W-A-I-T-I-N-G STILLLLLLLLL!

Ay yi yi.

I guess the medical profession can spot Cancer Newbies a mile away.

Newbies to the cancer world are the people who think that they should receive test results within, say, a flipping WEEK, so that they can, say, SLEEP AND EAT AND EXIST due to having received the TEST RESULTS that deal with the FUTURE EXISTENCE of their loved ones.

We were newbies, but we have now officially been changed.

We are becoming Experienced Cancer Victims now. Waiting TEN DICKENSIAN DAYS for the radiology interpretation of a CT scan? No big deal. Hey, life's a blast! What's the big deal about receiving a little report on the future of your very existence?

(((Subtext: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HELP! HELP!))))

Tomorrow will be DAY TEN of waiting for a report on the results of a CT scan of Bill's abdomen.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

SOMETIME tomorrow--we naively and stupidly hope and actually THINK--we will get a fax of the radiology report.

Then again, given stolen hospital hard drives, broken urologists' computers, dueling banjos, and a mountain location accessible only by 4-wheel-drive trucks and semis loaded with moonshine, what are we really THINKING, expecting to hear anything by Friday???????