Not Good, Not Bad, Just not News

In the beginning of this process way, way back not quite 1 1/2 weeks ago I made a decision to stay with an experienced local surgeon in a private hospital setting. This was as opposed to a teaching hospital environment. I came up with a lot of well thought out good reasons to stay local. Obviously, there are always some not so great things to any decision. One is that Dr. Daneker is a small practice doc and today is a surgery day for him. He has not received the written report yet and will not deliver biopsy reports over the phone. My guess is he might if it was a bingo (B9) report. So I had already scheduled an appt for Wed at 3:30. I know, yes it is frustrating, yes we producing a lot more anxiety, yes we feel all of your concern and yes I know many of you out there are dying to express your much valued thoughts and input. For those of you that do not know some of my most valued expressions: One of them is "It is what it is". If you are interested that saying was actually derived from another expression that originated from one of my mentors that I first came in contact with many years ago. The saying, when first heard was much more coloquial and when it reached the proper, more refined homes of the South it was immediately redesigned to have a more cultured impact. I think I actually first heard it and remembered it when I was about six years old. My mentor had just finished overcoming a monumental hurdle and declared " I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam". He later when on to become one of the most quoted sailors in history and is the main reason that many of us are willing to eat spinach. Keep up the good comments and feel free to talk amongst yourselves and in the words of Walter Cronkite "That's the way it is" this midday, Monday April 7.