A very scary Halloween Month
















I've been quite ill almost continuously since our Alaskan cruise. This culminated at the beginning of the month with a diagnosis of cancer of the kind that brought my mother down in just five months, 35 years ago after she was first diagnosed. For almost a week I didn't know how long I had to live, until I had my first appointment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. As it went, I had contracted a very severe bacteriological infection, and my doctor at Huntsman took the strategy that it was this rather than cancer that was responsible for all my symptoms, which if taken at face value would result in a cancer diagnoses. After a number of blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy, I was cleared healthwise from having cancer. Now, all I have to do is to get through all the other tests they want to do to check out any ailment. This seems to just go on and on. We're gone on vacation and will be back in a while.