Friday, December 31, 2010

On the Web

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The Spider A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vas...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Hot enough for you?

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Today was a blastfurnace wind, from just before dawn, when I looked out on my severalth trip to the bathroom to pat myself down with cold wa...

Burial & other body solutions

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BTW, can anyone help, or point me towards help, with information on the usefulness of bodies with metastatic cancer for assorted organ trans...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fade away or gradually die …

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Some more sad news Edward Woodward's BBC Obituary I mentioned Breaker Morant just recently elsewhere. Callan seems to have branded its...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Contemplating yesterday

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Don't really like that word "palliative", when it's used in my direction. "Curative" or "healing" woul...
Monday, November 09, 2009

A different 9/11 remembrance

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Since the start of this blog, usually on this day, running up to Remembrance/Armistice Day on 11/11, I commemorate the 9/11/1938 Night of Br...
Sunday, November 08, 2009

Chemotherapy + Gripe update

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Wherein Much Tedious Matter is Related Hoo boy, whatta *fun* few weeks! Last gripe was a few days after start. Survived a week or so more on...
Friday, October 23, 2009

One Month on

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Dustday + 30 Previous Dustday entry ( Dust Day (23rd September, 2009) in Sydney ) It used to be a nine-days' wonder. Everything's fa...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Chemotherapy + Gripe

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NOTE: Skip this to avoid whinging, complaining & yukkiness. Think I've washed most of the cytotoxins and their accompanying protecti...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Friend's Stroke: some wonderful news

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I haven't been too well, so haven't written much, and, worse, haven't been to see my friend as much. So it was great first to s...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Health in the USA - Words Fail (Repeated from Earlier)

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Health Care Horror , from 2006, though original story is 1998. I'm worried this lady isn't around any more CONSUMER WATCH Home » Pr...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Chemotherapy: 3rd cycle (2009)

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So this is the start of the third cycle of this set of chemotherapy. This time haven't had much of an upswing at the end of the last cy...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Yes, the world does revolve around me (Nero)

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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus aka Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, only son of Agrippin...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Exciting Picture News

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Wheeeee!! Not only am I getting an acknowledged* publication (small, down the back) of that photograph from the previous post (informally ti...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Dust Day (23rd September, 2009) in Sydney; Stroke cont.

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I raced up & took some photos from my flats' roof, trying to match some of the views I've taken on clear days, plus a few more t...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Another Stroke

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The youngest and last of my mother's brothers & sisters died suddenly this week. If my calculations are right, he would have been th...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Rolling on in Earth's diurnal course: Chemotherapy; Friend's stroke

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Health Update: My chemotherapy continues; unpleasant but not very horrible, so far surviving. Around the peak of immune suppression was kee...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Friend's Stroke: fortnight report

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Two weeks on, he's half-opened one, then both, eyes, and shown some more responses. Still has a nasogastric feed tube, lots less IV stuf...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Friend's Stroke: flickers of hope

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Yesterday evening A half-opened his eye on the non-stroke side! I was there. I wasn't up to getting out today, but it's reported th...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Metastasis: Chemotherapy 2009, first cycle

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First Carboplatin treatment this morning. Tired beforehand, so I slept through some of the infusion, though the form-filling kept me awake ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Friend's Stroke: waiting, hoping, fearing

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Eight or nine days now since friend A. had cerebral haemmorrhage (on right, don't know details). Aneurism evacuated, tube now on left t...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Friend's Stroke: shock, horror, confusion

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A very good friend is ill. For years he's known of and been treated for idiopathic hypertension. Seems to run in the family. Sometimes c...
Monday, August 03, 2009

A Birthday Sonnet (Even Keats made this thought seem a little whiny)

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Sonnet : "If I should die some night and never see Dawn's light, my email, and my morning tea, I face the thought with equanimity, ...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

American Poem

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I AM the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass. Do you know that all the great work of this world is done through me? I am the workingman, the i...

This comes under "We Told You So"

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Women stretched to snapping point Adele Horin July 4, 2009 The 1.5-earner family became the predominant form between 1997 and 2006, from 35 ...