Lose Some, Win Some

Rats! A 3 hour round-trip journey and 3 hours wasted in the hospital, yesterday. Platelets are too low, again. The three hours in the hospital were for another blood test, in the hopes that the platelets had reasserted themselves. They hadn't.
For some reason, they want them to come back by themselves, so my new chemo appointment is for a week from Friday.

I've been interviewed for our local paper about Obama's election. By e-mail. The paper comes out Thursday, so we'll see if I become famous for 15 minutes.

P.S. Blood results just arrived. Platelets are down to 63. CA-125 continues to fall: 66.20 from 66.60 last week.

My Own, Private Yahoo

You guys are such good support. I love you all.

I'm sorry I had to start moderating messages. The spammers found me.

This week's corrections: I see the nurse on the 5th.
I start treatment on the 11th.

Good thing, too. I'll still be well on the 10th when we have a new date for signing the final papers to sell our house. I wonder what it was like before lawyers?

We went to an after-the-convention Obama party last night. It didn't turn out to be what I thought it might be, more like a normal summer dinner party in Provence. But the food was great and the company was excellent

One guest was the former head of Reuters, worldwide. Fascinating, but scary. You don't want to know the news that the news channels are skipping. But, being a news freak (thanks to living in the U.K.), I guess I'll make Reuters my home page.

The pharmacy is not the place to go for wigs, odd because that's where you go for everything else. You go to a hairdressing establishment and give them your prescription. This promises to be entertaining.

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

This book made me feel so good. Obama always makes me feel good. He is positive and optimistic without being unrealistic. He can explain the great divide in American politics and how it came to be, and make you understand that it's not just meanness of spirit that has brought us to this pass. He talks about values without making you feel that there are quote marks around the word. He discusses the constitution with love and intelligence as might be expected from a professor of constitutional law. He talks of race and religion without making you feel threatened by either. There are chapters on Family, Politics, The World. He identifies problems without malice and lays out ideas for solving them; ideas that are down to earth, practicable and appeal to the common sense of most Americans.

Vote for who you want, but read this book. You can feel good, too.