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Russ Newton
Aug 29, 20211 min read
Wow! Can not make this crap up! It is dangerous to travel with me.
Jim in the My best friend in life, almost bit the big one today. He woke up with lower GI issues but that wasn't enough for him. He broke...
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Russ Newton
Aug 28, 20213 min read
The downside of ALS.
ALS is insidious. It steals from you every day. Every single day. I lose some ability. It is like growing up in reverse. I am losing some...
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Russ Newton
Aug 27, 20211 min read
Persistent!
When I stopped at Joes the other day I also tried to see Joyce Vasilev a neighbor of ours. They don't gather in the park anymore with...
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Russ Newton
Aug 27, 20211 min read
No comment other than note the temperature as we crossed the Grapevine
and my taste in music, But the navigator (Jim Pagel) is in charge of the radio.
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Russ Newton
Aug 27, 20211 min read
Last night in Seal Beach.
Lee Carey, Jim Pagel and Russ Newton on the beach. We stopped at Lee's place last night and we had a blast. First we sat on the deck on...
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Russ Newton
Aug 27, 20211 min read
A better picture of Theo but I am also in it.
Theo thinks he looks crazed, I know I do so I guess neither of us are a good judge of our own pictures. Any way, it was great to...
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Russ Newton
Aug 27, 20212 min read
The good side of having ALS.
I will have a fairly negative post about ALS soon but today it is all about the good news. Without ALS and the ability to speak I moved...
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Russ Newton
Aug 26, 20211 min read
Visit my old California home
Lived here for the longest span in my life. 15 years. Pretty good years as I climbed the ladder at the Los Angeles Times. The house looks...
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Russ Newton
Aug 26, 20211 min read
Visit to Chris and Kristen Mann
Stopped by Chris's house for a quick visit. His wife Kristen is suffering from a glioblastoma discovered in March. She is under going...
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Russ Newton
Aug 24, 20211 min read
San Diego
Made to San Diego today and connect with a good friend and my broker Thomas Krumenacker. He took us out to a new place to me, I am pretty...
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Russ Newton
Aug 24, 20211 min read
Phoenix.
Made it to Phoenix two days ago. We stayed with Jim's Brother and Sister in Law, John and Sherrie. Had a wonderful time with them, what...
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Russ Newton
Aug 21, 20211 min read
Catching up.
So after spending the night in New Orleans we then drove to my house in San Antonio. We had a beer at the Filing Station and that was...
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Russ Newton
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Nashville!
Made it to music city last night and saw my Son Matt and his Girlfriend Julie. We had a nice visit and then walked down to a local bar...
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Russ Newton
Aug 18, 20211 min read
A story about a Wasp attack.
This story is from Jim Pagel as told to me. If Matt Miller objects to the story, he is free to put his version of it up, just email it to...
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Russ Newton
Aug 17, 20215 min read
An article for all my friends who have not taken a vaccine for Covid 19.
BY ANITA SIRCAR AUG. 17, 2021 9:28 AM PT My patient sat at the edge of his bed gasping for air while he tried to tell me his story,...
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Russ Newton
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Pulled over by Police, again.
As we crossed into Virginia from Maryland I was going 62 miles an hour in a 60 MPH speed limit. A State Policemen came up behind me,...
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Russ Newton
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Matt (and Frankie the Pig)
We spent three nights with Matt Miller and had a great time. The picture of Frankie is post eating, the best mood he is in all day. We...
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Russ Newton
Aug 14, 20211 min read
Killing Time at the hospital!
I started infusing today at Matt Miller's house. I have done this many times before, should have neen a piece of cake. But it wasn't....
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