We went to a marvelous home-grown burlesque show last night and cheered ten courageous women. By day they’re ordinary folks: maybe a paralegal or a CEO. But for this night their alter egos went onstage with terrific costumes and great moves. They really worked it, and it was a hootin hollerin blast. Were they scared? [...]
To finish the tale of my Near Death Experience (pretty dramatic even for me), there’s the part where I went crazy. This is not a euphemism … I literally experienced what they call Hospital Psychosis. I guess it was my first full day in the ER. I grabbed Robert’s arm and whispered, “You’ve got to [...]
I did indeed get my new right knee, and all went well with the surgery. I got home on the third day, was boogieing around on the walker, felt terrific as I fell asleep that night. BUT apparently I threw up in my sleep, breathed in some of it, and got “aspiration pneumonia.” Bottom line: [...]
My new right knee will be installed on April 21. Waiting for it is like the ninth month of pregnancy … time moves slowly but inexorably. Robert’s gloriously wonderful sister Nora will come to nurse me for a couple of weeks, thereby freeing RoBear to go make us a living, which he’s excelling at lately. [...]
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I have no excuse for playing hooky these several (gasp, six!) months. I do have kind of a half-assed explanation, though. In brief, it’s simply that from time to time I get, as we’d be likely to say in west Texas, all wrote out. Nothing else to add. Nothin’ shakin’. No new uninvited animal guests. [...]
