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Health update: second biopsy

May 13, 2010

This is a follow-up to my January and February posts. In January I reported that an increase in my PSA would necessitate a prostate biopsy and in February I reported that the biopsy was inconclusive and would require another biopsy in April. In March at the suggestion of our friend Jeff Marker, who has been […]

prostate biopsy

January 26, 2010

It was not fun, but was necessary. The doc must have taken seven or eight tissue samples, and I could feel each incision. Afterward I felt weak and light headed but was able to walk home; on the way I stopped at the Park Slope Sweet Melissa Patisserie on Seventh Avenue and got a chocolate […]

Our Weekend in Washington, DC & northern VA

June 15, 2009

Friday Shoshana was on a Federal panel on emergency evacuation & I had lunch w/writer/blogger @vboykis. We spent Shabbat & Sunday morning with Ann Hollender Schwartz and her family including her sister Judy Hollender Tipton (childhood friends from New Rochelle; the visit felt like reconnecting w/cousins with whom we felt completely comfortable or resuming a […]

travel

January 29, 2009

Parking place drove us straight to the terminal. Checked our luggage curbside. Flight was noisy but OK–excellent seats (emergency exit seat with empty space in front of me), only two and a half hours. At Jacksonville airport our luggage was on the conveyor belt when we arrived, and Alamo upgraded us to a Chrysler 300. […]

Our vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner and weekend plans

November 27, 2008

Our siblings and parents all had other plans this year, so we hosted our own vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner.

Friday to do list & health update

October 30, 2008

1) Call plumber about faulty heating zone and thermostat. 2) Shop for travel (airfare, hotel & car rental) for late January/early February trip to Jacksonville. 3) Start practicing Torah trope for 01/31/09. 4) Put candy near front door for trick or treaters. 5) Try to continue staying horizontal as much as possible for final two […]