After my hospital adventure with the kidney stone, I return home on Tuesday, April 22, pain medicine in hand, to wait it out until I went to see Uroman, my long-time urologist, on Friday the 25th. He knows me well and is a friend as well as my physician. He has always been helpful, lays…
When you are a patient, who do you suppose is your best advocate? The clerks at the hospital admissions? The people in billing? In insurance? The folks in your doctor’s office? Your doctor? Nope. None of them. It’s most likely going to be you, and you will have to learn how to become one if…
Once, I made good money playing music. Once, I sold lots of CD’s. Once, there were venues that hosted my kind of music, which is the singer/songwriter type, the concert listening type. Once, I had a lot more energy than I do now. Once….well, once….! I was never any good as a barroom entertainer, primarily…
Renal calculus. Otherwise known as kidney stones. Something, somewhere has been miscalculated. The sum is pitiful. I wrote about a kidney stone incident a couple of years ago, indicating that since my old friends had returned, then perhaps things were back to normal in my body. It is wishful thinking,though, since it is unlikely that…
For the first time in the nearly twenty years I have lived at Timberview Lodge, today, on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I received my first visit from two of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I was lounging about this morning doing some reading, then cleaning a shotgun or two, thinking about how I should…
3/18/14 Hate Begets Hate Hate is a terrible thing to base one’s religious philosophy on, yet the more religious trappings people profess and the more of religion that is displayed outwardly, the more it seems that hate is its ultimate destination. Why anyone would choose this is mysterious to me. Fred Phelps, the founder of…
The Hazards of Eating I occasionally rant about the confusing vexation of just how one is supposed to eat right these days. There is no answer for the layman eater, or the expert eater, and in a sense we are all expert eaters since no one has to tell us how to go about the…
Where have you gone, Morpheus? What other errands must you run That you would hide from me tonight And my presence you most surely shun Which keeps me from your sight I wish that I might see your face I call but no reply I open arms to your embrace You turn the evil eye…
Pancreatic cancer doesn’t play around. It is aggressive. I’ve lost two cousins in as many years, both in adjacent rooms in the same hospital, all of us sharing the same oncologist whom you know here as Hemosapien, though he wears many other hats and goes by many other names. Today, my cousin Bill passed away.…
I have been given wise advice by several internet savvy folks. “Allow unrestricted comments on your blog and you will have more readers,” they tell me. I think I’ll pass, again. I don’t want comments on my blog. I think about what I write before I write it. Anyone can send me an e-mail in…
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