The Wakeup Call
Its been a long time since I posted on here and I’m not proud of that fact. Part of it was lack of things I felt were important enough or interesting enough to write about. Part of it was laziness and another part just too many other things going on.
I even started a couple of articles but they just sorta fizzled out before I got them finished.
Some of you may remember my little fun filled episode with the kidney stones back in April. Well it turns out that may have been a blessing in disguise, though I certainly didn’t think so at the time.
The stone problem caused me to have to undergo a CT scan. The kidney specialist noticed a possible problem from those pictures and ordered an ultrasound to get a better look. Still not clear enough so he then ordered an MRI which took three months to get.
I had the MRI in New Glasgow September 12th and finally got the results this week, some 5 weeks later. The upshot of all this is now pretty plain on the computer screen. Half of my left kidney has been taken over by a tumor. That tumor has to be removed along with either half or all of my kidney.
Depending on the method of removal I will be off the road between two and four months. I know what some of you are thinking, “Some people will do anything to get some time off”.
I wish that’s all it was. Unfortunately this little ploy will have some rather more serious repercussions. I may be forced to sell the truck. Obviously I’m looking into the possibility of putting a driver on it for that period of time but even if I’m able to find one there won’t be any income in it for me after paying wages, truck payment, fuel and insurance.
So upcoming posts will have a slightly different slant over the next few months but I’ll still be the GrumpOlTrucker. I can’t change that any more than I can change the skin I’m in.
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