Thanks for checking on Mike Rice's Journal. The initial schock is past now and I and mine are turning into good cancer patients. What that involves is following routines whose purpose is making simple gains like enough hydration and nourishment to be ready for the next chemo onslaught, coming soon enough, believe me.

I think it's been about six weeks since Dr. Retzer told me "you haven't had a chest X-ray in a long time, you should have one now". This was just after I had complained about a cough that wouldn't go away. The chest X-ray led to a CT Scan of my chest and then to an appointment with Dr. Kullberg who used his skills as a Pulmonologist to take a biopsy of my right lung and found the cancer. Doctors also believe there is some in my left lung, but since we decided on Chemotherapy, which is the 'universal soldier' of cancer and will search my blood stream for the presence of the disease anywhere in my body it isn't necessary to nail down every detail.