COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP
(composer/songwriter : Irving Berlin / Publishers : Irving Berlin Ltd.)
from the 1954 movie "White Christmas".

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This is tessa updating per Anne's instructions for all of her dear LJ friends.  Anne would say she is doing fine-sorta.  She is In Hospice comfort care at First Community Village in Columbus Ohio.  The last month has been a roller coaster ride and taken us somewhat by suprise by the quickness of the bowel obstruction crisis.  I am told that the ( Read more... )

I'm fine, kinda.  My sister Tessa has emailed some of my friends to let them know what's going on, but what's going on ia a partial obstructton of the small bowel, probably by a tumor in the lower bowel.  I came to ICC last Tuesday for a blood draw preparatory to chemo, and mentioned to the nurses that by the way I had diarrhear last night, then ( Read more... )

When you don't work, three-day weekends are not especially sweet.  Pity, that.

Steeling myself, I read 
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Anemia on top of 8:10 lethargy sucks.

Reading Dick Francis the past couple of days.  If pressed, To The Hilt is my favorite book, but it's a near thing.  So many well-crafted, deceptively simple stories.  His is my basis for morality:  The root of all evil is the belief that if a rule/law is inconvenient, it doesn't apply to  you; and that evil is ( Read more... )

Tessa bless her heart drove me over to ICC to get my blood drawn, after I spent the morning getting the dates and tests straight with Annabelle.  Whoever does these orders for me at the practice is dyslexic or sloppy or overburdened, because she makes mistakes!!  So next Tuesday I get the three vials drawn and Thursday I see the doctor, and ( Read more... )

Peace to Coloradans, but it is eleven days from January Thaw where I live, and somewhere in the city there was a little snow on the ground today.

Didn't take the bus to ICC today.

Seriously jonesing for Sara Lee chocolate cake.  Haven't had it in 25 years, but I remember how it tastes and feels....

Oberon likes the unclutteredness of the floorspace, flinging himself down in various unlikely places to groom, roll onto his back, and revel in the spaciousness.  He's licking the hair off his tum, and using the carpet to thin out his coat.  Eating often and leaving little ( Read more... )

New Year's dinner from Chef Kevin, pork, potatoes, red-cabbage sauerkraut, and sweet greens with bacon.  Two meals' worth.  For an hour you would never believe I've been having trouble eating for months.  No sharing with cat., who quite likes pork  Very full ( Read more... )