Gary Snow, The First Salon, And More Fun As A Medical Experiment

I know I indicated that I'd write more and here I am almost a month down the road. We've had guests galore, Oslo and Gaia, Gary Snow and his daughter Jessie and her fiance Joshua and hosted our first "Music Salon" with a rare Purveyors performance (Gary played with us while we were in Iowa...) that included our new friend Andy Guthrie in front of 30 plus people in our living room here that was was a huge success. There just hasn't been enough time to actually sit and write anything until this morning. Our next group of guests arrive on the 5th of April and then again later that month. We are planning to get a trip to London in sometime very soon and the twins are going to take the Summer off from College this year so we can do some traveling. More on that as it develops of course with pictures as they become reality.

After some success treating my illness (Dermatomyositis) with steroids and other things my docs were pleased and reduced the amount of steroids I've been taking (GREAT!) but the biopsy site on my right leg started swelling about 3 weeks ago to the point I became alarmed and went to the ER at the American Hospital here and they looked and proclaimed it not infected (Good) but it HURT a lot and about a week later saw my Internist who I showed it to and he said it was scar tissue and that I would probably be "ugly" on the beach this Summer (hahahahahahahahaha). It still hurt though and I saw my Dematologist who doesn't have a good poker face and he was unhappy and proclaimed it to be "un-natural" and told me it would have to be "opened up" to be cleaned out.......which happens this Friday at 2. My appointment yesterday also addressed scaly skin on my scalp (new development) and the return of some of my rashes (Geeeeeez........) with the accompanying itching and discomfort which now brings me to a whole new drug regimen that as a bonus includes weekly blood tests to measure levels of the auto immune suppressant drugs I will be taking. Whenever I show up at my local pharmacie here with my multiple sheets of prescriptions there's always a stir as the ladies all gather around and of course not many Americans frequent it so English becomes fractured but we always get to yes and they are all very sweet and caring. I can say with certainty though that Friday I'm not leaving the "Petit Chuigerie) until the doc gives me a scrip for prophylactic antibiotics. I'm not gonna go through that again.

That's all from here for now. More later.

Love to all,

Sid