Where To, Bud?

Click on "Read More" to reduce size. All the best, Bill, Dondra, Julian, Sara and this guy! 😍 (Christopher)

As the photo above attests, I have concluded 5 weeks of radiation therapy at Cancer Treatment Centers of America. That's going every day, Monday through Friday. Also, on Monday of last week I had an outpatient surgical procedure known as an HDR Needle Placement. If you're curious, you can google it to see what's involved, but briefly it's the insertion of 21 plastic needles through the perineum (the space between the "wazoo" and the "ying-yang") into the prostate gland, and once they're placed, shooting a lot more radiation into the gland than the amount I received in Radiation Oncology those five weeks. The procedure itself "went well", but the removal of all those wires and needles was a bit traumatic in that it was done while I was awake, and it seemed as if the doctor removed them by taking a running start. Presently, I am doing fine - a bit tired, but fine - although today is the first day I have felt like sitting in front

Christopher is our Great-Grandson and he celebrated his first Thanksgiving with all of us today,  (Please click on "Read More" to see all photos) November 28th, 2019.  The "Star Of the Show" is presented in all photos, including his own, his Great-Grandmother, Dondra; myself and last but not least, his father, Julian - the son of our Jason, who passed away 3 years ago. I will post more photos after the Christmas Holiday. Thanks for taking a look and for welcoming Christopher to the blog. Bill

Hello again Hopefully, some of you are still following the blog and maybe some of you might even have thought I'd left the planet, but no, I'm still around. At almost 70, I don't make guarantees as to the fluidity of the blog, but I do feel I need to update you on what's going on with me/us so far this year, so here we go: Regarding the "Slow Train", I reckon by just being told I have prostate cancer, that I'm apparently not   immortal and I'll be catching that train off the planet when it arrives. Luckily, the Cancer Treatment Center Of America has a better than 80% cure rate, and the cancer has not metastasized to my bones, so that's a plus. But I'm dealing with a "double whammy": my heart's the other one. Recently, I have had what are called syncopal episodes which have caused me to fall and lose consciousness for a couple of seconds. These happen if I get out of bed too quickly and/or even when I'm active. ECG&#