For years now the missus and I have talked about it. Talked about how to fit it into our lives, how to fit it into our space (a one-bedroom apartment), how it would change so many things in terms of how we function both inside and outside the apartment. And finally, over the course of [...]
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Those aren’t my boots!, originally uploaded by martha mosquito.
When my surgeon told me I had to take 6 weeks off of work after the surgery for recovery I was surprised. I figured I’d be out for two, maybe three weeks and then working from home after that for however my longer it took. 6 weeks, a month and a half… 42 days?! Unbelieveable. [...]
Surgery went very well last Monday except for long-lasting grogginess and nausea from either the anesthesia or the morphine – they put me under at around 9 on Monday morning and everything in my memory is hazy until Tuesday night. I slept, a lot. I dozed, a lot. I was lucid, a little. I ate [...]
My surgery was postponed from Friday until Monday. This gave me one extra day at work to wrap things up as completely as I wanted to – a good thing because being out of work for 6 weeks, handing off all my various projects is a difficult thing. The postponement also gave me the opportunity [...]
It’s been a really long couple of weeks. Mostly because I found out almost a month ago that a tumor I had removed last June (mostly benign but locally very aggressive) is back. We explored other options with an oncologist but this kind of tumor doesn’t respond well to chemotherapy so I’ll be having surgery [...]