This is my first time blogging on my iPod Touch.

OK,a little background on my present moment. I am sitting in a medical gown in a small brightly lit room at Abbot hospital just south of downtown Minneapolis. I arrived here this morning before 7:00 am. I am all gowned up with some sort of hairnet on too.

I sit patiently,grateful for the iPod that lets me listen to Armin van Buren (dance music) and surf the web. Years ago waiting for hours in the hospital would have been unbearably boring. Today however I am chilling out, dancing in my hospital bed and writing to you, my readers. Sometimes technology is undeniably cool.

So in a few minutes the nurse will return and plant an IV in my arm. Then will come the anesthesiologist. Finally my surgeon, Dr E. Will come in and draw on my arm with a sharpie, marking the area for incision. Shortly after that I will be rendered unconscious and the removal of the tumor in my arm will commence.

What a fun morning I have to look forward to.