Jan
07
2009
Yesterday was my first day out with both feet in REAL shoes; it was snowing in Chicago, and I had to go downtown to have my monthly all-day session with the leukemia docs and get my IVIG treatment. The two dogs had torn up my sleep a lot the night before with getting up and [...]
Jan
04
2009
The wound. There’s nothing but a scar there, according to Susan and Mere. Thank you, God. “Just a little bit of adhesive gunk, and not even a scab,” said Mere last night.
I’ll be able to wash my foot properly for the first time in a year. You can’t believe how wonderful [...]
Jan
04
2009
We spent all of Saturday being very quiet around the house; everyone was very very tired from the bustle of the holidays, and Susan’s knee was swollen and painful. (She’s been fighting off this arthritis stuff a lot, and things like walking a lot or shoveling snow have just been killing her.)
So we declared the [...]
Jan
02
2009
What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling. I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]
Dec
27
2008
This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked. Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:
Dec
23
2008
Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely. Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]
Dec
23
2008
Craft stores and online stores that sell handmade stuff are doing well as cheap gift-things with the recession. Me, I’m worthless at handmade gifts, unless you make ‘em on a computer.
People (and primates) will believe lies and deceive each other far more than dolphins will. I say we elect dolphins.
Yes, the non-US based [...]
Dec
19
2008
I’ve moved back to the land of the living the upstairs, but I’m still housebound, pretty much. We are sending back the roll-a-bout shortly; the next real use for it would be in three weeks, in any event. By then, we figure I won’t need it anyhow. And yes, we’ve getting pictures for posterity of [...]
Dec
18
2008
*snifl* Went to bed around 8:45, and woke up at 10:30 when Susan came to bed - partly because I was stuffed up and couldn’t breathe well through the CPAP, and partly because of the fuss of Susan getting into place and the dog trying to get next to MOMMY for the night. Looked around [...]
Dec
15
2008
HBO production and presently running on that network. My take on it is that it’s a once-funny; I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum. This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]
Dec
10
2008
Well, if you’d never heard of our Governor before, you have now. My reflections on this inside.
Dec
05
2008
Having a much less immediately lethal form of leukemia and being an adoptive dad of a Chinese girl, this story hits home: a kid in Ohio adopted from China has a nasty version of leukemia, and is in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant. There’s this little problem, however, about finding a genetic match from [...]
Nov
26
2008
I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year. Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]
Nov
23
2008
Susan made a trip to the ER today, and got nowhere - the problem is that the pain from her knee is just eating her up, and she’s pretty much flat on her back, and she needs some serious relief. The ER sent her home with a cane and some pain pills.
Since I’m worthless at [...]
Nov
18
2008
The pancreatitis has died down enough to bring Dot home from the vet’s office / animal hospital, and while she’s still shaky, she’s obviously a whole heck of a lot better. And there’s a ferocious vet bill, over a grand, and I really DON’T want or need that with Christmas coming up.
Susan’s knee is better, [...]