Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Signs of Improvement

    While it is sometimes difficult to discern improvement on a day-to-day basis, Amy is definitely doing better this week than last.  She has been spending more time out of bed than in bed during the day, is joining us more regularly for meals, is taking phone calls again and is gradually getting more involved in…

  • Dances with Coyotes

    Our yard appears to have been adopted by a coyote, who is spending more of his or her time taking meals by our compost heap.  On the one hand, I enjoy the prospect of being so close to this animal, and I’m sure I’m being influenced, in part, by memories of the movie Dances with…

  • Social Networking in Seattle

    There are two events in the next two weeks that may be of interest to local social networkers.  The  MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest is hosting a dinner panel on "Two Degrees of Separation – How Social Network Technology is Connecting Us for Money, Jobs, and Love" next Wednesday evening, October 19, at the…

  • Delicious Ambiguity

    A scheduling mistake at the hospital today resulted in an extra long wait before seeing the phlebotomist for a CBC test, but there was, as so often happens, a silver lining: Amy and I used the time to stroll through the courtyard and see the Red Doors created by various local artists to support Gilda’s…

  • iPods, Soma, and Turning On, Tuning In, Dropping Out

    Alex Pang has written an insightful and provocative article entitled "From iPod to ourpod: Will it become a more social machine" in the Mercury News, in which he talks about the evolution of personal music technologies (including transistor radios, Sony Walkmans, and portable CD players) that have enabled us to carry our music with us. …

  • A Boost

    Amy was feeling extremely weak yesterday, one might almost say anemic.  We went into the hospital for her bloodwork armed with plenty of reading and listening material, expecting that she would need a blood transfusion.  Her hermatocrit count had actually gone up, from 26% to 28%, since she’d been in the hospital, and so a…

  • Home Again

    Amy was discharged from the hospital today, and is resting relatively comfortably in her own bed.  Last night was particularly trying for her, with little or no sleep, but her blood counts are holding steady, her fever has not returned, and her doctor was willing to let her come home.  Before leaving, she went to…

  • A Ray of Sunshine

    Just as I was leaving Amy’s room tonight, a ray of sunshine broke through the mostly cloudy and rainy skies we’ve been having for the past several days, lighting up the nearby hillside.  There was very little sunshine inside at the time, as Amy’s ordeal drags on for yet another day, but she called us…

  • Too Blessed to be Stressed

    On the way to the hospital this afternoon, I passed a church whose marquis broadcast the message "Too blessed to be stressed".  While I can’t say I wasn’t feeling stressed when I read this message, I was feeling very blessed, and I took a mini stress vacation as I continued the drive, pondering the wisdom…

  • Taking Advantage of Some Hospitality

    Amy started running a fever this afternoon, and it was close enough to the end of regular office hours that we went to the emergency room to have her examined.  Her fever reached a level of 103.5 (F) before it started coming down (Tylenol to the rescue).  A blood test revealed that she was suffering…