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TONY' THOUGHT JOURNAL 2.0

Nancy Hart said:
Hope everything goes well for you tomorrow, Tony. 🍀
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Written to Elton John's Song "I'm Still Standing"

I'm still kicking
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Not like I did before
Because my bottom sore

But I'm still Kicking
Yeah Yeah Yeah
After having such a tough time
Thinking I will lose my mind

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I'm back!!!
Thank you all for your support
Your words have inspired me
 
This coming Tuesday, I have to go back to Manhattan for two more appointments. One is for simulation, and the other is for an RO MRI.

I have no clue what these are for, but I'm glad that would be the final time I have to go to Manhattan. The rest of my program is on Long Island, closer to my home.

I don't know how bad the after effects are with the radiation treatment, but as it stands right now, it looks like I'm going to be doing the driving back and forth for the 26 treatments.

I'm expecting a call today from an MSK nurse, I expect it will be to brief me on prepping for this Tuesday's appointment.

I made an appointment to see my family doctor today. I'm having pain on my left side. I am hoping it is just a pulled muscle, I don't want to be dealing with a kidney stone or hernia.

I am not sleeping very well, just too much going on, then there's is the constant pain.

It would be good to see the sun come out a little bit. We had a lot of rain lately. It's Misty / foggy outside right now. Maybe the sun will break through.
 
I got good results from my CT scan today. The pain in my left side must be a pulled muscle. They found nothing that would cause the pain. The only concerning find was a "stable 4mm left lower lobe nodule", I will bring the CT scan report to MSK the next time I go.
I read the report on my Portal, the doctor hasn't call me with the results.

I was suppose to get an x ray also, but that will be done next week.
I wish I could say I'm feeling better, but the pain is there yet, maybe a little less than yesterday.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
 
I often wondered if the book "Lord of the Flies" was actually based on the human psyche. Would we jump back to survival of the Fitist, if left alone, or is it not a jump at all? Does it exist in todays civilization.

How many times have you heard? "He had to step on a lot of shoes to get where he is?" I do not believe, or maybe I don't want to believe this statement is true for all. There are many who have desires but have no talent. Those are the ones I believe will do anything to achieve a goal. Those who are brilliant, like Elton Musk and Walt Disney, will get there on their own achievements and creativity.

I guess survival of the fittes exists to some extent whether we live in a civilization or an animal in the jungle.

Here's a thought two men meet at a bar, and one says, "I'm a DESIGN ENGINEER for home heating and air conditioning, I make $100,000 a year." The other man says,"I'm the repairman that fixes HVAC systems, I make $150,000 a year."

Take away what you think out of this, so many thoughts came to me at once, I couldn't record them all.
 
Last Tuesday my daughter drove me into Manhattan for a CT simulation and MRI.

The CT simulation procedure you're in the scanner for 2 minutes then they take a few measurements then they tattooed three markers. This is done I assume to give the radiation treatment a better alignment to target the fiducial markers inserted in my prostate.

For the MRI after they set me up on the table they said that they are going to take a 2 minutes scan, I said to myself great I'll be out of here soon. I was mistaken because I had to take another 30 minutes of scanning, they were giving in 2-5 minutes segments. I have no idea what the MRI was for. When I w a s done my back ( spinal stenosis) was screaming. I never sleep on my back for that reason. Just glad another step toward completion is done.

My daughter drove me to Manhattan for these procedures, the trip was horrible. A lot of bumper to bumper traffic, and the GPS had us changing courses because of that. I'm glad that should be the last trip we will be making to Manhattan.

My radiation treatment will start July 28 and will be done close to me, about 25 minutes away. I'm looking forward to it. At times I feel like canceling the treatment, I'm tired and hurting.
 
I can't believe how slow I am and how fast I get tired. I have to sit alot to rest my back. I spent a lot of time in the last few days arranging hoses to water my daughter's Garden and my wife's flower containers. I had to test the hose reels. Some are automatic, and some are manual. Of the 3 hose reels, I'm tossing one. Right now the setup is functioning the way intented, but it's not done. I put in one of those posts that have a valve on it. I buried the post, but it rocks a little, so I will add a filler to make it solid. In lieu of a concrete filler, there is a product that comes in a bag, where it gets mixed, then starts to expand, like insulating foam. Pour it into the hole it will expand and hold the post.

This is a year where I should not have ordered plants from catalogs or the internet, but I did. I have a 2 ft dry rooted crepe myrtle tree that was delivered in April, and I never planted it. I put it in water, and now it's leafing out. I did try to plant it once, but I couldn't keep my balance to dig the hole. I'm pretty sure I figured out a way to dig the hole now. That's my next project.
 
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