No, not just TGIF, I want to give a follow up post to my announcement of a few weeks ago for my loyal readers because many of you had invested yourselves in my personal challenges.
As many of you know, my family had a huge medical challenge recently. It was all about this familiar symbol.
Back on the week of October 18th, my lovely wife went through a double mastectomy, which seemed to be the best option given the situation. The surgery was succesfull, with no complications, but we had to wait for final lab results and follow up scans. It’s been a rough couple of weeks, and to top it off we lost a beloved family pet of 15 years Monday. Minners is finally drinking clean water somewhere.
So dear readers, please forgive me if I’ve been dour and a little snippy here. I know I have been a bit rough around the edges. I’ve been so frazzled I forgot to do our weekly Sea Ice News last Sunday. I forgot to take out the garbage Wednesday, and at coffee yesterday morning I couldn’t remember the name of a person I’d known for years. Stress is a weird thing.
Late last night, after two days of follow up at Stanford Medical Center. We got the news. No metastasis, they got it all. Now it’s just the long but certain road physical therapy.
I gotta tell you it was like somebody cutting the guy lines to the giant lead balloon I’ve been tied to for the last three months. It took off into the stratosphere, never to be seen again.
I want to thank you all for the kind words, prayers, and most especially for the support of WUWT with ideas and guest articles. I want to give a special thanks to Willis Eschenbach, Tom Fuller, and Steve Mosher for guest posts. Special thanks go to Evan Jones and D.B. Stealey for their support and the kind letters they sent me, and to Charles the Moderator for keeping the chaos managed.
If I’ve missed anyone, please don’t feel left out, I’m just a bit scrambled mentally. Everybody gets gold stars.
In a day or two, I’ll be back to chasing errant weather stations and missing “M”‘s in METAR reports.
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hro001 says: October 31, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Anthony,
I can’t believe that I almost missed this great news post (that’ll teach me not to let myself be diverted from my daily lurks!) This is wonderful news for both you and your wife – and I join with others here in wishing Mrs. Watts a speedy recovery.
Anthony,
I, too missed this post. I want to echo the well wishes expressed above. My wife and I went through this recently. The initial operation perhaps is not as difficult as the recovery period on a marriage. This may not be the venue, but I want to suggest what we learned from 3-6 months post procedure experiences. There is some pain and inconvenience involved, but if at all medically possible, pursue reconstruction. Self esteem is very important in a relationship.
Dear Anthony
I wish your wife a speedy recovery and best wishes for the future.
Kind Regards
Stuart
Wonderful news to say the least.
The Climate of Health
As you have discovered with climate research the establishment have much to offer but as you have also discovered there are often many points of view which don’t always align with the establishment’s and yet which may also have validity.
The field of Health is no different. Health, as with everything is about using the established methods for what they can do but also taking control and doing our own research – something which you seem to be good at.
You are now in a great position use all of that great research skill to take preventative control and there are many good web sites out there with a wealth of health advice – sort of wattsupwith health matters sites – which can help you.
Best wishes to the both of you.
hang in there.