I was feeling so good yesterday that I went on another bike ride, this one perhaps biting off more than I should have, going all the way from our house on Grizzly Peak to the Berkeley Marina, and back, 13.7 miles, which isn’t much distance, but, with 867.6 feet of elevation gain on the way back, is a lot for a guy who has been on a bike five times […]
Well, technically we moved to Kensington, in a rental house a block and a half from the Berkeley city limit, which is just on the other side of EBMUD Summit Reservoir at the corner of Grizzly Peak and Spruce. Kensington, we’ve discovered, is like our old area of Larkfield/Wikiup; it isn’t actually a real thing, just an unincorporated part of Contra Costa County, served by what the French would call […]
A couple of trips back, I found this very comfortable coffee shop called the High Ground Cafe in Iowa City. Reasonable prices (in the greater scheme of things), free wifi (de rigueur these days), nice open, modern space, with a fireplace going in the winter (a real draw now, with the temperature at 24 degrees and the wind blowing at about 20 mph). I’m sitting by the door, so I […]
Since I’m well into my CS50 Computer Science class (fighting the good battle with C), I figured I ought to be able to solve the recurring problem I’ve had on my site of pictures not showing up in posts — an unacceptable situation given that posting pictures was one of my main reasons for creating the site in the first place. So I researched and took steps to correct the problem, […]
I passed another milestone today. Last November, I got a new bicycle from a store in Berkeley to replace the one I’d lost in the fire. (This was courtesy of the remarkable generosity and kindness of my colleagues at Sonoma Clean Power, who collectively contributed to funding the replacement.) At the time I got the bike, my back and left leg were hurting from what I thought was a normal throw-out-my-back […]
A short update on my progress following the stem cell transplant: Today is the 60th day following the transplant, which means that almost all of the restrictions I’ve been living under are lifted. I can eat out anywhere, go to public events (even if they are crowded), go to the gym, and do most things normal healthy people can do (except eat good creamy cheese, like brie — that restriction […]
I apologize for the delay in posting another update on my condition. I tried a number of times, but my brain was so slow that I never managed to finish. Suzie and I met with my doctor at Stanford on Tuesday, and he confirmed again that the bone marrow transplant procedure worked. The transplant “took” and the new bone marrow is producing enough blood cells that most of my blood […]
Yesterday the staff at Stanford confirmed that my transplanted stem cells had engrafted into my bone marrow and were starting to produce new blood cells. The transplant worked. They unhooked me from the infusion bag I’d been attached to for 11 days (a great thing). Our next appointment at Stanford is Friday, and if everything continues on track, at that time they will release us from having to stay in […]
This will be a dull and simple post, because that’s the way my mind is right now, dull and simple. I never imagined I could feel this fatigued. It’s as if every bit of excess energy I ever had has been sucked out of my body, leaving only the small residual necessary to barely function: get up, walk around, eat (a little), shower, go to my Stanford appointments, read, watch […]
