[cancer] Still in hospital
I am doing unexpectedly well here in hospital. Per this post from
Posted: 1:21 pm Fri November 27 2009 | Comments(1) |
[cancer] I may be some time
I could write a lot about fear, panic, irrationality, love, friendship, medicine, cancer, parents, children, caring, sharing. But not now. Now I go to face the knife.
As previously stated, this blog will be going dark for a while. For surgical and post-op updates, watch
Anyway, I guess this is good-bye. Or more to the point, see you later.
Posted: 5:08 am Wed November 25 2009 | Comments(7) |
[photos] Your Wednesday moment of zen
Your Wednesday moment of zen.
Posted: 5:01 am Wed November 25 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad goes ungently into the unsweet night of surgery
A reader reacts to my 2005 novel Rocket Science [ Powell's | Amazon
Cheryl Morgan reviews Madness of Flowers [ Powell's | Amazon ] — Note the comments section, she’s playing an utterly lovely game with a short passage from my book.
SMBC on the topic of lung surgery — An odd resonance in today’s comic reading, given where I’m headed this morning.
Nothing to Sneeze At: Doctors’ Neckties Seen as Flu Risk — Heh. I knew I was on to something with this whole Hawaiian shirt thing.
APOD with the ice fountains of Enceladus — Wow wow wow.
Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute — Well, this is not good.
Everybody flipflops on the filibuster of judicial nominees — Ah, principled consistency in politics.
?otD: Will you miss me when I’m gone?
11/25/2009
Body movement: n/a (surgery prep)
Hours slept: 6.25
This morning’s weigh-in: 236.2
Currently reading: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Posted: 4:58 am Wed November 25 2009 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] Almost there
A very nice evening with friends and family tonight.
For surgical and post-op updates, watch
Going to see if sleep is possible tonight.
Posted: 8:34 pm Tue November 24 2009 | Comments(3) |
[photos] Your Tuesday moment of zen
Your Tuesday moment of zen.
Me and my Granddaddy Lake, Easter, 1967. © 1967, 2009 Joseph E. Lake
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Posted: 5:43 am Tue November 24 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad gets ready to go dark
Polyphony is moving to a subscription model as of volume 7 — Go check it out, and consider a pre-order with Wheatland Press.
Oddly Specific — Weird, and hilarious, signs. (Thanks to
More silly signs — (Thanks to Scrivener’s Error.)
The Standard Model — Particles, etc. for you skiffy writers. (Via John Burridge.)
Apple rejects iPhone application with drawings of US senators and representatives — Ah, logic. (Thanks to
?otD: What is that high, lonesome sound?
11/24/2009
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 4.5
This morning’s weigh-in: 235.0
Currently reading: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Posted: 5:20 am Tue November 24 2009 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] Closing in
Surgery is in two days. Nothing like a nacho-ectomy to brighten one’s holidays. Still, I think this is a good time to have this surgery.
I’ve been narrowing more and more. It’s increasingly difficult to respond to email, and I’ve become almost utterly single threaded. I know from last year’s cancer surgery that this is normal for me pre-op, but I have some pretty serious hate for what the whole business does to my mind and my emotions.
This blog will be going dormant while I’m in the hospital, at least til I’ve recovered sufficiently to peck at a keyboard.
My state of mind is about what you’d expect. A mix of dread, terror and anticipation. Two days from now I jump off a cliff and begin a long fall that won’t really end before next July when I’ve tapered off chemo.
I never wanted this. No one ever does, I guess. Sometimes the sheer horror of it all just overwhelms me. I just hang on to the notion that I’ll eventually get my life back.
Posted: 5:51 am Mon November 23 2009 | Comments(17) |
[photos] Your Monday moment of zen
Your Monday moment of zen.
Mushroom, photographed by
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Posted: 5:43 am Mon November 23 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad stares down the barrel of a difficult week
The Torque Control post on my book Green has spawned a fascinating coments section — Go check it out. I’m not saying anything there for obvious reasons, but I’m pleased and a bit amazed at some of the careful consideration of my book going on.
Company Wants To Drill For Whiskey Lost In Arctic — (Via @GreatDismal.)
The Secret World of Naked Snakes — Fun wih nature.
A closeup of Enceladus’ icescape — Wow. Wow. Wow.
On the Anniversary of Kennedy’s Death, Extremism Lives On — the paranoid strain in the American polity has reasserted itself — that strain which ascribes the worst possible motives to one’s political opponents, and where lies abound and violence becomes possible Hello, GOP.
?otD: How manic is your Monday?
11/23/2009
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.25
This morning’s weigh-in: 236.2 (!?)
Currently reading: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Posted: 5:41 am Mon November 23 2009 | Comments(0) |