Gastroscopy and gastronomy

Today I had my stomach endoscopically examined to see if there was any evidence of lymphoma activity there. Based solely on the visual examination and the photos, everything looks good. There were a couple a small bumps in my lower esophagus that they elected to biopsy so now I have a couple days to wait again; the surgeon was quite confident that these were nothing to worry about but he just wanted to be on the safe side. The procedure was a piece of cake compared to yesterday's bone biopsy. My surgeon Dr. Serleth, was a biology undergraduate at BSU while I was working on my Masters (he had his lab course from Dan Houg) so we had a long list of common acquaintances.

Mark Schultz picked me up after my 'surgery' (thanks Mark!) and also delivered some tasty short-bread cookies and other goodies (thanks Peggy!). Then Lamae stopped by with more cookies! All this is good since I have been losing some weight (hard to swallow both before and after the first surgery) but now my apetite is back with a vengeance. I am feeling so good today so I am going over to BSU tonight to meet with my Honors class. Fortunately the class is team taught as I'm not sure how long my voice will hold out. /dps