The incision and what I am now calling “The Ghost of Leon”
both hurt some early on, but not near as much as I expected. I was honestly expecting to be in bed and barely able to move for three or four days. There has been none of that. The only bothersome side effect from the surgery (except for now only having one ball) is the incredible sleepiness that hits on occasion.
I should note that the sleepiness does not always hit when you want it to. For instance, when fireworks are still going off above your house from parts unknown at 1:45 AM after a night of Fourth of July celebrations – there is no attack of sleepiness! I have decided that the best way to solve the Iraq War is to send my neighbors living a few doors down on the other side of our fence to Iraq with a cargo plane full of fireworks of their choosing. I was convinced that we were being invaded at one point last night from all the noise. Tripod, our three-legged cat, chose not to sleep with Caren last night, but chose to huddle in her walk-in closet as his way of avoiding shell shock. If the amount of fireworks exploded over our house is any indication as to the state of the American Economy, I can say the economy is alive and well, at least in Kokomo, Indiana.
Dr. Beck called on Thursday and said that he received the report from pathology on Leon’s autopsy. He said it was just as expected – Leon was full of bad, evil, cancer cells. Dr. Beck believes that he removed all the cancerous cells and that things have not spread. He stressed that this was not a guarantee, and would not know for certain until I have my follow-up Blood Protein Test and an MRI. Once he sees the results of those, we will know the stage of my cancer. Those tests will take place July 14 or July 15. Of course, I will let you know the results of those tests once we know.
Again, all here is fine. The incision is almost totally healed, there is virtually no pain, and only some puffiness remains in certain areas.
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