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Tuesday, October 12, 2004


As Yoda would say…

..."Hmmm...close are we, young Jedi...”

And we are close to the Election.  Very close.  Three weeks-close. I can see it over the hill-close. 

So, like everyone else, I have thoughts and words to share. 

Please...click below and read on.


Posted by John Cross at 07:13 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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Gone.  For Now.

For the past month or so I have wrestled with a decision, a decision that I finally made last weekend.  As most, if not all of you, know I have a benign brain tumor (what was thought to be benign at any rate, more on that in a second) and that at the time my little passenger was discovered I had a few options, surgery, medication, or do nothing.  Do nothing really wasn’t an option, since the tumor was causing me to experience some crushing headaches.  Medication seemed to be the viable alternative for a time, but that alternative has all but vanished.  Why, you may ask.  Simple, it turns out that the tumor isn’t benign.  However, it isn’t malignant either.  The technical explanation is well… technical, and would take far too long to explain here, suffice it to say the tumor exists in some of kind nether region between malignancy and benginness (is that even a word?).  I received this rather wonderful news (yes, that is sarcasm) last week from a neurologist I consulted for a second opinion (or, in this case, a third opinion).  This neurologist is someone I have consulted before for my post-concussion syndrome, and she is a doctor I trust, implicitly, which considering how much I dislike doctors does say something.  Her opinion, and that of the neurosurgeons here in Colorado, was that not only should I have the tumor removed but that to wait would be suicide.

So, tomorrow morning I am entering the hospital to have the tumor removed, I’ll also be getting something else done, but that procedure is relatively minor and not worth mentioning here.  I’ll be in the hospital for about a week, so I won’t be able to post anything.  After I come home from the hospital I’ll have to take another week off from pretty much everything while I recuperate at home.  After that week is when I will probably post the post-mortem of my experience in the hospital.

Also, I had to take a leave of absence from teaching the brain dead (my students) for the rest of the semester, which is why I have been pretty silent for the past week, I had to make sure everything was taken care of before I left.

Take care, and I’ll be back when I get back.

- Kevin

Posted by Kevin at 06:48 PM | (0) Trackbacks
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