A Good Friend....

 two days to the cat scan that will bring me more information about what was discovered in the colonoscopy. 

Just got off the phone with my friend Bob, who is being very supportive at this time. How do I know Bob? We met in September of 1957 when we were placed in the same 10th grade class at Bronx Science. Our class was one of 10 10th grade classes in the Science Annex, housed on the top two floors of an elementary school, about six blocks east of the  true Bronx Science. As such, our class traveled together---and this was stifling (looking back on it) because it meant no real experience of other students, save for the 30 one saw every day. Bob and I became friends immediately (coincidentally, my mother had been his science teacher at his Junior High School---we would compare notes, and actually went to a few plays together that year. In the next few years---high school and college, we remained in touch, but did not see each other very often. After he attended Columbia School of Journalism, he left for a job down south and we lost touch. When the internet made it possible to look up old friends, I found him around 2002 working for the Los Angles Times. We did not get together until 2007. By that time he was retired and living in a suburb of DC 

It was actually last year when we went to a National baseball game that he got tickets for when I visited Washington, that I felt very relaxed being with him, sharing memories, etc. He got us great seats for the game---kind of a runaway for the Nationals, but it did not matter. We stayed in touch but since my medical situation has become more specific, he has been very empathic and helpful. Its a nice feeling--I value his support---the fact that we go back as far as we do---that we rode the subway together back to our respective apartments after seeing those plays, gives our relationship an almost mythic feeling to it.

Otherwise, not much else; continued reading Suite Francaise---it portrait of the french people, trying to cope with the Nazi invasion remains intense and brutal. Also, WQXR is having a week of programming mostly devoted to the works of Mozart. Ah, Mozart immersion, can't beat it. How much will I get out of it? Will report soon.