Just to let you know that I am indeed on the mend. However, I’m still very much in recovery mode. I need to spend most of the day napping. Whenever I think I’m back to normal, I overdo it and get slammed the next day. I’m still thinking/hoping that I will be able to stand up on a stage and give a keynote speech in Portland, OR, two weeks from today. I’m barely two weeks past my last treatment, and if I get better at this rate, I ought to be OK. It’s frustrating to not be able to work, to garden, to walk my dogs. I need to remind myself that taking care of myself is my full time job now. I continue to receive wonderful messages of support, music mixes, food, cards and letters, from the communities I belong to around the world. I continue to be buoyed by that support.

I hope to check in here on the eve of my departure for Portland to tell y’all that I’m not only back on Earth, but back among the fully functional.