8 April 2021

     I started Jed Perl's Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976.  I read book one of this biography in the fall of 2019 when I was death bed sick.  I recall being disappointed that I would not live long enough for the second half to be published.

     It came out last year, and the researchers who create cancer drugs and treatments, and the medical team at UW gave me enough time to read it.

     Well, start reading it.  Never count your chickens before they hatch.

     I spent another twelve-hour day in shackles and chains, as I went to UW for interthecal chemotherapy. 

     I learned I am neutropenic, meaning my neutrophils (the subset of white blood cells that are the first to attack invading virus and bacteria) are terribly low making me highly vulnerable to infections.  Plus the nausea is pretty bad.