21+ hour, 4+ min ago  (327+ words) I'm up early on my first full day after getting out of the UCSF adult cancer hospital late Saturday afternoon. Meda, as well as her sister and husband are, as far as I can tell, still asleep in their beds....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (457+ words) Bessie is calico #2. She joined our household a little over a year after Ms. Kali. Unlike our other three cats, she apparently didn't spend much if any time living outdoors in a cat colony. She appears to have been someone's…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (535+ words) I've been exploring an unusual extreme of the culinary spectrum this week. Immediately after my surgery on Monday, I was hooked up to IV ports In each arm that, as I uderstand, delivered pain control miedictions, antibiotics, fluids, and very…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (122+ words) I brought my five year-old i Pad Pro on this trip, but didn't bring it to the hospital with me. I usually rely on it when traveling, leaving my laptop at home. So since getting out of surgery, I've relied…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (370+ words) We missed grabbing the brass ring. The earlier imaging, both in Honolulu and here at UCSF, appeared to show a small obstruction in the Y where two bile ducts come out of the liver and join into a common duct…...

6+ day, 46+ min ago  (384+ words) The good news is that the robot-assisted surgery was done with minimally invasive procedures, and I've been resting comfortably in a private hospital room since late Monday afternoon. But one of several the "known unknowns" that could not be fully…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (138+ words) ilind. net San Francisco. Just south of market street. Discover more from i L i n d 3 thoughts on "The view from our room" We're not on the beach. We're not quite a quarter mile up Kealaolu from the beach…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (189+ words) The cats are making a special appearance this morning, carefully set up to appear online on Friday morning, although Meda and I were scheduled to arrive in San Franisco the day before. This is my favorite of the week. It's…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (523+ words) I'm choosing to stay at arms length from digging into current events and issues that I would normally be eager to investigate. Somewhat fragile health is frustrating, and I've decided to reduce the stress and anxiety by just putting these…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (146+ words) Years ago, probably about the time I was graduating from high school, my mother gave me a recently published book: "The Journal of James Yonge [1647-1721]: Plymouth Surgeon." This James Yonge was a naval surgeon whose journal provides an insider's peek…...