Pretty much same old same old here…Thank you to everyone who came out last Saturday and made the benefit a huge success!  I’m sure this won’t surprise any of you who were there, but I way overdid it!  LOL seriously…spent the next 48 hours recouping and then caught a cold…have been pretty much doing not a whole lot because of that…did get my leg drained (about a gallon of what the surgeon called “tissue fluid” came out of my leg icky)…still scheduled for next rounds of chemo to start on the 23rd…still can’t walk well (they took 3 of my 4 quadricepts along with the tumor) but it’s getting better…we’ll talk about physical therapy when we go back in to the surgeon on Oct. 8th.  Going to be spending a lot of this week just relaxing, working on my thesis, and getting ready for what my doctor warned me would potentially be the worst of the chemo rounds (apparently because it’s a. been so long since the last one…b. chemo is cumulative so each round is worse than before and the big one c. there are far fewer (hopefully none actually) cancer cells for the medicine to attack so they’ll be more to attack “good” cells)…that’s about it from the cancer end.  Lots of personal stuff going on with Daddy’s wedding last week and Jessi’s wedding this coming week and trying to connect with friends I haven’t been able to spend a lot of time with since April so I don’t spend a lot of time online anymore…I know I’ve been saying this, but really the updates will be few and far between now.  Probably only with major dr. appts (like on the 8th of Oct) etc.  Sorry folks…I know there’s concern and ya’ll want to know what’s going on.  Go ahead and call me or drop me an email which I do check though usu. only once a day (899-8867 or johnnahood@gmail.com) if you get really concerned )  The good news is that no news is good news!  If I have BIG news (good or bad) I usually post pretty quickly, so no news pretty much means everything is status quo so no worries! 

Love and peace out!