Down, Not Out

On Tuesday morning I will be having surgery on my left eye to place some gold-plated tumor markers around a malignant melanoma that has been hiding in there in the back for who-knows-how-long, for follow-up radiation in a month or so.

Even though I've written about this in other places, and to other people, it feels both scary and unreal. I broke my ankle in February, and that surgery did not frighten me at all. Of course, I only had a few hours to think about it, not a month or so. But still--it feels very "this is not happening to me."

At any rate. I'll probably lose vision in that eye while it's recovering, I think I will go with the eye patch all the time until it's feeling better, particularly with the work I do as an editor, and it will look kinda' cool IMO. Now that Marie Colvin is gone, I guess I can pick up the eye-patch slack for a while. *smile*

So I'm not exactly sure how much work I'll be getting done. I know how much work I need to be getting done, but to estimate how much will actually get done is still an unknown.

If you have a project you'd like me to work with you on, please bear with me and try to be patient while I figure this all out. I would like to say that August is wide open, but we'll see.

And if you're feeling philanthropic, I could still use some help paying the COBRA bills for July and August. Click here to read more.

Thank you for stopping by.



And that's the bastard, there. ^