Dear all.
So this is a bit different, as posts go.
Three different parts, in embryo: I'll expand on them and maybe split to different threads as I go.
First:
I probably mentioned I thought I was dealing with some GI stuff earlier this fall.
Apparently, I was, but in a different way.
I'm currently in the hospital, and the GI/tummy involvement is of a different type.
I'll know more, probably tomorrow, but I seem to have acquired a hitch-hiker and some of his buddies on my ovaries over the past year or so. No signs--no pain, no obvious distension except what I mistook for GI gas, etc.....oops.
So, an update in a few days with more definition, but I'm guessing 6 months or less is the prognosis.
No pity party, please, but suggestions and ideas for managing situations welcome.
B. Abandoned/orphaned research agendas, especially for females:
Based on the now-likeley-to-be truncated research agenda I'd just started to nurture into deeper life (getting requests and openings for things I've developed and. loved into being for decades), and which I've both started mourning, already, and thinking about practically, I'm getting an idea for something that may be useful to others, too.
I'll probably make a new thread,, but wondering what you think of it.
I know I'm not alone among academic females in finding it hard to see things into publication--even the fictional Stephanie in Byatts' work dies as she's thinking of a new poem.
I'm thinking of a site in which independant women scholars facing end-of- life choices about their work could write it up, indicate the directions they'd hoped to take it in, and leave it for responsible curation and use by others--younger or other female scholars in related fields, say.
Subtitle might be, "Her unfinished words," or something."
Obviously, I have pieces of my own in that category: I'd use those as a template: and start out with them....others may have others?--etc.
C, One thing follows the other, so swiftly. I'll have both, more info and clarity tomorrow, but more to get sorted quickly--a few months ', I'd say; will post more tomorrow.
I've had a fun, great, rich, joyous life, (and yes every story I have ever related is true, to someone who asked).
M.
