Walking The Thin Man

In May 2005, I learned that I had developed amyloidosis, a rare protein folding disease. This is my story.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving

For some reason, my mouth has been dry as a desert today. Typically I'll get a little dehydrated in the evening, but not early in the day. Drinking eight glasses of water has not helped the matter, unfortunately.

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Team Tony continues to move up in the rankings as the number of computers in our group grows. As of this point, we have 6,217 points and 43 work units. We are now in the middle of the pack. This is an amazing accomplishment considering the team is only 2 weeks old.

If you haven't joined our team and would like to do so, the link to the setup page is here. Remember to change your team number to 47429, or else your results will not be applied to the team. If you change the number while it is running, you will need to close and restart the program.

Remember - a work unit takes a long time for your computer to process... sometimes it may take a week or more for just one unit to finish. Please be patient!

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I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. (To my friends outside of the United States, well, um, enjoy another day at work :)

Since the procedure nearly five months ago, I have been really craving protein-rich foods, such as turkey. I don't know why this is, but perhaps it's because my kidneys leak out almost all the protein that I eat, causing me to be protein deficient. In any case, there's never a bad time for some turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, with a side of cranberry sauce, is there?

Now I've got myself hungry again. Time to raid the refrigerator for some low-sodium snacks.

1 Comments:

At 11/23/2005 9:24 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Tony,

In October my husband Lance was diagnosed with Amyloidosis and Multiple Myeloma, and yours and Beth's blogs inspired me to do the same for him. I'd like to link your blog to his, but I'm not sure how to do that yet! His/our blog is at www.lancecarter411.blogspot.com

Rock on, Tony!
~Lisa Cooney Carter

 

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