Fort's Cancer Sux!!

I am such a jerk! All that writing yesterday and I totally forgot the most important thing - I just wanted to say thanks to all the people who have sent cards, and food, emails and happy thoughts. I do appreciate it all. Special apologies go out to all of you who have left messages on my cell phone that have gone unanswered. The chemo-related mouth sores sucked and it just hurt to open my mouth and talk. I was left with only grunts and mmm's....Im slowly trying to call back everyone who's left me messages but I cant do it all at once - For one, its typically the same conversation over and over, and secondly I have no attention span and will sometimes become engrossed in the television mid-conversation. Im just rude like that. I cant help it. But Im trying! So please dont be offended. Im working on it.
Thanks also to my mom - she's been quite little personal assistant, taking notes at all my appointments, promoting heavy gas consumption going back and forth to the 'nati 3-4 times a week, and basically just being there every step of the way to make sure Im taking my pills, doing my chi-gong and trying any and everything that might help the situation.
And a special thanks too goes to Jennifer - she and my mom came down wednesday to clean our whole house and Jennifer cleaned the inside of our microwave, what was probably John and I's dirtiest little secret. It was gross and Im embarassed that she saw it and even more embarassed that actually cleaned it. An ACTUAL MEAL could have been made from the scrapings of the inside of that microwave and I just wanted to give a special hats off to Jennifer for not being "weird" around me after the whole incident.
Im off to Athens for the weekend - Talk to you next week!