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Update: Whiskey and Chemo

I got a little tipsy couple of days ago and put up an extremely depressing blog. First time I'd drank that much in quite a while, was trying to see if it helped my writing any (it did not, I am sticking to red bull and coffee from here on out). The blog was up for about four hours, before I deleted it. You didn't miss anything. I'm fine now. Mostly venting and depressive whining on my part. You know, the usual.

There was valuble information in the blog, pertaining to my current state of health and the ongoing struggles therein. I talked to my doctor about having a bone marrow transplant in the past month, after learning the results of my bone marrow biopsy. He sent the results to the bone marrow folks, and they recommended another med that I'm trying for a month, to see how it works out (Rituximab). I got an IV drip of the stuff this past Tues, and will get three more, once a week. I'm not ready to say it's started working yet, but I certainly feel better. I don't know for sure if it's from the meds or the productivity, though.

I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year, and by this point I'm pretty conifident that I'm going to finish it for the second time. It's day 9 and I'm at over 11,000 words as I write this blog entry. It feels easier this time around. I feel really good after banging out a good chunk of it. This novel is a lot more biographical than the last one, which was a comedy. I intentionally made the main character a lot like myself and put him in situations I'd love to be in, jsut to see what would happen. It makes writing easier, and lets me blow off steam in ways that I can't really do in a public blog where people might worry too much.

I'm never happier when I'm creating something, whether its a Dungeons and Dragons world, a short story, a peice of art, etc. It calms me down to string letters into words, words into sentences, and sentences into full stories. I feel like a weaver, and the keyboard is my loom.

I'll let everyone know how the chemo goes. I know we're going to keep it up until the end of this month, then evaluate how well it's working. I hope it does.