It’s July 4, which here in the USA is Independence Day. I’m catching up on email and bills this morning, and we’ll go to the reservoir later today to enjoy the hot sun and cool water.
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, so here’s a quick update:
I survived the EGD procedure a couple weeks ago. I don’t even remember it, because they gave me the amnesia drug and lots of narcotics. I was sleepy and nearly incoherent the rest of the day after the procedure, but the next day was Bike to Work day, so I had to go. Unfortunately, the test was “inconclusive” since I still had food remains in my stomach from breakfast that day. So, now I’m scheduled to go back in next week, for a repeat of that plus a colonoscopy. The preparation for that is even worse than for the EGD (I won’t go into the gory details, but you can read about them here), and I won’t be able to eat anything the day before the procedure or the day of the procedure. So far, I think this whole thing (unexplained anemia and associated side effects) has cost my insurance company about $3000, and we have only figured out what is not wrong with me, not what is.
Bike to Work Day was nice. Several of us at Polycom rode, though not nearly as many as when I worked in Boulder. I got a free breakfast and a t-shirt out of the deal.
Then, last weekend I drove to Nebraska where I interviewed by aunt and cousin about what they remember of my paternal grandparents. This is for a documentary film I’m working on about them. I’ve got lots more footage to shoot and interviews to do, and then a tremendous amount of writing and editing. The project won’t be done until next year sometime, I think.