Health
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Novel norms
So here I am at 3 am for the second day in a row, taking a moment between hits of Dilaudid to do something that was for many years normal for me: writing something. I have a new normal now, and it’s getting old. I’ve lost count of the wires and tubes running from my… Continue reading
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Getting scarier
They’re putting me on this now, so I’ll feel no pain and breathe more deeply. Which I’ll need to prevent a slightly collapsed lung from turning into pneumonia. That’s on top of the pancreatitis. All from an inconclusive diagnostic procedure. Continue reading
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Back on drugs again
Well, my experiment with staying off morphine didn’t pan out. An x-ray that required laying on my very tender belly this morning put me over the edge. More reporting (and hopefully on matters other than health) when I feel like it. Pretty spaced out right now. Continue reading
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Up the tubes
I have three bags hanging from a rolling pole next to my bed here at the hospital. These Y down do a pair of IV needles, one in each arm. The two big bags are for hydration. The third? I dunno. (The nurse just told me it’s magnesium.) Since visiting Amsterdam two Wednesdays ago, I’ve… Continue reading
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Giving it from both ends
Two days ago I had a colonoscopy. The doctor found and removed a polyp. Routine stuff. Today it was what I guess is called an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. The first looked up my ass, the second down my gullet, in this case to look inside my pancreas to see if cystic lesions appearing in an… Continue reading
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New paths
I didn’t really know Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald before this last week, except by emails and a delightful interview he did with me at LeWeb3 in December. But I fell in love with the guy after he and his associates brought me to Amsterdam to talk at Mobile Monday and do a couple consulting gigs there (which… Continue reading