FROM THE ADMIRAL'S CHAIR
Greetings to one and all -- and yes, this issue is another late one. For those of you who know my current status, you know why. For those of you who may not, my Medical Status report:
I'd started into my chemotherapy treatments, when I developed a fever that started off at a temperature of 100.4 degrees and leveled off at 104.2 degrees. This little development landed me in the hospital for a week, whereupon the doctors discovered that the port-a-cath implant they'd put in the left side of my chest was being rejected by my body, due to my somewhat diminished immune system. (This is what you get when you don't use Imperial technology!)
So, they removed the implant from my chest and installed a line in my left arm (so if you see me wearing what looks like an elbow pad, it's for protection of the new line).
After 7 days, they allowed me to return home, with the options of either driving back and forth to the hospital for continued antibiotic therapy for a 18-day stretch or having a home health care nurse come to the house and run the IV there. (The 3rd option was staying another 18 days -- I chose to pass on that...) You can guess which I chose.
This also entailed being at the hospital every morning of those 18 days by 9 am (8 am on Saturdays and 8:30 on Sundays). With all that driving, I gotta tell you, I was tired. Bone-tired. And thus, things got put off -- like this issue of CHUY DAH.
So, now you know.
On the plus side, I'm doing well thus far, with no real side-effects from the treatments (2 as of this report) save for a new hairstyle...
OPERATION: YARD SALE (MISSION UPDATE): It's been decided that -- due to real-life complications incurred by the crew -- the operation, which was scheduled for this Saturday, September 11, is officially ON HOLD until next month.
There will be a Gereral Meeting to plot the logistics of this event (as well as catch up on ship business) at the Bread Head Bakery on Saturday at 1 pm.
TO BE CONTINUED
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