A cheer-up
Linda’s blog cheered me today. I was pleased that she’s back out on the tough Big Dish circuit, a tension-burner if ever there was one (I can’t wait to be back on the Dish, and other local trails). But as is her wont, Linda stopped to photograph amusing animals, great and small. Our 25 years […]
Paperless project gets an upgrade, LAN gets a new server
Yesterday I took the train to Palo Alto as usual, but did not head for the Marguerite B Counterclockwise line bus waiting at the Palo Alto Transportation Center. Rather, I took the tunnel under the tracks and made my way East to the Apple Store on University. Linda had a meeting that made it convenient […]
Good beginnings…
Fingers, crossed, knock on wood: going on 12 hours of chemotherapy and no adverse results so far. Slept like a baby last night (only 2 seizures, spaced almost 5 hours apart), and none of the bad side effects on the Temodar list. I know this is probably premature, I’ll likely be on Temodar for 6 […]
Day 5: chemo starts
Well, I took Zofran, not quite an hour ago, and next up is the Temodar, the actual chemotherapy drug. The Zofran is meant to control nausea, and the Temodar should cross the blood-brain barrier and make things tougher on the glioma than on the rest of my body, although I guess it kind of knocks […]
Great pic on First Blush
Linda says she’s lonely running solo, but she’s kept up her blog about jogging at dawn called First Blush. I was taking the pics while we we running together, but maybe we had the wrong person handling the camera. Linda snapped a fabulous dawn photo this A.M. (here’s the post). My total goal is to […]
Day 4: Progress, the staples come out, chemo looms
Spent a full morning at UCSF today: first, an oncology nurse briefed me on the chemotherapy that will start in a few days, now that my head appears to be healing well, and run concurrently with radiation therapy. Then the 34 titanium staples that had been holding my head together after surgery came out. The […]
More ‘San Francisco Values’ on the N Judah
On Wednesday, riding back to Caltrain from radiation therapy at UCSF, I was treated to another glimpse of San Francisco’s ad hoc community, this particular one starting in the front car of the N Judah yesterday. Three elderly people, a couple and a guy had gotten on the standing room only noontime inbound train, as […]
Day 3 starts: blessed sleep, the blog still needs work…
So we slept nearly six hours last night, following on a good 4 hours, uninterupted, on Sunday night. My seizures, which have been arriving at hourly intervals starting around midnight for about a week now, are becoming less frequent, and more mild during sleep hours. I think the recent flurry of email, voice mail and […]
Day 2, San Francisco values, the blog needs work…
Another good day: trains were on time (the N Judah was even early) and I made the 12:37 Caltrain, getting to Palo Alto 30 minutes early: the walk home from the Stock Farm stop on Marguerite’s B Line was just wonderful. The sky was beautiful (as seen silhouetting a wild California Live Oak on Stock […]
Day 1: everything works…!
The big plan worked. Linda dropped me at Menlo Park station where I grabbed the 9:14 - lots of seats available in the front, which made for an easy walk to the Muni (it’s adjacent to Caltrain’s 4th and King station by AT&T Park (seen above, in the rain, through the Muni train’s window).
Indeed, […]