I talked to D today

He sounded much better and more like his old self when I talked to him today compared to when I spoke to him on Wednesday when his voice was a completely different pitch. He said he was sitting up in his room watching TV with his boys eating sherbet.Prior to talking to him I spoke to his wife and a mutual friend who was visiting him, and both told me he is better, but he’s not out of the woods yet. The tumor was removed and was cancerous, but how bad it really is we don’t know yet, and it will be a week or so before we do now once they run some test.

His heart “problem” could have just been stress at the time his EKG was taken, and the surgeon noticed a “lump” or something on the side of the neck which could be a cyst or a mole, their family Dr will have to look it over.

So I feel better, a bunch of us who know D are sharing emails so everyone is keeping in touch and I have more phone numbers to call to friends who I only seen 2 times in the last 15 years.

Its “odd” to realize that as popular as D is with all the friends he has, that I am included inside his “family circle” which includes some really great people from all over the US and Canada, I just never been the most popular person but yet, D and I stuck together for over 16 years.

So I feel somewhat better today, his wife will tell him everything in a day or so and they will be meeting with some specialist this week.

Just taking one day at a time right now, and odds are I will be driving up to see him when I am in Portland. That fucker… makes me drive 6 hours there, deal with customs and 6 hours back… I better get some BBQ out of this.

How Do I Feel?: okay