New circumstances, and a new plan: the Radiation Therapy Phase

So I’ve been amusing myself this weekend putting together a plan for the next six weeks of my life, the Radiation Therapy Phase. I love projects, especially serial problem solving. It really helps me get through current affairs by breaking up the problem into pieces, and solving the things I can as well I can. […]

The abundance that has made its way to our door

These roses were ‘purloined’ from our church’s Memorial Garden by friend Lisa’s mom: they came over to our house in a pretty basket that also contained a wonderful dinner. They look like an Irving Penn study: their color and fragrance has brightened this house since I came home from the hospital. Lisa’s mom was taken […]

Trial run: recalibrating the current version of me

So yesterday, we took a spin around the block, and confirmed that, post op, I can walk. I have lost a bit on the left side, mainly in the left hand and forearm since the operation and start of radiation. Hard to know if any of those events, or just the continued growth of the […]

The outpouring

I just had to laugh when old friend, Episcopal Priest David Perry sent me his version of a get-well card. David has the West Coast’s largest collection of ink stamps (not to mention Christian kitsch), and not infrequently produces masterly oeuvres of the medium. Here’s the whole card. I am grateful for each and every […]

Test spin

So, the Dawn Joggers, they of First Blush fame, were back on the trail today, sort of anyway. This was really a trial run of the post-op male DJ (and his current cocktail of anti-convulsants, steroids etc. etc.). We made it around the block, the long way, OK. Male DJ even paused to snap a […]

Recent photo I kind of like

Chicago, 2006: I snapped this with the Leica D2 set for B&W mode after going down late for breakfast at a Chicago hotel. We’d worked late the night before (and then went out to Gibson’s) and I rose not particularly early. After dealing with email, showering et al., I managed to get to the hotel […]

First Blush

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 […]

Home sweet home

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 […]

We’re out of the hospital…

After only 2 nights! We even had the first radiation therapy today. Mercifully no brain swelling or other complications. Linda and Cathy came and visited me in the ICU (Linda snapped this picture within hours of the operation) after the craniotomy, wonky as I was, as did sweet friend and priest Frannie Hall-Kieschnick, who, an […]

Apologies…

If my Apple Mail ‘vacation’ script has sent you about a hundred ‘I will be on leave messages.’ It apparently, inadvertently began working on old messages in my in box. Fixed now, I hope. Off to hospital shortly. Worst thing so far: no cup of Peet’s Coffee…

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