{"id":1108,"date":"2009-09-24T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/09\/24\/hurry-up-and-wait\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T20:06:00","slug":"hurry-up-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/09\/24\/hurry-up-and-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry up and wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to the doctor again today, where they told me that I’d need another pair of CT scans – with and without contrast dye. On the other hand, the reason they want them is that the kidney surgeon has concluded that it’s a simple cyst, and if it has no cancerous tissue, he doesn’t think it should come out. It will need twice-yearly monitoring, but nothing more.<\/p>\n

So, everyone please cross your fingers, or send good vibes, or do whatever else you do to encourage the Fates. The surgeon feels there’s a 40% chance it’s a harmless cyst, and a 60% it will have to come out. I’d like to fall in the 40. He does about fifty of these a year, so we’ll guess he knows what he’s doing.<\/p>\n

Starr drilled him mercilessly on every technical detail. He commented, “You’ve done your homework. Want a job?” I said, “Y’all have already given her one,” and she confessed to being an oncology nurse with the same hospital chain.<\/p>\n

And oh yeah, just because there’s not enough pain in our lives, we gave all three cats individual baths tonight.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I linked this in Facebook, but I’m reposting the link here because Starr saw me watching the new episode and asked to see the whole series. Freeman’s Mind<\/a> follows a playthrough of the legendary “Half-Life” videogame, with a narration track added to the silent main character. The narration is smart-assed, sarcastic, and slightly deranged; Starr laughed through the 15 episodes so far completed. Recommended. (I’d have embedded it, but that’s disabled for some reason.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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