OK - maybe on the edge is a better description. Actually, I'm sitting in the Charlotte NC airport, waiting on a weather-delayed flight back home. Sorry I didn't write last week, but I was on vacation, and my ability to get a good enough wireless signal to connect my laptop to the outside world was nearly non-existent. So, my description of being on the cutting edge has some caveats. Only cutting edge if I can get a signal, like in a metropolitan airport maybe.
For those of you who I was able to see in the NC Piedmont Triad area and in New Bern, it was really good to see you all. For those of you who I missed or couldn't meet up with, I apologize - it just gives me a reason to come back as soon as I can. This week's picture is of Tryon Palace, the colonial governor's mansion in New Bern.
Last week's posting about my fleeting moment of fame was nearly repeated again today. In one of the brief bursts of email I was able to get in last week, I got another message from National Public Radio. This time it was from one of the producers of the show "Talk of the Nation" which airs on many public radio stations from 2-3:00 eastern time. They were doing a live call-in show today about cancer, and more specifically about Leroy Sievers' My Cancer blog and how it has become an important forum for us patients. They wanted me to be a guest on the show, and if I was close to their studios in Washington DC, they'd love to have me for the show. If not in DC, then coming to a member station near me was the next best option. I ended up doing a fairly extensive phone interview with the producer, which was also kind of comedy of errors in keeping a good connection as we drove the wilds of western North Carolina at the time. He figured out where the nearest several public radio stations were and really tried to get me to get to one of them for the show. Unfortunately, the time of the show was during the drive from Winston-Salem to Charlotte to return to the airport, so I couldn't stop during the drive to hit any of the three stations he had picked out for me try. I did try to call in to the show during the drive, but between poor cell phone coverage and busy signals at NPR, I wasn't able to get through. I did listen to the show, and thought it was great. If you want to hear the broadcast on your computer or as an MP3 podcast, you can visit their site at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9604340
And an update on my last numbers - the marker has dropped to around 10.5, so we have made a little more progress. I skipped my Erbitux treatment last week, and will get the full treatment again this week. Also - tomorrow is PET scan today, so I hope I get some good pictures to back up the drop in the marker numbers. Or at the very least, some more images to play with on Photoshop - who knew radiology could be so much fun?
