03/05/2014: I woke up and it hurt to bend my knee. I didn’t think too much of it and went to work cause I would be sitting in my chair most of the day. By the time it came to leave work, I could barely walk on it. By the 10PM, I couldn’t put weight
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03/04/2014. Happy Mardi Gras… Even though it was one of the coldest Mardi Gras in my lifetime, I wasn’t going to miss it this year. Last year I spent Mardi Gras Day in the Hospital. I missed all the major Mardi Gras Parades, because I spent a week in the hospital due to a fever
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03/01/2014: So I didn’t let the hurt back keep me from the Mardi Gras Parades. Sure it hurt to get into the car, sure it hurt to walk. I just took small steps at first and as I loosened up I could walk quicker and in less pain. However, during the parades I would have
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02/27/2014: So just trying to keep from sitting on my left butt cheek, I have been favoring the right side of my body. Needless to say my body did not like that at all! I was simply bending over to pick up my tea off of a chair and I felt a sharp pain shoot
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So on 02/18/2014: I noticed a small rash on my butt area and thought it was a simple rash… I did take a cold shower the day before since there was no hot water left half way through my shower and I figured it was the body wash not completely washing off of me as
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12/06/2013: My 4th Wedding Anniversary, what a way to celebrate my wife said… She’ll be holding this over my head! 10:00: I am up. Time to get this port out of my chest… 10:30: I shave my face and head as I don’t want to bother with a hairnet or anything else for the surgery,
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11/13/2013: 8:30: Awaken by a phone call from a client, I take care of that quickly and I am up, can’t really go back to sleep. 9:15: I help my wife take off for school. 9:30: I take care of a few things from home. 10:30: Shower Time! 11:00: I head to my office to
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10/08/2013: 9:00: I am up… 9:05: I bring Buster outside, and take a walk around the back yard. 9:15: I head back in. 9:30: I jump on the computer and take care of a few minor things. 10:15: My wife heads off to school… 10:45: I jump in the shower. 10:55: I jump out the
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10/07/2013: So today starts radiation treatment, oh joy… 10:00: I am up. 10:05: Normal routine, let Buster outside. 10:30: I jump into the shower. 10:40: I am out of the shower. 10:50: I am dressed and ready to go. Both of my parents are off today, so they are driving me to my treatment today…
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09/19/2013: 6:00: I am awaken for my normal vitals and pills… 6:15: I am back asleep. 8:30: I am up. My dad is getting ready to go have some medical test done himself. 9:10: My mom gives me my Lovenox Injection, and then off to testing the head. 9:30: I jump in the bath/shower… Last
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09/18/2013: DAY 100 🙂 PET/CT Scan Day! 5:30: Woken up for regular vitals and medicine and the darn Lovenox shot… 5:50: Back in bed, attempting to rest a little more, but that never happens. 7:15: I am up, time for my shower before heading off to the hospital. 7:55: My dad and I are headed
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09/11/2013: 5:30: Vitals, oh joy… 9:30: I am up. I get on the computer and start doing some administrative work, checking on a few things and making some changes to some internal network configurations. 12:00: I take a break, toast 2 bagels and butter them and have my brunch 😛 12:30: Back on the computer,
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08/22/2013: 5:30: Vitals and Injection, oh joy! 6:00: ZzZzZz 9:34: I am awaken by a phone call. A client needs a temp admin password for a vendor to install some software for a new label maker printer at the office. 9:40: I am at my computer in my room remoting into the server to create
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08/21/2013: 5:30: Up again for my Lovenox shot, oh joy… Oh vitals and pills too… 6:00: Back asleep! 10:00: I get an email from a client who is having issues with her computer after I had fixed the issue. It ran fine for me for a day on the test bench with no issues, and
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08/20/2013: 5:30: Waken up for my normal vitals. 6:00: I get my Lovenox shot as I have bloodwork today around 9:00 which will give me 3 hours after the shot which the nurse wants to see my Lovenox level. 7:00: I finally fall back asleep. 8:00: I am up. I have to get ready. I
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08/19/2013: 9:30: I am up. 10:00: I am sitting at my computer in my room. Following up with emails with clients and a VLAN setup that I will have to do for VOIP phones for a client. So I start doing research on that pulling setups I have done in the past. 12:05: I get
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08/18/2013: 2:00: I finally decide to turn of the TV and go to sleep. 11:30: I am up. 12:00: I grab a bite to eat. 12:30: I am back in my room, just checking on emails and working on a few things. 1:00: I remote into a client’s machine and start working on an issue
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08/17/2013: 1:00: ZzZzZzZz 6:00: Lovenox shot yipee, not, blah, vitals, and pill… 6:15: Back to sleep… 10:00: Awake I am. 10:15: My dad is making banana pancakes for breakfast! Yummy! 10:45: Off to work my wife is headed. 11:00: I am in my room working on a computer remotely. The client thinks its a virus,
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08/16/2013: 5:30: Lovenox and vitals. 5:45: Right back asleep… 10:00: My mom arrives home, she is my ride to the doctors today. I am seeing a seeing a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) specialist for the blood clot in my arm. 10:15: We head to Tulane. 10:36: I check in. 11:00: We are taken to the
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08/15/2013: 5:30: Awaken for another Lovenox shot and vitals. The lovenox shots are becoming a pain. I have to feel around my belly to find the next spot. There are hard spots/bruises on my belly like crazy from the effects that the lovenox has. If I pick a bad spot, the shot will not stop
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08/14/2013: 5:30: Lovenox shot and vitals, blah…5:45: ZzZzZzZzZz. 10:00: I am up, and its raining outside, just need to wait for it to slack up some before heading over to the office with my wife. I check on the status of a few different shipments. 11:30: Its slacked off enough, so my wife and I
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08/13/2013: 5:30: I am awaken like usual for my vitals and lovenox shot. 5:45: ZzZzZz 9:30: I am awaken by a phone call, sure enough it is the client whose computer that I was working on last night that didn’t reboot. The computer is connected to an XRay machine, and it will not boot and
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08/12/2013: 1:00: ZzZzZzZzZ 5:30: Vitals and Lovenox shot time… 7:50: A client’s phone call wakes me up. They have malware on their computer preventing them from being able to do anything. I remote into the computer, reboot it into safemode, and go to work on it with a few scans. While it is scanning I
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08/11/2013: 12:30: Done gaming for tonight. 1:00: In bed, watching TV. 3:00: ZzZzZzZzZzZzZz….. 6:00: I am awakened for another lovenox shot, blah, oh and vitals… 12:00: Awake I am… 12:15: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pop Tarts for breakfast, yummy… 1:00: I go to sit outside in the sun for a little bit and get my Vitamin
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08/10/2013: 12:30: Out the bath/shower and into my room for vitals… 1:00: ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz 10:00: My sister wakes me up with some doughnut holes. Just regular glazed is my favorite! 11:45: My dad and I head over to my office to put together a new chair that I had ordered when I got out of the
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