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Life Absurd Beautiful

At Barnes and Noble in Norlfok reading Louise Gluck and The Walking Dead Absurd companions While my wife -- fifty today -- buys clothes at Kohls Lymphoma on hold Military jets fly in distant blue Grateful to be alive  Living in a Spring trailer Ireland in the Summer read Seamus Heaney soon Poets must suffer from love and loss (Like a psalmist's cup overflowing) I know I do, but I'm not a poet

Health Update Revisited

February 10, 2015 I'm sitting in a hospital waiting room -- waiting for my oncologist to visit me.  My thoughts are all over the map.  I'm back at work after six months of chemo plus another two and a half month safety/recoup net. So my thoughts are of work, family, faith, IV, blog, fellow sufferers and then some. I tried to hotspot my phone to my iPad to get some work done. Failed. I tried to purchase a day of Internet here at the St. Catharines General. Failed. Shouldn't there be a free internet perk for cancer patients :) ? Maybe it's a sign that I shouldn't be working. The problem with my line of work is that as a consultant solely responsible for my domain, what I don't get done on a day like this doesn't magically go away -- it'll be waiting for me when I go back to work this afternoon. Blood pressure is high. I can't figure out if that's a systemic bad thing or an occasion-specific thing (I don't have a pick line so I have an