Howard told me the other day my blog has gotten boring, and I told him simply that my life is currently boring! Not that I’m complaining: I’ve had a great time at home with my family, free of interesting trips and shenanigans (though not free of drama, more on that in a later entry). Watching Law and Order for a few hours a day and staying up late at night chatting on Adium does not lead to much blog material. :D

However, there has been one bad development: my uncle (Mom’s brother) went into the hospital maybe a week ago and has since been transferred to a different hospital and diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Mom, her sister, and I are going to visit him tomorrow in the hospital. They’ve started him on chemotherapy that will last for a three-week segment, I think lasting twelve hours a day, seven days a week. After the three-week period, I don’t know if he’ll get to go home for a bit or if they’ll do other stuff to him. My uncle at least has a good personality for dealing with crises; I’ve always known him as a joker. When Mom first called him in the hospital, she asked what he was doing there and he responded with “That’s the only way I can get people to come see me!”

We at first thought he would have chronic leukemia, back when we knew it was leukemia but no specifics, because he’s a 59-year-old man; Mom and I were under the impression that acute leukemia is what children get. We just found out yesterday from another of Mom’s sisters that it’s acute. If Wikipedia’s accurate, “AML is a relatively rare disease, accounting for approximately 1.2% of cancer deaths in the United States”. So far, I know they’ve done a liver biopsy on him, a cat scan, and a bone marrow aspiration that was apparently pretty painful, so hopefully they won’t have to repeat that part.

So Mom and I are getting up bright and early tomorrow to meet up with my aunt and her friend, who’ll be driving, and we’re going to head across the state. I’ll post more details when I find out something else.