Brian P Coppola
In the meantime, I have met three other people whose diabetes II onset was weirdly fast and shot to high A1c in a remarkably short period of time. This phenomenon is not recorded in the literature as far as I can tell. It should be.
And meanwhile, I am classified as clinically non-diabetic because I am not symptomatic. Of course, I am not symptomatic because of dietary control.
2001: I first saw #1Adam, a painting by TL Lange, at the Delta Skyclub South at the newly remodeled Detroit Metro Airport and I fell in love with it.
2016, more or less: after years of enjoying it, I did my usual thing (later than usual, actually) and inquired about buying it off the wall. No go. It was purchased by the Wayne County Authority, and rules for property disposition are written down: once it is decommissioned, a buyer (such as a gallery or museum) can be solicited, and then it is put up for public auction.
2019: the Delta Skyclubs are being remodeled, and the painting is being decommissioned.
2020: no galleries are interested, so it will go to auction. And then the pandemic hit. Everything stops, including the remodeling, in mid stream.
2022: we are out of the pandemic, and “so, about the painting?” and “thanks for the reminder about the painting, we’ll put that up for auction”
a few days later: the painting was recovered to move to the auction site and it had been damaged when all the remodeling work stopped during the pandemic (COVID… the gift that just keeps giving)
a week later: with reasonable assurances from some experts I trust, from what they can see the damage is not fatal. And I win the auction.
several months later: restoration is complete.
and several months later: #1Adam by TL Lange is framed and ready to hang.
November 2023:
