Time To Post Again

      It's been nearly a year since I last posted on my blog. I guess I thought I had nothing to say. Looking back,
however, there has been a lot happening in my life.
      I was tired of the commute into Salt Lake nearly full time and an opening came for doing demos in Tooele's  Walmart, so I grabbed it. The job is the same, I demo products and try to sell them. However, the method is quite a bit different and has taken some getting used to.
       My son Robert is now living with my Aunt and me, trying to find work. He misses his children like crazy. We were able to have the youngest son with us for about 3 weeks and his daughter for nearly 2 weeks. MaryLou and I didn't see much of them because they were really keeping  their Dad busy.
        The biggest change is in me. I finally decided to get a doctor and start using my Medicare. I'd had some problems with my bowels and thought I had an internal hemorrhoid and finally consented to have a colonoscopy. I'd put it off because I thought it would be too painful. I found out that you can be sedated.
It's really too bad that I didn't have the procedure sooner. My hemorrhoid turned out to be cancer! I have 2 tumors. I even have pictures of the things, in color, no less.
         Since then I've pretty much been going from doctor to doctor. It seems these days that you have to have a specialist for everything. I have my primary doctor who is very supportive and helped get my blood pressure under control. Then there's 2 surgeons who take care of different things, there's a doctor who did the "staging" which estimates how far along the tumor growth is. There is a doctor of radiation therapy and all the nurses and technicians and there's an Oncologist and all the support people that comes with it.
          Now I have radiation treatments 5 days a week Monday through Friday. I've had about 3 weeks so far. I try to work my job on weekends. Last week I started on chemo therapy wit a constant drip into my PICC line 24/7. I carry my fanny pak with my bag of chemo and the pump that gets it into me.
          I will try to post how things are going for me and how I feel and any thoughts that I think need to be put down. I do this mostly for myself, but for anyone who comes upon my blog who might need information or might benefit from anything I might say.