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It's a grade 3 or 4 astrocytoma. The plan is to remove as much of it as possible (hopefully 100%) in an awake craniotomy on Monday Nov 24. This is a 4-5 hour major surgery (or as long as it takes). The tumor is in the right front parietal lobe (I think I have that right), so it has the potential to affect things on my left side, (arm/hand motion, cheek/tongue muscles. It is affecting my speech a little, probably exerting pressure on some of the nerves in there.

I have a brain tumor

Well that's a surprise. Not sure how it's all going to play out. Surgery pending. Will keep you posted.

YSIHF (3): Barbequeuer's 12 Days of Christmas

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST:

Barbequeuer's 12 Days of Christmas

And a finger lickin' good secret sauce
2 Grimy grills
3 Grease fires
4 Ball-park franks
5 Mushroom clouds
6 Empty gas tanks
7 Well-done pork chops
8 Bags of charcoal
9 Flame-kissed t-bones
10 Singed-off eyebrows
11 Sauce-stained aprons
12 Crispy bratwurst

[BIHR] Books I Have Read [7]

Here's an update since the last posting. Been reading Zane Grey and fairy tales:

147-Barnaby Rudge--Charles Dickens (part)
148-About Orthodoxy--Gilbert K. Chesterton (part)
149-Betty Zane--Zane Grey
150-The Border Legion--Zane Grey
151-The Call of the Canyon--Zane Grey
152-The Day of the Beast--Zane Grey
153-Desert Gold--Zane Grey
154-The Blue Fairy Book--Andrew Lang
155-The Brown Fairy Book
156-The Crimson Fairy Book
157-The Red Fairy Book (Master Thief p. 384)
158-The Green Fairy Book
159-The Gray Fairy Book
160-The Lilac Fairy Book
161-The Orange Fairy Book (The Girl-Fish p. 896)
162-The Pink Fairy Book
163-The Violet Fairy Book; Three Wonderful Beggars
164-The Yellow Fairy Book The Invisible Prince
165-Silas Marner--George Eliot
166-The Last Trail--Zane Grey
167-With Lee in Virginia--George Alfred Henty
168-The Last of the Plainsmen--Zane Grey
169-The Light of the Western Stars--Zane Grey
170 The Heritage of the Desert--Zane Grey

TWIDI(5) More coffee -- chocolate mint coffee

I have discovered a new love--chocolate mint coffee.

I buy Eight O'Clock coffee beans (100% Columbian/Arabica)--excellent coffee. I buy Chocolate Mint beans from the local Berres Brothers coffee specialty shop. I grind one unit of regular coffee and one unit of chocolate mint, and mix thoroughly.

WOW! Love it.

By the way, here's what I do for non-fattening sweetener: I buy Equal in the large blue container (it's white and fluffy, used for baking), and non-dairy creamer. Then I mix them 50-50 in a container. It is quite palatable and doesn't have the same bite that Equal in the yellow packets, or the other sweeteners, seem to have.

Wow it's been almost a year since I last posted!