Yes, in a few weeks we will again celebrate Thanksgiving Day, and I will again be thankful - this year mostly thankful to still be here on top of the sod. It will be even better if plans stay intact and our kids come to spend the holiday with us, although it is a downer to consider how much of my loud and sloppy pain they will be forced to endure with me. But I know they care enough about me to not care about the disruptions.
Quick update: my case (as yet with no treatments begun nor big decisions made) is scheduled to be handed off to one of the top melanoma specialists on the planet. I am to meet him at UCLA Med Center on November 17 and perhaps we will soon begin an official therapy of some kind. Perhaps I will make it to Thanksgiving.
CHEERS to all,
