A Few Good Memes

Anna went for new CAT & PET scans today. These were the planned 3 month post-treatment followup diagnostics. The results will tell us how well the chemotherapy and radiation worked. She had a couple of blood tests 2 weeks ago and we didn’t hear back, so no news is good news there. Also, the tumor on her leg appears not to have returned at this point. So we are guardedly optimistic. Yesterday was pretty tough, emotionally for Anna and for me. Sometimes we can live just pretending she has a nasty case of bronchitis that explains her terrible cough. A day in the radiology area at the hospital will quickly cure you of that illusion, however.

We get the results Friday. I’m so in love with and so proud of Anna. It’s been a hell ride so far.

Anna’s going to a cancer survivor’s weekend near Fort Wayne this weekend. Hopefully she embarks with good news.

My friend Fuzzy wrote recently about two reality shows that feature body art and artists (a.k.a. tatoos). I finally got around to watching Inked last night, after seeing that SuicideGirls’ Amina was going to be on. She put up a stunning photoset on SG recently, so I couldn’t resist, even though Fuzzy thought it was the worse of the two shows. I have to agree, it’s a bit overdone. And, unfortunately, Amina got precious little screen time - far less than her prosthetic leg (she’s been an amputee since she was around 17 months old).

The pitifully tragicoment moment, however, came when two drunk young pseudo-lesbians came in to the tattoo shop and one of them had the artist do “The Asian Symbol for Happiness” on her forearm. Perhaps the fact that the glyph may well translate in some sense to “happiness” is sufficient to overcome the sad idea that someone permanently modded their body under the impression that an entire continent shares a set of symbols. I guess that’s what happens when you get a tattoo in the heat of the moment