Moving on..

Robert picked up my virus and has been miserable. I took him to
the doctor. Our doctor was off and the young doctor who we saw
was rather strange. He prescribed an antibiotic, because or
Robert's CLL and also some cough pills. Even though I said we
still had plenty of cough medicine left that Dr. Haimes had given
me. He claimed these were better. Later, when Robert read the
fine print we decided to throw them away. The side affects were
horrendous, if they occurred. So far they haven't.

I have finished my internship at Jared Polis' office and was to
meet with him yesterday; then he was to call, yesterday. Neither
happened. I had given him information about the Canadian health
care system and some other things on Long Term Health Care and
wanted to discuss these things with him. I can only gather that
they are not on his priority list.

The weather, for the most part, this week has been lovely. I
have cleaned out the front gardens; now need to fertilize them
and plant some annuals and a few perennials.

We leave Wednesday, the 13th of May, for California. We'll
attend Liza's graduation, visit Rebecca, Ryan, Rochelle and the
Wheelons. Santa Barbara has been under siege with huge wild
fires in the mountains. Fortunately, the Wheelons are down low
and safe.

I had Mohs surgery a couple of weeks ago for a basal cell cancer
on my forehead. It has healed up, but some of the bruises are
still apparent.

Big snow!

The LENA project meeting was really interesting. They are making
great strides in helping small children with autism. Also, their
research emphasizes how important it is to talk to babies, 0 to 3
or 4 years of age.

The Obama administration has released some of the memos that
allowed the CIA to think it was legal to torture. I hope they do
more than just release memos.

We had about 40 inches of snow which compacted down to a glacier
of icy snow of about 20 inches. Robert has worked for days to
get the cars liberated and succeeded in time for me to got to
Jared's office. In addition to the problems with the snow we
were without power for quite sometime. Our Solar power worked
beautifully and kept us up and running. All except our DSL
connection and then our phone connection, too, went out. All was
working until about a half hour ago. Now the power is gone
again.

I have finished the first draft of the handbook for Interns and
given it to Stuart. I hope to finish it before I finish being an
Intern. My last day at the office is April 30th. I shall be
working with a group of 7 more people to be a consulting group
for age-related issues.

This past week I have had a series of check-up appointments from
dentist, dermatologist, opthamologist and retinologist. All
except the dermatologist went fine. I will have Moh's surgery
this Tuesday to remove a basal cell from my forehead.

Also,this past week I have been fighting a nasty virus. I
finally went to the doctor on Thursday. He gave me some great
cough medicine and pain pills so I could sleep. I have been
spending the nights in the guest room, but not doing much
sleeping.

Fortunately, I feel fine now and shall have Ariel here tomorrow.