Done Since 2024-01-07

Actually a pretty good week, I think. No disasters, not much discomfort, a good follow-up appointment with my medical oncologist (who prescribed potassium chloride pills, because I'm a little low on it), and a visit with my son R! Kind of a working visit, since I was (belatedly) delivering a pile of boxes including stuff from Mom's apartment that's been sitting in the garage for the last two years. But I got to see his apartment (predictably, a disaster area), and we had a good conversation while Molly was charging in the parking lot of the conveniently-located strip mall across the street.

Which in turn required signing up for yet another charging network. These didn't even take credit cards -- you needed their phone app. Sheesh!

On the gripping hand, I got a few more appointments scheduled (including pelvic floor PT), and registered for a (virtual) cancer support group.

A couple of very good links about mortality, Sunday and Tuesday. The Sunday one is about the loss of a cat::

I do not know what happens when someone dies. I have beliefs, but I do not know. Oddly, my greatest comfort comes from my physics hobbying, and not from religion. Energy cannot be destroyed. It can transition from one state to another, but it can never be permanently destroyed. Science says that No Tail is still there. In one state or another, he still exists, and someday my energy and his will meet again. Perhaps it will be in a hundred years as a bit of warm sunlight on a grassy hill in Kansas. Perhaps it will be in a thousand years as a piece of music on a world that has yet to be discovered.

I will see you again, No Tail. In the clearing, at the end of the path.

Tuesday's is mathematical, about Graham's Number (quote in the notes). Sunday's version of an afterlife is a lot more comforting, actually.

( Notes & links, as usual )