Since I put it in about a year ago, I’ve gotten a few inquiries about how to add the button I have in my footer for visiting other diaries. Following is the code I used – there are as many different ways to tweak this as there are people who are using it. For what…

It seems like there should be so much to write now, but in reality my days are all much the same. I get up, take my pills, force myself to eat, watch television, take more pills, force myself to eat, watch more television, take more pills, force myself to eat, watch more television, take more…

Finally got a chance to take an accurate count of the little buggers last night. Yeah, I know. Color me bored. Since the operation, I have been doomed to sleep on my back. This is not a good thing. I never sleep on my back, but always on one side or the other. While the…

Running a little fever right now. It’s to be expected – I spiked a few in the hospital too. I’m only at 99.4 and the “danger limite” is 100.4 Fahrenheit, so I’m not particuarly worried. Just unconfortable. Today was my first clinic. For the next six weeks I have to return to the hospital Tuesday…

I got the call for the new liver at 6:00 in the evening, just after I’d eaten. There *might* be a liver for me, how did I feel, had I been sick or running any temperature recently, was I interested? Uh, excuse me? Am I interested?????? The guy on the other end, whose name was…

Sorry Strange Brew, but I had this one in the back of my head for a few months now: Top Of the World Corrupted Words and Music originally by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis Such a change has come right over me There are staples across my poor sore tummy Still the cut’s healing fine,…

hi folks. this is a friend of Pali’s that has just finished visiting with her. she is doing and looking extremely well and wanted me to convey her many thanks to you all for your prayers and well wishes. she’s in good spirits and was being prepared to move to another room. she’s getting excellent…

Please keep me in your thoughts. I’m leaving for the hospital now. They found a liver for me.

Around these parts, we don’t have a mouse or mole problem in our gardens so much as a vole problem. Voles can be easily mistaken for mice or moles at first glance, and actually look a bit like a cross between the two (tiny little mole eyes with a mouse-like tail which is actually a…

… then where is that “inborn instinct for survival” in the Kitten? Tuesday night, while the Socialist was off administering his final, I decided to set some “mood”, and got out a bowl, glass beads, and some floating candles I had. I put the beads in the bowl, filled it most of the way with…