Category: The Scare

The surgeon in Kelowna concluded that the growth on my neck/ shoulder was likely a recurrence of melanoma. She has referred me to a surgeon who can remove all the lymph nodes from the right side of my neck. The treatment plan has changed entirely and I’ve had to resign my goal of returning to…

I was in a tailspin all Monday, and early on Tuesday, I finished filing a complaint with the Provincial Health Services Authority, because I shouldn’t be the intermediary. It shouldn’t take this much of my effort to get this surgery. Summer shouldn’t be the excuse. I came to find out that my family health practice…

Yesterday at 7:00 am, I got the call. “Good news you can eat breakfast, bad news your surgery has been postponed”. He did not tell me indefinitely, but alas that is what he meant. The nurse who called to inform me of this fact did imply that it had gone up the chain of command,…

On Thursday around noon, I was spinning my wheels. I’d made all the phone calls I could to get progress started, but kept hearing I was on their radar and just had to sit tight. Around 2:00 pm, I reached out to PHSA about my case and made a complaint through their online form. Then…

I am apparently on the surgeon’s radar and he wants to fit me into an or slot this week. That’s what his receptionist has assured me, so now I just have to wait for the call. That means I have to stay in cell reception, and limits me from doing much of the outdoorsy stuff…

When I got my diagnosis, I also withdrew all my shares of Superior Plus so that I’d have some flexibility to buy the groceries I wanted and some things to get my home a little further along in the furnishing process. That project remains ongoing, it’s slow without stores around for home furnishing. There is…

Nothing much has happened since I last posted. It took several weeks to get results from my second PET scan and it turns out the cancer was only in the one lymph node and my proposed treatment plan was only going to be 3 pills daily for a year. There is one catch though, I…

I’ve recently had to go it alone on several trips, where sharing it with someone would have been more pointed. First, I went to Sparkling Hill a resort close to Vernon with gorgeous lake views, rooms with Swarovski crystals, and multiple saunas and steam rooms that smell amazing and promise to leave you relaxed for…

Firstly, let’s define what this bullshit is. Sister size is some idiocy bra manufacturers came up with to sell more. The premise is that you can go down a band size and up a cup size or vise versa, up a band size and down a cup size and it’ll fit. It will, but it…

There’s a scene in Crime and Punishment commonly referred to as”Raskolnikov’s Dream”. In it, a serf beats his old mare to death, whipping and flogging her with senseless rage because she fails to move fast enough and isn’t capable of towing the load. This is the only piece of literature that has consistently brought me…