Wow. 20 years. Originally started by me to document my lymphoma and the pending treatment. I wanted a place where people could see what was going on with my health and chemotherapy – facebook had just come into existence and few people used it.
The changes – the whole blog has to move to wordpress, since typepad will literally be disappearing at the end of this month. They are going out of business and anything here will literally disappear.
In anticipation I have deleted over 13,000 posts and will – hopefully – be exporting to wordpress about 4,900 postings that I want to save.
More to follow on this move – here is the very first post along with the comments people left. Note my brother Phil's first one on the comment list.
This web journal was named and begun on Sept. 8th on another weblog service, and today I decided to move the fledgling operation over to blogspot or blogger.com, which is owned by Goggle. The estimate is that there are almost 17 million weblogs out there, and Goggle is hosting 8 million of them.
This is supposed to be easy, and I'm sure that eventually it will be, but it took me over ninety minutes to just get this far – journal description, my profile, some basic settings.
This afternoon, over brunch, my 12 year old son Joe said he was considering taking the name Eudoxius as his confirmation name. While Fr. Mike was discussing the impending Church capital campaign at the homily, Joe had read about Eudoxius in the Magnificat daily devotional book I'd brought to Mass. Eudoxius – not exactly a common name. But it evidently used to be common – the Eudoxius Joe is interested in is here Catholic Online – Saints & Angels – St. Eudoxius , not the Eudoxius Bishop of Antioch or the Arian Eudoxius.
Joseph Edward Eudoxuis Faranda. Hmmm.
Thursday, September 08, 2005 | Permalink
Comments
Not bad. How you can misspell google and nail Euxodius half a dozen times confirms that we are related.
Posted by: Phil | Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 02:03 PM
Whew. Yes that's not so clever. Guess goggle didn't show up on the spell check!
Posted by: tom faranda | Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 02:03 PM
Bill
Of course I remember you. I think you and Dawn have eight children now? Dawn drove out to Wichita barefoot. How could I forget her?
Posted by: tom faranda | Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 02:05 PM
Hi Tom,
This is quite a journey you are taking us on….our most positive thoughts are with you, Brigid and the boys…..and as always our prayers.
Posted by: anonymous | Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 02:11 PM
Hi Tom,
You probably don't remember me, but you will remember my wife, Dawn, or Joy, Vickery. Laurie Hurley gave me this address for your blog so I will be checking in occasionally to read about your !@#$%^! Yankees. We will pray for extermination of the cancer cells, and the Yanks too.
Bill
Posted by: Bill | Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 02:12 PM
Hi Tom.
I found your blog when I was Googling RCHOP. My best friend was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Mantle Cell on 18th October, just a few weeks ago. He just completed his 2nd Chemo today and is scheduled for 4 more Chemos. He should complete his treatments by early February. Thanks for writing about your experience. I'll keep checking in to see how you are doing. I'll keep you in my prayers.
Posted by: S | Friday, November 18, 2005 at 09:25 PM
Hi Sabrina
Thanks for your post. If it would be helpful, have Ken email me.
And don't believe everything you read a about mantle cell on the internet. A lot of the data is old.
Will Ken be having the stem cell transplant?
Posted by: tom faranda | Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 09:31 PM
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