Well, not quite finished

I'm home from the oncologist! Bloodwork is stable and I've lost weight -- take that, you pineapple-and-protein-shake naysayers.

... And yet it still drags on. I was scheduled to have a JAK2 today -- that's a test for a mutation in my stem cells -- but I can only have it Monday through Wednesday. So I'm back in the lab Monday. I have one last check-up and pick up my files in June.

I talked to Mattie on the phone today for the first time in more than two years. I'm driving to Evansville, Ind., on March 1 to pick him up. It's kind of a funny story because when I picked him up at the airport in 2005, I lightly rear-ended a semi truck on my way home. I'm surprised he's letting me drive him anywhere now. It's okay, I admit it: Sometimes, on occasion, I am a better passenger than driver. Sometimes.