Thats me in my alter ego costume (along with Metropolis city planner Siobhan Watson) during a recent summer soiré somewhere in brooklyn.
Note the pencil mustache. (gentle applause)
Meanwhile I have decided to continue the medical processes that will turn me into super-hero. Next up - R A D I A T I O N. They pretty much ask you right off the bat what kind of superpower you want so they can give you the right kind of laser-beam treatment. Most people go for something weak like flight or invisibility but I'm going for laser beams that shoot from my eyeballs. I figure that will come in handy, like if i want to light a BBQ or laser a flying insect. Or cut thru a plate steel door, whatev.
Basically the reason I chose to do this was because the doctors explained that while hodgkins patients who opt out of radiation have the same life expectancy as those who opt in, the quality of life for radiation people is better, specifically you don't get cancer in the same place again. Since we've already come all this way I figure I will go thru with it - its not as if if I keep this cancer then no other cancer will come along! So I might as well get rid of it and hope that the rest stay away as well.
Treatment starts aug 18. They have given me placement tattoos (tiny black dots on my neck and chest) and are busy developing some sort of beam pattern that will bend around my heart and my lungs to hit the source point of the cancer (found by comparing the several PET scans they have of the offending area from the past few months). This will kill the last of the little bastards and apparently make me sleepy and give me a little sunburn on my skin in the lasered area. I have to go five days a week, for about an hour in the morning. I have been to the waiting room before and it seems like it's pretty chatty, which I am not looking forward to, not because I'm a jerk but because I don't really get to much time to read these days what with the short commute and all. So the idea of tucking into some reading for a hour each day is kind of nice. I guess I will find out the deal in mid-August.
ok, here is a pic of me in my superhero costume
arr i'll put one in your jaw
