Today would have been my father’s 83rd birthday. He’s been dead for twelve years now, but I haven’t yet forgotten his birthday when it comes by. He hated birthdays, or any fuss being made. He hated anything that departed from routine. He didn’t even like taking vacations away from the house. He was a tough…

Well, Thanksgiving went off without any real hitches. My older sister went out of her way to provide low/no salt food, so I really didn’t even fall off the wagon yesterday. Guess I’ll have to save that for Christmas! The subject of living donor came up yesterday, as I knew it would. Neither of my…

The O’Beast has taken to sleeping in a new spot, since Cattitude and Kitten have taken over the cat beds. I have to say that he is at least creative in his sleeping arrangements. Cattitude’s small infection in her nether regions from about a month ago cleared up nicely. During the healing process she was…

We’ll get the medical stuff over with early – feel free to skip if you’re getting as tired as I am over the latest medical updates. I got the follow-up mammogram this morning. Of course, as usual, there was a problem. Turns out that some undesignated “someone” at the radiology office went and returned my…

So my MELD score dropped from 22 to 18. Apparently, according to my lab work, I’m getting healthier. Yeah, right. All I’m getting at the moment is more bloated; I gained four and a half pounds over the last two days alone, and I suspect all of it is fluid. My elastic-waist slacks now serve…

This is what happens when I’m left with too much time on my hands without a keeper assigned to me. Song: Fifty Ways To Leave Your Liver Artist: With apologies to Paul Simon The problem’s all inside your gut, my doc said to me The answer’s easy, approached biologically I’d like to help you in…

… that I didn’t feel like wasting time on the computer over the weekend. Do you know the feeling of having been really sick for days, and then waking up one morning and not feeling sick? That feeling of “healthy never felt so good”? Well, that was me, Saturday morning. I woke up, and I…

It was so touching. I slept to 11:30 this morning, and may have kept sleeping a bit longer if it hadn’t been for the Kitten throwing herself at my bedroom door. The poor thing was agitated beyond belief, and I imagined her thinking that something was wrong with me and loyally trying to break down…

I can’t seem to shake this thing, whatever it is. I barely made it through the morning, and when my doctor’s office called to say they needed some bloodwork on me to day, I used it as an excuse to take the rest of the day off, even though I had plenty of time to…

Sorry, Shay. I wish you were right about my little mum, but even the roots are brittle on it. No even Dr. McCoy could work a miracle on this one. I’m leaving it in my office to stare accusingly at me – it seems that I owe it some sort of opportunity for revenge. I’ll…