Dad, Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine Emeritus at Albert Einstein Medical School, and still teaching the residents at age 89 as he was dying of Mesothelioma, was struggling to learn computer language in the early 90’s at the time IT was itself just figuring out better operating systems. He had one of those clunky earlier models. It was an awkward time in 1996-98 for Apple computers when Dad was preparing his book on Edema, and knew he had a race with time.
He died way before this book was developed medically, but in the process of needing computer help and always giving me viewings of his work, my interest was piqued in edema. We had discussion on the range of this work taking in earth waters and some of the introduction does mention planetary parameters.
At the time I had no inkling of having diabetes or edema, calf, or ankle pump problems, or distorted rocker-bottom feet that came to me 4 years after his death. I had all his files on both our computers, and at his death discovered several file drawers with all his papers published, as well as a collection of his drawings, art & fabulous doodles. I knew all along I wanted to publish a book of his with my small press, but then I had no premonition of going back to school and doing a masters degree, nor of living in a tiny house in Lyons Colorado with no presses or papermaking facility. OP4 became my perfect venue to make a web version of a book for dad’s unfinished opus on edema, interlacing his art and doodles, which only touch on his endless jokemaking abilities.
