Blogging My Ass Off
Finding the fun and profit in cancer, death, caregiving, pandemics and isolation.
My colo-rectal surgeon literally saved my ass in June.
He’s probably 70. When I woke up from the re-connection of my colon and rectum he said, “It took me an extra couple hours because I had to hand-stitch you back together because you had less than two millimeters of rectum left. You’re lucky. I’m the only doctor in Phoenix who still knows how to hand stitch a butt hole. They only teach these young guys how to use a staple gun these days.”
I’ve been healing from that surgery for eight weeks and I’ve started my second round of chemotherapy. This round will last six months. At the end of all of my treatments I will have been quarantined for 15 months.
When I was first diagnosed with cancer in November, 2019, hundreds of friends donated to “Save Steve’s Ass” and it has kept food on my table, deductibles paid, and the internet on. Unfortunately, because I have more than 200 friends, the “I Are Ass” took 23% of what was donated. So, we’ve been frugal and have stretched the donations out. The original timeline for surgeries, chemo and recovery would have put me back to construction work by this month, but now it will be February or March of next year.
So, rather than do another fund raiser, I decided to do something that I’ve been contemplating for quite a while: resurrecting my blog and doing a “Just Steve” podcast (with no “affiliations”) and offer it up as a gift to folks for their continuing support.
I will be posting some “free” stuff here, and “paid subscription content”. So you can bookmark this either way if you enjoy the kind of stuff I put up on Facebook. (I will continue to post on Facebook, and this will not be just “cut and pasted” things from there.)
I appreciate all the thoughts, good ju-ju, positive energy, prayers, sacrificed chickens, and un-followed through on good intentions everyone has sent my way for the past nine months.
I’m looking forward to seeing what I’m going to be putting up here!
When you have to deal with both cancer and the IRS, it’s time for some Warren Zevon: https://youtu.be/LbhYqV17CoQ
My former agency's slogan: For Fun and Profit.