It’s 11:30pm of day three, and so far there have been very little in the way of side effects. Only issue is some insomnia – I am given the chemo at 10AM and 10PM, and there are steroids in the mix, which make it difficult to get to sleep. And of course people traipse in … Read more
I basically have four books with me, with two as reserve at home. I am reading three of them simultaneously. Why not? They are all three on varied topics and from different sources. My friend Theresa Bonopartis sent me a book which in most countries is entitled “Praying Self-Abandonment to Divine Love”, but in the … Read more
Specter worked while going through chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease and is now back to full speed. Sen. Arlen Specter, Back in Top Form
We arrived at one o’clock, had some admission tests done and got upstairs to the room around three o’clock. The room is very nice with all the amenities they had mentioned – computer, DVD/VCR player, and plasma TV (but not a big one!). I was checked in by a nurse practitioner by the name of … Read more
I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family. My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said “I’d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like … Read more
My friend Ellen Mullin gave me a book by Wayne Dyer entitled The Power of Intention. I had vaguely heard of Dyer – he is a “self-development” or human development guru. He has a psychology doctorate and has written a bundle of books, the best-known early one being Your Erroneous Zones. I like to read … Read more
I started this webjournal exactly four months ago, on September 8th. After about a month I migrated the journal from it’s original home on blogspot over to typepad. Or rather my brother Phil did. I complained to him about something on blogspot, and he just moved everything over to here (and paid the first year … Read more
Went to the gym in the early afternoon, and when I finished on the bike, I “hit the weights.” However the chest pressing machine I like to use was in use, so I decided to do some bench presses – specifically the sets and reps I used to do as a strength test. I stopped … Read more
Is that you then have trouble getting to sleep. I just spent from 9:30 to 10:30 in the gym and it’s great from the point of view of not too many people there. But now I’m not going to be able to get to sleep before 1:30 or 2. Not good. I only go to … Read more
On January 2nd we had a very pleasant afternoon dinner with our friends Damian and Jeanne Marie Gagnon, and three of their four children (Nate, Philip and Kathleen; Monica had gone back to college). Here’s a picture of Joe and Brigid (note social lubricant in front of Brigid.) And Jeanne Marie. Perhaps listening to Brigid?