We aren’t done with the journey of my own personal March Madness but I thought I’d like to give you a here and now update.

It can be so easy to just say “I’m doing great. Everything is going as planned. Just taking care of business and looking forward to being able to join in some reindeer games.” As true as most of that is, it’s a different world for me right now.

In the world of appointments and such I am whirling dervish (the wildly spinning kind not a Muslim religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity.) This week there was the acid reflux test where they put probe up your nose into you esophagus to monitor acid, if any for 24 hours) Annoying more than anything. Then there was the normal clinical complete with a chest x-ray, pulmonary function test and the usual blood work.

Wednesday was special. Bronchoscopy. Think colonoscopy but at the input end with a different tube. Doctor runs a camera into your lungs looking around. The squirts water in there, collects it and sends it off to look for bacteria, fungi, scuungi (I made that one up). Then they take a couple snip snip here, snip snip there pieces to look at. Awaiting results of more tests always a good time. I will say based on my results the doctor has pushed my appointment to three weeks. This is a good thing. So when I say I’m doing great it’s not a line. Right now doing great is just that. No time to get cocky. Stay the course. Nose to the grind stone. Pride before the fall. We will get there.