Met w Dr Margolin today, status OK

I'm a guy that has been an excessive sweater all my life, and the most uncomfortable thing I'm experiencing right now is perspiration. The Doc says it's probably my body trying to find any way it can to pass fluids out and since the liver is a bit short circuited it's doing it through that method. It can also be steroid dosage, so we'll play with that a bit, plus play with the diuretic dosage. There is fluid retention in my abdomen and we may go in an remove some of it after the holidays. "Only takes a minute and a big needle" she says :-D




When I was in Jr. High I started building things. Plastic car and airplane models were a favorite, and I took wood shop, too. One project was building a model sailboat and then at the end of the year all the woodshop students met for a city-wide "Model Yacht Regatta", which I am proud to say I won (as if that lovely photo hadn't tipped you to that already). The next year ('59 I think) I went for larger scale and built a Soap Box Derby Racer. What a grand project – big slabs of wood and masonite and nuts and bolts – all a kid could want. The rules said the car was to be the product of the kids, with only safety related things being done by an adult. That suited me fine and the sleek Fred Flintstone lines clearly show no adult involvement in speedy “Day and Night Market #3”. What a surprise when I showed up at the start! A lot of sleek products came out of the backs of station wagons it occurred to me some of these cars were not “primarily” build by 13 and 14 year olds. Didn’t matter. It was swell fun, and even more fun running it down the dirt alley behind my house until it self-destructed ! .