Audio

Sleater-Kinney has a new album coming out. The disc is called The Woods and is going to be worth listening for the song "Modern Girl" alone. The tune is hardly what you'd expect from the rawk trio, but it'll make you sing.

Plugging back in

I've just plugged my headphones back into my computer.

My last post, i've decided, comes from my reasonable anger and fear, but it also comes from a quick-stab pessimism. There remains so much life and living for Dad; I wouldn't say again that all that's left is goodbye. There's a lot more left and I want us all to make the most of it.

This Frou Frou album is a good, gentle soundset to take a breath to.

EDIT (May 13, 2005):
My dad didn't get the time we thought he would; his health deteriorated quickly and he died a little more than a month later, on April 16th. Constance drove be back to Toronto from London in time to say a last goodbye at 11am.

Diagnosis

My father, Gary, was diagnosed with cancer this morning. He has been in pain for months now. The doctors sent him to physio, prescribed pain killers, MISSED THEIR FUCKING CHANCE. The tumour they removed was in his neck, specifically a lymph node. Lymph nodes are basically cancer highways to your whole body. Once cancer has spread to lymph nodes, life expectancy drops significantly. Three years.
This weekend there will be talk of wills and radiation treatment. Maybe some sad jokes about toupees. I think that most of all, though, this weekend will be the start of a long goodbye.

To:From

To: the author of the previous post
From: the author of the previous post

Things will get better. For awhile. Then, things will get really, really good. But that'll just be a lulling calm before the turnaround. Within a week, everything can be lost.