Happy wednesday

In exactly two weeks from today, I will be completely finished with this treatment path.  I found out today from my radiation oncologist that after I finish treatment, we will wait 8 weeks before I get my first scan to see how we did.  It will be a CT scan of my head and neck, and then after that scan I will have one once every 3 months for the foreseeable future.  This along with my monthly visits to my ENT surgeon for my nasal probing should keep me very familiar with my good doctor buddies.  I don't know if it is the optimism surging forth from the realization that I am so much closer to finishing, but I have felt very good all day long.  I still feel tired at times and I am currently and have been for some time already laid out in my bed, but my stomach has been feeling pretty good today.  Felt good enough that after work, I came home and worked on a broken sprinkler head.  I fixed the one that was broken and felt great about that, but then broke another one in a different part of the yard.  Now I get to dig that one up and hope I can replace it.  Good times.
I am feeling very fortunate these days that my symptoms are not worse and that I seem to be handling the whole treatment regime pretty well.  I think things could be much, much worse than what I am experiencing and for that I will be eternally grateful.  The inside of my mouth is showing signs of the radiation burn, but again, it is nothing that I can't deal with right now.  I look forward to what will be a glorious day in exactly two weeks from today.

In addition to being a kick ass day, I also debuted a kick ass mustache today.  Went ahead and trimmed off the chops and left the simple, yet beautiful stand alone 'stache.  Not sure how I am going to able to fight off the throngs of women throwing themselves at my feet, but I will try to manage.  This was done at Jessica's request, perhaps she didn't know exactly the kind of power that she was about to unleash.  Look out ladies...