Snowbrush

The lymph node biopsy came back negative, but now the surgeon wants to biopsy the other side. I had an iodine-contrast CAT scan yesterday to...

Surgery went well, as far as I know. The doctor was running 2 1/2 hours late, and I spent the last hour, as usual, in a line of ten gurneys ...

We’re like the people in the Twin Towers just before the planes hit. We can do nice things for others; we can enjoy good food and good books...

Peggy asked if I thought she would still go to France if I have cancer. I said she should consider the prognosis. Her response was that ther...

The following is a weeks worth of medical errors—or at least medical system errors—and I haven’t even been to surgery yet. 1) My internist s...

I saw the surgeon today about my hernia, but he seemed more concerned about my swollen lymph nodes (Peggy asked me months ago to see a docto...

I’m down to 144 pounds—fourteen pounds lighter than at Thanksgiving. I only planned to drop to 150, but with my new diet the pounds keep dis...

I had the following published in the Register Guard Monday. “While browsing the new book section at the Eugene library last week, I came acr...

I worked hard yesterday making final preparations for the Masons’ first meeting in the Odd Fellow Lodge. Tension with the building manager m...

The trustees’ meeting went against me, its purpose not to address the issues but to attack me personally. Being a pessimist, I was prepared ...

I am in wonder that there is so much violence in the world, as it has been my experience that people will tolerate a great deal before they ...

I got up this morning, opened the blinds, and turned on the radio. The first word spoken was Iraq, so I changed over to a classical music st...

Peggy’s parents sent us a $60 fruitcake for Christmas. It’s a heaven-in-a-bite affair for someone like myself who loves fruitcake, but it’s ...

Since Peggy was diagnosed as pre-diabetic, I’ve become quite excited about the possibilities of barely processed grains, and am going throug...

A man with two white dogs just walked by. I’ve seen him almost daily for years. His dogs are longhaired yet always clean. He is in his forti...

I dropped to 149 yesterday, a nine-pound loss in three weeks. My leather belts hang so loose that I’ve gone to webbing. Hunger is no fun, al...

I dropped to 149 yesterday, a nine-pound loss in three weeks. My leather belts hang so loose that I’ve gone to webbing. Hunger is no fun, al...

I go to the library several times a week, and have consistently found its environs to contain the most insane, criminal, and otherwise despe...

Often, during our trips to the woods, Peggy has wanted to hike farther or stay out later than I considered safe. Last Sunday, we biked five ...

As I mowed today for the last time this year, I observed that it is an unalterable law of the universe that no matter how fine a man a perso...