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[Mar. 8th, 2008|03:18 am] |
As some of you know, I was scheduled for a minor procedure yesterday afternoon. It was not successful, and something else will have to be done in an operating room presumably under general anaesthesia. Pain has been a major problem over the last twelve hours, though I haven't had a little white pill for about six, and may try to go back to sleep without one.
In other news, turning the living room upside down in the fruitless search for a notebook with some essential information, I turned up Deely's book on Poinsot and Peirce, which I evidently acquired at the Strand Annex in '02 and promptly forgot about.
It depresses me to think what our civilization lost when Poinsot's Cursi no longer formed the basis of teaching in philosophy and theology. I well recall how the name of John of St. Thomas, as the founder of postmodern semiology was known in religion, was despised in my undergraduate days, and not only by Methodist ministers teaching in Quaker colleges, for the decline of the Catholic university had already begun.
About what they will have to do with a tiny laser gun inside my body, I will say no more at this time. Especially as the lovely Raquel will not be involved. |
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Sorry to hear your surgery was unsuccessful. I pray it'll be successful this time.
Thanks. Not sure I can call it surgery. More of a roto-rooter sort of thing...
I am sorry that you are going through it at the moment, and I do hope that all pain and discomfort can be eased and minimised. Also that a further operation is more successful if it has to be undertaken. On Poinsot (of who, ashamedly, I know nothing) I found this page which I have to admit seems completely beyond me because of my very limited training in logic and philosophy! Get better, friend :)
Thanks! Much better today. A little tired, though. Nothing to be ashamed of. Poinsot just isn't on today's map, except for some specialists. Yeah, that page you pointed to isn't the clearest around. Even for somebody who did a damned dissertation on good old Charlie Peirce. Here's an online book you might enjoy if the subject strikes your fancy: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/deely/basics/index.html
Be well Frank. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Thanks. I feel better already.
I do hope things turn out well Frank.
Thanks. Already I am back to bitching about the rain.
Frank - for health of body and peace of mind, Lord, have mercy...
John
Amen, and thanks. It may be some indication of my mental state that when my daughter told me of the death of one of my oldest friends, my first thought was that she had taken her own life. But alas, it may be as well an indication of her mental state as I knew it.
May her memory be eternal!
There seems to be a greater and greater need for prayers,
so many people sick or hurting, so many dying. Perhaps - indeed,
probably it is always so, but Lord, have mercy on us all.
John
May the souls of the faithful departed, in the mercy of God, rest in peace. I suppose she was one of the faithful souls. I wish her philosophy were more worthy of her devotion.
My kidney stones flared up last week after I had lunch with Jacques Vallée. Watching a Ram Dass video cooled their jets. Reading Seraphim Rose made me crazy as a loon. But then my sacramental life has been in abeyance.
Go figure.
Alas, I can't blame Jacques. When my uro went into the bladder to grab the stone there, he found it securely lodged in the outlet of the left ureter, and couldn't get it out. Next step is to go in with a little laser and break it. I will be under for it, I hope, but will need something strong for the next couple of days, if my experience of lithotripsy is any indication.
By the way, I am taking an Ayurvedic pill called Cystone from Himalaya Drug Company, which I get from the Butala Emporium in Little India for ten bucks a bottle. The Mayo Clinic is beginning tests on the stuff, and I figure it couldn't hurt. | |
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