Tiny Bit of Hope

I checked the HGTV web site today and it turns out that some progress has been made, but there's still no clear date for when Season Two is going to air. Anyway, here's my name! Woo!

Also, my head is feeling much better. Thanks for all the well wishes.

All About the Brain

That last posting about Carty was really pretty random, but then I found myself thinking about him again yesterday, while I was getting a CT scan of my noggin. He did a record called AMAREI (MRI) based on the sounds he heard during his many brain scans. I could totally hear it.

No word from the Doc yet about my results, but I for sure had a concussion, and I for sure still have a pretty bad headache. It's improving, and after the range of physical tests, there's really no neurological damage, but they wanted to make sure I'm not bleeding into my brain or something like that. Fun!

Things That Trigger

Watched the Independent Spirit Awards tonight on IFC. Afterwards there was a long promo for the revised Henry Rollins show. Seeing Henry Rollins makes me think of Carty. We saw Mr. Rollins do a spoken word performance together probably ten years ago. God. Ten years. It still sucks to think he's only been gone for two.

Not really much else to say about it. I guess this can just stand as another rememberance.

(That last link is to an old journal entry from about 7 or 8 years ago, written a few days after I'd found out about his first tumor - it's pretty poorly written but hey, I was pretty torn up at the time.)

Face Used as Blocking Device

My nose isn't broken, but my sinuses are definitely pissed off. Last night I was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time as a soccer ball that had a tremendous amount of force behind it, ricoched off of my face. We won the game though! We actually won two games which was fantasic seeing as we lost every other game this season... by a lot. I tried playing for a little while for the second game but was overcome by the headache, dizziness, and nausea. I didn't barf and it didn't feel like a concussion - I woke up this morning and all is well. Well, except for the bridge of my nose being in a lot of pain and this headache. Fortunately there's no bruises and really very minor, superficial swelling. Ah sports.

Finally got pulled over this morning for having expired tags on my car. I noticed on MONDAY that my registration expired in DECEMBER, but I'd never gotten a renewal notice. Argh. The very nice lady officer gave me a warning, and now I have a month to pay the DMV and stop by the cop shop to show off the new tag. I've got "Predator" hair today (dreads in a big poufy ponytail and a bandana makes me look kinda like this guy.) and so it would have been kind of funny to be pulled over replete with a black and blue face... like I'd been beating the crap out of Arnold Schwartzenegger all night. Or maybe not.