tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371136442012-02-16T11:22:31.635Zwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103583991767925831noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37113644.post-35246236449643375462007-05-02T19:12:00.000Z2007-05-02T19:16:29.507ZIs this what you had in mind?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/953.html">Joy of Tech</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37113644-3524623644964337546?l=patientlyoccupied.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>wellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103583991767925831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37113644.post-64506704362746185792007-01-03T02:54:00.000Z2007-01-03T05:09:51.692Z<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/340201106_2b52865833.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/340201106_2b52865833.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What does this New Year mean to you</span>? (Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/toniphotos/">Toni V, Zurich</a>)<br /><br />My answer is below, please post yours in reply.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/80023028_9202c3d6cf_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/80023028_9202c3d6cf_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">I raise a glass to toast your New Year and what it may bring you.</span> (Actually, I just enjoyed the photo and wanted to share it here. Thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/">Steve Jurvetson</a> for allowing it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For me, this New Year means <u>I have outlived my surgeon's estimate of my life expectancy</u>.</span> (Maybe like <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/anzman/339860426/">these guys, on New Year's Eve</a>?)<br /><br />I'm not sure I really know what to think about that fact.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37113644-6450670436274618579?l=patientlyoccupied.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>wellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103583991767925831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37113644.post-31623843162015423772006-11-20T08:32:00.000Z2007-01-03T05:13:32.907ZSo what is this "<a href="http://patientlyoccupied.blogspot.com/">Patiently Occupied</a>" blog about, anyway, you ask?<br /><br />Well, even if you didn't ask, I'll tell you anyway. My <a href="http://wellhealth.blogspot.com/">main blog</a> has been primarily about topics of interest to someone in my situation, whereas I felt I needed a place to be less objective, a place where I could discuss the feelings surrounding that situation. Not wanting to change the tone of that blog, I decided that I needed a separate place from the "formal" side of things.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_txcTPZJ1Do0/RZscqVjs05I/AAAAAAAAAAU/v4bs3IYyc84/s1600-h/occupationpatient.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_txcTPZJ1Do0/RZscqVjs05I/AAAAAAAAAAU/v4bs3IYyc84/s320/occupationpatient.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015634123674145682" border="0" /></a>If you've seen my <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/05103583991767925831">profile</a> here, you've undoubtably seen that my "occupation" is listed as "patient." That really has nothing to do with patience, though of course it's a characteristic that is sometimes required.<br /><br />These days, my primary "job" is to be a colorectal cancer patient, and this is a blog where I can express the emotions that arise from that, and related posts as well of course. It is about the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">occupation</span> of being a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">patient</span>, and everything that accompanies it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37113644-3162384316201542377?l=patientlyoccupied.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>wellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05103583991767925831noreply@blogger.com0