Well, I'm back. Got No. 1 Son married over the Columbus Day weekend. Somehow he
managed to hook himself a gorgeous young Persian-American lass named Shiva.
She's getting her master's in library science and information systems. She
speaks fluent Mac, which is good, because we all use Macs, and No. 1 son's name
is Mac, though she knows him as Duncan. <g>
I also got to spend a couple of days in hospital after an apparent TIA
(transient ischemic attack). Getting up from adjusting a carpet, whole left
side a'tingle, then numb. Felt my words slurring as I tried to tell Esteemed
Wife I was having a stroke. Then it passed like water pouring out of a glass.
Doc said go to Emergency Room, which I did, at which time I fell down the
rabbit hole known as TIA protocol. Immediately had blood work and CAT scan.
Admitted to ICU's telemetry unit to watch the old ticker. At 6 a.m. I went down
for echo-cardiogram and ultrasound of the arteries in my neck. A couple of
hours later, it was MRI time.
Turns out my head doesn't fit in the MRI helmet. Vertical bar was crushing my
nose. They had to take out the padding behind my head before they could run the
test. Ever been inside a trash can with Woody Woodpecker training on a
jackhammer outside? Phew!
At any rate, I'm all clear. My doc thinks it was something called a
"watershed", which mimics a TIA but really isn't.
The nurses were superb, and the oatmeal, prepared the old fashioned way in a
double boiler and slow cooked, was divine. And I don't even like oatmeal.
Currently, I'm bedeviling myself with transferring my system over to a new
MacBook Pro. Not sure how I like Lion yet. It's hell on software, but it's
nice, too. Oh, well. May be my last upgrade now that SJ has assumed room
temperature. Sigh.
Still playing with the 10-stop ND filter, but I don't have anything to post at
the moment. It's all in the Twilight Zone between the two computers. I hope to
get everything up and running in a week or so. Also have to clean out my
studio, take a flamethrower to it and reassemble, only this time making more
room. Not sure how that's going to happen.
Such is life.
Pax Lasagna,
--Bob
Oh, yeah, did have a nice visit with John Hudson and his lovely wife. They were
slumming in the states and dropped in. And I expect to see his Mooseness and
his far better half, Carol, in the next couple of days, assuming the rented
Moosewagon hasn't broken down somewhere in the hinterlands of the greater
metro-Boston area.
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