1. On Saturday, Carol, Christy, and I will head up the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River on a sibling outing. All I really know that we'll do is stop at Base Camp Coffee for caffeinated drinks to rev us up for our odyssey.
I told Stu our plan and he asked me where the coffee stand is located and when I told him it's just off the freeway on the road heading up the river, it reminded me of Friday, May 10, 2024.
When Ed, Diane, Stu, Joni, and I piled into Diane's rig (Ed drove) to journey to Trout Creek, MT that day to check out a vacation rental we were considering, we stopped at Base Camp Coffee, well, at my request. I was jonesing for a latte.
May 10, 2024. A milestone day as it turned out.
I'd received a call on May 9th that a kidney might come available, and I knew when I joined my friends to go to Montana that the pros wouldn't know until Saturday if it would be my transplant day.
So, I could go to Montana with a mind free of concern that I might get called to go to Spokane on Friday, May 10th.
I had a great day in Montana and, as it turned out, the transplant happened on May 11 and the procedure snuck into the first half hour of May 12th.
I looked at my blog posts from those days and, still, it gob smacks me how smoothly everything went, how I went into the ICU very early Sunday morning and by Tuesday, I'd been out of ICU a day and the pros discharged me, permitted me to stay in Kellogg, and the process of frequent blood work and appointments at Sacred Heart got underway, soon slowed down a bit, and, I never had single serious problem from May 11th forward.
2. I am not familiar at all with the 19th century composer Robert Schumman, but he was the focus of today's "Exploring Music" program (following three hours of Colleen Wheelahan's program on WUOL). I enjoyed Bill McGlaughlin's hour-long introduction to some of Schumman's symphonies and I enjoyed learning some tidbits about Schumman's life.
Tonight's episode of "Exploring Music" brought this five-day focus on symphonies to an end. More such past episodes focused on other composers await my attention in the program's archives.
3. For a few unremarkable reasons that need no elaboration, Ed and I decided not to go to The Lounge this afternoon like we usually do on Friday afternoons. If all works out with each of us getting back to the Silver Valley tomorrow at a time that works, our plan is to plop down at The Lounge's premier plank and enjoy a couple cold ones and yak for a while about what's happening in the world, both near and far.
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