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Work and Family

Posted Jan23-09 at 07:55 AM by Norman

Been a long time since I have updated this.

Latest news from me is everyone is healthy and doing well. My son just turned 18 months and is everything that an 18 month old is: funny, goofy, happy, energetic, constantly testing his limits (and his parents patience!), climbing anything he can get a toe-hold on.

My wife is also pregnant with our second child. It is a girl which came as a surprise to my wife who was confident she was having another boy. I am a little...
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Rambling [Old Blog 5]

Posted Jun19-08 at 07:29 PM by Norman


Rambling

Sorry that the last journal entry was so rambling. I am angry and unable to think straight so my story tends to come out quite jumbled. My apologies.
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RAWR! [Old Blog 4]

Posted Jun19-08 at 07:20 PM by Norman

RAWR!
Well on top of the saga of my wife's illness and her recovery from surgery, my Ph.D. advisor recently left the institution that I am at. I originally moved to Massachusetts last year to follow him when he decided to take a job here, out of the blue as far as he told any of his students. It was follow or find a new research area since there were no other particle physicists at my old university. So I asked my wife to leave her high paying job (she took a major pay cut coming out here)...
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24 hours later [Old Blog 3]

Posted Jun19-08 at 07:18 PM by Norman


24 hours later

It has been 24 hours since my wife came out of surgery. She is doing well- not in a lot of main and in high spirits. She is still very, very scared that the cancer has spread and she would have to go through chemotherapy. Unfortunately, unlike my wife, I cannot get sick leave from graduate school. So, if she has to go through chemo, I don't know what we will do. She will be very ill for a long time and I will have to be the caretaker, house keeper, cook, student and...
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After [Old Blog 2]

Posted Jun19-08 at 07:15 PM by Norman
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After

Well... My wife is home and doing very well. She is not in a lot of pain and is in very good spirits. We have to wait about a week for the pathology to come back on the lesion. Now we wait... and hope.
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