Tora Ziyal has cancer

[Tora Ziyal]

^

Kira's Mom, it looks like you've volunteered to organize this meet-up. Because that I'm definitely not going to be up to.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

So the surgery's going to be either March 14 or March 15. Thank God it's not next week, which was one of the original possibilities. I've just got so much I want to get done before I go in the hospital.

It's great to hear a date for the surgery - it sounds like the doctors know what to do. Two weeks is a fair bit of time to make preparations, but it will fly by quickly.

I hope it goes well.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The doctor expects it to take me about three months to recovery completely, so July would be just about right.

That sounds like a very optimistic prognosis.

I'm visualizing myself being able to pronounce psychoneuroimmunology. Ommm.

Be grateful I didn't use its other, even longer, name of psychoendoneuroimmunology. Which has the unfortunate shorthand of PENI.

Someone really believed in the health benefits of laughter when they were coming up with that one.

So we now have people applying to medical school saying that they want to major in PENI?

 

[AJBryant]

I'd normally be with you on this one, but right now, normal would be an improvement over my worst fears for the future.

Well, maybe "relatively normal." You hang out with us, after all, and Lord only knows what that says about you.

A cancer-survivor friend of mine was encouraging me to write a list of things I want to do after I recover from surgery. Maybe I should put a trip to Lake Woebegon on it.

Hm. Maybe I should take a look at *my* "bucket list." I can't speak for Wisconsin (though I lived there when I was editing Dragon Mag for TSR), but if you ever make it to Indiana... I'm a good cook.

 

[Amaris]

This all sounds very good, Ziyal. Here's to a swift and speedy recovery, followed by an ultra nerdout surrounded by friends.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm visualizing myself being able to pronounce psychoneuroimmunology. Ommm.

Be grateful I didn't use its other, even longer, name of psychoendoneuroimmunology. Which has the unfortunate shorthand of PENI.

Someone really believed in the health benefits of laughter when they were coming up with that one.

So we now have people applying to medical school saying that they want to major in PENI?

You can't make this stuff up, can you?

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone.

I'd normally be with you on this one, but right now, normal would be an improvement over my worst fears for the future.

Well, maybe "relatively normal." You hang out with us, after all, and Lord only knows what that says about you.

Good point.

Hm. Maybe I should take a look at *my* "bucket list." I can't speak for Wisconsin (though I lived there when I was editing Dragon Mag for TSR), but if you ever make it to Indiana... I'm a good cook.

A good cook, eh? But what's this about Wisconsin? Lake Wobegon is in Minnesota.

This all sounds very good, Ziyal. Here's to a swift and speedy recovery, followed by an ultra nerdout surrounded by friends.

An ultra nerdout -- now there's a term I've never heard. I like it!

 

[Kira's Mom]

How about the Ultra Nerdout 2011 at Shore Leave?

 

[Tora Ziyal]

How about the Ultra Nerdout 2011 at Shore Leave?

I love it!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Have the doctors given you anything you can do to help prepare yourself for your surgery and recovery ahead of time? I know for me, it helps me to feel better if I go into something like that knowing what to expect.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

^Haven't had that conversation yet. But I'm exercising and trying to eat especially healthily.

 

[Mary Ann]

Well, Ziyal, I vote for a trip to England as one of the things to put on your post-cancer list. I'll be your tour guide in the southwest, and I promise not to feed you too much British cooking. A Devon cream tea is a must, though.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

^Sounds like fun!

I visited England for a week when I was a teenager. Don't remember much except that the Beatles' Help! had just been released. I saw it in London and thought I was really hot stuff.

I keep reading that British cooking has improved dramatically. Or is that just London restaurant cooking?

 

[Mary Ann]

^Sounds like fun!

I visited England for a week when I was a teenager. Don't remember much except that the Beatles' Help! had just been released. I saw it in London and thought I was really hot stuff.

Ah, it's been a wee while, then?

I keep reading that British cooking has improved dramatically. Or is that just London restaurant cooking?

I reckon it's improved overall, though I don't eat out often and do much of my own cooking. I quite like British classics like the Sunday Roast, bubble and squeak and cottage pie. The thing with traditional British food is that it can be stodgy (heavy and filling), and pretty damned fattening, too, when cooked the traditional way. Britain also has its own unique Indian food, which is very yummy.

 

[CaptainStoner]

Hi, Tora. I haven't posted yet, but have been reading the thread.
Here is a video made by my love Magnolia and I in November 2009, a week or so before a major surgery, and a few months before a round of radiation. I just love how she titled it. And the Beethoven.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_F-tOsOWvY[/yt] One thing I wish I had done prior to all of this was to freeze up a bunch of good broth, vegetable and otherwise.
I think you're going to do well! You need a team in place. And a good bit of Star Trek DVD's.

 

[Infern0]

good luck with the recovery, i am sure you will be fine

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Thanks, all of you.

Captain Stoner, thank you so much for posting that video! Yes, the title is wonderful. As is the whole thing. I'm not quite jumping on a trampoline, but I am still hitting the treadmill and elliptical at Planet Fitness. (Well, it's been over a week, but I'll go either tomorrow or Friday...)

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm still sending good vibes and wishing you all the best, Ziyal!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Thank you, Daniel!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Definitely March 15.

Aw, shoot... the Ides of March. Glad my name isn't Caesar.