Fourteen Years

Some stupid questions, some thought provoking questions. 1. If you died tomorrow who would you leave everything you own to?: The Prof, my sisters, the zoo. There would be a special stipend set aside for care of the cats. 2.If you had to go live in Borneo for the rest of your life and you…

I was checking my site meter yesterday, as I am prone to do when I’m bored and feel like poking around a bit, when I found this URL in the visit detail section as one a referral page: http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deardiary.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fviewer.pl%3Fdiary%3D12117%26entry%3D10861344 Am I the only one who has never heard of “BlogShares” before? As near as I…

Spent most of the morning under general anesthesia while they explored the nether regions of my alimentary tract. What they found was exactly what they found last January – generalized mild to moderate inflamation, with no obvious cause. What I do know now: I have ascites (free fluid in my abdomen). So this recent weight…

To my small but highly select group of regular readers, I pass on this email I received from Christine Lavin’s mailing list. From: Christine Lavin ([email protected]) Sent: Sun 4/03/11 2:56 PM Today is Ervin Drake’s 92nd birthday — please send him a birthday wish for tomorrow’s gathering at Cast Party ……………………………………………………………………………….. Ervin Drake wrote “It…

Damn. I just had one of those stupid misheard lyrics moments and now feel like a total jerk. Richard Thompson does a song that’s on his new “Action Packed” anthology, which I got a few weeks back. It was originally from “Mock Tudor”, a cd I never got around to purchasing. I love this song….

When the good news starts, it just keeps going. I got a phone call this morning from the transplant unit. I get to halve my steroid dose (10 mgs SID down to 5 mgs SID) and my antirejection drug gets cut from 8 mgs BID down to 5 mgs BID. These are the two drugs…