Memnison Journal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Yes, I will be at Windycon over the weekend.  I’ll be not-very-mobile. I’ll probably locate a prime lurking post and hang there a lot.  Mere will be with me.
The docs took out the last of the foot stitches, and the wound has come open again, about an inch worth.  The docs and Susan are [...]

Went to the doc for another visit re my foot; he says that it’s doing well.  Another three weeks, he’s guessing.  Agh!  That is right on top of Thanksgiving….
The roll-a-bout is doing well, but I have to watch my balance on it.  It’s also very clunky to get in and out of the bathroom.  Very [...]

Frustration rant inside.  You are warned.  No politics, some job, some computer, some medical.
Also, happy birthday to LJ:quietdarkness!

Thanks a lot to everyone for their well-wishes about the surgery.
The surgery itself went pretty well, so far as I can tell, but they had a horrible time getting an IV in; I get dehydrated easily, and they had a heck of a time trying to find a vein.  Multiple attempts, very painful, very rough.
Since [...]

About to go to bed - have to wake up and be at the hospital at 6 am for a 8 am surgery on my foot.  They say that the surgery will take around an hour and then I’ll spend an hour in recovery.  I expect to end up back home again noonish, rather groggy.  [...]

Susan is looking at the house (which is on two floors) and says that she thinks I’d do better on the basement floor after the surgery - more room to move around, and my office and library and a bed are down there.  Easier access to a car if I need to be taken somewhere [...]

Been having a lot of difficulty with my injured foot over the last few days, and the podiatrist looked at it today and threw in the towel on the course of therapy I’ve been getting since February.  He said it’s opened up deeper, and he’s bascially decided to operate on the thing and fix it [...]

I’ve been somewhat out of it for the last few days with a bad boil on my head - more or less where the other one was earlier this year.  It broke over the weekend, which the other one never really did, and I went in to the doctor and got the thing looked at [...]

For the last several weeks, I’ve been undergoing a special treatment for my foot wound that had been seemingly working to heal the thing up; it’s been problematic for six months, and required two operations and a lot of IV and otherwise antibiotics.  But last week, my podiatrist said that he didn’t like what he [...]