Update # 12: "No news is good news"

The above phrase is a sterling example of the multiplex nature of language. It has always baffled me. Does it mean that having received no news is a good thing? Or is it a simple declaration that news is never good; ergo, the only good news the absence of any news at all? Surely there must be other forms of good news, n'est-ce pas?

Whatever, no Update for a month means that things have been going well with me and my "pc", i.e., that you have received no news is, in fact, good news. The incision is very nearly closed. My appetite has returned; I'm regaining weight and recouping muscle strength. All things considered, "I'm happy and healthy and feeling no pain."

There is a flurry of medical appointments in the coming couple of weeks–the endocrinologist, the chemotherapist, and the surgeon. A CT scan. All point to the start of the last leg of the treatment process, four months of weekly chemotherapy. As you might imagine, I am eager to get started. Once the chemo is completed, I will be free again to live without the restraint of medical obligations.

So, good news abounds, the limitations of language notwithstanding!

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