Today is the 1st day of the 7th week following my heart surgery Dec. 4. I’m told that most likely the body healing is near accomplished, but don’t rush anything. Today I began a program of Heart therapy which will go on for some weeks. I’ve started to drive solo again! Think of being 16 again! […]
Last night I decided to watch, in total, the positioning of Donald Trump, and the responses from Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer. I did watch every minute of the presentations. * A few hours later came Just Above Sunset, which summarizes points of view from the pundit class about pertinent issues of the […]
Yesterday I spent a bit more time than usual, watching the changing of the guard in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yesterday was women’s day on capitol hill and, as House Speaker designate Nancy Pelosi noted, it will be during this Congress – the 116th – that the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in the United States […]
UPDATE April 4, 2019 Today is four months post-surgery. Within the last few days, Mick Jagger announced he’d be having valve replacement as I had. He thinks he’ll be hopping around by summer. I wish him well. It takes time. Each day I feel more “normal” but there’s still much room for improvement. The first […]
Previous related posts at Nov. 29 and Dec. 22. Also note Caring Bridge. Today is daughter Lauri’s birthday (lower right in photo). She says today is the 23rd anniversary of her 23rd birthday. We all have our strategies…. I suppose there are better birthdates to have than Dec 28…if your interest is presents. Christmas is […]
Previous, on topic: “Aging Infrastructure”, here. Summation post at this space on or about Dec. 28, 2018, “Infrastructure”. I write in person from my usual home office space in Woodbury. Yesterday afternoon Cathy and my daughter Lauri brought me home from the Rehab hospital of the Fairview Hospital system. It was the 17th day after […]
This is a family page. Pictured above would be my mother’s parents, her grandfather, and an aunt and uncle. The pictures were taken in the summer of 1907 (see NOTE at end of this post). Ferd and Rosa had been in LaMoure County ND, Henrietta Township, for two years, having moved west from Hazel Green […]
Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the morning I have a date for an upgrade of my internal systems: replacement of aortic heart valve and, it was determined in a recent pre-op test, two sections of artery. The hospital, Fairview Southdale, helpfully provides an overview of post-surgery life for me, for anyone interested. Given a hoped for good […]
November 25 is the 6-month anniversary of the automobile accident that led to a close brush with death for then-12 year old Bennie, and the ensuing months of care for him at Children’s and Gillette hospitals. Nov. 11 we went over to see Bennie and family at home here in Woodbury. He walked up the […]
This evening and tomorrow: Concert: A Place Called Home flyer v1 * Thursday we attended the Minnesota Orchestra, and on the program was a piece by Shostakovich, Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra, performed by the Orchestra’s Cello Principal, Anthony Ross. Anthony and the Minnesota Orchestra exemplify “excellence”, and so it was Thursday. He and […]