1. It's kind of odd.
Coeur d'Alene and the Kootenai Health (I've been calling it Kootenai Medical -- oh, well) are, at most, just 35 to 45 minutes away from our house. Both of my appointments, one on Thursday and the other on Friday, were positive. On Monday, it'll be ten months since I had transplant surgery and aside from somewhat high calcium, slightly elevated glucose, protein appearing in my urine, mildly high blood pressure at times, and needing to lose some pounds, my post-transplant health is really good. I feel great. I can work on remedying the not unexpected and not alarming problems I just listed.
My lungs and respiratory system are also stable and Dr. Jespersen no longer needs to regularly monitor me.
All in all, I'm in very good shape.
And, yet, ha! -- these short trips and these appointments, combined with some running around a little bit in CdA, left me very tired.
So I took it easy today.
2. I worked word puzzles.
I finished watching the Sherlock Holmes movie, The Sign of the Four.
I returned to our audible account and listened to Stephen Fry read the long last chapter of the book The Sign of the Four.
I napped.
Copper joined me and he initiated more physical contact with me than he ever has before.
I did two loads of laundry.
I enjoyed my rest, the genius of Arthur Conan Doyle, the added genius of Stephen Fry, and I enjoyed noting the way the movie version of The Sign of the Four was based on Doyle's story, but became its own piece of work, telling a similar story, but not the same one.
Which did I enjoy more? The book or the movie?
No verdict.
I never respond that question.
I had a lot of fun enjoying them both.
3. When I was in Eugene, I confessed to Michael, Jeff, and Margaret that I found it painful, when in Kellogg, to listen to Deadish, Jeff's radio show, because of the great pleasure it gives me to listen to Jeff's show in Eugene, with Jeff, at his house.
Jeff and I relish these rare occasions when we can sit in his study and enjoy the music he selected. When I was with him on Thursday, Feb 27, his show, which he records on Sundays before sending it in to KEPW-FM, focused for two hours on a thrilling Zero show from February of 1995. Jeff and I went to a bunch of Zero shows together 30+ years ago and not only was the music superb, so were the memories.
After I made my confession, Michael, via an impression of Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now, told me that when I was in Kellogg listening to Jeff's show, I was also in Eugene -- his implication was I was there in a mystical way -- and I decided right then that I was going to listen to Jeff's show from Kellogg, let myself be transported in spirit to Eugene, to Jeff's study, and feel not the pain of separation, but the good feelings of fellowship.
And that's what I did this evening.
Jeff played an ingenious blend of music performed live in different venues in early March. He played live music from 1964. 1970. 1972. 1981. He played the Black Mountain Boys, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Pink Floyd, and probably more and he eventually played some great tunes performed by the Grateful Dead.
Jeff then played his after show, thirty minutes of unscheduled music, and tonight the bonus music featured Tim Buckley in March, 1967 in the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village.
I was unfamiliar with Tim Buckley and this introduction to his music was a blast to listen to.
Not only did I thoroughly enjoy the music, but I surrendered to the mystical reality that I could be in Kellogg and Eugene simultaneously.
It worked!
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