The Struggle Has Ended

Greg Hewlett passed away on January 17th after nearly eight years of battling colon cancer. While we grieve his loss, we are comforted to know that he is with his Lord.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Still observing

Dr. Rodriguez-Bigas wants to keep waiting on this spot. It does seem to be changing, but I am not an expert and cannot tell if it is getting better or worse. Even thought it is still there, he is reluctant to start poking my mangled abdominal wall with needles just yet. I am becoming more convinced this is not cancer-related. I am going to have my local oncologist take a look at it on Monday. The anti-climactic end of treatments continues...

By the way, the last post was inadvertently closed for comments. My faithful administrator, Rollin, has looked into the problem and we think it should be resolved now.

I am surprised that the 'stros were so soundly beaten by the Sox. I'm wondering if you Houston die hards are in great mourning, or generally pleased with the season, or perhaps still in shock...

8 comments:

Nils said...

Speechless.

Roach said...

The freakiest thing about the series was how even it was, and that given a few breaks the Astros could be up three games to one right now. I'm not making excuses. The White Sox fought hard for, deserved, and won the World Series. But in years to come folks will only look at the tally of games (4-0) and not know that it was an intensely close series. My mourning is passing (I had tix to game 5, btw). I am proud of them. This was a great season. The best in our history. We stand poised to be better than just a WC team in the future. Looking forward to next year...but glad to just focus on college football (which is less time and energy consuming).

Carl said...

Speaking as a certified outsider, no one in Houston has anything to be ashamed of. I thought it was a very good series. Someone has to win and someone has to lose.

Roland Lindh said...

A history of the World Series demonstrates the truth stated by old Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics, "Good pitching beats good hitting all the time." The White Sox simply has the better staff from starters through the entire bullpen. The Astros have a few great hitters but overall they are not the best hitting team. They almost blew the Pennet race and the NL Playoff games were mostly close also. They are not a dominant team. Had the middle of their lineup hit their average they might have won a few games, but overall it was clear that the Sox were the better team.
The Wall Street Journal sports reporter said at the beginning of the series that the team that played the best defense would win. Uribe seemed to prove the WSJ right. Over the entire series he made exceptional plays turning hits into close outs. And the last two plays were worth the entire series to watch.

Scptt said...

Well, with Houston being inundated with all the hurricane refugees -oops- displaced Americans, it was probably hard to focus. I dunno, I'm just an outsider lookin' in.........
Hey Greg, I tried to call you awhile back.... Did you get the message? If not, then someone named Greg got it, and probably thinks I'm a total nut.

SCOTT-!!! said...

Ding dang it....... I spelled my own name wrong in the last post..... Does it show that I've been up all night??????????????

Dave Belicheck said...

I think you'll find you have balled-up White Sox stuck in your side.
Just apply a little BradLidge to knock it out, works every time.

Araceli said...

Let us know how it goes at the doc today.