Sort of a dose of reality

Hello all! Not a lot has really changed in the past couple of weeks. I am staying extremely busy at work, most weeks working six days a week and usually no less than eleven or twelve hours a day. I am excited about this new project though. Be it good, or bad, this is a job that I will most definiely see the fruits of my labors on a nightly basis. There is no way around the fact that when it first starts up, there are going to be mistakes. Lots of them. My job is to (a) minimize them and (b) make sure that the mistakes made by the package handlers are once and only once types of mistakes. I can seriously say that if this goes off the ground successfully, then it could potentially open up some big doors for me in the company.

I am one of the few managers in the company who could have some opportunity to move around soon if the desire strikes me. There is a whole lot of "restructuring" and "reorganizing" going on, and unfortunatly some people had to take demotions to keep a job. My position is so new within the company, that fewer than ten percent of the stations company-wide have it, so getting it up and running smoothly in a station the size of Tampa would go a long way for me.

On a more serious note, I went to the doctor on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know, I have a genetic disorder that causes benign tumors to grow throughout my body. I am supposed to have MRIs and scans done every couple of years (minimum) but hadn't had any done in about ten years. I had the scans done in early May and last week, went to have the results read.

The doctors aren't worried about the tumors on my brain or chest wall. Judging from the scans ten years ago, there hasn't been any growth in them. The one in my chest wall causes me some major discomfort/pain semi-regularly, but not to the point that surgery would be required. (It would be a major major surgery) However, they did find a new mass along the right side of my throat that they are concerned about. I have been feeling it (it's not visible, but I knew something was there) for about six to eight months now. I had even mentioned it to Amber a time or two. Anyway, long story short, the doctor wants to wait about six months and do some more scans to see if there is anything unusual about that mass. So, it is possible that I could have to have surgery on or around my throat in December or January.

Luckily, my doctor here is one of the specialists in the area concerning my genetic disorder. She has done research on it and is very familiar with it, and its symptoms/side effects. Right now, she isn't too worried about it. She says as long as it isn't causing me any problems, then we should wait and see what happens over the next six months. I tend to agree with her on that. There is no need to get worked up and worried over it.

So anyway, that's all that's going on here. I hope to hear from y'all soon!

Greg :-)