Comments for Oren's Weblog http://blog.orenblog.org This is where you say something clever Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Back from week 2 of chemo/radiation by Greg Shymko http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1700 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:28:43 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1700 Hi Oren,

I thought I would chime in to send warm wishes and healing thoughts from Seattle. As a former Chicagoan who used to ride my crummy Specialized around town quite a lot, I really recommend riding the boulevards to string together as many of the Olmsted parks as possible on a sunny afternoon. From your end of town: Jackson, Washington, Sherman, McKinley, Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, Grant and home. Or any subset thereof.

I have especially warm memories of watching baseball players at McKinley Park on Sunday afternoons, while eating coconut ice from the Mexican cart vendors.

Get well and get out there!

]]> Comment on Back to the hospital by Cindy http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/20/back-to-the-hospital/#comment-1699 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:22:42 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2848#comment-1699 Bummer….hope ya feel better SOON so you can enjoy your visit with Leo!

]]> Comment on Back to the hospital by RL 'Bob' Morgan http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/20/back-to-the-hospital/#comment-1698 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:22:33 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2848#comment-1698 Yes, sometimes it seems as though the cure is worse than the disease. But hey, on this beautiful day in Seattle I rode my bike on the BGT for the first time in several months. Just a few miles, but it felt, to coin a phrase, fucking fantastic (except for the uphill parts). I know you have many good miles ahead of you.

]]> Comment on Joining a club I wish wouldn’t accept me as a member by Toby Harris http://blog.orenblog.org/2011/12/20/joining-a-club-i-wish-wouldnt-accept-me-as-a-member/#comment-1697 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:42:24 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2694#comment-1697 Just happened to check in on your Chicago life and I see this…I’m a little behind. Sorry to hear about your membership to this club but I’m sure you’ll be kicked out after awhile. According to Facebook, you’re about to go home from the hospital and your dear old Dad is there, and Michele and UC are all taking great care of you! I’m wondering if you got to wear that awesome special mesh mask yet and for how long did they make you wear it. Must be part of the hazing for the club.

Thinking of you and sending you healing vibes and lots of love!

]]> Comment on Back to the hospital by Kaylea http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/20/back-to-the-hospital/#comment-1696 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:32:52 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2848#comment-1696 May your virii always be medically uninteresting!

Hope we can chat soon.

]]> Comment on Back to the hospital by Bob Scheu http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/20/back-to-the-hospital/#comment-1695 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:18:37 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2848#comment-1695 During the decades I have had the privilege to know you I have most appreciated your penetrating tenacity of both intellect and spirit. May you find moments, roses among the thorns, to find within you both the tenderness and the fierceness to best open in your own way to health and healing. Let not time or distance challenge certain truth things: you are known, you are appreciated, you are loved. Carry on, friend.

]]> Comment on Back to the hospital by Mairéad Martin http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/20/back-to-the-hospital/#comment-1694 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:51:38 +0000 https://orensr.wordpress.com/?p=2848#comment-1694 Doesn’t seem fair that you can catch a virus with everything else going on! Hope you are doing better now and enjoying your father’s visit this week.

Thinking of you early and often,
Very Best,

Mairéad

]]> Comment on Back from week 2 of chemo/radiation by pumpkinyaumpkin http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1693 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:18:18 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1693 healing <<<<>>>>

]]> Comment on Back from week 2 of chemo/radiation by Jody Ansell http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1691 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:20:09 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1691 Agreed as with all the above. Especially second Lynda’s suggestion about a massage. One of the best things I did was to have regular cranial-sacral massage while I was going through treatment. It really helped support my general well-being and my body’s ability to accommodate/withstand the side effects of treatment. If interested in trying it, perhaps you can find a practitioner who can see you during the offweek and/or who can come to hospital to work with you. Completely non-invasive, gentle and the results can be astoundingly wonderful! Can be pricey, but, to me, worth every penny and more!

]]> Comment on Back from week 2 of chemo/radiation by Chaike Weber http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1690 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:34:03 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/2012/02/18/back-from-week-2-of-chemoradiation/#comment-1690 I agree with everything above. When you say no appetite does that include ice cream? Seems to me ice cream would be easy on the throat, would keep your weight up and wouldn’t be acidic or constipating.

Hang in there.

Chaike

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