Surgery, Acting and Web Site Development…What a Life

Jane’s battle with IBC continues and she is doing well. Last Wed. she had surgery related to her mastectomy. She had decided, after a lot of research and consultation with friends in her support group, not to have reconstruction surgery. You’d think it would be enough what women with breast cancer have to go through in fighting for their lives. But the residual issues that cancer brings can be extremely trying. So many of the people Jane has talked to have said that they wished they’d never had reconstruction that it had a strong impact on her decision. So she decided not to have the reconstruction, a process that would have required multiple surgeries. Yuck. No thanks from both of us. Now this did leave a bit of a, shall we say, lopsided problem.

So…this past week, Jane had breast reduction surgery. This surgery wasn’t a cosmetic, vanity type thing, it was necessary. Hard for men to imagine, I guess, but when the woman’s body shape is changed dramatically, it can lead to all sorts of other problems such as back pains etc. So the surgery was necessary. Still, when you’ve been through all this mess with cancer, the diminished heart function caused by the drug therapies, etc. another surgery, no matter how valid, is not something to be taken lightly.

Thankfully, Jane did great in the surgery and her recovery has also gone well. Her visit to the surgeon yesterday showed that the surgery was a success in all phases. The biopsy on tissue taken during the surgery was negative with no signs of cancer.

So..the stress level drops a bit. And just in time for the weekend.

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On the acting front:

Very slow here in Texas though some projects are popping up. The problem continues to be that most of the work available is not the kind that is profitable. Lots of calls to go read in Louisiana but that is just not a thing I can do unless there is a substantial amount of work involved. As stated previously, if you work in LA they want you to work as a LA local…which means no per diem, no housing, no travel expenses are paid. Unless you score a couple of weeks work, that kind of scenario is only acceptable if you’re living at home and are trying to build a resume. If you’re actually trying to PROFIT from the profession…this is a no brainer dead deal.

Waiting to hear on auditions for the Lonesome Dove prequal which is shooting in NM. If there is a callback and if it is for a sufficiently large role it will mean going to NM for the callbacks….stay tuned.

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Still developing the VINCE YOUNG web site. It’s been up for about 2 weeks now and has over 4,000 hits. The number of unique visitors
is at only a few hundred at this point. I’m working on a new design in all my spare time and am trying to get a handle on how to best incorporate RSS feeds related information into the site.

In my spare time I’ve also started working on a site that will be a resource for Breast Cancer information. There is so much ‘out there’ that culling the informatin down into manageable ‘chunks’ is taking some thought. Jane is helping me with the structure of the content.