9/14（日本語は後に続きます） We have been busy for the past two days in a very normal sense. My son who is a college junior is leaving for Scotland for a year on Friday, and Mark and I are trying to help him (actually yell at him, in my ca…

9/10 To get well and to feel more energetic means wanting to see and talk to people, in my case. It is wonderful to see my precious friends. On Thursday, two senior consultants (a couple), with whom I worked for two years, came to see me a…

9/6I went to see my radiology oncologist for a check up today. He quoted Tolstoy, and talked about Dostoevskii, Chekhov, and Mark Twain. According to him, descriptions of characters in those novels describe the stages of disease accurately…

8/30Mark and I drove up to Maine yesterday afternoon, with my feeding tube equipment, five pillows (to prop me up properly during the night), many music CDs, binoculars, a birdwatcher’s book, two computers, a guitar, and Mark’s research ma…

8/28I went to BWH today, and saw my surgeon. After having a resident repair my J-tube stitch, he told me the following: My surgery is going to be on September 26, at 7:30, and will last for about 8 hours. I will be on a ventilation machine…