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I'm pretty digging my boss right about now. He let me work from home during the ice storm, let me go home at lunch yesterday for WAH (he loves my acronym for work at home), and today I...WAH. Someone call me a wahmbulance. He's bucking the one-day-a-week unofficial WAH rule, at least for the ice crap. I'm going to make damn sure everything I can do is done over the 3-day weekend.

I took advantage of going home during lunch to blow lunch at Ikea & home depot. Painting and moving do not look scary at all - usually more time consuming than I expect, and I'm lucky I had this ice-storm-time-bonus, but I'll be done in time. Heck, the painting is clearly the easy part and may take what...an hour? Floors - went with murphy's oil soap for now.

Dad - they readily admit the imaging is not perfect, and were surprised to find the tumor was higher than expected and may be wrapped around the pulmonary artery. Poor guy is the the awful "Washington Hospital Center" and the place blows. The nursing staff are all apparently on their cell-phones socializing all day in lieu of doing patient runs - this was more obvious to my dad and his wife when the phone intercom was left on and they were treated to a long conversation of the nurse they couldn't shut off. Now the treatment recommended may be targeted radiation therapy, but there is no way in hell they are going to that horrible "Washington Hospital Center" again.

If you don't have insurance, or like me and my dad have crappy insurance with Kaiser or some other dump, spend the money necessary or switch jobs or do what you have to do to cover your ass with insurance. Get diagnosed early. Get treated fast.