Lung Surgery & Clear Trails
Well I’ve got the date set for lung surgery. I’ll head down to MD Anderson for surgery on April 30th where they will remove 80% of the right lower lobe of my lung. I’ll spend 10-ish days down in Houston, including pre-op and post-op stuff, and then head back to Austin to recover. We are ridiculously grateful for the family and friends jumping in to help us pull this off. The fancy name for the surgery is a basilar segmentectomy. (I’ve learned to listen a little more closely
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Spinning Plates
In the past few weeks, I’ve been lucky to be in some great conversations, all with long-time friends. “Old friends” might be an apt descriptor - we’ve known each other a long time and we ain’t getting any younger. These are all folks with whom my path overlapped for a significant period of time in our past. And we’ve continued to stay in touch regularly, even if our paths have gone in some different directions. But with that shared history, conversation is easy to jump righ
Mar 183 min read
Health Update & Picking Weeds
Hi there. Hope this finds you and yours enjoying some spring starting to show up. It's a rare moment in Austin when the weather is not too hot AND the mosquitos aren't yet a problem. That's made for some good back porch hang-out's and hammock time. I was at MD Anderson this week to get a CT scan, labs, etc. and then to review those with my oncologist there. Of all the possible outcomes for that conversation, we were happy to get some good news! There is no evidence of any new
Mar 62 min read
