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I have found that it is very difficult to explain to people that I won second place in a english-speaking cancer blog contest in Chennai, India. Somehow that is a little too random for normal conversation. If I repeat it three-or-so times it starts to make sense. (I mean “make sense” in a relative way. Relative to “making absolutely no sense at all.”)

I e-mailed with the nice man, Muralikrishnan, in charge of the contest, and we worked out what to do with my free pizza. (They don’t deliver.) On Monday Muralikrishnan met with Dr. Rajkumar of the Adayar Cancer Institute and gave the good doctor my gift certificate for free pizza, as well as my free entrance card to the local cineplex. Dr. Rajkumar is going to give these gifts to one of his cancer patients on my behalf.

Muralikrishnan also told me that his wife would be saying prayers for me at the Tirmala-Tirupathi temple, which I’m told is the richest and most visited temple in the world.

Also, a condensed version of one of the posts from this blog, specifically, Happy Birthday To Me, will be published in the coming newsletter of The Wellness Place, which is a cancer support institute in Palatine, IL that I frequented during therapy.

My diet is going very poorly, thank you for asking. I’ve started walking daily, though, so maybe that’ll make some difference. (By “daily,” I mean “yesterday” and “once last week.”) I figure as long as I don’t give up altogether it’s not all bad, although I would like to fit back into my old clothes sooner rather than later.

I’d like to give some support to my new friend Marta, a Hodgkins patient who is having her 11th treatment on Friday. She has 12 treatments to complete. Hold on, Marta.

People keep asking me when my hair will start growing back. Ha. Except some of them aren’t joking, and are actually, seriously wondering. In those cases there tends to be an awkward moment or two where I have to explain to them that they have a foot in their mouth. People, I don’t have anymore hair than this. Leave the poor bald guy alone.

Also, there has been a lot of spam in the comments lately, you may or may not have noticed that. Again, I would ask the spammers that, if they are going to spam, at least use the right syntax for your links. Don’t be an idiot. You’ll sell your ViAgRa and synthetic pheremones much easier if the link to your online casino actually shows up.

I’m mostly back to work now. I’m accompanying 4 days a week. Next week I start teaching piano lessons with a handful of students. I find that I’m feeling stronger and not tiring as easily as before.

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take me “daily” walk. Maybe.