Honoring the Fallen.

I’d like to think my hero, Richard Feynman, would have found this funny. **** The Station Fire in LA claimed two firefighters.  It was a vehicle accident.  There’s no good way to die but I think most would agree that this way beats being burned. Condolences to their families and fellow firefighters. Sadly, these two [...]

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Swamp Drain.

Every now and then a poll catches my eye.  I usually hate them. Rasmussen says 57% would vote entire congress out. Vote against the incumbent this next cycle.  Get them out of here.   Even if 50% of the wankers were voted out it would strike fear into the hearts of these arrogant politicians.  Just think [...]

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The Silence of the Pope.

The media is certainly tone-deaf when it comes to the catholic church or it’s beliefs. Kennedy, a champion to the abortion-loving crowd, just can’t be seen by the church as a poster-child worthy of words of admiration.  Sorry, it does not work that way. Silence of the Pope. If I were to get a DUII/DWI/DUI [...]

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Improvement… probably not.

Neck update: This update has nothing to do with the title of the post.  Today, another nerve is definitely dying.  Rotten little bastard.  How can a spot feel numb yet hurt like hell to touch?  You got me.  But it does.  It’s that “I just ripped off a hangnail and two square inches of skin [...]

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Just another day.

We will be subjected to two weeks of disingenuous fawning over a guy who you ultimately had to say was of questionable loyalties.  Himself, mostly. You hear it said that you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.  I see it as all the more reason to live your life so no one has to.  If [...]

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Neck-date.

Saw the physician’s assistant today.  She knows more than a lot of doctors, frankly. She said “How is it going?”  I told her I was of two minds… one was to kiss her feet for the escape from the headache, and secondly that what they told me before/after the procedure was “it’s a lot like [...]

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Compassion, My Ass.

Update: Oh yes… how am I?  Well the last five days were hell.  Then yesterday after multiple v’s and muscle relaxers I stumbled off to bed at 3pm and got up at 8:30pm.  Felt like the dog’s dinner and like I’d been run over, but one of the nerves has finally up and died.  Only [...]

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Truly Clueless.

End of the week update: Well, it has been a long week.  I’m not able to put ice on my neck at work as the doctor so unhelpfully suggested because I have to move, talk to people, use whiteboards, etc. So I’m still on meds to maintain some level of comfort.  As a baseline I [...]

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A Brave New Day.

Well, I wish I could give you a good news about the neck situation today, but I can’t.  Those first days of relative goodness are kind of gone.  Just plain smarts now.  Badly at times.  But as many have said, and I agree, this too shall pass. I’ve been fighting the urge to call the [...]

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Minor Details. Don’t Worry About It.

Update: Dr. Emanuel, a bioethicist, believes that doctors and hospitals should apply a rationing scheme he calls “complete life” for such medical services as ICU beds, heart transplants and vaccines during a flu pandemic. Under this scheme, adolescents and young adults would get priority over infants and the elderly, because “they have received substantial education [...]

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Neck-ed Update 2…

Well, put in a call to the Dr. today.  Trying to get an answer to the question:  Is it normal for it to start out painful but bearable and then slowly get worse (pain-wise)? Last night was hell, with the meds only helping marginally for about 2 hours.  I could wish for better. Still, the [...]

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Neck Update.

**** I can’t make sense of it but for a day or so after the RF procedure I thought “Oh, well this hurts but I can live with this.  If this is what it is like it’s not nearly as bad as I thought.” Might have said something a bit too soon.  Now the dying [...]

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Some Nerve.

Kind of a run-down of what happened last week when they did the thing on my neck. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Radio-Frequency Ablation. Sounds kind of cool.  Rolls off the tongue similar to “Low-Tar Cigarettes”.  That’s not a commentary or judgment, just a statement. So imagine that you have headaches as a result of a car accident 30 [...]

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