This morning I received a call from the folks running the clinical trials for the experimental treatment for my eye condition. The leakage into the back of my eye is too large to fit into the parameters of their study. Therefor I'm ineligible to participate in their clinical trials.
I will be receiving standard treatments from my retina doc which will consist of a series of injections into my right eyeball. He will determine the strength and type of medicine he injects, and the frequency of those injections. We're slated to begin treatments next Tuesday.
My game to follow this Thursday night is my first Women's College Basketball Game of the season. I'm listening to the Hawkeye Radio Network ahead of tonight's Women's College Basketball Game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Drake Bulldogs.
Early in the game the Hawkeyes are ahead 16-9.
And the adventure continues
posted by Roscoe
GO HOOSIERS!
Listening now to my college basketball of the night, Milwaukee Wisconsin Panthers at Indiana Hoosiers.
I'm tuned into the Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of this afternoon's men's college basketball game, Indiana Hoosiers at Marquette Golden Eagles.
My Friday night sports listening will start early and will feature a Big East vs Big Ten match-up as the Georgetown Hoyas face the Maryland Terrapins. Both teams come into this game with (1-0) records.
With its opening tip scheduled for 17:00 Local Time, it'll leave me plenty of time after it's over to relax into a sensible senior citizen bedtime.
This morning I was given the choice: will I accept the standard treatment for my particular stage of Wet Macular Degeneration, or will I consider enrolling in ongoing Clinical Trials in which alternate treatments are studied? I chose to sign up for clinical trials.
Tomorrow morning I have an appointment at another office where these trials are conducted where there will be additional pictures taken of my bad eye and where I'll find out which specific type of trials I'll be enrolled in.
When we left Dorothy last Wednesday she was falling asleep in her bed in Ozma's palace in the Emerald City, soon to be transported to her bedroom back at the farmhouse in Kansas while she slept by the magic belt that she had taken from the evil Nome King and had given to Ozma for safe keeping. So ended Book 5, The Road to OZ.
We are now working our way through Book 6, The Emerald City of Oz. Six chapters into the book we find two main story lines developing: In one story line the evil Nome king has become increasingly frustrated that he can no longer work strong magic because he no longer has his magic belt; and he determines to take his army to the Emerald City, destroy it and retake that magic belt. The other story line picks up as Dorothy wakes in her bedroom in the farm house. When she goes downstairs to join Uncle Henry and Aunt Em for breakfast, she learns they are distressed and on the verge of losing their farm.
While Uncle Henry is a good man, he has always been one of modest means. And the expense of having to rebuild the farmhouse after it had been blown away with Dorothy in it (we remember Book 1 in this series of Oz books) caused him to take out a mortgage on the farm. Poor weather had hurt his crops so he was unable to keep up with the mortgage payments. The bank was soon going to evict Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
Dorothy thought she could help them, but first she needed to return to Oz. So at four o'clock she sent a signal to Ozma. Ozma retrieved her immediately. When Dorothy explained the situation to her, Ozma said she would be glad to set up rooms for them in her palace, and help them find a comfortable living somewhere in Oz if they wanted to stay. Since Dorothy was a princess of Oz, her aunt and uncle were naturally part of the royal family and would be welcomed as such.
Meanwhile, the evil Nome King had devised a plan. He would have his army dig a tunnel underneath the deadly desert and tunnel directly to the Emerald City, surprising Ozma's forces and attack that way. His General Guph was to visit some of the other lands in Oz and recruit allies to join with the Nome King's forces when they attacked the Emerald City.
Meanwhile, Ozma had transported Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to her palace where they amazed to find it as grand as Dorothy had described it. All this time they thought Dorothy had been dreaming, and the stories she'd told them of her adventures were fantasies. They were overjoyed by Ozma's offer of hospitality and, of course, they accepted.
Unable to roundup a college football game radio broadcast to listen to this evening, but I do have a few college basketball games from which to choose. And my choice is:
The Indiana University / Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) Jaguars vs the Ohio State Buckeyes.
