Being a shy fellow, I received the last-minute news that there were two additional guests on my walking tour of Barranco with a bit of trepidation. Three or four hours not only with a tour guide I was unfamiliar with but also with two other guests? I need not have worried. After an hour or so, the tour guide (Mau) left the three of us alone briefly. The more extraverted of the two other guests turned to me and said, “You seem like a nice person!” which she immediately followed with “Is that a weird thing to say?” …
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Hi, everyone! Just a quick update to let you know that I’m still here. Life is nearly back to normal (although I look out the mid-April windows at ice and snow and a gray sky that hasn’t broken in more than a week and I wonder!).…
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I’m sorry not to have posted for so long. tl;dr: Convalescing takes patience, but all is well.
I’ve been home for three weeks now, and I’m very very happy to be here with my family and kitties. Gradually over these weeks I’ve reduced the pain killers they had me take, and gradually I’ve been able to expand what foods I can eat (almost anything at this point, but I need to be careful to eat it slowly and to not eat too much).…
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I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I’d like to repeat my thanks to each of you for your continuing encouragement and well wishes. This is dragging on longer than we had hoped, and it’s your cheers and whispers and messages and poetry that is keeping us going.
I felt I needed to share an example of the latter with everyone, from a whilom coworker not normally known for his Nashian versification: .…
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Sorry for the delay in posting an update — it’s been a weekend of ups and downs. In short, everything related to the actual surgery is hunky-dory, but all the general recovery stuff has been rough. There’s lots going on, but most of it isn’t really stuff I want to post about (endless details about bodily fluids, their measurement and proclivities, that sort of thing).…
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