Random Thoughts on a Tuesday

I need to find an excuse to wear these brown slacks more often - they show off my ass nicely.

This was the morning to watch people do stupid things on mass transit, like refuse to move either out of the way or to the back of the bus to let more people get on, or to stand right in the way at the entrance to the Metrorail car. Rule #2 in full force.

Not enough sleep the last two nights, so no swim this morning. Grrr. Despite that, it was good to go grab food with the Imp last night and catch up on how his Body Electric experience went this past weekend.

No new bed bug bites, so we seem to have killed them off for good. Knock wood and all that.

There are times when I'm doing my job where I feel slightly overwhelmed at the magnitude of the stuff I work on at the Big Government Agency (stuff that I do not and will not mention here, as most readers know).

The new futon mattress sort of folds over the frame, but not quite as well as the original (mainly because it's a better mattress). I did get it on there, and it was comfortable to curl up on, but it still looks a tad out of place yet. Not sure if I want it to settle or not, but at least it's comfortable, which is ultimately more important than how it looks (stop looking at me that way, and no, you can't have my queer card for saying it, either).

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Cancer Care

Cancer Survivors May Not Get Needed Care. The short version is that the Institute of Medicine found that cancer survivors aren't getting the long-term follow up care they need after their initial treatments. Scary quote:

Half of all men and one-third of women in the United States will develop cancer in their lifetimes. Thanks to advances in early detection and treatment, the number who survive has more than tripled over the past three decades.

I have to say, cancer is the one health risk that just gives me the willies. My mother is a breast cancer survivor, her father and two brothers have had prostate cancer. Both of her grandmothers died of cancer, one from breast and one from ovarian cancer. My father's mother had a cancerous tumor in her brain that killed her, and her sister, his aunt, has had melanomas removed from her face. If there's a genetic component, I certainly have a high risk, then, given that family history. I've already had a talk with my doctor about it, after the latest diagnosis of an uncle. I'm going to start screenings for prostate and colon cancer about 5-10 years before the normal recommended time to start those, just in case. And otherwise I try to do the right things with diet, exercise, etc. But just the fact that it could pop up at any time scares the living daylights out of me. With other health risks (i.e., HIV, colds, broken bones, etc.) I can weigh the risks that they'll happen or not and manage those to a point where I'm comfortable with my actions. Not so much with cancer. Scary, scary stuff.

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