Once if my memory serves me well…

Plagiarism, or perhaps just relevant enough to work. I should explain.

I just created this, titled it once, and decided that it may do better with a different title. “Overpower, Overcome” became “A Season In Hell,” an homage to one of the two poems I’ve ever enjoyed as well as a decent format to borrow for the intents and purposes of this.

Introduction:

For all intents and purposes and anonymity, we’ll refer to myself as Sal, just this once. I am a 21 year old male, and I was just recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Over the course of the past few weeks since the diagnosis I have been frantically writing e-mail after e-mail and making phone call after phone call to explain everything to every one. Lots of people keep asking, “are you keeping a record or a journal of everything?” For one reason or another almost everyone that I encounter believes that I should. So while this serves it’s purpose as a point of recollection for when I, in my typical fashion, inevitably forget all about this, it also serves as a public place for friends, family, and plenty of random observers to read about my experience. If it saves me the trouble of having to re-tell the same things thirty times, I suppose then it is doing it’s job.

As it’s late I believe I’ll let this be enough for today and will start backtracking to bring the world up to speed on everything tomorrow.