Ian Lind

We are now ensconced in a Redwood City home owned by one of Meda's sisters. We arrived here around 2 pm Sunday.

Now that we're here in Redwood City for several weeks of post-surgery rehab, we've discovered a new problem.

In a post here o Monday, I promised to be back with a bit of the bad news.

Thursday, May 21, sometime after 3:30 p.m. We were coasting into the Memorial Day weekend, and my biggest gripe was being stuck on a diet of pureed foods.

I have been having a very difficult time staying within my prescribed pureed diet, which requires food to be process in a blender and then strained, while at the same time eating more than just commercial protein shakes, homemade heavy milk shakes and things like custards.

After two days of stress and two nights in a Menlo Park hotel, we arrived back at the house in Redwood City which we had to flee on Friday due to the lack of a useable toilet.

Here's another example of the pureed meals from a commercial distributor of meals appropriate for any one of several medically-required diets.

Monday, June 1, will mark three weeks since my surgery at UCSF in Mission Bay, and just over two weeks since I was released from the hospital to start the process of recuperation.

I received more good news during a video appointment on Tuesday with my surgeon's nurse practitioner.

I learned this week that the State of California has now officially designated the site of the First National Surfing Championship held in November-December 1938 in Long Beach, California, as an official Point Of Historical Interest