Vacation Days

July 16 2009

Well here I am on vacation and it’s raining, cool and grey. Unfortunately I am grey as well. I arrived on the Cape not feeling well and got steadily worse. My heart rate zooms out of control up as high as 140 just by getting up from sitting or taking two steps. I am constantly nauseous and my sense of taste is completely out of whack. I am cranky and out of sorts. But I have begun work on my attitude. After all, I am alive and on vacation with my love. So what’s not to like?

I visited my sister Barbara. She is in a wonderful nursing home. Her room has a large bay window with great views of the lake and grounds. The nursing home sits on a hill over looking over a serene lake with a lovely rolling lawn with beautiful lovely grass and foliage. She seems happy and has made lots of friends and the staff seems to enjoy her. She has Alzheimer but she is jut as pleasant, loving and tolerant of others as she always has been. Linda and I enjoyed the time with her.

July 17, 2009

Today the sky is blue and the Sun is brilliant. My mood is good and I feel much better. The nauseous feeling has abated. We ate lunch at a fabulous restaurant in Sandwich. Sandwich is a small town on Cape Cod. However the meal was as good as you would get in any gourmet restaurant in any Large City including the food Mecca like

New York, (I will write more about the meal later.) We returned tour Inn and sat in the very cold clear water of Buttermilk bay and cooled of.

July 18

We are off to see my Sister Barbara again. After the visit who knows what we will do? We try not to plan our vacation days but just be spontaneous and enjoy what comes our way.

Hi Keith, Patricia, Carl, Kevin, Kelly, Janice, Nolie, Calvin, Christopher, Karen, Lara, Russell, Raquel, Sidney, Harry, Barbara, Amelia, and all my readers around the world.

A New Chef

The City Café has a new executive Chef. The new Chef, Chad Gaus, has made a wonderful and delicious difference in the food. He has added some interesting and delectable items. He has also improved many of the City Café’s main stays. You should give the City Cafe a try you will be happy you did.

Today All is Well

Today I feel great and I have a new Iphone 3G. It’s fun and it works very well. Most important for me is it is hearing aid compatible. Right now I am pain free. I have not been pain free in many years. So I praise God.

The family and friends all seem to be doing well. So within my small universe all is well. I wish I could say the same for real world. Unemployment, Iraq, Afghanistan, poverty, immoral leaders and bad economy all combine to make one cringe when the Newspaper is read. But we make changes one-step at a time. Thus, if one compares today with human history we are not doing badly.

I love you and wish you all happiness and success.

Father's Day

Today I received number of wonderful Father's Day gifts. An electrical screwdriver with a light and flexible handle so can drill at any angle. A new Palm-Pre cell phone. Two expensive sport shirts with two equally expense dress shorts. I am one happy guy.

Is There Anything New Uder The sun?

I often find myself wondering if there is anything new for me to do, to see, or to experience or to enjoy. After all I am just three month away from being 76 years old. We as humans seem to forever have the same problems or desires that we always had. They may come wrapped in different colors but they remain the same. Our responses vary culturally but even those are the same. We just give them different names. Wow is it true? If you live long enough all life is boring? I wonder. I do know that my love for others changes, as I grow older. It becomes deeper and more meaningful. I discover that it is about giving love and less about receiving love. Oh yes receiving love is very important but it feels empty if your not giving love. One of my greater joys is waking up and discovering a new depth or meaning to the love for my wife and family.

Speaking of growing older I leave on the 23rd for Atlanta, Ga. to attend my 27-year-old granddaughter’s wedding. She is the first of her generation to get married. I sure it will be great fun time.

I had a spinal tap today. Contrary to the films and TV it was completely painless. The risks and side effects were minimal. Yes they are still searching for the reason there is damage to my spinal column in the Thoracic area of my spine. I hope they find out soon. The symptoms are becoming debilitating.

My best friend Keith’s birthday is the 18th. Linda and I are taking him and his boyfriend to dinner Friday. Any suggestions were we should go?

Yes I know it has been a long time since my last post. I have very busy keeping my soul here with my body. It keeps wanted to fly away to God knows where.

My Back and President Obama

The operation to deaden the nerves in three of my vertebrae in my lumbar region has failed. I was pain Free for only two days. Then the pain came back with a vengeance. The only explanation the pain clinic gave we are sorry but the procedure does not work on all. You unfortunately are one of those it does not work with. All the pain of the operation was for only two days of no pain. It was not worth it. However they have come up with a new solution. I now wear a patch that delivers a constant supply of painkiller. Yes there are some side effects but less then some other meds. So we will see.

Still no response from the Neurosurgeon concerning an operation on my Thoracic Spinal Column. I will keep checking.

Obama has done his 100 days. What grade does he get? I give him a B+. He has a lot to learn about getting things done in Washington and I believe he needs to keep a closer handle on the public feelings on any given subject. Overall he has done an amazing good job on juggling and fixing all the complex problems he was given. The Stock Market has at last positively responded to Obama’s program to fixing the banking system. Numbers were up higher than they have been for a very long time. It closed up almost 500 points. Other good sign is that real estate sales have increased. Sadly hiring has not increased. Too many of us are out of work. Our family has two laid off members. My son with a wife and child and my granddaughter have been laid off. The family is helping them as much as we can. But they need jobs!!!

I am Happy

Today I had my procedure to kill he nerves in 3 disk of the lumbar region. It was extremity painful. I had to be awake to tell the surgeon if I felt and strange feelings in any park of my lower extremities. It all went well. I am sore were the needels went in. But he most important thing is my back pain is GONE. I am very very happy.