Mike's Resume and Product Pages

I have uploaded Mike's current resume and a sheet of current product designs. 

Feel free to pass them around.

http://catalinacom.com/MikeAntramResume.pdf

http://catalinacom.com/MikeAntramProducts.pdf

Yes, It can always be worse

And so it is.  Mike was laid off today.  His company shut down their R&D division and laid off three directors, of which Mike was one.  The next person to say, "God won't give you more than you can handle," gets clocked. God didn't do this to us.  Shit happens.

Radiation Starts Tomorrow

Mike starts his radiation treatments tomorrow (Monday, November 16, 2009).  This will go everyday except weekends for the next 8 weeks.  So this will go until January 8, 2010.  The radiation therapy is called external beam radiation therapy or EBRT.  If fatigue sets in it should not be until toward the end of the treatments.  Hope for the best.

Mapping

Today Mike went in for his mapping appointment.  It's basically an ultrasound test that pinpoints the areas they will irradiate.  The interesting part is how they mark the spots so that they know exactly where they will return to each day.  They tattoo a small dot in the four places directly on the body.  So now Mike has his motorcycle and four little tats.  He's such a bad ass.

Radiation is a Go

So we've had our consult with the radiologist and it was decided that Mike would start 8 weeks of radiation therapy.  Which means we will be here for Christmas so if you want to see us you need to make your reservation at Hotel Antram now.  His treatments will be every day except weekends and holidays.  Tuesday they will map out a treatment and then start sometime after that.  This is not the seeds/pellets.  This is the shoot em up, shrink em down kind.  So we hope anyway.

Radiation

So the doctor has not given us the information I wanted.  He simply told Mike that what he needs now is radiation to stop the growth of the prostate.  Yes, I know that makes no sense.  I'm all in here folks.  Mike is just happy that the bone scan came back clean and now they are saying the lymph system is clean.  He did not ask why they don't just remove the prostate and the tumors from the bladder if this is true.

No News

Still do not have the results of last week's tests.  Hopefully tomorrow.