Long Day...

I started this when I returned from New York, was too tired to finish it, finally have some time so here it is...

Sitting here catching up with Entourage after returning from New York. I had to squeeze the trip into one day after a mix up with my lodging. What a long weird day...

Got up at 4:30 to catch my 7:00 flight and as I went through the security line, someone stole my wallet! Because I was half asleep, I neglected to take my ipod out of my pocket thus setting the alarm 2-3 times in a row. I first thought it was my wallet and I placed it by itself in one of those bins. By the time I discovered it was the ipod, a few people had gone in front of me with their bags. As I went to collect my stuff, my wallet was missing, noooooo! I turned to the security guy and told him what happened and he said he knew he saw it and proceeded to look through all the stacked bins. Once we discovered it wasn't in there, a police officer was called and we went over to the monitors. They backed it up to where they saw me place my wallet down and tracked it through the machine. We followed it through where first a man picked it up, opened it and put it back down. Right after that, his wife picked it up put it into her purse and walked away. We had people in hidden places working the monitors for us and froze the image of the woman. The officer then told me to follow him as the hidden security working the cameras throughout the airport directed us to where the culprits were. Even though I was so tired, my blood was boiling at this point. I had 15 minutes to catch my plain and we were walking the complete opposite way down the new terminal. The pressure was on because if I didn't make this flight, there was no way I was going to get to New York and be able to stay on schedule with my trial. Not to mention, my original trip had to be changed as my lodging got all screwed up and had to pay an extra 400+ dollars to re-book. I guess I could've probably got on the flight there but how was I going to get back home with no ID?

Anyway, the officer got a call and we had a direct location of the klepto lady. We walked up to them and the officer confronted her making her reach into her purse. Sure enough, there was my wallet which she handed to the officer. He then gave it to me and I wanted so much to stick around and get her explanation or excuse but I had to bust it back across the terminal to catch my flight. Thank God I made it...

So, after the flight and bus ride to NYU, all I needed to do was get my blood drawn, see Dr. O'Connor and get my pills. Not so fast...

Sean, the trial coordinator came out the door into the lobby and pulled me aside. He told me that my platelets were below the threshold of 50,000 (they were at 45,000). As you can imagine, I was a little stressed... Sean thankfully had a plan however. He's had patients have low platelets before and for some reason, if you do some physical activity, it causes them to go up. So, time to do some stair climbing! He asked me if I could do a couple of flights and I of course said no problem. I had a lot of nervous energy and instead of doing two flights, I decided to go all the way down to the first floor and did 7 flights! I was totally out of breath when I got up and they immediately took my blood again. Success!! My platelets went up to 52,000 and I was able to get my pills and start cycle 8, whew...

From there, I walked to Grand Central Station, hopped on the bus and rode back to LaGuardia where of course my flight was delayed for 2 hours because of storms but eventually made it back home totally shot. Now you can understand why I couldn't finish my entry that night!

So, yesterday I went down to the junkyard to pick up some more parts for my car, ran some other errands and went to a concert last night :) A friend of mine had tickets for the Deftones and Alice in Chains. They both totally rocked and at the end, Jerry Cantrell from AIC whipped out a signed drum skin out to the audience like a frisbee. I watched it as it flew majestically over the crowd thinking there's gonna be some lucky s.o.b. that's going to catch it. As it carried over the crowd, it tilted and started coming our way. I felt like I was at the park playing disc as I now was tracking it coming over to our section! I then reached up as it was flying over my head and snatched it out of the air! I had to fight a couple of guys off that were behind me as I dropped it at first but with quick hands, reached down, whipped it behind my back and that bad boy was mine, hells yeah! What a great way to end the night :) I was pretty much a celebrity from there on out as everyone who walked by me and saw it in my hands was giving me high fives and whatnot. Good times!




So, to celebrate my Frisbee catch last night, I went and played some disc golf today (not with the drum skin, haha). Gonna go to my little downtown tonight to check out the DIY festival in Ferndale so I'm definitely keeping busy.

Tomorrow may be the day to rest, ahhh...... :) Go Lions!!