The call came this morning, right as my regular weekly Strategic Communications team meeting was starting up. Once I saw the call was the Burlington hospital, I muted my connection, shut off the video … and waited breathlessly for the news… The surgeon was delighted to call and say… no more cancer was found in the colon walls or lymph nodes! It’s done. Finished. Fertig. I’m as close to "cancer-free" as anyone with colon cancer can be. No further tests needed. No chemo. No other treatments. I’ll go back in about three months for a "flexible sigmoidoscopy" where they’ll use…
Sep 04
TDYR 354 – Colon Cancer, Colonoscopies, Vermont, and Recovering from Surgery
TDYR 354 – Colon Cancer, Colonoscopies, Vermont, and Recovering from Surgery by Dan York
Sep 04
TDYR 354 – Colon Cancer, Colonoscopies, Vermont, and Recovering from Surgery
It’s been a while since I recorded an episode… and that had a great amount to do with being diagnosed with colon cancer after a routine screening colonoscopy. In this episode I talk about that test, the difficult choices, the surgery… all set in th…
Sep 03
Post-surgery recovery: Every day brings a series of small victories
I put on pants today. Shorts, even. With a belt! This was a BIG deal. It’s not that I haven’t been wearing pants 😉 … but that I’ve only been able to wear running pants with an elastic waste since leaving the hospital on Thursady. My stomach was too bloated from the surgery and it hurt too much to wear anything else. Until today. Another small victory! Never having had surgery before, I’m learning what countless others have learned before me – that each day brings a series of small victories, without hopefully any major defeats along the way. To…
Aug 30
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN63 Barcelona
Do you have a great idea about DNSSEC or DANE that you’d like to share with the wider community? If so, and you’re planning to be in Barcelona, Spain for ICANN63 in October 2018, submit a proposal to present your idea at the DNSSEC Workshop! Send a brief (1-2 sentence) description of your proposed presentation to dnssec-barcelona@isoc.org by Friday, 07 September 2018. For […]
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Aug 21
The Big C Returns As Colon Cancer… and with me this time
— "I’m sorry, but unfortunately one of your polyps tested positive for colon cancer." Not the phone call you want to receive at 4:00pm on a Friday afternoon. Especially one week before you are about to buy a house in Vermont and start the process of relocating your family – and leaving behind your friends, other family members, and your whole "support system"! In truth, not a phone call you EVER want to receive. But I did get that call on June 29, 2018. And after many more tests, discussions and agonizing analysis, I’ll be entering the hospital in a…
Jul 28
Moose and bear – the perils of Vermont highways
“BEAR CROSSING – STAY ALERT” The bright yellow sign shouts its warning to me from the side of Interstate 91. I am in the middle of Vermont. There are few people here. Most of the time I-91 has walls of trees on either side, occasionally broken by amazing mountain views or scenic views of small towns. And so we are warned of bears and… moose! “MOOSE CROSSING – NEXT 5 MILES” I have seen the photos of damage caused by moose. You have a 2,000 pound animal on thin, spindley legs. Knock out the legs and the main bulk of…
Jul 27
The fascinating flow of free stuff from in front of our house
“FREE” says the sign pinned to the telephone pole in front of our house. And as we put out items, they usually disappear within a few hours. It’s been a fascinating aspect of living where we do in Keene, New Hampshire. We live on a fairly busy cross street, and so a good number of people are driving by. And they do stop and take the stuff we put on the street. All of it. Maybe it is part of being a college town. Maybe it is the huge number of people we see going to yard sales. Maybe it…
Jul 26
Revisiting a Not-So-New Rule – No Social Media Usage Until I Have Created Something New
I woke up this morning frustrated that I simply haven’t been writing across my various sites. In theory I am a “writer”, but I haven’t been writing! And as I wrote in My 3 Words for 2018: “because if I…
Jul 18
TDYR 353 – Podcasting as a Team-building Exercise?
How can you use podcasting or live online radio as a team-building exercise? What happens when you take 16 people, 10 of whom have never done anything with audio, and tell them that in 4 hours they have to stream an hour of live audio on the public Int…
