Update...plus

Wow...

It's been over a week since my last post, I think...

As I've been feeling better, I get right back into twirling the plates...plus time out for naps, and other important functions (the details of which I've spared you so far, so I won't start sharing now...). Needless to say, my time is not efficiently utilized, but I'm doing STUFF...

More importantly, Pathology came back, and they found NO cancer in the lymph nodes. That's the good news. The 'other' news is that I also found out that the cancer in the prostate was a little worse than the biopsy results indicated, and had grown outside the capsule of the prostate. Dr. A said he got around it, and they got it out, 'barely'.

Hey, whatevs...I'll take it! Cancer FREE, y'all!

Been sculpting like a fool. I've actually got three sculptures in progress right now, and I've been taking production molds off the ballerina, Soliloquy II, before I get her ready to invest for the final bronze cast.

I've been talking to my art teacher, Ric Stewart, a lot. He's had a big year as an artist, and I'm really, really excited about what's happening in the Cbus bronze casting scene. Ric's Gods of Bronze WILL be heard. I hope to catch those coat tails...

Back to update. So, I've been walking, and being mindful. Resting, and being mindful. Playing games on Facebook, and being vegetative...sorry y'all that are my friends...Started in their rehabilitation programs; I'll also spare you THOSE details...I've been focusing on eating local, and fresh, and organic if possible. I'd been taking a probiotic since shortly after the operation, as well as drinking a ton of water, very little coffee, lots of fresh vegetables, lean chicken or fish, trying to work dairy, grains, beef, beans and stuff like that back in. Ive been eating 6-8 meals a day, small ones, because I don't really have much appetite.

Pain, achiness, and general ability to move around changed a LOT in the last week. Last Saturday, we tried to walk down to Marcella's, and I couldn't make it. That would have been just over 3/4 mile, I believe, to the spot. We walked to Nida's, about three blocks, and I couldn't tolerate sitting in a restaurant chair. Had a pronounced limp at that point, and if I didn't take my Tylenol every 6 hours, I'd have significant pain.

At of this post, I'm movign around without much of a limp. I've walked over 3/4 of a mile every day for the last 5 days, plus started stretching (very little bits), and working with a medicine ball (shout out to Wiggins Method!). I'm also not limping, unless I'm close to overdoing it. I'm definitely noticing there's a 'wall' there...but it's now a wall I've had some experience with, and the pains I feel are not those hard,alien, piercing pains, but muscle aches, fatigue, tiredness, and the achiness of junk still feeling trauma...this is more like what I felt when we played our arch rival in some team sport, and I 'left it all on the field...

Back soon