I tried to post this earlier but it must have been too long so I will
break it into two parts:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------
To all--
What's the old saying that reports of my death have been seriously
overexaggerated?
Yes, I am having a difficult time just processing how in the space of 60
days it feels like so much has slipped away. I have lost a lot of weight, I
have physical discomfort but I AM NOT DEAD AND I AM NOT DYING. I have
Ulcerative Colitis (google it and you will see that it is a little understood
auto-immune condition and plays out differently for different people). I
am taking a course of several medications, both steroidal and not, and the
hope is that things will heal and turn around for me in a few months. If
drug rehab does not do it then there are surgical alternatives, and I will
certainly not be the first guy to have to bite that bullet.
That said, the drugs are quite overwhelming. Sometimes they confuse me,
everything tastes wrong, I feel like my feet are on backwards, and because I
am also taking pain meds I am not currently able to drive. Because of
these and other things I sometimes feel a lot of loss, sadness and am no doubt
alternatively irritable and I know I am not the best patient. My wife
Mary (who gave the report that Michael Salter forwarded earlier) is a
wonderful person without whom I would be lost, and I am trying to be compliant
but
I cannot say that the picture she portrays would be the one I might paint
nor do I always feel she understands all. Nevertheless I am okay with what
she shared and I will simply fill in a bit .
Generally my energy level is good and I have been able to be over at my
shop for several hours a day, though today I had nothing to give. I have
decided my racing season for 2009 is over and once I do some things to the
Elva to get it ready for next year I will pack it up for the winter in its
trailer. OTOH there are lots of things that I have been putting off doing to
the 100. I never really completed the fitting of the NICAL hardtop, the
side curtains still need to be finished, I want to run a compression leakdown
test, and also check clearances of the oil pump as the oil pressure drops
to 20 at hot idle and though I know Michael Salter says these cars do not
need oil I do want to investigate the internal condition of things, etc.
Me--Part two to:follow.
Best--Michael Oritt
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------
_______________________________________________
Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
Healeys@autox.team.net
http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys
http://www.team.net/archive
|