Memnison Journal

I’d forgotten about this, too. Though I don’t quite know where to start in ‘filling in the gaps…’

Mere and her mom got into a huge project last night about how to make ‘proper’ orangeade. Susan’s recipe is basically fresh good orange juice mixed with fresh good lemon juice, cut with water and sugar and away you go. Very robust, strong drink. Mere liked the project…not so much the final result. [...]

WARNING: this picture is *not* pretty. It’s taken this morning to show what a mess my neck is from the allergic reaction. You are warned.

So far, I now have an anti-itch med, which makes me sleepy and dopey much of the time, a thyroid replacement med which I have to take daily first thing in the morning (whenever that is in my sleep cycle), and an antibiotic just in case bad bugs leak in to that raw area around [...]

Back home again, after three long days in the hospital, and four different rooms. There was apparently some kind of shortage of bad space, and I got switched all over the place. called when I was half asleep to cheer me up; thanks, Neil.
I had mentioned at my pre-surgical screening that I [...]

Just a quick note on JIm’s Surgery. The surgery went fine. It was the doctor’s second surgery of the day, so it went late and he was in surgery until 4:30. I didn’t get to see him until 7pm. The thyroid was huge - about the size of a dinner plate [...]

Susan’s had a bad cold that turned into bronchitis and a sinus infection, and a lot of her plans for my birthday went to pieces because she was too ill to carry them out. So we had a very quiet weekend. Meredith figured out that Daddy needed something more, and did her very [...]

Today was my last day at work for a while; my boss (who I’d had a big thrash with on Wednesday) came by my desk and passed on her best wishes and sort of worked out our problems on this. Susan is sick with some sort of a virus, everyone’s lethargic, and I’m dreading [...]

I heard from the nurse at the thyroid doc’s office that he will be calling me in regard to the results of the tests during the day tomorrow. She did sneak in that the results did *not* show malignancy, but nothing more than that. Well, whew. I’m delighted about that, and wonder what [...]

According to the last set of messages I saw from my boss tonight, the right people have been faxed and acknowledged reciept of the fax, so anyone in Chicago has done everything they possibly could have; I spent most of the morning Friday thrashing with this in e-mail and phone calls. After that, off [...]