I still have a long road ahead and I just need to wait for it all to get started. This coming Tuesday, I’ll be in New York at Sloan Kettering getting a second opinion on my diagnosis and treatment plan. A very big thank you goes out to Cary for setting this up for me. Cary will even be there on the phone! Hopefully they will confirm what my doctors have already said which is good news overall. Otherwise who knows what will happen. But this is why second opinions are good to get. I always like to have a different set of eyes on what I produce at work. Ideally, the results you get from a collaborative effort almost always turn out better than if it were done in a vacuum. So we shall see.
Then there’s the portacath on the 5th and the beginning of chemo on the 9th. Surgery after just recovering from surgery, and then infusing chemicals that will be killing cells all over my body. I’m not sure how I will respond to the chemo. I could have no effects or I could really get knocked out. It could fall anywhere in between and it could happen immediately or accumulate over time. Just not sure. And I just have to wait. I’m not looking forward to being hooked up to more machines and having another scar on my body but what can I do. This is the best modern medicine can offer. It will probably save my life but 50 years from now, doctors in training will look back on this treatment and call it medieval. Where’s doctor McCoy when you need him?
We saw a great movie the other day for the BIBLE tells me so a documentary which follows five christian families dealing with “the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity.” Included in the footage was this scene from the television series The West Wing which pretty much sums up the movie’s main argument that a literalist reading of the bible (which has recent roots in the 20th century) and most average Christian’s ignorance of the bible or of the context in which it was written has allowed the church to foster and promote a homophobic society.
One interesting fact I took away was how homophobia is rooted men’s fear of women. For a man to be treated like a woman undermines male domination over women. Fear of the other, fear of sex, and fear of women. And even if homosexuality is a sin, it is a still bigger sin for religious leaders to promote ideologies and behaviors that end in the deaths of fellow human beings.
One last thing, I love that this film is being screened in churches.
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