Today I went outside again, and got lightly sprinkled with rain. I had my leg on a board, sticking out from a wheelchair. I’ve watched Little Miss Sunshine, which I saw last year and thoroughly enjoyed both times. I love the open-ness of its comments on life and society. All the characters are [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 27, 2007
Chocolate temperature
The temperature in my hospital room is just right for chocolate. I don’t have to keep it cold. It is just soft and creamy and delicious. I’ve had a range of chocolate since being in here. It is one of the benefits, particularly as I am able to eat well at the moment. [...]
February 25, 2007
Sleep
Last night, I slept. How good was that? I didn’t even need to go to the toilet, first time in months. I didn’t need any extra painkillers. I did wake up a few times, and stretched my knee and went back to sleep.
It is still swollen like a balloon, my knee, but [...]
February 23, 2007
A shower
That’s my big adventure for today. Much harder than after the hip op, because my whole leg had to be supported out straight. I am not looking forward to going to the toilet too many times. But I’m told it is likely to improve quickly. I hope so.
Yesterday, I got stressed and [...]
February 23, 2007
Simple things
The operation went well yesterday. I was very groggy afterwards, so I just slept between observations every hour or two. Then this morning I woke up feeling grumpy. Grumpy that my knee hurt, that I didn’t feel as mobile as I had been, that I couldn’t reach and find things easily, and that [...]
February 21, 2007
Lucky?
It’s 4.14 am. I’m not lying awake worrying as such, just lying awake. So I may as well write. I woke up about an hour ago, to go to the toilet. I slept well until then, falling asleep in front of my computer playing a Bewitched DVD. I’ve always liked Bewitched. I used [...]
February 21, 2007
Simply today (and a little of tomorrow)
Today I went outside for the first time for 2 weeks. That was fun, to feel the unairconditioned steamy Darwin air again. Mike pushed me around the carpark in a wheelchair. We went upstairs to visit a work colleague of Mike’s who has just had a baby, and I had a baby cuddle. [...]
February 19, 2007
A consciousness system
Further on my listening to philosophers and psychologists discussing consciousness and mind/body dualism. It seems to me that, in the true western tradition, we are setting up a kind of false dichotomy, an either/or that is not a necessary ontological position.
On the one hand, there appears to be a large school of mind/consciousness/brain unitarianists [...]
February 19, 2007
Ipod therapy or Dancing in the Dark
I made a new discovery last night – ipods. Of course, my kids have been connected to ipods for years – usually when I’m trying to discuss some serious and important topic with them, such as washing the dishes.
My main problem with ipods has been that I have small ear openings, and [...]
February 19, 2007
The high cost of living
I am 45 years old, and suffering from a very rare, very aggressive cancer. At the moment, I am in hospital, awaiting a second lot of surgery to repair bones that the cancer has eaten away since appearing in them last December. Not very long ago.
A week ago my upper leg broke [...]
