So, we have been duly reminded that one of the obligations of doing a blog is that you have to keep it up-to-date. Joe Benson (Joe and Sheila, Palm Springs) is now at least the third one who’s asked “how are you doing … haven’t heard.” It started with Milverton Wallace telephoning us from London, for Pete’s sake. His chastisement was strong, but friendly – “you haven’t written anything.”
We are doing well, actually. December was torrid (separate entry about the family doings), but wonderful. We are still making many small adjustments, the kind that Susan Smith correctly observed were the things you never think about. For example, you loose depth perception, and you also lose some sense of texture with things.
Or with jumbles of things. I have this little tray inside my top dresser drawer. I put my pocket contents in the tray at night. My wallet, keys, pens, coins, knife, coins, handkerchief, etc. There are also odds and ends of similar things that reside in the tray on a temporary (or more permanent) basis. Things like a shoehorn, comb, other pens, scattered coins, stray receipts, nail clippers, etc.
At any rate, things in that tray get jumbled together, and without a decent perception of depth / relief, it gets more difficult to know what I am looking at.
Oh well, in time. I just have to remind myself occasionally that I really do have a lot of blessings. I do have sight. I am generally healthy and lucid. And all indications are that at least for now there is no melanoma.
This week I start the next round of follow-up visits. First the ocularist, then back to MD Anderson in Houston the front end of February, and finally a visit with my local ophthalmologist later in the month. Regarding the MD Anderson visit, I am operating under the assumption that no news is good news. We had a lot of tests in November. Those results went to Houston, and I have heard nothing back.
That’s all for now.
God bless.