Wednesday, March 30th 2005, 7:10pm

Hey y'all! How are ya? Yyyyyeah, I thought that might be the case.

Alright, well, Dharma's back in Vancouver, home sweet home. The way I feel being in Vancouver reminds me of Homer (Simpson) and his couch. Basically the idea is that where Homer has spent 'x' number of years sitting, the couch now has a permanent imprint of his butt that he can just fit right into. He likes his seat, I do not like mine.

Anyway, who cares about that... ummm.... what else can I talk about. La la la! Mmmm... well, so I'm back in Vancouver, obviously, tho a little earlier than expected. While in India I learned that my brother had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and would shortly be undergoing surgery, followed by radiation or kemo therapy. I decided to return home before that all started. So, five days later I was home, and five days after that he was in surgery, which removed some 40~50% of the tumor in the end. Since the surgery he's been healing up very well indeed, and seems quite well besides. We've gotten biopsy results telling us more about the type and grade of tumor it is - Oligodendroglioma (low grade), which basically means it's a slow-growing, non-aggressive malignant tumour. Soon the tumor that was removed will be tested to see which if any currently available chemo-therapies it is responsive to, and a course of action (treatment) will be decided on.

As for me, I haven't been doing much for the past 5 weeks since arriving back. I guess I'm adjusting or something - yeah, that sounds good. Riding my bike, playing guitar, catchin some hacky-sack action in the park, and gradually getting back in touch with friends and family, and last but certainly not least, watching tv. Now I have to see about work and a place to live. I don't relish that thought.

And as for my journal/blog entries here, well... I'll keep making them, but they'll be more spaced out. From my point of view my life here in Vancouver is generally too straight forward and uninteresting to write about. But, when anything happens that I do think is interesting, you can be fairly certain I'll mention it here.

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dharma