Orient Point Light

Orient Point, NY,  2018

Ledge Light

New London, CT  2018

New London Light

New London, CT  2018

Block Island Ferry

New London, CT  2018

Recovering from my surgery last June continues to interrupt my blogging and photography.  These pictures are from last May,  taken on a day-trip to Long Island to visit wineries.

Fisher Island Ferry

New London, 2018

Union Station-New London

Enough about me.  Time to return to regular programming.  This shot was taken late May as I awaited departure on the ferry to Orient Point, NY

New London, CT  2018

More Doctors

Yale-New Haven Health as a very large Urology Department.  During my hospital stay after surgery I was visited by a number of doctors, interns, residents and physician assistants.  It was hard to tell  exactly what each was.  I was grateful  to have such good doctors.

Cynthia

Cynthia was one of the first to see me after surgery.

Matt

Probably the tallest urologist I've ever seen.

Still More Care Givers

Alana

Andrea

This ladies really enjoyed their work.  They were always smiling, even while working the night shift.

More Care Givers

Tammy

Rebecca

Two of the many great nurses at St Raphael's in New Haven

Care Givers

I while there were many doctors, physicians assistants, nurses and techs involved in my post surgical recovery, here are a couple of my favorites.  I wasn't able to capture everyone who helped me, but I thank them all even though They're not mentioned here.

Ron

One of the many techs looking after me.

Sue

Sue has been nursing over 37 years.  She hardly looks old enough.

Meet Dr David Hesse

Dr David Hesse

New Haven, CT 2018

I can't say enough about Dr. Hesse.  He convinced me that surgery would cure me of the bladder cancer and that I could maintain a good quality of life afterwards.  So on June 5, I underwent 10 hours of surgery, where Dr Hesse and his team of surgeons performed a prosto cystectomy removing both my bladder and prostate and creating a "neobladder" from parts of my intestine.  It is one of the most complex surgeries done at Yale-New Haven, St Raphael's Hospital.  Afterwards the results of all the pathology showed no signs of cancer outside of the bladder.  I was cured, and Dr Hesse said I would live to be an old man.  I've spent the rest of the summer recovering and dealing with some complications resulting from the surgery and learning to adjust to my new bladder.  It hasn't been easy, but definitely worth it.  Thank you Dr Hesse and Dr Portman.  You both are truly life savers.  

Meet Dr Gerald Portman

Dr. Gerald Portman

My health issues began actually last October when I noticed some blood in my urine.  After a series of visits to urologists, in January Dr. Portman performed a resection of the bladder and removed a tumor which turned out to be malignant.  A second resection confirmed the cancer was local to the bladder and hadn't spread.  The good news is I caught this early and bladder cancer is very treatable and curable.  I was lucky.

Labor Day 2018

It has been a long time since my last post.  The reason for this will become apparent in the following series of posts.  It has been long, tough summer for me battling some major health issues.  I think I finally got things under control and have found a little time and energy to resume blog posts, although I can't promise they'll be all that regular.

New London, 2018

Ok, this is most patriotic picture I have, but it was taken the weekend of Memorial Day, not Labor Day.  It was the last time I was out to do some photography before the summer.  Oh well, if I wasn't so honest, you'd all think it was Labor Day.

Hiatus

Madison, CT  2018

Regular followers of this blog might have noticed that my posts have been rather sporadic in 2018.  I see that my last post was dated March 19, and since I started blogging, this has been the longest stretch of time between posts.  For a number of reasons, I've decided to take a break from blogging, at  least for the next month.  I think my photos have become a bit stale, and I find myself returning to photograph the same subjects.  Weather has been a factor the last two months, not allowing good opportunities to photograph and I've had some health issues to deal with as well.  So I think a break will do me good.  I would like to thank all my followers for visiting, reading and commenting on my photos.  I do appreciate it, and I will continue to follow all your posts as well, and will comment from time to time.  They serve to inspire me.  I do plan to resume regular posting, but it won't be for awhile.  Thanks!

Garden Center

Waterford, CT  2018

Definitely a seasonal operation.  Spring comes this week.