Thank you to my "support group"

The idea of a disease support group has always made me say "no thanks" and I still don't fancy the thought of sitting with a load of other people discussing symptoms.  However, I can't express how grateful I am to the people around me who are propping me up right now.  Susan, of course, is her usual unflappable, patient and understanding self, despite the crap she has to put up with at work.  To have to come home to discover that I have eaten tonight's dinner for lunch can't possibly fill her heart with joy.
I enjoy the regular phone calls from Ithaca where we talk about nothing in particular.  Susan's sister Jean keeps me up to date on what's happening in Texas and shares, just a little, her own experiences with cancer.  Folks at school are, as always, curious and cheerful and put up with my actually answering the traditional greeting of "How are you?" honestly.  I feel I owe it to them to tell them I feel like crap, a bit wobbly, starving or whatever.  No blood counts or stool consistency reports but something a bit closer to the truth than "Fine, thanks."
So to my loose-knit, involuntary support group I offer a million thanks - it really does help.

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  1. PamMarch 3, 2016 at 10:01 AM

    Really really glad you have those people around you John

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  2. AnonymousMarch 5, 2016 at 5:25 PM

    And I'm glad I've got people like you who aren't around but still close. And I still can't rollerskate - how's the chess?

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  3. UnknownMarch 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM

    what i really really want is to understand calculus...a few years ago doing a course i really needed it but managed to fudge it somehow for correct answers....dont think its doable longdistance ....chess ..ho ho ho ho....same as my father in law attempting to teach me backgammon.... i think im still ok on the roller skating though..possibly

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  4. The John MycroftMarch 12, 2016 at 6:07 AM

    If you really want to learn calculus, try a wee book called "How to Ace Calculus". You can get it from Amazon for next to nothing and it really explains it clearly. I believe they should use books like this in high school rather than the $120 tomes they insist on buying and which nobody ever reads. Could run the schools more efficiently and at a fraction of the price. I use the "Dummies" series of books in my robotics classes and encourage the kids to write on them - which better components to use, don't connected pin 8 to ground and so on. They'd get suspended if they did that to a Harvard Press book.

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  5. PamMarch 13, 2016 at 2:43 PM

    Thanks matey I will have a look on Amazon ...I have no problems whatsoever writing notes on text books only books dear to my heart would elicit screams of outrage

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