10/1/2025

 Wednesday, October 1, 2025

D+330/254/-1209

1867 Karl Marx published "Das Kapital" in Berlin, a description of the capitalist system, its instability, and its tendency to self-destruction

1918 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, captures Damascus from the Turks

1932 Oswald Mosley formed the British Union of Fascists

1946 12 Nazi war criminals were sentenced to death in Nuremberg

1949 People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao Zedong and the Republic of China (Taiwan) formed on the island of Formosa

1955 Jackie Gleason's sitcom "The Honeymooners" debuted on CBS, replacing his variety series

2019 US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was taken to a hospital after suffering a heart attack

2021 US COVID-19 death toll passed 700,000, with daily deaths averaging 1,900 a day

In bed at 9:45, up at 3 with an aching, infected leg, moved to LZB until 4:40, and then to the TV room.  63°, high of 71°, cloudy day ahead    

Meds, etc.  Amoxicillin last night with dinner.  Morning meds and amoxicillin at 5 a.m.   

Yo-Yo.  Yesterday as I sat on the patio, I was glad that I was alive.  This morning, I started the day wishing I were dead.     

I wrote the last sentence at 4 or 5 this morning.  It's now 3:45 p.m. and I'm back in the hospital, readmitted, with the docs perplexed as to what is wrong with my leg/foot, which is worse today than before.  My white blood cell count is near normal, which is what has them scratching their heads.  Is this a cellulitis problem, a lymphedema problem, a combination, or what?

Lots of finger sticks, blood draws, IV infusions, "vitals" takings, physical examinations,  information gathering, and (mostly) tender, loving care all day and evening.  I finally got to have lunch in the midafternoon and then forgot to order dinner until it was too late.  Geri spent most of her day with me, with a break in the middle to pick up her hearing aid at Costco. 

FB photo posted by meteorologist Sam Kuffel, formerly of Channel 58,  fired for posting Instagram posts berating Elon Musk's Nazi salutes.  My comment to her:

Always happy to see your posts.  I especially enjoy photos of beautiful skies and stunning cloud formations.  They remind me to look up each day, to be aware of all the beauty in the skies above me every day, bright ones, dark ones, sunny ones, and stormy ones.  They remind me to look around, at the trees and bushes, homes and other structures that have their own beauty, and to look down at the ground at my feet where there is more beauty, now including many multi-colored fallen leaves.  You remind me to pay some attention to all that beauty, not just to the distressing stuff that competes for my attention.  Thank you.