Category Archive: Personal

Pertaining to the blog author, or other members of Corvallis Secular Society.

May 05 2013

Back in the ER…

Spent all evening at the ER with Angela.  Still here at 2am.  So far, nobody’s figured out what’s broken with her this time.  But whatever it is, she’s not particularly enjoying it. Updates later when we know something…

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Mar 30 2013

Angela hospital post-mortem

Angela returned from the hospital on Tuesday, having dropped 60 pounds of water weight in 5 days. And we have BOTH continued to lose weight since then, due to a parting gift from the hospital that Angela shared with me — a lovely case of norovirus. Yup, we’ve both been sick as dogs this past …

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Mar 25 2013

The Joy of Being Angela

So, yeah, Angela’s in the hospital.  Again. In case anyone’s reading this who isn’t a member of CSS, or a former reader of the Willamette Freethinker, some history: I am the Vice President of Corvallis Secular Society, and editted the Freethinker (our group’s newsletter) for sixteen years, before letting it go dark in January, in favor …

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Jan 29 2013

My father

Well, I didn’t make it to the January CSS meeting, as I had planned. My father, Ross Byers, at 99 1/2 years old and increasingly poor health, died on my birthday, as I was just getting ready to fall asleep.  So Angela and I had to race off to Houston, to comfort my mother, and …

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