I think, if Kara grows up with half the talent Erika has, I will be blown away.

Fay, e-mail me your phone number and I'll have her call you. She can tell you how much she likes Nesma and the Beans.

eta: Bedtime (late for her birthday, actually). We'll have to try another time.

In my world, though, it's already Sunil Day. Happy Birthday, Sunil!

Aw, thank you, Fay! Go snog a hot foreign chick for me.

Make sure it's a particularly fantastic White Devil Woman for him, Fay!

Happy almost birthday, P-Cow!

Karen update (good news):

So, yay, we get a zero on the M(etastisis) for the TNM staging for breast cancer. We told Dr. Kuan that Dr. Broderick had said I was staged at 3A (67% survival rate) and she looked confused. She said, no, a T(umor)2 and N(odes)1 meant a 2B. She looked through the pathology report and we talked about lymph nodes that are "matted," which can move a stage 2B to a 3A, but she said the pathology report showed no indication of this, so we're going to take that 2B with no further argument, thank you very much. All in all, given the TNM "score" combined with the fact that the tumor was "high grade" (i.e. aggressive), gives me a 75% survival rate.

Yay, Karen!

I'm so glad to hear it, Hec. The last report sounded so much better than I'd been fearing, but this is all that plus test results. Yay!

Oh, good Karen news! Yay!

That's brilliant, David!

Hec, that's fantastic news!

Hey cancer: fuck off! Karen doesn't want you, so just crawl in a hole and perish!

Woohoo, Hec!

In mememe news, tomorrow is my annual physical. I'm more nervous about it than normal, because between my mom getting lung cancer as a nonsmoker and one of my cousins getting diagnosed with colon cancer at 43 (I'm 36, and one of my brothers had it at 46), I've been obsessing over every tiniest thing that might sorta kinda maybe be termed a symptom for the past few months.