Follow up appntmnt with Jeanne Pierce. Blood work good. Gave me a referral to Fish and Game for the benign positional vertigo.
Updated UTM overview flyer for RPM. Talked with Matt Almeida. Opened mail, paid bills, finally found cataract instructions bundled in with the ones for the hydrocelectomy.
Left for Cambridge for Super Bowl weekend at 12:30. Arrived at Esther’s house then to movie.
Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.
Went to CMH for UTM meeting about Remote Patient Monitoring project.
Very succcessful meeting to kick off the patient pilot. Lots of good ideas from the staff.
Drove to Albany. Lunch at Iron Gate restaurant just across the street from the Albany Institute of Art and History. Wandered around Rte 43 going east before connecting with 9 to go back to Hudson.
Outside Albany Institute
1924 Auto Show Albany Armory – one of many local photographs in a large survey on display at the Institute.
Amtrak Station, Renssalear NY
Went to corner store for some cereal for Linda. The prominence of sugar is amazing. Who would have thought of Reese’s Puffs?
Up and out to dentist appointment for root canal. Another $1,000 procedure!
The three of us went to the library. Karen to talk with Brenda Shufelt about the replace Peppler print.
Took Linda to see the library for the first time. Lunch at Cascades. Chatted with Linda about her doings. She is working on a research project at Mass Mental on how mentally ill relate to their clinicians. Structured interviews.
Met with Seth Lachterman in mid afternoon. Prep for tomorrow’s CMH meeting.
Geodesic dome house along Rte 25 in Stockport.
Linda and I went on a little ride in the country. Stockport Creek, then along Hudson River to Rte 25 to 9H to Stottville.
Flat TireDave Drake called at 6 to say that he had a flat tire. So we agreed to declare victory and we would get together another time. This left us short spaghetti sauce. Opened freezer, hot sausage into the nuker and 30 minutes later sauce. Karen made garlic bread a la Joy of Cooking. Very good.
Walked up to hospital for blood tests.
Then, a brief stop in Hudson Opera House to look at the Alleys of Hudson photo display. Peter Spears, photography.
HOH lobby. Construction is closing in on final work.l
Then, did more revisions to UTM piece. Done now. Talked with Ole Breuning about Northern Dutchess Hospital.
Linda Larson arrived with Karen at 7pm when she returned from her Soup Group meeting in Cambridge. Linda’s annual visit.
Leftover tuna casserole for dinner.
NYTimes Sunday paper.
Worked most of afternoon on UTM:RPM Quick Start Instructions for Patients (see here).
Ice slipping down beyond the gutter.
Sound of a front-end loader backing up beeping repeatedly at 4am announced snow removal. Didn’t get up until after 8. Heard this poem on radio:
Happy the Man
by John Dryden (1631-1700)
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Translation from Horace??
Worked on UTM RPM instructions, then more volunteer website for the library. Matt Almeida at 11am.
Walked to library for Program Committee mtg. Good review of projects.
Stayed art library until almost 4. Then walked to Tom Ferrell’s Auto at Worth Ave. to pick up care after auto inspection.
Went to bank where I ran into the same truck driver with torn rotator cuff He didn’t remember meeting earlier at Bobs Diner
Karen cooked chicken with beer can in the butt very good.
Still sleeting in early morning. Sound of snow plows. Lower back very sore.
Cancelled meetings with UTM. Seth told me that David Ackermsn had a kidney donor. Schedule is unclear. Money has arrived from Melvilles
Karen insisted that I call Dr. Rivard, the surgeon. After fifteen minutes on hold he said the back pain had no connection with surgery. Call GP. Karen brought heating pad and Tylenol. This helped. We’ll wait this out Continue reading
Late start. Appointment with Dr. Esposito about cataract surgery 2/7. Everything on even keel.
Ignored Trump. Posted HL Mencken quote on Facebook: Continue reading
Spent day following post-surgery instructions. Not much discomfort. Incision is quite small. Maybe 2 inches. Scrotum is beginning to turn black and blue as predicted. Otherwise not much discomfort excepting an inexplicable sore lower back:
Spent most of day working on new volunteer management site for HAL.
Karen had a rough online class. Mismanged time.
Saw this picture of opening of library on Facebook. 