[Oe List ...] Sundry things . . .and a Fred report

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Great, Shelley, that you got back treasures lost in the Kemper basement!  
It's amazing how I remember some of the things we lost along the way, though I 
don't really want any of them back.  I love this conversation!

We had a wood carving from Brazil stored in the Kemper basement at one time 
that we never found.  It was pretty awful, but depicted a person climbing a 
cliff with a lion above threatening him, and the abyss below.  It was designed to 
hang on the wall.  On the west side, I used a Bahiana doll of Suzanne's as 
table decor, and it disappeared.  (Bahianas are the women in Salvador da Bahia, 
Brazil, who sell delicious food that they cook on the street.) This doll was 
reversible  -- dressed in all white, when the skirt was pulled over the head 
and turned upside down, it changed to a colorful dress with a second head.  (No 
legs.)  When Lynn Woltjer went to Brazil a few years ago, she asked me what 
souvenir I wanted, and I described this doll to her, and she brought me one!

We left a number of things in the San Francisco house on purpose, hoping to 
reclaim someday the large ceramic elephants that my brother brought us from 
VietNam.  But alas, they were stolen off the porch.

The one thing we lost that would be found treasure is a photo album that Rosa 
McGuire, Fred's mother, made of their family history.  We took it to Tokyo 
but didn't get home with it.

I agree that what we found in the Order was infinitely valuable.

Fred started a new I.V. chemo on October 11, and was supposed to get a 
treatment weekly.  A common side effect is mucositis, sores in the mouth.  His 
turned into a bad case of thrush (yeast infection,) and he's been really miserable 
with that, so hasn't been able to take another treatment.  His weight is down 
to 174, but he's still serene and uncomplaining.  (Unlike me.)  We're now 
getting home health care help.  A nurse came Monday to draw blood for tests before 
his doctor's appointment.  Nice not to have to go to the lab.  A physical 
therapist came yesterday to work with us on making him less a fall risk.  What is 
that quote from Phillips' translation of one of the letters to the 
Corinthians?  "Always going through it but never going under?"  Or did I dream that up?  
Anyway, that's us!

Love and blessings to you all,
Jann and Fred McGuire

 

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