My Inner Curmudgeon

Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Last Good Day

Please excuse my feeble attempt to wax philosophical here; it's just something I have to do.
The concept of 'The Last Good Day' has been explored by many and written about by a few and most famously was the main topic of a movie.

Anna and Uncle Frank

I -- ANNA

Aunt Anna (we called her “Ant Ann”) was 4th of the five children of August and Bertha Carlson. My mother Bernice was the youngest.

Old Not So White Men of World War II

Image may contain: text that says 'Just to be clear, these "old white men" some of ya'll are hating on are the reason we're not all speaking German or Japanese.'

A Facebook friend shared this. Of course I had to snarkily respond with my "Just to be clear" rejoinder

Bonus Day April 2, 2016

Minneapolis General Hospital ca. 1931. It later became Hennepin General Hospital and finally Hennepin County Medical Center. The buildings were demolished and replaced with the current complex pictured below in 1976

On this day in 1974, I was admitted to Annex 8 at Hennepin County General Hospital in kidney failure. With a near lethal level of potassium, I was started on dialysis and a potassium lowering medication. The Angel of Death hung around lurking for a few more weeks, then finally gave up and went home. There is more about this topic at: http://myinnercurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/06/blow-out-part-i-catholic-priest- , http://myinnercurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html and http://myinnercurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/06/blow-out-part-ii-wind-beneath-my.html

My memory of the exact date is a little fuzzy due to my condition, but in my mind at least, April 2nd is the date I started living on bonus time. In 1975 I had kidney transplant at the then
Yesterday I got a phone call from Dr. Davies, a pulmonologist at Hennepin County Medical Center