First off, thank you so much for the words of encouragement and well wishes I received from everybody the other day when I sent out the email. I really appreciate it and it helped to convince me that spreading the word was worthwhile.

As for me today, I'm feeling pretty good. Didn't sleep that well, but got up this morning and went to the gym and had a good 2 hour workout. Felt pretty good, although I could use a nap now. I need to find enough time to do that more often.

It amazes me how inconsiderate some people are. While I was at the gym, these young guys, probaby in their early 20's, were waiting for the basketball court to be available. This one guy in particular was bouncing the ball repeatedly, making an effort to bounce it really hard. Sounds innocent enough, except he was doing this inside the weightlifting area. Every once in a while, the ball would get away from him and he'd just go get it and continue. More annoying though was that the noise he was making was starting to drown out the music playing. I actually turned up my headphones to drown out the noise of his basketball. It just amazes me that he had no concept of the fact that people were there to work out and the music was playing for a reason. It's much easier to work out to music you enjoy rather than some jackass bouncing a ball.

Anyway, my mom stopped by with some information she and my brother have found regarding alternative cancer treatments. My dad has some ideas about alternative remedies, as does one person that left me a comment and probably quite a few other people. I appreciate all the investigation people are doing on my behalf, truly I do, I just don't know what to do with it all. It'd be so much easier if I KNEW what would work. I don't have a lot of time here, so starting something that MIGHT give me results in 2 years just means I'll have a healed dead body. If I had 2 years, or 6 months for that matter, I doubt my doctor would want to operate in 6 weeks. It'd be nice if I had the time to sit around and read up on all these different treatments and spend time investigating each one, but by the time the work day is done, I find less energy to sit at my computer sifting through bogus remedies. I'm sure they're not ALL bogus, but just because there is a testimonial from somebody saying some treatment worked for them, that doesn't mean a damn thing in my opinion. Anyway, I think I need to start a separate blog about my opinions on alternative medicine and testimonials since that is where this whole thing is heading. I also want to add a list of "remedies" I have tried for my ulcerative colitis, so you can see that I'm not quick to discount alternatives. All coming soon.

-jk