Message 948

Yesterday I watched Green Bay beat Philadelphia in the NFL playoffs. Afterward Josh came over and brought burgers and watched the Sharks lose to the Ducks 0-1 with me. NHL games are getting as hard to predict as the NFL. Any team is likely to win any given game. After the hockey game I watched a Nature show on PBS about the people who lived the Born Free story and helped make the movie and what happened afterward. After that I watched the new Masterpiece episode on PBS about titled British having to marry rich Americans in order to keep their estates afloat, and how the women then get cut out of the inheritance.

Message 947

I am feeling better today. Yesterday I drove to Los Gatos to give Susan her birthday envelope and have dinner at Live Oak Kitchen. I had the bacon cheeseburger. It was good to see everybody, but Amelia was doing her school flag thing, so she was not able to join us. When I got home I finished reading The Economist.

Messgae 946

Yesterday I went to PAMF and had a urine test and a blood test. I couldn’t see my regular doctor, but the one I saw was very nice. In the evening after the Friday PBS shows I read half of The Economist. After Charlie Rose I went to bed. I just ate the soup that Vanessa brought me from Max’s a couple of days ago. I just found a $20-bill under the computer chair. I think Josh must have dropped it when he watched the Sharks game with me on Thursday.

Message 945

Thanks to exhortations by Susan, Julie, and Liz I am scheduled to go to PAMF this afternoon to see a doctor and have blood and urine tests. Last night Joshua brought in Chinese food and watched the Sharks game with me. The food and company were good, but the game was terrible. The Sharks were shut out by Buffalo 0-3. After the game I read some more on my Kindle.

Message 944

I stayed in bed all day yesterday, but I feel much better today. Liz called and bugged me to see my doctor, so I have an appointment for 18 January, the earliest available. I think I will be all right until then. I did not eat any food yesterday, but I drank a couple of cans of soda. I had a good breakfast this morning though, so I feel much better. Thank you all for your calls. I might have been able to make it to Heidi’s Pies this morning, but I thought it better to play it safe and skip it.

Message 943

Here it is about 105 PM and I am just getting my message off for today. I got up about 10 AM and had some orange juice and fruit, but I felt so lousy that I lay down and did not get up until a few minutes ago. I always feel bad in the morning, by which I mean queasy and light headed, but usually it passes and I feel pretty good as the day goes on. Tomorrow I am scheduled to meet the gang at Heidi’s Pies, but I am starting to think that I am going to have to tell them I am going to have to drop out of the group. It is just getting too hard to get going in the morning.

Yesterday I went to Nealon Park with Vanessa and Annie about noon and ate a lunch that Vanessa had prepared along with a coffee that she picked up at Peet’s. The weather was nice and Annie played up a storm in the sand box. It was a lot of fun. In the evening I watched Disk 4 of Season 2 of Dollhouse and read a lot more on my Kindle.

It is time now for me to catheterize. I do it twice a day now, roughly at 1 AM after Charlie Rose and then again about 1 PM, which seems to be working out pretty well. I just threw up, so Maybe I have the flu. I think I will lie down again.

Message 942

Yesterday I watched Stanford beat Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. The whole Stanford team looked really good. I wish the 49ers could find a way to get Andrew Luck to play quarterback for them, but I don’t see how it could happen. I also got quite a bit more read on my Kindle.