Personal: Cancer, Dinners, Ugly Room, and Kristin

[novak]

Bloody hell. The non-healing sore on the side of my nose turned out not to be just a weird little wound that wouldn't heal, nor an evil killer zit, but cancer. The biopsy I had on Tuesday came back Friday afternoon as a basal cell carcinoma, very basic, non-metastasizing, and not really dangerous. So I won't have to have chemo or radiation, but

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[rightwinger]

Eee... good luck. *prayers*

[novak]

Thanks! But I gather it's so comparatively minor that it seems prayer is already answered, in some sort of temporally-retroactive fashion.

[rightwinger]

I'm very tempted to make some witty crack about Divine timelessness... but, I shan't.

[novak]

I don't think it would be a crack: it seems to me a pretty straightforward exercise in the logic of divine causality, given what we know of divine sovereignty, human freedom, and the command to engage in the practice of intercessory prayer....

[rightwinger]

Right, right. The "some sort of temporally-retroactive fashion" made me crack a smile, though.

[novak]

I'm sure I must have picked that language up from Thomas Aquinas or somesuch....