Day 49

Healing nicely. Pain is unchanged. Nerve reaction is not as intense, but I'm not pushing it. The sensitivity though is enough that I believe I have decided to forgo any further treatments. I'm not sure at this point if that means a temporary, prolonged or permanent  cessation of treatments. I fear permanent nerve damage, or permanent debilitating pain or loss of arm control if I continue. 

 I hate to leave this undone, but I will continue to take the bloodroot black salve capsules internally in the hope we can kill it from the inside out. I will try some alternative methods as well as the recuperative power of the human body. Now that I am getting better, and the arm and muscle atrophy are showing signs of improvement, I will be starting a much too long delayed second round of P90X. As a 50 year old male, with a known spinal degeneration, nerve issues in the left leg/ lower back, and this elbow tumor removal and subsequent pain and tumor that remains...I will chronicle my efforts here. I also, hope to record a video of myself drumming within 2 years. This is my true love, and I believe was my calling, but I believe God allowed me to follow a different path in life other than what I desired in order to give me what I needed, not necessarily what I wanted, and in turn allowed me to live. Had I continued the path of my dreams, I believe I would not have lived past my late 20's, maybe into my early 30's.
I hope to share my love with my grandchildren, and in the lyrics of an old Jethro Tull song proclaim: 'No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die'