1. I wrote notes about each of the women introduced in the early chapters of Lost Girls and am keeping them a bit straighter in the next section of the book as they enter into the world of escorting and prostitution. It's troubling reading about the instability of these women's lives as they grew up and how, in their twenties, they turn to sex work to try to stabilize their lives financially. Also troubling is to read how whatever temporary stability they might create through this work is so readily undermined, either by their own actions or by things outside their control. Knowing that each of these women will eventually be discovered as a corpse on the southernmost beach and marsh land of Long Island makes reading the desperate conditions of their lives and employment all the more disturbing.
2. I returned to the Fitness Center today and had a great experience. I exercised on two machines for a total of just over fifty minutes. On the cross training machine, I set the machine at a higher level than I ever have since the surgery and I felt no discomfort and came away thinking I could have set it even higher. I always pedal at Level 1 on the recumbent bike and did so again today.
It was a motivating session.
3. A couple more blood test results came in. For now, at least, the reduction of the dosage of my immunosuppressive drugs is working to deal with the two viruses (BK and CMV) that revealed themselves in the past two or three weeks. The results I read today and yesterday reported no detection of the BK virus and such a low level of the CMV virus that it's considered by the transplant team as negative. I'll continue to be tested for these viruses. They'd like to see this good news recur a few weeks in a row.
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