Day +5 Front Page of the Herald

November 15, 4:30 PM

My face was on the front page of the Calgary Herald today.

My email inbox maxed out with words of encouragement from complete strangers.

It's been a neat day so far.

Well, I guess that neat doesn't really describe how I'm feeling right now.
I'm blown away. I knew that the Calgary Herald was going to be doing a
story on me, but I figured that it would get hidden somewhere in between
tire advertisements at the back of the weekend section. I guess this kind
of subject is more interesting than I thought. Oh and I just want to say
publicly that Sarah Chapman writes one hell of an article. One of my
biggest fears in doing the interview was to have my words twisted to fit a
particular tone the editors were looking for. This article was 100% dead
on. Again, what can I say, I'm speechless.

I also really want to thank everyone for their kind words today. My hotmail
was crushed with emails from complete strangers with pages of encouragement.
It's a new project of mine to answer every email I get, and it's almost a
full time job. I'm a day behind right now, so I'm not ignoring you if you
don't get a reply.

So what do we talk about today? Medically speaking, I'm right on track as
far as things are going. Oh, and I managed to fight through the nausea last
night so there was no need to eat lots of pudding. I still ate a full
family pack of pudding last night anyway...just to be on the safe side
right?
My mouth is starting to get a little raw, so the mouth sores are in my near
future after all. Dr Tang is quite happy with my blood levels, and I'm
taking the fact that I'm on my third consecutive day pass as a positive
step. I'm actually starting to become too comfortable in the hospital. I
woke up last night with a blood pressure bandage on my arm in mid-cycle.
Apparently, I had slept through a "blood letting". Someone was actually
able to walk into my hospital room and bleed me at will without my noticing.
I think I'm going to attach little bells to my central line.

I'm calling this one short tonight. This newspaper article is giving me
emotions that I'm having trouble dealing with right now. I also want a
quiet evening with the wife if you don't mind. Once again thanks to
everyone who emailed me today. Your words mean a lot.

Goodnight