My plans don't always work out

Well, my plan for this year was to find out that I was cancer free for five years  but that isn't what happened. The CT scan showed a mass in my right kidney and I will have a biopsy surgery March 5th to be sure it is cancer (probably is) and then deal with it. 

 I am pretty sure what happened - my kidneys were talking one day and were really upset that my bladder was getting so much attention that they had to get into the act.

The surgeon may be able to take out the mass with the less invasive surgery March 5 but he didn't think so. I would probably have to have surgery to remove the kidney. It this keeps happening I am not going to have much of the original body parts, at least in the same places.  I wonder if I will walk lopsided with the removal of the weight of the kidney on one side of my body. Oh well.

Meanwhile I am grateful to be alive and sober and able to deal with these things. A dear friend of mine -Jennifer Robin- died a couple weeks ago of cancer.  She had long time sobriety and enjoyed life.  She was my hero (still is) and I listen to her CDs on my iPod all the time.

I am also grateful that age 61 I found out what I wanted to be when I grow up - working for the Department on Disability. Better late than never!

National Day of Service January 21, 2013

Photos from National Day of Service in honor of the inauguration of President Obama and Martin Luther King Day at Washington Irving Junior High School in Glassell Park, California. I am not in these pictures but I was in a group of 5 cleaning trash and leaves and applying mulch around several trees across from where the lockers were being painted.   A ground of over 200-300 showed up and painted the school, cleaned the grounds and moved old unused books and supplies from the classrooms to dumpsters. Also it was a celebration with music and dancing with all groups represented - Caucasian, Asian, African American, Pacific Islander, etc. Also Latinos and Latinas, gay and straight, old and young.

National Day of Service - Glassell Park Elementary School

January 19, 2013

Thoughts

Things all work out in the end. If they haven't worked out, it isn't the end.

Sayings

Alcoholics are the only people who applaud themselves for running out of a burning building.

Alcoholics Anonymous works because everyone isn't crazy at the same time.

Palisades Branch Library Art Exhibit

Me at work