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And the polar vortex creeps down on you and devours your thermometer:

jrittenhouse Jan 05, 2014 11:59

Another fine product of...
Well, first things first…since I’ve been away for a while, I need to bring y’all back up to speed as to what’s going on here (or what *has* been going on here) but I figured I’d mix that in with more current stuff on my pointy head; simpler than trying to do one completely and then the other. I’ll tag the old news ( Read more... )

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Not healthy, nosir….

jrittenhouse Sep 22, 2012 07:42

Originally published at . You can comment here or there.

Apologies to the folks out there who have wondered if I fell into a dark pit, because I basically did.

During the National Skating Championship in Lincoln at the end of July, I got seriously blasted and drained by a week of 105-110F temperatures (I don’t do well in heat, and never have) and ( Read more... )

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WirrrrrrrBANG:

jrittenhouse Jun 11, 2012 16:11

We have had several projects around the house that are beyond our skills to fix or repair (especially with me off my feet) but the two most important ones were Susan’s office floor and the Basement Bathroom.

Susan’s office is kind of a long-ago-back-porch-converted-into-a -sun room, with a great view of our verdant backyard. Lots of window space ( Read more... )

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Oh, no:

jrittenhouse Oct 24, 2011 10:04

Collecting my stuff and up late doing it; I expect to be checking into Edwards Hospital for a 3-4 day stay for other foot infection..

Look at your left (bare) foot, and go down the left side to about the middle. That’s where the right-after Labor-Day surgery took place. Imagine that there’s a bulge of sore tissue over there on the edge, and an ( Read more... )

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And now, the news:

jrittenhouse Sep 08, 2011 21:51

The real underlying news is that Connie’s condition has been really going downhill since Doug and his family left; Tuesday night (actually, about 3 am Wednesday) Connie started having pains, a racing heart rate and other troubles; Susan quickly decided that whatever was going on was way serious, and called up an ambulance - which took her to nearby ( Read more... )

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Feet first:

jrittenhouse Sep 08, 2011 21:10

The surgery took place late on Tuesday morning; the pain levels are not what I had feared, and I’m doing moderately well. I am taking Norco for the pain; it makes me sleepy and foggy. A few things of note:

(1) Surgery was supposed to start hours before it did; I’m a very tough ‘stick’ for things like IVs, and I was a little dehydrated, so it was ( Read more... )

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Snip snip:

jrittenhouse Aug 30, 2011 21:57

My foot surgery (for the quarter-sized open sore on my left foot due to pressure, etc) is due to take place on the 6th - the day AFTER Labor Day. Not looking forward to the pain or the three weeks of can’t-walk, but hoping for a resolution of the open-door-for-infection and the bloody-and-painful-to-be-on-my-feet parts.

Basically, I will be in my ( Read more... )

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A follow-up comic presentation on CLL cure:

jrittenhouse Aug 16, 2011 02:59

Courtesy of the geeky web comic XKCD:

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A cure? OMG OMG OMG

jrittenhouse Aug 11, 2011 14:14

As a lot of you know, I was diagnosed over four years ago (on the day after I turned 50) with Chronic Leukocytic Leukemia ( CLL); you can live for decades with the stuff, but it’s bad news. I have had recurrent hospitalizations since then - horrible trouble with opportunistic infections (greatly reduced immune system) and it just drains me of energy ( Read more... )

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Frazzled:

jrittenhouse Jul 22, 2011 18:17

Meredith has her old pal Jessica over, and the two of them (mostly mine) are making enough noise to wake the dead in every cemetery between here and New Brunswick. Whoever said girls are dainty, quiet, proper creatures never lived with a preteen girl…

Susan is fried, I’m frazzled. Forgetting a lot of stuff or muggling it up, and this isn’t the ( Read more... )

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