In which I detail my recent surgery, praise health professionals, & castigate the health industry
Well, that’s done.…
T minus 40-odd hours and counting…
No cancer, still. However, my internal plumbing needs repairing yet again.…
… Last night, Karen took me out to our favorite restaurant (Sarducci’s) for dinner, to “celebrate” my last solid food until sometime in July. It was lovely! …
In which I face another surgery
A year and a half after the “Big Surgery”, I gave conference papers in Leeds (in July) and in Birmingham (in August), with several weeks of research at the Bodleian Library in Oxford bridging the weeks between the two conferences. On my last day in Leeds, and throughout my first week in Oxford, I had some pretty intense pain in my chest. This, I found out later, was my transverse colon and greater omentum forcing their way up through my esophageal hiatus.… And in October of 2020, history repeated itself.…
In which Erik travels healthwards and back again … and again … and again
Friends have expressed concern — and who can blame them? — that no one has heard a peep from me since I posted the good news weeks ago that I didn’t have COVID, and the concomitant news that I did have flu.… I have been in Lima for 6½ weeks, all of which has been delightful. And on a few of those days I have felt 100% myself — and, indeed, those days have been terrific. But for about half of the days I have been plagued by, shall we say, a fairly violent version of a Common Travellers’ Complaint.…
In which I don’t contract COVID, but am nevertheless laid low
I’m a bit behind in posting, for which I ask your indulgence. I’ll temporarily skip over my adventures of the weekend, and briefly write that a vague tickle in my throat on Sunday night developed extraordinarily rapidly into a pretty bad illness. This is 2024, however, so the big question was whether or not it was COVID, especially since the symptoms seemed identical to those when I contracted COVID in May of 2020. Dear Peruvian Tolkien Society friends pointed me to a MiFarma web page.…