Loose Strife

Another in the Ashfield Patrol Log series: 12/22, 9:30 p.m. – After an accident on Spruce Corner Rd., police arrested Dwight Clary, Jr., 35, of Plainfield. He was charged with operating under the influence, operating to endanger and malicious destruction of property after Clary ate pieces of the interior of a Buckland PD cruiser, on […]

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Late last year Laura started taking photographs as a sort of therapeutic activity. She hasn’t been out since November, but I hope she can start up again soon. I’ve decided to sprinkle the blog with regular photos that she’s taken. It’s mostly stuff around the house because she hasn’t gone far for a while. Enjoy. […]

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Quick post: Laura’s CT body scans from Monday were about the same as the ones a month ago. Her bone scan was not informative — which almost certainly means that there was no progression and the remaining sites in the scan are ambiguously either cancer or healing bone. (We’ll confirm later, but not something to […]

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We got maybe six inches of snow this morning after the edge of a Noreaster moved by last night. But it wasn’t hard for us to all get on the road to Northampton before 8. The kids and I dropped Laura at the hospital for another set of CT scans and a bone scan. Then […]

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Naomi has this role playing schtick that I’ve mentioned before. It’s her thing and has been for about a year. It’s delightful to watch. Little House On The Prairie is a favorite. “I’ll be Laura, you can be Pa, Mommy is Ma, and Lily’s not playing.” The last is a running joke in the house […]

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At last, I’ve posted some photos from December. We missed a lot of events — holiday parties, bonfire, and so on. Sometimes I just fall out of the habit. We did resurrect the video camera after months collecting dust, but transferring, editing, and posting video just takes too much time. Some day! My favorite photos […]

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This morning Laura and I (and Naomi) went to see the cardiologist. He listened and discussed her symptoms (lightheadedness, unsteadiness, occasional falling, fainting, low blood pressure, and lots of migraines). Like the rest of the doctors, he thought that everything except the low blood pressure was probably neurological and not symptomatic of a problem with […]

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Administrivia: Some of you want to know when others have commented on posts — a post of particular interest or one that you have commented on. Now when you leave a comment there’s a checkbox that will trigger an email to be sent to you if anyone else writes a comment to the same post. […]

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Another installment of the Ashfield patrol log: Dec 17 – 8:30pm – Report of a doorknob missing from residence on South Street; services rendered.

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Laura’s handling this latest round of chemo extremely well so far. It’s really remarkable. None of the previous nausea/vomiting, malaise, or pain even though, or perhaps because, she’s taking no meds to treat any of these symptoms. Her appetite has returned. Many things taste different, but otherwise no trouble eating. So now Laura’s main issues […]

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