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 63 – May 24, 2024 Hi, In Newsletter #62 I covered some of my medical issues and how those are hampering my ability to write. Nothing has been decided about my hand surgery yet. Minay and I will probably visit the surgeon together, sometime in June, to discuss all of my options. In this …
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 …