Near-Term Objectives

Following my first surgery on June 15, I recovered sufficiently to meet the surgeon's criteria for withstanding removal of 68 percent (a bit more than he may have anticipated) of my liver on August 3. On June 14, I weighed approximately 172 pounds, five pounds or so more than I might ideally weigh to get comfortably in most of my trousers. On August 2, I weighed 161 pounds. Since the surgery on August 3, my weight has ballooned as high as about 196 pounds and was 193 pounds this morning.

I have a couple of primary near-term objectives: to stay home and to start thinking more clearly. The medical team is working not to readmit me overnight to MSK (the team is having to deal with two or three problems). Meanwhile, I am struggling to regain enough power of concentration to hold a thought firmly in my grasp from the beginning of a sentence to its end.