Jazz standards and leeches

Killian's working on Stella By Starlight and My Favorite Things, using lots of complicated chords on his new uke. He hasn't had the wherewithal to figure out stuff like that and I'm happy he does now. They moved him to oral doses of pain meds now (a move that means we'll most certainly be out of the hospital by tomorrow). They have him on Methadone and Neurontin, and that's what he'll use until whenever....

Killian has a lot of swelling and bruising on his tumors sites (ear and jaw). Though it's "dead tumor slosh," as Killian described, his body works hard to rid itself of such waste. Phil had the idea of introducing leeches to the sites. Killian watched some leech videos last night and researched it and got a little excited about the idea. Today he asked the doc in charge of the study and she gave the idea an unequivocal thumbs down. When Killian pressed for a reason (his scientific mind MUST be satisfied!) Dr. Lee explained (after saying, "isn't the fact that it's gross enough?) that leeches secrete anticoagulate and he's already got leaking from the veins around the tumors. Killian gave her response, an oh-alright and has since let go of the idea. Wild stuff though. In researching it, we saw women in India getting leech facials. Their skin did look pretty good after...