This recovery is a slow road. I thought I’d come out of surgery, have a few weeks with catheter as a pal, then I’d kind of teleport directly into health. Well that was “close,” but not exact. It’s a process of approximation. The important things get better, then something goes wrong (big bacterial infections, let’s say, like three times in four weeks, with high fever and inability to think clearly), then we clear that, then things get better. I’m in my 12th post-surgical week now. Then some other lesser thing pops up and cries for attention. [Read more…]

Someone pointed out to me that at our core, each of us humans is a big tube, with a bunch of other systems hanging on the outside. Cake and apples and beer go in one end of the digestive system on a regular basis, and unsightly debris comes out the other on an irregular basis. There are other systems, of course, including nervous, circulatory, urinary, and respiratory systems (among others). But without nutrition, we don’t survive.

Eight weeks out after a major surgery that rearranged my digestive and urinary systems, I’m focusing on getting those two systems back to equilibrium. [Read more…]