Because of the Methotrexate and swollen, painful lymph nodes, I sent a communication to Hemosapien. He called me, and asked me if I could come in that same day, 11/14/13, rather than wait until next week. I agreed and trotted down to his office, having the CBC and CMP done, which was ready when I…

    There’s lots in the news about Obamacare. Not much of it is very good, though there have been some successes. There have been some enrollment figures released by HHS. It seems that 100,000 plus people have enrolled nationwide, which includes figures from the state exchanges, and about 27,000 have enrolled on the federal…

That there are plagiarists in Washington is not new, nor is it news unless the plagiarists are from political camps one opposes. Bill Clinton is an alleged plagiarizer. George W. Bush (43) is an alleged plagiarizer. Hillary Clinton was accused of plagiarizing Bill Clinton (of all things!). Joe Biden was accused of it (OK…he admitted…

Having discovered Google Books and Open Library where out of copyright books are free for download, I seldom buy a new book these days. But Charles Krauthammer’s Things That Matter caught my attention. I downloaded the ebook version from Books-a-Milllion since I gave up on Amazon because I’ve never had an order there be fulfilled…

They used to chew tobacco on the baseball field. Now tobacco is taboo. Too bad. For the first time since childhood, I did not see a single Major League playoff or World Series game. Today the sadness of that strikes me. I seem to have lost interest in the national pastime. I am even sadder…

What’s it gonna look like? Are you wondering? If so, then you have lots of company. I think we are all wondering, and I think there will be no one unaffected, except for those on Medicaid; the rest of us will feel some impact. Our President said, during his 2012 re-election campaign, “If you like…

You may be asking, “What is that?” That is the blood cancer that ultimately claimed the life of former vice-presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro. She struggled with it for many years. It is a cancer of the blood’s plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) wherein the bone marrow produces defective plasma cells, produces too…

I read today of the Saudi government’s promise to arrest those who are in support of the protest underway over the cause of women’s rights. It seems that women are protesting their legal prohibition from driving an automobile. The Saudi government has promised arrest and censure of those who show support for the protesters, even…

This forum is my mental wastebasket. Just think of it. You’re reading my mental garbage. I really didn’t intend for it to be that way, and not that I think you might think my mental garbage interesting, but this blog does serve as my clearing house. Well . . . either this blog or my…

To eat, or not to eat? That is the question. Well, I have to eat. But what shall it be? For every study that tells me I should eat something because it is good for me, there is one that tells me the same thing is bad for me. I should eat more soy for…