Rodney Warner

Buenos Dios y Muchos Garcias

Journal

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 7:02 PM CDT

Hi Folks!

I hope everyone is well. I've decided to pull the plug on this website and e-mail updates to family and friends. Thankfully, there's not much going on, so not much to put on the website.

I've been home for over two weeks. Things are going well. No problems to speak of and my doctors seem pretty positive. I'm back to eating almost everything I want (but I can't eat anything raw or prepared in a restaurant or store) and my stomach is doing OK. I've started walking around the block and I hope to become more active as time goes on. Basement issues are pretty much resolved, but for the legal issues as to who pays for what.

Doc Miller is at a new hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. I saw him a couple days ago. He seemed far less harried than the last time I saw him at NEMC. He insists I call him if I have any problems and let him know if any hospital employee is not nice to me. I like Doc Miller a lot, but hopefully, I won't have to see him much. I'd ask him out to lunch, if I could go out to lunch.

A while back I wrote a piece on the boredom and physical difficulties I was going through mid-hospitalization. Doc Miller wants a retraction of sorts. Asking a writer for a retraction is like asking a doctor to admit to malpractice. But here goes....

Thankfully, the process was boring. I had no major problems to keep me occupied. Doc Miller warned me it would get boring, but I didn't appreciate his advice (he said he had a patient who kept himself occupied by covering his hospital room walls with pornography). Yes, I felt lousy at the time, but that has passed. With the help of NEMC's staff, I got through a difficult time pretty much unscathed. Those who would see me every day were professional. There are far better ways to spend a month than in a hospital room, but the staff seemed to care about me and were willing to do what they could to help me through. If, God help you, you need an allogeneic bone marrow transplant, have a chat with Doc Miller.

Thank you all for your support. You helped me get through these rough waters. I pray for smooth sailing ahead.

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