Sweetpea Dee

[Guest guest]

Deedilly-Dee, hopefully you read the

earlier update(s)? And if I get too exasperated with Jim, can I just

drop-kick his heinie off to you in Peoria?

Please?

Hee hee (aw, you know I love him!)

I’ll ask Jim in the morning if I can

please call the dermatologst’s office for him, to discuss this latest

turn of events and see if there’s anything we can do to hasten the mend.

Jim doesn’t understand why it had to be a Moh’s surgery, since he’s

not a vain guy and after all, his shoulder got hacked up to pieces (back with his

2nd melanoma, remember?), leaving him with an ice-cream-scoop-sized

hole, too large to close, so (*shudder*) it had to heal from the inside

out. He now says he wishes he could have just instructed the

dermatologist to just hack this thing off his nose, but (to quote Steve )

nooo-ooo-ooo. Instead, they got to experience a bubbling brook of arterial

fun! Little wonder he’s so bruised & swollen. :-( He

said he was able to make a lot of wisecracks about his appearance at work today,

so there were obviously lots of comments & questions. No fun when you’d

prefer to be a low profile, nose to the grindstone (well, in his case, almost) workaholic.

In the words of Gilda Radner (who was

quoting her dad), “it’s always something…” In

fact, look at these other Radner quotes (she was amazing!)

" Life is about not

knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without

knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. "

" The goal is to live

a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens,

whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important

thing is that the days that you have had, you will have lived. "

" I wanted a perfect

ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and

some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. "

Good words for us all, huh?

Love you, Dee!

Maureen (wife of Jim, age

51, UC '84, PSC '96, LRLTx # 36 @ USC in Los Angeles, California, 12/7/01,

thanks to our son; donor doing great, but Jim has post-tx skin

cancer/melanoma issues, et.al., '03 - present); happy empty-nesters &

delighted grandparents with a 2nd grandbaby due this June. All

in all, life is bee-yoo-tee-ful, and we can’t think of a better reason

for transplantation than… the bliss of grandbabies :-)

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf Of Deanna Vinovich

Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006

2:29 PM

To: ; Subject: RE:

Nayreen: Let us know more about this?

dee

> Maureen (who has to leave right now to be

with Jim during a 4-6 hour Moh's

> surgery for yet another skin cancer, this one

on his nose!)