by cg on November 9, 2006
My sweet spouse, Linda, has been a tower of strength as we have made our way through uncertain and frightening times. One of the things I asked her to do (along with managing me through surgery, caring for her father, keeping up on her job, attending to her church responsibilities) was to try and keep up her blog, First Blush. It was a hard thing for her, she confessed, if only because of the many demands on her time.
For almost a year we’ve documented our dawn community together, a much loved collection of people and animals who share the happenstance of being up at around 6 or 6:30 AM when it has been our wont to hit the jogging trail for the last 17 years. I carry a small digital camera, and Linda, who still thinks like a newspaper editor usually finds something to turn into the morning report.
It could be rainbows, random campus doings, pretty light, goofy things, wildlife or some of our morning crew. The blog has been the cap of our life jogging together. It has been a wonderful daily read as I find out how Linda saw the morning, often after I get to work. I love that she’s continuing it until I can get back on the road… it cheers me to see what she found and thought was important…
by cg on November 9, 2006
It was so good to be in my own bed, with sweet spouse at my side last night – I can’t tell you how good that felt. I woke up this morning feeling nearly human, with the blessed aroma of Peet’s coffee in the air. Halleluiah! First full night of sleep since Sunday, and much welcome despite a couple early AM seizures. I have to get up to UCSF for radiation therapy this AM, but then it’s back home for some light chores and taking it easy. Linda and I may try a spin around the block this PM: I’m off the heavy pain drugs so far today, and hope it stays that way.
BTW, heartfelt thanks for all the email, comments, thoughts, prayers and amusing online get well cards. No fewer than 2 families from church showed up with dinner last night. We both feel truly blessed and appreciated by our friends and ‘extended families.’ Thank you from us both!
Sweet dog Cassie keeps checking up on me, and it’s apparent a bath for her is needed in the near future, even if I have to get a mobile groomer in. Later today I’ll check the Caltrain and Muni schedules – the N Judah runs from the Caltrain station right to UCSF, to see how best to navigate daily radiation and some other appointments that are coming up. When I was working at the SF Examiner some years ago, there was a period I commuted by train and loved it – I will have to be at UCSF daily for radiation treatments for the next 6 weeks. A new schedule begins…