ANTHONY R. VIZZARI | ARCHTOGRAPHIST

I'm almost done with a large booth order for Europe... I can barely get a minute to breathe this week. The order ships Monday morning, then we head to Omaha for the surgery. Dr. Botha confirmed that my liver is now big enough to move forward. I feel like the guillotine blade is right over my head... The pressure is on the get so much done by Monday. After surgery things will be much much slower. FYI: The photo is of a photobooth bulb I took just for reference. I like it though... My fingers are dirty. I'm going to miss working in the shop for a few months. I'm going to miss the smell of grease and stale chemistry.

Mold-A-Rama "Miniature Plastic Factory": Don't think I haven't already looked into buying one! I have leads and a potential location already. These things rule! We'll see what pans out? Alex using the Mold-A-Rama... Andrea and I (Circus Exhibit - Museum of Science & Industry). Moose? Field Museum Display... Goats? Field Museum Display... I've been away from the blog since my PVE because I've been both busy...and tired. I've started to bounce back and I'm getting things in gear prior to the big surgery. The date has been scheduled (tentatively per scan results) for April 21st (pre-operation stuff) and actual cutting on the 22nd. My next scan will be April 15th. On the work front, things have been VERY busy. Some new digital projects are in the works which are exciting prospects. Also, we have two new locations about to be installed, one digital and one chemical. In addition, there are a few international and domestic sales in the mix, for bo...

A bull fight...a found photo, from the collection. Today was much better... The Fentanyl (pain drug) they gave me yesterday made me sick with vomiting and a nasty headache. It was like I drank a liter of Vodka. -And it was not fun. The only thing that seemed to help was mint chocolate chip ice cream. The mint and cold helped with the nausea. and of course, it's easier to throw up, since it melts on the way down. (nice visual, right?) When the drug subsided, it left me with a good amount of pain in the middle of the night. This morning I was sluggish, the pain has started to subside a bit. I got a good deal of work done via email, etc. so the day was not lost. I have a few meetings and obligations this week, but for the most part, I'm going to try and take it easy. I'm working to confirm the surgery date, which is now tentative sometime between April 19th - 23rd. I'll have to have a scan first to assess the liver growth. Hopefully 6 weeks will yeild enough growth for s...

Dr. Botha's office received my recent scans and reports today and reviewed them in a matter of hours. (If you are familiar with the medical system, this is an amazing response time - usually it takes days to get answers. The folks at UNMC are on top of their game!) The (new) plan, per Dr. Botha is to perform a right hepatic lobectomy. This is similar to what was discussed with the staged resection, but instead, we would be skipping to the 2nd stage of the procedure. The goal is to get rid of these hybrid lesions ASAP, especially the largest tumor. So, we scrap the staged resection. Any remaining tumors (in the right lobe) would be treated by PRRT or other liver directed therapies. To perform this lobecotmy, they first have to do a "portal vein embolization". -Blood flow is cut to the left lobe in order to grow the right lobe. This is generally an out-patient procedure. After 6 weeks, if the liver grows as desired, they will proceed with removing the left lobe entirely. At...