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With cooler weather, I'm feeling a bit more normal: not energetic, but not as drained, disoriented, worried, as I've been for much of the last week. There may be a slightly embarrassing unpredictability about my more volatile reactions which may be slightly out of my control… I do wonder if the stroke has had any…

A day that was fairly normal at the surface, if incredibly tiring: I actually went to the corner store – three bags of food, much needed but almost more than I could carry, changed the bed and did the laundry, took a shower. As that all tailed off this evening… and just before the neighbors…

Very tired and weak today; and a certain amount of confusion, trying to negotiate with messages and phone calls from family and friends. Some of their confusion (as opposed to mine) is understandable; when I was in the hospital a number of my colleagues visited me, and I was talkative and cheerful – at least…

So: the news is – I never had the flu; I had, of all things, a stroke. A stroke which fortunately left me with very little damage; for about two days I had trouble understanding and remembering things, but that has cleared up completely (as far as anyone can tell); and now there is a…

A technician told me my test results at the hospital today: distinctly bad. Which has various implications for the future. In the kitchen, much of the fruit seems to be going straight from underripe to rotten, with nothing in between….