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There’s no place like home

Posted in health update, tagged , on August 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »

So, um. I’m back. Anybody still here? Seems unlikely, after two weeks of silence here on the Rooftop. But I’ve never been opposed to talking to myself. So here goes. As I sit here in my PJs, nursing a cup of coffee and a chocolate chip cookie (it is too breakfast food), my weeklong stay in [...]

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What a long, strange trip it’s been

Posted in health update, tagged , , on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Hmm. How do I sum up all the thoughts careening into each other in my muddled mind today, the eve of my surgery? Not sure it can be done, honestly. The word bedlam comes to mind. Rush hour in midtown Manhattan during a blackout? Better yet: the aisles of a South Florida hardware store in the [...]

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Squeezing surgery into our schedule

Posted in blogging, health update, tagged , on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A thick envelope from the hospital arrived in yesterday’s mail, informing me of my scheduled surgery date. It brought me up short. Almost made me panic, really. Mostly because the date, June 17, won’t work. The doc said to expect three weeks of recovery time, and we’re scheduled to go camping in the Adirondacks a [...]

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Pack up your troubles…

Posted in blogging, health update, tagged , , , on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Into the kit bag of firsts I’ve been filling (first disease diagnosis, first career implosion), pile one more: first surgery. If I thought Ashton would have any interest in capturing the reaction of a rotund, middle-aged redhead eking out an existence in Upstate New York, I’d swear I was getting punk’d. No such luck. To [...]

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