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Objection: ‘Rest, You Idiot!’

leeduigon(patty)June 3, 2025

Is this how to rest?

So much for my plan to dive head-first back into my work as soon as I came home from the hospital.

Everybody’s telling me to rest. God knows I need it.

Going down the home stretch in the hospital, they gave me a new room-mate who snored and coughed explosively all night long. It sounded like a school for safe-crackers. So there was a whole week with no sleep at all. And I brought my room-mate’s cough home with me.

Next doctor appointment: Friday. There’s always one just around the corner. And now I’m afraid they’ll find something new and thrust me back into the hospital. Where it’s always noisy.

Rest, rest, rest, you patzer!

All right, let me try.

Sorry! I’ll Try Again Tomorrow

leeduigon(patty)June 2, 2025

Well, the computer won’t let me post a picture, I spent another afternoon doctoring, and I just don’t feel like trying to do much more. Call it a do-over and try again tomorrow.

I’m getting very averse to being stuck with needles. Can I please go back to civilian life?

I’m Back (He Said)

leeduigon(patty)May 29, 2025

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Well, here I am at home, at my computer. It’s good to be back.

My heartfelt thanks to all of you who phoned me at the hospital. It meant a great deal to me.

Bob Knight asked me what I’d had done so far, so I told him: chemotherapy, rectal cancer, colon cancer, shaving the prostate gland–

At which point he said, “And you’re still here? Wow.”

And I still have hip replacement surgery to go.

Side effect: I’ve forgotten some of how to use the computer, and I’m in no state to start another novel. I’ll have to come back slowly, bit by bit. I do feel like a castaway washed up on a desert island. But I think I’ll be able to write a “Joe Collidge” tomorrow. [“What? You went through all the pain and agita for that???”]

Let’s see if I can post a hymn.