I'm O.K. Quite unhappy because I should be at the museum instead of sitting around the house. Not supposed to be where a lot of people are, was told to stay out of stores, don't go to church stay away from babies and rest homes as long as I have a compromised immune system. There are two jobs not done in my shop that I told people I'd have by May, now I'm wondering May what year. I'm not going to turn on a table saw while my balance isn't too good, that would really be dumb. Leone is working now at the museum and it will hurt to have her tell me about the people she met. Funny how a volunteer job can grab you as much as a paying one. Have a 7 hour chemo set up for next Wednesday hope it is the last long one for a while. Scan says we are making good progress whatever that means. No, I'm not depressed just kind of blue.

I'm very sorry to hear this news. But, I think the reason they chose to do the surgery is because they have to get the tumor out to biopsy it in order to determine what type and stage it is. That kind of info is not always evident on scans. Also, with brain tumors it is very hard to tell whether they got all of it. Even with my tumor that was removed, the surgeon says he got all of it. But, if he left even a "cell" the size of a grain of salt (or even smaller) it can easily grow back, and mine is a slow growing tumor. Also, I have learned that brains are very unpredictable. My uncle that I spoke of in an earlier post passed away on Tuesday from his brain tumor. He had the exact kind as Ted Kennedy and was diagnosed after Ted K. My uncle is now gone, but Ted K. is still alive. And, although my uncle lived only 8 short months after his diagnosis, I can guarantee you that if he were here to speak to you, he would tell you that the surgery, chemo, and radiation were worth it. It bought him some wonderful quality time with his family (his prognosis without surgery, chemo, and radiation was just a few weeks). He was able to enjoy quite a bit in those extra months and he had a good quality of life through most of it. Also, not doing anything might not have been the best alternative, either depending on the location. Sometimes you have to remove the tumor just to preserve some quality of life for the time a person has. Just this week my former neighbor (49 years old) had an aneurysm, which turned out to be caused by a brain tumor they did not know he had. He is currently unresponsive, in a coma with probable significant brain damage. Even though removing a tumor might only prolong a life by a few months, it would be much better than letting it cause something as devastating as my friend now has. Hopefully, Frank will recover quickly and without complications from this surgery. I'll keep him in my thoughts because the most important thing I have learned in all my research on brains and brain tumors, is that they really know very little. Brains are totally different than other parts of the body. All brains react differently, and they are never able to predict -- it's really just guessing. Remain hopeful.

I'm not trying to be a jacka$$ about TK. I don't wish cancer on anyone. I'm actually surprised he passed because he looked good in that photo I linked to. Nothing like my dad did when he was sick. The cancer made my 69 year old dad look in his late 80's. I'm also glad that he did a lot of good; the accident had an affect on him and from the little I know, he appears to have done a lot of good due to the tragedy. I was reading that he should have done at least 2 months in jail & would have liked that he done some sort of time; I dislike when people with money get off. What ever happened that night, he killed a woman; and from the way it looks was probably drinking. Having said that, he had to live with this & I don't think it was easy for him; especially being in the public eye. Him not reporting it right away & getting a DUI (if he was drunk) would probably have been the lessor punishment. He had to read the stories, see the press & try to go on every day. Maybe he was punished. It had to be hell living with it for that long. Hopefully he's resting in peace.

"I too am the parent of a beautiful, brilliant 16 year old daughter. However, I, unlike you, have no illusions that I will be able to have control over her behavior once she is an adult." I get it, it was Lewinsky's behaviour. Sounds like maybe you're another liberal woman in love with Bill Clinton. I have no illusions as to the control I will have over my daughter's behavior once she is an adult. What I find interesting is that anyone that has a daughter (or son for that matter) can think Clinton's behavior was no big deal. When our daughters are 23 or 24 or whatever Monica Lewinsky was at that time, regardless of their own personality deficiencies, I'd like to think if they are exposed to men in power, much less the President of the United States, those men would have the common decency to not participate in sexual acts even if one of them crawled under the desk and begged for it. It's okay for old Bill, however, to just kick back, light a cigar, and talk on the phone to another world leader. Then the coward didn't even have the balls to admit it to the grand jury. If you think that's acceptable, I'm sorry for you. In the next presidential election you'll be able vote for another woman that found it acceptable. If she had any respect for herself and this country, she would have walked away from the Whitehouse. Then maybe people wouldn't find her so creepy. As for Foley, the Kennedys, weird evangelists, or any of these other arrogant bastards, they're all a bunch of losers, on boths sides of the aisle. "Also, what does that have to do with the glut of tax dollars spent on that witch hunt?" Clinton committed perjury, that's why those dollars were spent. That money wouldn't have been spent if he would have had the guts to admit he's an idiot. But who gives a crap, right? It was only a little fellatio, all the world leaders are doing it. Everybody lies about sex, why should we care if our President does it? Believe me, if it was Bush with a young intern under the desk, and the Democrats were running Congress (like they are now), the pitchforks and torches would be out in force. It would make the investigation of Clinton look like an Easter egg hunt. Now you and the rest of the liberals can come back and tell me blah, blah, blah, Bush lied, Bush this, Bush that. You know what? I'll admit Bush isn't the guy I hoped he would be. Things have gotten very confusing in Iraq, though I don't think we can stop taking the offensive against fundamentalist terrorism. Will any of you admit the Clintons are scumbags after honestly assessing their characters? I won't hold my breath. Kevin Practice CPR-Catch, Photo, and Release.