Okay, brought firewood in, got stove started -- even have a piece of the calzone left.

Just talked to Bob Frost at The Press Room session and reported in.

Gotta bring in more wood, but not til my feet warm up -- "shovelled" the inch or so of snow off deck & steps, too. Sabine (mature lady cat) is demanding attention.

I don't know what else I can add to what I posted when I got home a bit ago -- I'll call Tom later. He's in the capable hands of a nurse named Betty.

He's FEELING fine -- curmudging about the alerts in the ER, had a cheeseburger ("not bad") for lunch (fat free mayo, prolly fat free cheese) but wouldn't eat the chicken noodle soup (low sodium) and tapioca pudding -- so I did. I think he's mostly BORED. Mostly what we did today was wait...and wait...and wait...

Yes, I am concerned that he's been seen multiple times in the past two months by at least 4 doctors (primary care, cardiologist, vascular guy, plus The Voice Center) and has had a hideous wet cough (complicated by the gap in his vocal cords) for at least a month and a half and no one has seemed concerned about it -- now they think it's pneumonia. And they've kept putting off his defib battery (it's close to 6 years old -- doctors at Mass General expressed doubt about it in October). It's as if each specialist can only see his specialty -- and even his primary care guy doesn't seem to be looking at the whole thing or understand how malaise in one area affects the problems in others. Oh, now, too, they're saying he's got COPD -- and they haven't NOTICED for the past coupla years?!? I know he's been asking about seeing a pulmonary guy since his biopsy on Sept. 4th.

Arghh -- gonna go expend some frustration on bringing in wood.

Linn