trick or treat

all the pre-testing, measuring, guaging, screening, prodding, x-raying, ct-ing, bleeding and waiting is finished. at dawn on halloween i meet the knife! AHHHHHHHHH. and i'm glad. pegandi and mandy are in tucson, and at 5am or so drive over to Tucson Medical Center for the operation at 7am. by lunch time (for all of you, not I) it'll be out of there. hope for best result, gather all your powers of positive thinking, hoping, and imagining. send them directly to me and my destiny, in any shape or form. cry out to the sky, i'll hear you, hum a happy note and i'll be humming beside you, sing when you see the sunrise and i'll feel its glow on my skin. thanks beyond thanks to deepest appreciation and loving warmth fills me as i start this next journey. so many well wishes from so many of you, my family, my friends and those who know they are both. I feel so well loved.
peg and mandy will update and give you the facts, ma'm, just the facts, while i'm morphed out and perhaps less than clear speaking and thinking. we'll keep this current and give a phone # for the hospital room.
love and then love again, to all
marcus

Gratuitous Photo Opt...

Couldn't fit them all on one blog (hit the beauty limit)...
PS having artistic control over this blog gives me the right to randomly insert photos of Freddie Mercury as I see fit.
Muuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaa haa!
XOXO ~*~*~*~Mandy

Part 3...

Soooo... this is Mandy here, to let you know that things-a been-a happening! We have a date set for surgery aka carving time... Halloween! (I ain't afraid of no ghosts!) We had a really encouraging meeting in Tucson last week with the surgeon (like a surgeon, cuttin' for the very first time...) Dr. McDonald and set everything up to take care of business.
We will be in Tucson for about 2 and a half weeks, hopefully hanging out with all those special sparklers at the Grand Canyon first for a few days before we head south.
**Dad and I went on a Colorado River trip through Cataract Canyon, and it was CRAZY. We were very fortunate to experience such wild beauty with such wild hominids!
**The Extreme Makeover Big Water Edition was a HUGE success and we want to thank everyone so much for donating time, food, love, and SWEAT to help us out. The place looks amazing, just like you! Coming from so far, willing to get down and dirty to help us is a true statement of character! THANK YOU!
Paul Louis, you are a crazy man & thanks to you know I know more about sheetrocking than I ever dreamed. Some is still stuck in my hair, no joke. Julie, thanks for all the chocolate cake breaks you 'forced' upon the guys!
**Wes & Alena, we miss you! We're glad you are feeling better because being sick is a pain in the BASS!
**Thanksgiving is going to be a theme party this year (wonder who thought of that)... Aliens and Indians. We have some special guests coming from California to initiate the festivities... can't wait to see you guys!!!!!!!
**Marcus/Dad/Cancer Man/UncleMarkyBaby is looking good, I am proud to report sightings of a moustache and other various hair outcroppings I've personally witnessed upon that beautifully shaped skull of his.
As usual, thank you for all of your thoughts, jokes (the funny ones only... good work Uncle Al), LOVE, laughs, and continual support. Could we do this without you?... I wouldn't want to find out.
xoxo
Mandy & CO
PS CONGRATULATIONS to Alison & Bill on their marriage (that is ballin'.)