Interesting Career Happenings and Health Updates

I can only hint at the interesting career happenings (this is the downside to public journaling) but it's all good. Or gonna be. It's weird. I'm writing this book/blog and totally comfortable laying it all out there. For some ridiculous reason, however, it never occurred to me that the lack of inhibition would cross the personal/professional barrier...until today.

I am who I am everywhere I go, but I usually ease work people into the true, authentic me in my full glory. This blog has erased that easing-in process. No more wading into the shallow end. If you're all out there, you can't pull yourself back in on a case-by-case basis. It's all out, or all in. I guess I'm all out. And, you know what? As frightening as that seems, it's kind of a relief. Here I am. Take me or leave me.

The health updates (mine and Tim's) are mixed.

First Tim: I realized today that I never wrote about how Tim did not, in fact, need a lung biopsy, and he was ultimately diagnosed with atypical pneumonia that was initially resistant to antibiotics. He is back at home and back at work. PHEW! (Thank you God/Goddess/Universe.) I realized I never provided that update when I saw Bond Cindy Bond this morning and she asked about him. (Her name is not a typo. When I first met mi amiga, Cindy, one of our WBUR colleagues who crushed on her used to play off the James Bond introduction).

Now, my health update: I'm having some medication toxicity issues. I'm still fine--you can ask Cindy. There's still no slurring or foot dragging. I was tempted to tease her by limping and drooling into the room since we haven't laid eyes on each other for over a year, but I spared her my sick MS humor. The neuro and I will have to determine whether the positive outcome of the meds outweighs the bad effects on my liver and possibly switch to something else. Hopefully, it won't be one of the 5 day a week , big needle injections. I am already one big bruise and summer is just around the corner.