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« Reply #100 on: March 27, 2008, 07:02:20 PM »
I am just starting

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« Reply #101 on: March 27, 2008, 07:07:34 PM »
So I finished Pride and Prejudice (for the 10,000 time) followed it up with Darcy's Story, which I usually do.  And now I am on Becoming Jane Austen -- an Austen biography.

Think I am on a kick?  I get on Austen kicks from time to time...
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« Reply #102 on: March 27, 2008, 11:29:04 PM »
Right now I'm reading "Stealing Shadows" by Kay Hooper.  It's the first book in a trilogy and also a series of books that are all abt different psychics who help the police/FBI find sadistic killers!  It can be sorta creepy at times but I like that!
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
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Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #103 on: March 28, 2008, 11:21:33 AM »
"Wicked' by Gregory Maguire
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« Reply #104 on: March 28, 2008, 10:02:12 PM »
Quote from: jbeany on March 28, 2008, 11:21:33 AM
"Wicked' by Gregory Maguire

Do you want Son of Wicked? I will loan it to you.
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« Reply #105 on: March 28, 2008, 11:39:48 PM »
Krisna you have just sold me on kay hooper, creep is cool plus i dig the whole psychic +serial killer thing, reminds me of that show millenium!!

oh and to anyone who likes to ahve a good laugh read the dresden files by jim butcher
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« Reply #106 on: March 29, 2008, 05:49:12 PM »
Quote from: kitkatz on March 28, 2008, 10:02:12 PM
Quote from: jbeany on March 28, 2008, 11:21:33 AM
"Wicked' by Gregory Maguire

Do you want Son of Wicked? I will loan it to you.

I checked out that along with two others by the same author from the library this week.

Quote from: fluffy on March 28, 2008, 11:39:48 PM

oh and to anyone who likes to ahve a good laugh read the dresden files by jim butcher

The Dresden files are amazing!  I've pre-ordered the new release in April already. . .
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"Asbestos Gelos"  (As-bes-tos yay-lohs) Greek. Literally, "fireproof laughter".  A term used by Homer for invincible laughter in the face of death and mortality.
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« Reply #107 on: March 30, 2008, 01:38:19 PM »
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller. Follows two women of different generations through the stories of their marriages. The younger is a newlywed, buying her first home, and is always looking for some sort of "advantage" over her husband. The older one is married to a senator and barely has a marriage. Very interesting read about the friendship that develops between the two women with each other, and with their respective husbans.

I'm also re-reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven after seeing it discussed here a couple of times.
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« Reply #108 on: March 30, 2008, 03:06:13 PM »
Dean R. Koontz  "Shattered". "Whispers" and "Watchers"
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« Reply #109 on: March 30, 2008, 03:32:26 PM »
I was reading a book called "Shadows". VERY good
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« Reply #110 on: March 30, 2008, 03:37:16 PM »
I just bought "The sociopath next door", it's about the "crazy" in all of us! I'm in to weird stuff like that:)
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« Reply #111 on: April 23, 2008, 09:15:52 AM »
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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Then I'm going to start "Late Nights on Air" by Elizabeth Hay
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« Reply #112 on: April 23, 2008, 01:05:42 PM »
The Complete Works of Lewis Carrol
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« Reply #113 on: April 23, 2008, 01:20:48 PM »
rereading    Catch 22          ( to help my son with a project)   and   East of Eden     same reason

Game of my Life Dallas Cowboys, Coraline, and Ms. Moffett's First Year
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« Reply #114 on: April 23, 2008, 05:29:34 PM »
Half way through The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.  Marvelous----sad but inspirational.
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« Reply #115 on: April 23, 2008, 05:50:59 PM »
It seems like I always have several books going at the same time. 

I am currently reading Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express", one of those classics that I just never got around to, as well as "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman, a fascinating look at what the world would be like if all of us (humans) were suddenly gone.
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« Reply #116 on: April 23, 2008, 06:58:02 PM »
Faith of Our Fathers by John McCain.
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« Reply #117 on: April 23, 2008, 07:41:31 PM »
Monrein,

How is A Thousand Splendid Suns? I just read The Kite Runner (same author)  this summer and it was one of those books you just couldn't put down for anything.

Haven't had time to make it to the library yet, but that was one of the books on my list to read when I have to bid farewell to my kiddos for summer break.
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« Reply #118 on: April 23, 2008, 10:33:38 PM »
I read The Kite Runner this semester, my son had to read it and I wanted to be able to discuss it with him
he was upset when he read the part where the boy is "hurt"
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« Reply #119 on: April 24, 2008, 09:35:10 AM »
I'm loving A Thousand Splendid Suns.  I've read about two thirds.  I think I prefer The Kite Runner (not that either are happy little tales) but both are excellent.  My husband spent some time traveling in  Afghanistan back in 1972 and was treated very well but it was a totally different time in that country as in so many others.
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #120 on: April 24, 2008, 04:59:14 PM »
Terry Brooks The Elfstones of Shanarra.  I have read it before, however I am now reading through the series again.
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« Reply #121 on: April 24, 2008, 05:10:41 PM »
I will definitely have to pick up the book then!
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« Reply #122 on: April 24, 2008, 07:16:49 PM »
It's great to find fellow bookworms.  I just finished World without End ,the sequel to Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.  Now I'm reading People of the Book.  It's about an ancient illustrated Jewish manuscript that was saved from the war in Bosnia by a Muslim librarian.
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« Reply #123 on: April 24, 2008, 07:31:01 PM »
Also read  The Kite Runner and loved it.  A Thousand Splendid Sons is in my stack on my end table waiting to be read.
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« Reply #124 on: April 26, 2008, 12:04:25 PM »
For those who like Khaled Hoseini"s books (Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) I think you might enjoy three novels by Rohinton Mistry.  They are titled "Such a Long Journey,A Fine Balance andFamily Matters.

They are set in India and take us far far away from our own reality.  I love his writing.
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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