(Giving "The Machine" its due - a picture of the "Da Vinci" Robot - the same type that was used during the removal of my left kidney)


Time flies by, doesn’t it? I has been almost already a week ago, when I had my surgery done. Well, I’m still wearing might hospital gown. I love that thing, it’s extremely practical plus it just adds on perfectly to the whole image of a suffering patient. Hehehe, I know, I’m evil and sinister. We had actually some snow yesterday but it seems to melt away now. I had considered getting up and dressed to at least trying to shovel the walkway free, but a sneeze and the subsequent pain reminded me of the fact that my abdomen might not necessarily appreciate the idea of moving snow around. Secondly, I highly doubt that Ann would’ve let me out of the house. It’s hard for me to see her running around all over the place trying to keep up with errands, the girl’s schedules, the household and now even - since I’m incapacitated – the chores that I take care of under normal circumstances. After all, she is a cancer patient, too and it hurts me to see her exhausting herself every day over and over – while I sit on the couch like a schmuck. So yesterday I attempted to bring downstairs the light mattress I was using for one night when I came back from New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Hospital - and surely enough Ann yelled at me, and rightfully so. Well, here is my plan; she will leave the house in about 20 minutes from now and this is when I will seize my opportunity to at least vacuum the first floor and get the newspapers ready for tomorrow’s recycling pickup – but don’t tell her. :-) Speaking of newspapers: did you happen to read the New York Times article in yesterday’s issue regarding the costs of chemotherapy in cases where the effect will only result in a few more months to keep a patient alive, yet, the associated costs are astronomical? This is actually an interesting question, a typical dilemma. On one hand I do agree with those who vehemently argue to no make such minimally effective therapies available, or more correctly stated, not make the insurance companies paying for it. On the other hand, I’m not sure how I would feel if such chemotherapy would be the only option to keep my wife alive for a few more months – I guess I would see the situation very differently.
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