Annual 2007 Mayo Clinic Checkup

It seems almost impossible my wife and I were sitting in my doctor's office at Mayo Clinic day before yesterday morning then later that day rode the bus out to a Target store where we avoided being out in a thirty minute torrential downpour thunder storm. Now, today I am sitting back here in Columbus writing this update to my web log. Of course I left out the colossal weather related confusion at the airport in Atlanta which caused us to experience one terminal change, five gate changes, and three time changes which added two hours to a two hour layover. I suppose it could have been worse but at the time, it seemed pretty bad since it wasn't just our flight having this problem. I am sure this will not help Delta's already bad business situation because the Delta employees didn't seem to be dealing with this fiasco very effectively which I am sure will cause some customers who might have been unsure about doing business with Delta to become convinced not to do any more business with Delta. I'm not one of those. I'm pretty much of a died in the wool Deltacrat.

If you are reading this, I am sure you are curious what my doctor at Mayo Clinic had to say day before yesterday morning. Well, I'm not going to give you a lot of technical jargon for a change. Basically, that is just a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo only cancer doctors and cancer patients seem to be interested in. What you probably would like to know is that what I was told wasn't totally good or totally bad. If you have been in an airport lately, I'm sure you have heard the homeland security announcement where they tell you we are currently in condition orange. Well, my condition is currently in yellow - not green and not red. We are going to wait and see what happens with my blood work over the next couple of months to determine whether it is moving to red or green. It may become necessary to begin treatment with a new anti-myeloma medication if it moves to red. In other words, if I am just experiencing a speed bump in the road then we will just keep on keeping on. If it is a change in direction then I will have to get started with drug therapy.

That's as plain I can make it without using a lot of technical jargon.

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