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For New Year’s Eve, Betty and I met her brother Mike for dinner, and when I went to the toilet afterwards, plodding along on my walker, I felt what turned out to be little screws in the hip brace come out and fall down the inside of my pants leg and into my shoes. Good thing for that, or otherwise these screws being so small, might not ever have been found. The three of us went home, and they…
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With my hip in a cast, it wasn’t practical for me to travel this Christmas, so we cancelled our holiday. Shortly thereafter, Elizabeth (daughter), Peter (son) & Ramona (granddaughter) were with Betty and me over the Holidays at our home. What a Christmas gift! Only sorry Sam (son-in-law) and Nicole (daughter-in-law) couldn’t be here too. I do have a great life. In reflecting on the Great Cancer…
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Having seen the STL Ortho Hip Doc last week, he said we had to make this hip thing work, as there really wasn’t a good alternative; I know what that means, which is, if it doesn’t work, I’m in a real bind, something I’d already worked out. He also said, while I was perhaps not as prudent as I should have been (in placing our carry-on luggage in Houston in the overhead compartment), the literature…
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Been a busy week. We left on Monday for Houston for a Cast & Crew showing of “Illusions of Cyn”, made from one of my scripts; without a doubt the very best truly independent film I’ve ever seen. What a talented group of people! So fortunate to have been a part of this. These are all independent film people. Robert Redford is an independent film person, but no one involved in this project is Robert…
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Regarding the 11-27 reference to hospitalization…. I didn’t know it possible to have both diarrhea and constipation at the same time, and while it really isn’t (water builds up behind the constipation), the effect is the same. I was uncomfortable of course but more concerned than I might have been otherwise, since a decade earlier I had had an impacted bowel, a temporary colonoscopy, three…
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As noted previously, I finished 28 radiation sessions on Friday 11/10 and six chemo sessions (this round, anyway) on Wednesday 11/8, and have now had two weeks in which to recovery, which frankly has been the most difficult part. Again, Betty and I are so very grateful we were warned this is a grind and that treatment continues to wear even after it’s completed. Much of these last two weeks has…
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