In hospital - Prednisone Dreams - CycleBlaze

June 28, 2025

In hospital

hi there!  It’s me, in spite of the fact that Rocky has top billing temporary because I’m on her pad and still too lazy to switch accounts.I’m hospitalized coming down from my latest acid trip, as some of you know already.  There’s a lot to be said about the experience this time, but so far it’s been great!  Who says there’s no such thing as a free breakfast?

But we’ll come back. In the meantime below are some placeholders to remind me of what I might want to include.

Discharge today!  Woo, hoo!  Let’s roll, Rocky!

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Sunrise, Sunset

The yin and the yang of it 

What's Up, MAX?

Jason, the drunk conveyor

Just going along for the ride

Bench mates

hammernews

Everyone loves a bike(r)

Some maniacs, mini, mega, MAGA

The yin and yang of it

Data modeling

Go with the flow

While we bike, cha cha cha

How about those Joneses?

Fur Elise 

How about them taters 

While we dance

Spectrums

Waves

Lateral motion

The two Meccas

The pantheon

Hallucinations

Triggers are a thing, Caligula was a horse

Toilet paper, and all that garbage

Haiku

Strange encounters

Hummingbirds

Costa Rica

Abandon Bandon

Getting a charge out of things 

You’ve got your mania, and then you’ve got your hypomania

Look both ways

Just going along for the Ride

Nasturtiums

It’s all one big joke

That about covers it, except for whatever is still to come before I get my discharge, and what I wrote down before. I get here, and until I taper off far enough to get my Scott-normal hypomanic head back. Likely something out there is still waiting to come to mind that feels so brilliant that it must, must, must be shared, right now!  And I must say it surprised to come up with five new items on the list and one truly good idea just getting home  

it’s why the night before I set to respond to a Kelli’s post, warning her to be careful about the bicycles dropping into Italy.  Kelly!  Be careful!  Ask someone what it’s like because you’ve  never been to a place like this.  Scary as hell.  Imagine having a semi pass you right on your left shoulder, dead silent because it’s a bicyclist instead, flying past at 60 mph th not even a ciao o warn you he’s here.  And there’s a thousand foot drop off just to your right, no barrier.  Don’t look back, keep your lane, pray.

but I never finished it because two hours in  got an email from Jacquie - she and Al are up there too, just a pass or two to the south heading for Menton.  She’s calling me suggest that I price my pricy new drug overseas.  As I’ve done and cut over quickly to let her know and then cut back, but never get there.  Instead I have the poor woman in the sights of my turbulent, chaotic word fire hose for the next two hours.  

In the end neither of those unsuspecting victims ever gets word-blasted off the road and dies though, because in the meantime the iPad's battery dies before I think to save the comments..  The comments and all those exceptionally conceived, brilliant words gets lost along with them.  Nothing is preserved but whatever my memory can bring back with and recreate,

Still, the index alone  should be enough to flesh out into a post.  Or ten.  Or twenty.  Or a hundred.  It ain’t over ‘till it’s over, so we could be here awhile, folks.

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Andrea BrownWhat a long, strange trip it's been.

Them are some intriguing placeholders, you have our attention so I hope you are able to flesh those out before too long. Meanwhile, enjoy the free breakfast and hopefully a view out the window. All the best, friend.
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6 days ago
Rachael AndersonTo Andrea BrownExactly, that’s my plan for the ending post, but it’ll likely take a month or ten getting there. While we wait, let’s have a chat, probably after my dosage tapers off enough to my normal hypomania (my new word of the day. Thanks, shrink!).

Discharge today! Woo, hoo!
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6 days ago
Betsy EvansOh, my! I hope you're back to your normal self soon. And I'm looking forward to your blog posts...
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6 days ago
CJ HornYou are starting to sound like Ferlinghetti. You could do worse.
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5 days ago
Steve Miller/GrampiesScott and Rachael, this is Dodie. I am feeling very concerned because Scott is sounding very much like Joni did when she had a psychotic break from overdosage of Dexamethasone. It took me and a good doctor and a good pharmacist almost one year to get her meds straightened out and tapered off. She never did really come back to herself after the episode although the real craziness did diminish. Please do not let yourself be discharged until you are more stable. This seems to be quite serious and should be addressed as such. Love to you both.
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5 days ago
Scott AndersonTo CJ HornOoh, I love that! I haven't thought about Ferlinghetti in ages, or E.E. Cummings, or Vonnegut, or so many exceptional and unique voices from that unbelieveable era we were privileged to experience together. A flood of names, memories and images and clips rush back with that name: the brick wall from Pirsig, or Alan Watts' description of the view of Mount Fuji from rhe small trapezoidal window of rhe upstairs bathroom of the house. I suspect this blog might end up as long as Kerouac's roll when it's done.
Remember this one?

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens
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5 days ago
Rachael AndersonTo Steve Miller/GrampiesHi, this is Rachael. Thanks for your concern. Scott has been to the hospital and the doctors were very helpful and there is a plan to get him off prednisone and on to the new drug but it will take sometime so don’t worry! In the meantime his creative juices are flowing and I’m glad he can capture the output.
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5 days ago
Andrea BrownTo Rachael AndersonPersonally, knowing that Scott is safe, diagnosed, and getting superb care, I am enjoying getting to know this part of his fascinating and creative brain. We always knew he was an interesting person, now it's confirmed.
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5 days ago
Bruce LellmanSo, I, too, have a long list of things I need to do, things I need to talk about, things I need to write about. Can I just move my list onto yours? That would allow me to start a new list and forget about the old one that only seems to grow.

I'm glad they let you out! Thank you for telling us what has been going on. Few people would have the wherewithal to document such thoughts. With time, as doctors figure out the balance of drugs, and especially the delicate switchover, you will be fine.
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