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medical leave day 14: sleepless in manhattan

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

we haven’t been sleeping that well. tomorrow we’re going back to the surgeon for a second post-op check up and……….results? you know darlings, results on whether team gloria has already joined team cancer. we probably won’t sleep much tonight so … Continue reading →

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medical leave day 13: german films in the dark cinema while waiting for our glands to grow back (and the Divine DV)

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

the doorbell rang – not early – but insistently and suddenly there was a very nice man from the FedEx company with a parcel (as you know we Love a Parcel).this was from the elegant, erudite and downright delicious ABM … Continue reading →

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no C news, yet. and looking a Lot like Frankenstein’s monster/creature/monstre, mon dieu.

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

team gloria reporting in from the outside world (which we’ve not seen outside of the 1 block radius chez nous for a week) saw the surgeon – OW – (yes, that was the stitches) and OW – steri-strips and OW … Continue reading →

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chet baker, a light supper of scrambled eggs and another handful of calcium pills.

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

  ironically, this is how we like to wind down on a sunday evening: novels, listening to 1930s music from the Savoy hotel, then Chet Baker, a light dish of scrambled eggs (and peas, we Are British after all) and … Continue reading →

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we went to Hell. And made it back

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

Oh dear god(s). That was a trip to Hell and no mistake. But we made it back. And will be recovering slowly over the next few weeks. Tobias the tumour/tumor and his sisters are gone. There were complications (skip this … Continue reading →

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day one: medical leave: surgery tomorrow

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

as we left the skyscraper in manhattan where we work last night, we set the outgoing email message to tell news of our absence on medical leave until September 29th. the office was empty. we turned off the lights (we … Continue reading →

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art supplies, lots of books and creams from Boots The Chemist.

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

so we did a spot more post-therapy therapeutic retail today, in preparation for our post-surgery confinement: delicious art supplies and lovely tomes (many of which are gifts from splendid friends) and a most GLORIAous package arrived from england with creams … Continue reading →

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santa monica sunsets and planning post-surgery houseguests.

Posted on August 6, 2011 by

firstly – here’s the sunset over santa monica beach this evening – delicious, right? and we had a lovely surprise – we were walking up the beach after taking the sunset photographs and returned a call to a friend who … Continue reading →

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