Yes, it’s been several months since I’ve posted anything here. But I have an excuse … well, for some of the time anyhow.
In September, I was diagnosed with conjunctival melanoma. That’s melanoma on the white of my eye. Surprise! It’s very rare and most people, myself included, have never heard of such a thing. I lucked out by going to the right doctor that had actually had a couple of cases.
The thing is that because it’s on the eyeball, they can’t do a biopsy like other places. It actually takes surgery just to do a biopsy. My October 6th surgery confirmed it was melanoma … and that the surgery didn’t remove it all. My second surgery was 2 days before Thanksgiving and, fortunately, everything came back negative.
So while I haven’t been blogging here, I have been blogging about my eyeball (www.westrick.us) for those interested in the gory details. I still can’t wear my contact lenses again yet but, for all appearances to most people, my eye looks normal and feels fine now.
Okay, so that was a really great excuse for a limited time but I’ve still been very slow to get back on the HR blogging wagon. I was procrastinating because I need (really need) to update the software I’m using for this blog and want to change the look to match the new look of the rest of my site. Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah.
However, I’m done waiting for other things to come together. You’ll have to live through the growing pains with me because I’m ready to blog!
