but I guess there'll be time for everthing. I'd also like to spend some time out the Seattle with my sister, who I also haven't seen in her Seattle self. Anyway... that'll be for the roughly 1 month after I see the oncologist.

From there on, I'll have another MRI around the beginning of the month (of June) at Loyola, have lots of appointment, and go to a great wedding; congrats Jenn! I'll also go back down to Houston to see what this neurosugeon has to say again... I don't know what he's going to say, but that's an aweful long way off to be thinking about it.

After June 10th ish, I don't really know. Surgery looks like a good possibility, but so does another big road trip. Who'da ever thought I'd ever say that? Hopefully everything will all be peachy and I'll go on from there. I'll probably be slowing down on these blogs as an update for my GBM... it's just not too exciting right now. Hopefully, I'll keep it like that!

Peace, and all the best!

Mike

P.S. If you're one of the poor, unfortunate souls who lent me some items way, way, way back in January as a generous giving but expected them back... you'll have them shortly. I'll put them in my Loyola locker... which I think is #20 in Curie. I'll let you know when they get there.

PPS!!! The Loyola locker is loaded, but it is #40 in Curie. Thanks a bunch!