Update on Dad
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Dad had chemo yesterday, and went to work today. He's going to work tomorrow, and I'm taking the day off to spend some time with him. The oddness of that situation didn't hit me until just now... ...
Katrina - day 2
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Hurricane Katrina turned a little away from New Orleans and hit Biloxi MS directly instead. It cause loads of damage and stuff, but it was not the gigantic catastrophe that it could have been. I'm still amazed at ...
Hurricane Katrina
Sunday, August 28th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I've read about the situation New Orleans would be in if something like this happened. Hurricane Katrina could basically wipe 70% of New Orleans off the map - or more specifically, turn it into a big pond. This ...
A Day out with Thomas
Sunday, August 21st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Today we all went to 'A Day Out With Thomas'. It was the 4 of us, and both sets of grandparents. It's out in Union IL, at the Railway Museum there. Thomas the Tank Engine is the ...
Prognosis negative :(
Thursday, August 18th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »My dad had a second opinion meeting last week with the head of the dept. of oncology at Rush Memorial in Chicago. Basically, that makes him THE chemo doc to see. I did not go to the meeting, ...
Changing Jobs
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »After 10 years with Software Architects, I quit and took a different job. I really liked Software Architects and many of the people in it. But when a job that fits just about everything I am good at ...
Today’s Chemo ain’t the Chemo of old
Thursday, August 11th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »My dad's first oncology meeting was today. It was very promising. He's going to have Chemo. The only thing I've ever really associated with Chemotherapy is loss of all hair and violent sickness as it's side effects. ...
Peter Jennings died this week
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Peter Jennings was diagnosed with lung cancer in April. He died this week. That's basically 4 months from diagnosis to death. Lung cancer is a fast acting and deadly form of cancer as his case shows. ...
First Entry
Monday, August 8th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Why Sukrata? Sukrata is one of those whacky kinda things that doesn't actually mean anything. I had an internship in college and some of the other interns and I were joking about if the "corporate machine" we worked ...