Time

Other than for "ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, fritter and wasting the hours in an off hand way", it's time for several other things.

(A little music for your listening pleasure, either before, during or after reading today's blog. Enjoy!)



This past Wednesday I had a follow up appointment with my Oncologist Dr. K. and seems all is going well. She had the report back from the Endocrinologist which stated that although a polyp was found and removed everything looked well. At the time she did not have the pathology report from the polyp. She also stated that time, was on my side for at least a few more years.

I seen my Endocrinologist, Dr. P. today and pathology was fine, and the polyp was benign. He did state however, and showed me a photograph, that it was an "unusual" formation for a polyp, and that I should have a follow up colonoscopy yearly now.

So, all these appointments out of the way, and no new appointments now till the new year, it's time to start thinking about taking care of me. By that I mean all the other stuff. Dr. K. mentioned my glucose levels were quite high this time around, I don't think the two mini chocolate bars out of the Halloween bucket in the lobby helped matters!, and that it's time to take care of that, and also to start working on my weight, now that other things are in check for now.

I agreed, and asked her if she was up for that monumental task. She said she was, and would be sending a memo to my family doctor, Dr. A. to follow up on that, and to start working with me on the weight issue. So, yes, time to start working on all of this. First on the list will be a "junk food" cleansing of the apartment, then I can get underway.

This was also an interesting week in another way. The CBC Windsor office contacted me earlier in the week, as they had through my Twitter account seen this blog. They were inspired by what they had seen and read, and asked if I would be interested in doing an interview with them. I replied, absolutely! you know me, if I have a chance to spread awareness and/or to help even one person with this horrible disease I will.

They contacted me Wednesday evening to say reporter Allison Johnson would be dropping by to interview me at 10:30am Thursday morning. I was thrilled to have this opportunity to share my story with others,and I asked if it was related to a cancer feature. I was told that it was going to be related to the story that came out this week, stating Cancer was now the number one cause of death in every province in Canada

Thursday morning Allison and her camerawoman arrived at 10:30am right on time to do the interview. We chatted and taped till noon! Allison was very pleasant and I was almost immediately put at ease to tell my story openly and honestly. We discussed many topics along with taping many things, what came out in the edit on the CBC Windsor News @ 6 were the best segments of the taping we did, all of what they could fit into the segment.

I was even more in awe this morning when I seen the story had been mentioned in a link on the CBC.ca home page, which meant people could see it nation wide! I am honored to be mentioned at all, and I thank the CBC and the Windsor team for all they did to make this happen.

So it's been a rather awesome week for me all around, and about TIME to get on with things that need to be fixed with me and to try to put the cancer to the rear of the thought process for now. So, I leave you with, the link to the article and video of my day with the CBC. Thank you all for your, yep, time!

Man beats cancer four times in five years.