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I haven't posted about medical stuff for a while. "Not dead yet." My mother has breast cancer and, as of a recent diagnosis, independent lung cancer as well. Possibly ovarian too -- we're skipping the biopsy to see if the masses there are local or wandering breast cancer. She should come home tomorrow, into hospice ("< 6 months") care. I figure she should try to come home, back to familiar surroundings, and hope she'll be strong enough to get to the bathroom, or at least a commode. Else... I may find out what my caretaking limits really are. No chemo; as I joked, if her appetite went any lower she'd be producing food.
A couple of old friends of hers have visited, talking to her, trying to get her to eat. My sister's visiting now, though leaving tomorrow (Monday); she's gone for meals with me, helped clean the house (!), and entertained my mother a lot more than expected, which of course can lead to parental regret about not letting my sister come while our father was still alive.
http://nursestoner.com/myresearch.html
99% of surveyed atheists support physician-assisted suicide, over 3/4 want control over their own time of death.
Back on the lighter side, Pirates of the Caribbean was fun, though apparently missing a key bit of dialog. I've posted my new camera work already. I started reading Mere Christianity, interrupted by leaving town; I think Lewis's logic fails at the first link (which is "we have a moral sense, therefore God"). Lyceum was very very supportive and I owe her sushi, at least. I read the Screwtape Letters, which had a few interesting points to be made later. The trip to Bloomington succeeded in getting my passport and financial power of attorney, if not MY MAIL. I've interacted with a lawyer for the first time in my life. Monday's Girl Genius page is interesting -- bishie Jaeger? I guess Maxim was one already. The guy just looks weird -- I keep thinking of Punch/Adam. I'm re-reading Frankenstein, though it's being less interesting than I expected. My Facebook Religion entry is currently "The Culture".
A couple of old friends of hers have visited, talking to her, trying to get her to eat. My sister's visiting now, though leaving tomorrow (Monday); she's gone for meals with me, helped clean the house (!), and entertained my mother a lot more than expected, which of course can lead to parental regret about not letting my sister come while our father was still alive.
http://nursestoner.com/myresearch.html
99% of surveyed atheists support physician-assisted suicide, over 3/4 want control over their own time of death.
Back on the lighter side, Pirates of the Caribbean was fun, though apparently missing a key bit of dialog. I've posted my new camera work already. I started reading Mere Christianity, interrupted by leaving town; I think Lewis's logic fails at the first link (which is "we have a moral sense, therefore God"). Lyceum was very very supportive and I owe her sushi, at least. I read the Screwtape Letters, which had a few interesting points to be made later. The trip to Bloomington succeeded in getting my passport and financial power of attorney, if not MY MAIL. I've interacted with a lawyer for the first time in my life. Monday's Girl Genius page is interesting -- bishie Jaeger? I guess Maxim was one already. The guy just looks weird -- I keep thinking of Punch/Adam. I'm re-reading Frankenstein, though it's being less interesting than I expected. My Facebook Religion entry is currently "The Culture".
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Date: 2007-06-11 13:00 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-11 17:09 (UTC)From:Not so much a threat as "I STILL LIVE HERE DAMNIT", but yeah.
Good location, though I fear they'll overflow eventually. Feel free to weed out the obvious junk, or look for obviously urgent envelopes, if you can be bothered. Credit card and cablemodem I should be able to keep on top of online, so anything else will probably be UnExpected. IRS deciding to audit a grad student or something.
There might be a pile of magazines near or on the LazyBoy, in which case the London Reviews of Books can stack up there... though I'm kind of hoping that I'm somehow not gone so long as for them to be a problem.
I realized the odd thing with the Jaeger is that it seemed like they weren't supposed to be in Mechanicsburg, both from the long-standing deal and from Klaus's recent Contain Agatha policy. I wonder if Klaus managed to reverse engineer them after all. He's got a very snazzy uniform.