It's 10AM Sunday and Dick is out doing errands

July 09, 2006 by Meg in Lytton

It's 10AM Sunday and Dick is out doing errands. He feels we have too much to do to go to Meeting for Worship, so I took time to check up on everyone and saw Sue's inquiry about the status of East coast folks. I'll bring you up to date as it has been awhile. I may end up using these entries as a substitute for the diary I never have time to write.

Dick is good, going to NYC on Thursday to present a talk to the Assistive Technology Team of the New York City Public School system. H'll stay with his aunt Nomy, who is in remission from her lung cancer (nonsmall cell cancer-a big achievement for medicine and for her!). One of my patients, whose son sees Dick, was in this week and enthusiastically praised him--I started to get a little jealous!

Callie is back from Zambia safe and sound, with wonderful photos. They did not complete the house they started--not enough cement. Maybe when she has the photos labeled and on line, she can post them on this site with info on how to contribute to Habitat for Humanity there. She was surprised to be greeted at the airport by Will, who came in off the Appalachian trail.

Will had gone back to the trail after his leg wound had healed some. Dick hiked for part of a day with him in northern NJ and said the wound was still not great. Will started to get very lonely, had swollen painful feet from his shoes wearing out and constantly sweating/never cool, just stopped enjoying the experience. So he came off the trail 3 weekends ago, when his parents met him in western Massachusetts. He went back to Boston with them and his leg wound and feet healed quickly. When he got to Phila. and met Callie, she found a big bulls eye rash on the back of his knee.Despite daily tick checks, some little tick bugger had gotten him where he couldn't see. So all that malaise on the Trail that I thought was lonliness for my daughter may have just have been early Lyme disease!! He's actually looking for a job now but is helping in my office to scan old medical records into our computer system so we can store them as and after we renovate.

Julie has started Organic Chem II. Her new boyfriend Alex (different than the old Alex) visited. He went to Wharton and is about to start in an accounting consulting firm in NYC, with lots of international travel. Julie went up last weekend to help him move in. He is from Toledo, Ohio, is very nice and very bright. His mother is a dermatologist. His Dad went to law school, then med school, is a cardiologist in solo practice and is now doing an MBA. It sounds like he wants to get out of medicine (a familiar refrain) to work in pharma consulting.

Dick and I went to visit Dick's mom 2 weekends ago and went to the wonderful Chuhuly exhibit at the NY Botanical Gardens. We took lots of photos and will mail them to you, Sue, to try to entice you to visit us! We also made a quick stop at the Cloisters--I can only do medieval art for a brief time....

My life is busy. Our new office owners are extending a $10,000 credit to us for renovations so we are re-doing the whole place, except not putting in central ac. I am fortunate to have found a wonderful young woman MD who wants to join me in practice. One of our part time nurse practitioners is looking for a full time job with benefits so she can leave the other part of her present job, a professorship where she is no longer happy. This has the potential for improving the quality of my life!

Well, the sunshine beckons so I will close. I hope to work on thank you notes we received after Dad died.

Live long (and happily) and prosper!