New Businesses

There is a lot of new construction going on around town. This is one new business that I discovered today on Nutrition Way. I was allowed to drive the car for the first time since surgery. I drove around the block.

Red Poppy

Red Poppy, a photo by iamabraham on Flickr.

I like one or two poppy plants. I have two. A prolific orange-colored one and this red poppy. I kept them because they are adorned with pollen and are a source of food for early insects in need of something to eat.

My Arm

P1070361, a photo by iamabraham on Flickr.

This arm gives me a lot of misery during the day. An ache hard to describe. I think they went deep into it at the wrist to find an artery they could use for surgery — telling them about oxygen levels in the blood and so on. It still bothers me most of the time.

After Surgery

After Surgery, a photo by iamabraham on Flickr.

This is how I look today. I feel worse. Surgery was OK but I have many other issues that sap my enthusiasm.

I am home from …

I am home from surgery. I am sore. I was to doctor yesterday who said the black bruises will take 6 months to heal.

 

Just a quick no…

Just a quick note to let everyone know, Abe did better than the doctors expected from this surgery.  He had it at 8am on Tuesday the 15th.  It was planned for Monday the 14th. at 1pm, but the doctor that was to make the two incisions in each leg was running behind from a surgery, so rather then do it so late in the day and have an exhausted doctor, they changed the date and time.  That meant he came home and had to be back there at 6am, which meant we were up at 4:30am to get ready to leave here in time to get there.  This time his associate who also took care of Abe when he had his collapsed lung,  made the incisions.  Abe was very happy about that.  I just talked to him this morning, he sounded more alert, the catheter had been removed so he could walk to the bathroom and they finally brought him some food.  I will talk to him later, but just hearing him talk on the phone, he sounded 100% better than yesterday.

His wife, Patty is writing this.

When Newspapers Ruled

It was anxiously awaited; breathlessly anticipated — the newspaper crippled gossip and ruined the rumors. They got so popular that anybody became a newspaper “editor” and put out the “rag” and tabloids — usually filled with an assortment of gossip and rumors. But the people got smart and sifted fact from all the fiction. And in retelling people burnished the facts with the way it should have been reported if they were the editor. Popular among the owners of outhouses as a cheap toilet paper substitute, and a super fire lighter in the kitchen cookstoves across America — newspapers were sought out and had many practical uses much more appreciated than the news.