a little news

When I was a member of the metal shop at Cell Space in San Francisco, I learned an important technique for locating tools from a shop veteran named Tom. After stomping around and cursing for several minutes, Tom would shout "Who stole my f*ing hammer?" Immediately afterwards, the tool in question would appear on his shop table, peeking out from under some neglected gloves, as if frightened into revealing itself.

I felt the some of the same sort of satisfaction that Tom experienced at howling his tools into revealing themselves when, the day after my last post I got a message from Michelle that Colleen from NOB had called. The message was that I couldn't receive any more radiation. I actually felt relieved, although it narrowed my options, that a decision had been made.

But my relief was premature. I received a voice mail message from Colleen the next day saying that they were sending my radiation treatment details to Dr. Loeffler in Boston. After more phone tag, it turns out that I've only been ruled out for 'standard' radiation ( meaning, I guess, IMRT like last time ) and proton beam therapy may still be possible. So - good news? More waiting? Massive campaign to call Dr. Loeffler and accuse him of stealing my hammer?