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Here’s another view of the dragon from yesterday’s post.  Only this time, LRN4’s taming it.  Observe the crazed look in the eye.  Ride ’em, dragongirl!  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken at Dorney Park, and part of my famous Machinery and Statue series.

Very quiet day.  LRN4 is starting to have some symptoms that indicate engraftment is starting to take place.  It’s a pretty uncomfortable situation for her, but it’s fantastic news anyway.  We’re excited.  The discomfort won’t last forever, but the healing will.

It’s LRN4’s birthday eve!  Tomorrow is going to be a great day.

I’ve been thinking the last couple of days about making one of these.  I don’t really need it and that kit is outrageously expensive.  In the original Make magazine article on the plane, they said it could be done for about a hundred dollars.  So I would buy the parts myself wherever I could find them for a good price.  I don’t need it, though.  And I’m not sure I could find anyplace around here to fly it.  The attraction is that it’s simple and cheap to repair when I crash it.  And it’s a machine.

But it might be more fun to make a robot.  Or maybe to get a couple of old bicycles, fix them up nicely, and use them to ride around the hospital campus while we’re here in the hospital.  But I think I’d probably enjoy the airplane or the robot more.  There’s no place for bicycles in our garage.  What do you think, Loyal Readers?

Struggling with work.  Can’t get deep into anything.  I keep hoping that’ll happen when we get out of the hospital.  Don’t know, though.  I need to decide what I really want to do and start doing it.  Sigh.

And that’s it for today.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: yogurt spill!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a dragon statue from one of the treehouses at Longwood Gardens.  Very intimidating.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken last June, and part of my famous Statue and Garden series.

Another quiet day.  It looks like my package from Amazon arrived at my cousin’s house today.  That’s a great thing because I have a certain use for it the day after tomorrow.  I believe there may be another package coming from somewhere in Virginia in the near future too.  My kind cousin Betsy is planning to bring anything that shows up with her when she, her husband Bob, and a very special treat or two make their appearance.  Act surprised, LRN4!

LRN5 and family are coming in two days!  I can’t wait.  Don’t yet know what time to expect them, but I don’t think it will be before mid-afternoon at the earliest.  They’re driving down from the Bay Area and they’re not normally too keen on pre-dawn departures.  We’ll see.

I’m enjoying being in the hotel.  Very relaxing.  Very refreshing.  Very expensive.  But I don’t care.  I like the Residence Inn.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: schnitzel smuggler!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a sculpture here at the City of Hope. It’s . . . umm . . . interesting. I’ll leave its interpretation to my Loyal Readers. Looks kind of like a bunch of gigantic bottle openers to me. Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Statue series.

Fine weekend. It was sunny and very hot all weekend here in Los Angeles. I wouldn’t know, though, because I was inside the air conditioned hospital all weekend. Not that I’m complaining about that, of course. Fortunately, it cools off enough at night for Betsy and Bob’s non-air conditioned house to cool off comfortably.

LRN4 is doing pretty well. We’re just sitting around the hospital waiting for her to get well enough to get out of here. Kind of slow going today. I decided today that I really need to leave Betsy and Bob’s house, both for their own good and for mine. It’s been nearly two months already, and we all need our privacy back. I’m moving to the Residence Inn tomorrow. Staying there until Sunday and then going to the (much less expensive) Hampton Inn. Judging by their addresses, they appear to be next door to each other, so the move on Sunday will be easy.

LRN5 and her family will be here on Friday. I can’t wait to see them. It’s pretty clear she needs the break from work and I really like hanging out with them all. Should be a great weekend. They’ll be back the following weekend, which should also be great.

And that’s about it for today. I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: stolen penguin!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a nighttime view of the fountain in front of the main medical building here at the City of Hope.  Slightly crooked (hey, it was nighttime) and possibly slightly fuzzy (see above) Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Statue series.

It was a very successful weekend!  LRN4 has finished chemotherapy.  She got the first massive dose on Saturday and the second and last one today.  The transplant is only three days away!  I can’t wait.

She’s been doing very well, all things considered.  She was really doped up on Saturday, which, when combined with the extreme amounts of fluid they were giving her, made it a very tough day.  But it could have been worse.  Much worse.  She’s doing great!  She snapped back into it sometime in the afternoon.  There’s been a bit of nausea over the last few days, but it’s amazing how little.  She amazes me.

Otherwise, life is quiet.  The kids are all maintaining – some better than others right now, but they’ll all be just fine.  We’re needing to concentrate essentially all our efforts on LRN4’s recovery right now, so that’s what we’re doing.  She’ll be back to giving to others in a little while.

And this post was all about LRN4 again.  My Loyal Readers will just have to deal with it.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: photobombing sloth!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a pretty hostile-looking statue.  I think it’s supposed to be Joan of Arc or somebody like that.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone cam, taken at Bryn Athyn in Pennsylvania last year, and part of my famous Statue series.

They had some really amazing medieval pieces at that place.

Wow.  Lots of things have happened.  Greetings from Duarte, California!  We got here on March 23rd.  LRN4 is comfortably ensconced in a room at the City of Hope.  I spend my days at the hospital and my nights at my cousin Betsy and my cousin-in-law Bob’s house.  Thanks, B&B!  I don’t know what we’d do without you.

LRN4 has had one more round of chemotherapy so far.  It completed a little more than a week ago.  We’ll get the results in about six days.  In the meantime, she’s taking another chemo pill every day that attacks her specific gene mutation.  The best case date for her stem cell transplant is about the first of May.

They checked all three of LRN4’s siblings to see if any of them is a good match to be the donor.  They’ve ruled out her brother Robin and her sister Candy.  So far, Melanie looks to be a match, but we have to wait for the final results to know for sure.

That’s the sum total of my life right now.  So I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting Morrowlife Employment Agency job opportunity: chimp cops!

See you tomorrow.