04/09/2015: 12:00: Off to see the Doctor, the wonderful Doctor of Tulane. 12:50: Arrive at Tulane and check in. 1:15: I am called into the back. 1:30: Dr. Safah sees me. The results from my right supraclavicular lymph node biopsy are in. The cancer is back. The same exact cancers, same markers, same everything as before,
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I rest all day, but Patient Room 4 at one of the doc’s office is not booting up, so I will need to head there later today. 8:00: My dad and I head out. We go to my office first to pick up a computer as a backup replacement to have in case we need
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I am taking today easy. Not much pain at all, and I haven’t touched any of my Percocet Pain meds. The only issue I am having is blurriness, and issues reading. 21:00: My business partner picks me up and we go to a client’s office to hook up a computer and 2 printers that have
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4:00: I been up all night finishing up some computer work for a client. Oh well, I’ll have a good rest in a little bit when the good drugs hit me. 4:15: Shower using the special sponge first then the plastic bristles to clean the area that are going to be operated on. 4:30: We
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9:40: Appointment with Dr. Jacob at EJGH. He tells me that he has met with Dr. Page and that he wants to biopsy the tissue inside my nasal cavity to send off to the lab to see if it is anything after it appeared on the PET/CT Scan. He sprays some numbing medicine up my
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8:30: Appointment with Dr. Weaver. He starts going over things, but doesn’t feel anything when he feels my neck. He says I can either wait, or come back for another appointment to review what needs to be done during the surgery. It takes a while as they do not have all my images from the
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03/19/2015: I meet with Dr. Safah. She is not happy with the results at all. She said that the Lymphoma appears to have relapsed. There are new small spots showing, and the abdomen where the Shingles were, has only continue to grow bigger with an SUV over 10. She said it is time to start
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03/18/2015: PET/CT Scan # 10. – Happy Birthday Dee 🙂 Of all days, 2 over turned vehicles on the I-10, closing the Interstate and traffic backed up for at least 10 miles in every direction. All the alternate routes are heavily congested. Almost didn’t make it on time. 8:30: Check in at radiology. 8:50: Walking
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03/07/2015: Just coding, and while looking up a few things, I find a quote that humors me on a forum as part of a signature: “Some days when I think about the next 30 years or so of my life I am going to spend writing code, I happily contemplate stepping off a curb in
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01/04/2015: Happy New Year everyone. I have had a few people asking what’s up since I haven’t been updating my blog lately. I have been really busy with life again, especially work. So that’s where I have been. However, here I am updating my blog for everyone 🙂 I put up the scan results for
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11/27/2014: Happy Thanksgiving 🙂 At City Park for the Turkey Day Race @ 8:30 AM. 54 Degrees 5 Miles Completed in 1:22:34 My Dad, Wife and I did this race together. I’m feeling great 🙂
09/18/2014: PET Scan Results from 09/17/2014 – Scan #9: Dr. Safah is still pleased with the results in the chest and neck as everything is showing little to no activity which is normal. So as far as my chest and neck are concerned we are pretty much in the clear, however the spots in the
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06/17/2014: PET Scan Results from 06/11/2014 – Scan #8: Dr. Safah is still happy with the results in the chest and neck, however the spots in the Abdomen are still there. Dr. Safah hopes that this is still from the Shingles, however we still cannot be sure. The only thing we can do is order
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05/31/2014: 7:45: Raining, but ready to get started. 8:15: On our way… Drizzling, but already wet… 8:55: They start making everyone turn back to the finish line as the weather is getting worse, but I have already done all my loops, and on my way back, so I will complete the entire race. 9:05: I
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05/04/2014: Just working on getting these 5 computers out the door tomorrow because tomorrow brings more work 😛 Busy Busy Weekend…
05/03/2014: So after a good late sleep since I didn’t get to sleep to 3:30 after working most of the early morning at my office, I came back in and my business partner’s computer is sitting there with a dead screen because of the graphics card. I try to reseat the graphics card, no luck.
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04/19/2014: My printed interview hits article in The New Orleans Advocate: http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/sports/8925530-171/metairies-craig-denny-nears-a 5:30: Up and ready to go, put on my Team Craig shirt, wake up My Wife, put on my socks and shoes, sunscreen. 6:30: Bro-in-Law driving, and he picks us up. 6:45: Parking at the Superdome. 6:50: Lacing up nice and tight. 7:55:
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04/18/2014: Good Friday 10:30: My sister and bro-in-law came and picked me up as we had to head down uptown first to pick up my sister and my dad from their nine churches walk at St. Stephens on Napoleon Ave. and then up St. Charles heading to Champion’s Square and the Hyatt to pick up
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04/15/2014: I have been busy lately with work, but have been managing to keep getting my training in for the Crescent City Classic. Today my Dad and I are going to walk 3 miles on the Lakefront levee in training for the Crescent City Classic, but first an interview with the Advocate. A busy day
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03/13/2014: 6:00: Ayclovir time… Been taking that again since the shingles… 8:00: I am up. 10:00: I head over to a client to get some measurements of their com closet for another client that is about to build. 10:30: I arrive on site and start taking pics and measurements. 10:45: One of the clients grabs
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03/12/2014: So now I can officially glow in the dark! LOL J/K… 6:00: I am up and out of bed. 6:15: In the car heading to Tulane with my dad for the scan. 6:30: Arrive at the hospital and check in. 7:00: They walk us from Radiology on the second floor down to the first
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03/10/2014: So I have an appointment today with my Dermatologist to check all my moles and especially my skin in the radiation field on my neck and chest from the radiation treatment in October. She sees two moles on my back that she wants to watch, but everything else looks good. Then she spots a
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03/08/2014: Happy Birthday Sis… I can walk again without the help of crutches. It’s a little painful, but I am able to get around…
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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