Hi, I have a vivid memory of walking alone when I was much younger, just thinking and talking to myself. I did that a lot back then. I was born a year after World War II ended, and I think I was about ten years old then, so this must have been in the mid-1950’s. …
Hi, Literary Update: I’ve written very little during this recovery period. I’m off my game, what else can I say? Medical Update: The surgery was about five weeks ago (9-22-2025), so I’ve had plenty of time to recover. Before the surgery I was out of breath after I climbed our stairs (usually with a mug …
Hi, Surgery Update: I started writing this on Friday, 10-4-2024, but didn’t finish it for almost a week (Thursday 10-10-2024). I’m posting it today (Friday, 10-11-2024). My hand surgery, after a couple of last-minute incidents, went as well as I could have hoped, but… Six days before the scheduled surgery date, I got a text message …
Hi, A couple of posts ago I promised to give you a more thorough accounting of what my surgery will entail. It is scheduled to happen tomorrow, so here’s what my basic symptoms are, and what I’ve been told will happen during and after the surgery. Symptoms: I was very flexible when I was younger. …
Newsletter 62 – May 10, 2024 Hi, Modern medicine can do a great many things it couldn’t do when I was born in 1946. Let’s start with an image. These are two x-ray views of my right hand and wrist. The image on the left is a flattened dorsal (top) view. In the image on …
Newsletter 052 – December 8, 2023 Hi, “Old age isn’t for sissies,” as the saying goes. In the last newsletter I mentioned a major incident that may affect my working conditions for several months. Let me preface this by saying I’m okay, but temporarily limited in my ability to ambulate. This will be a two-parter …