It all started around November, 2023, after visit to the ER to find out why I had fainted for no reason. (Spoiler…it is still unknown.) After a head CT scan it was recommended that I visit an ENT which I did, and after another head scan, was sent to the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland to be seen by the head Rhinologist.
Commentary
This was the original category for journalistic writing for the first of Ginny’s photo classes. I kept it up as a journal while taking some of her other classes. The subheadings were class topics of various other classes I attended. There is quite a span of time when I didn’t add anything here, and most of the photos for her classes were printed—I have piles of them. This category used to be called “Photo Classes” because the posts were more like a journal. I made this category into one of the subheadings under the “Photo Classes” heading. Some of this writing is sickeningly personal and totally not newsworthy.
Back in Seattle Again
It was kind of fun being in Seattle for those six weeks. It would have been more fun if I had kept up my strength. I was afraid to walk four blocks to the Safeway by the third week. I just didn’t have the stamina or the muscles. I was very surprised at myself actually.
Recovering at Laelie’s
I didn’t go home right away. After “graduation day” at Proton, Laelie and Chris picked me up with all my stuff and took me to her house where I spent a few weeks. It might have been two weeks. I tried out online exercises, picking out the ones on my iPad that only lasted 10 minutes. When I felt a little better I went for the 20 minute ones. Spent most of the time knitting.
My Sister Died
Some time before morning she slipped away after a long illness. Yes cancer. She would have been 78 years old this September 8, 2023. I think I will write an obituary soon.
In 2021…
…not in any particular order, there was rain, there was fog, there were early morning and late night dog walks, Mikela’s wedding, knitting, dog on the couch, taking photos out my windows, taking photos on dog walks, Maine Fiberarts, Thanksgiving with the family. And today there was Christmas.
Finding Feather
It wasn’t long until I found another dog. It was a year ago today, well, really a year ago on Election Day. Won’t ever forget that day. Although I do still miss Tippy and shed a little tear when I see photos of him. He was such a photo-bomber, in so many photos uninvited. I was tipped off about a possible older puppy by my friend Amy,
Tippy in 14 years of photos…
There are image galleries linked to each of these squares. All the images in the galleries are linked to large-sized slide shows if you have a lot of time on your hands.
R.I.P. Tippy
(March 6, 2006 – August 24, 2020)
It’s silly, in a way, to write this. Probably no one will read it, and if they do, he’s just another dog in the life. He was just another dog in my life too, but he rose above the other dogs somehow. I didn’t plan it, and I didn’t look at him and say, “You are going to be with me for 14 years and we are going to leave Maine together and go to the West coast.” I never said that, but we did and he was kind of the thread tethering me to that other life, the one that’s gone, he was the only living piece of it left and now he’s gone too.