Magnetic Poetry

For those of you not on the metric wavelength, that’s about one and a half gallons. Eight pints in a gallon, a pint’s a pound the world around. That’s how much they pulled out of my abdomen today. Instant weight loss of about twelve pounds. I don’t recommend the diet, but damn it feels good…

Years ago I read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, Mitch Albom’s small book recording his final conversations with his old teacher and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying slowly from ALS. I later purchased “Morrie: In His Own Words” from a bargain book table, which contained Morrie’s own observations about the process of dying and how he…

And I’m still frustrated, and I’ll even admit to being a little fearful. The ascites (which is what my “bloating” is – free fluid accumulating in the abdomen) continues to worsen. I slept for perhaps two hours total last night. There is no way to lie down comfortably any more. When I got up this…

Thanks to sweetstar1974 for bringing Moonriddengirl’s entry to my attention in which she mentioned this self test:Inner Self Test. I’m suspicious of these suckers, but it never stops me from trying one out! Your profile: Chairman. By completing the list of questions, you have indicated the aspects of your personality which, in your opinion, are…

I left the door to the bedroom open Christmas Eve. I did it for a stupid reason, but I couldn’t help myself. It has to do with some of my earliest Christmas memories. For years, when I was a child, my mother used to read the same story to my younger sister and me every…

May first. The apartment complex we want to move to suggested I call back this week, since they’d be getting notices from people about this time who were going to be terminating their leases. I called today, figuring people would have had to get back by yesterday if their lease terminated at the end of…