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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Short Bowel support
Finally received my copy of this book/pamphlet . Knew most of the stuff but still found out a LOT of new information. If you have or know of someone with SBS please send then to this new website. Please.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Decoration Day = Memorial Day
A little history lesson for those who have forgotten or were never taught it in school.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May
1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first
observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and
Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to
officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized
by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day,
honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday
changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring
Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every
State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday
Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays),
though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the
Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis'
birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael replied with her own poem:
She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms.Michael and when she returned to France, made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children's League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help. Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW became the first veterans' organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their "Buddy" Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. In 1948 the US Post Office honored Ms Michael for her role in founding the National Poppy movement by issuing a red 3 cent postage stamp with her likeness on it.
Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.
There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.
To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps."
The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day. What is needed is a full return to the original day of observance. Set aside one day out of the year for the nation to get together to remember, reflect and honor those who have given their all in service to their country.
But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: "Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day."
On January 19, 1999 Senator Inouye introduced bill S 189 to the Senate which proposes to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day back to May 30th instead of "the last Monday in May". On April 19, 1999 Representative Gibbons introduced the bill to the House (H.R. 1474). The bills were referred the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government Reform.
Visit our Help Restore the Traditional Day of Observance page for more information on this issue, and for more ways you can help.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
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In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael replied with her own poem:
| We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies. |
She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms.Michael and when she returned to France, made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children's League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help. Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW became the first veterans' organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their "Buddy" Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. In 1948 the US Post Office honored Ms Michael for her role in founding the National Poppy movement by issuing a red 3 cent postage stamp with her likeness on it.
Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.
There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.
To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps."
The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day. What is needed is a full return to the original day of observance. Set aside one day out of the year for the nation to get together to remember, reflect and honor those who have given their all in service to their country.
But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: "Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day."
On January 19, 1999 Senator Inouye introduced bill S 189 to the Senate which proposes to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day back to May 30th instead of "the last Monday in May". On April 19, 1999 Representative Gibbons introduced the bill to the House (H.R. 1474). The bills were referred the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government Reform.
To date, there has been no further developments on the
bill. Please write your Representative and your Senators, urging them to
support these bills.
Visit our Help Restore the Traditional Day of Observance page for more information on this issue, and for more ways you can help.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
24 May 2012 - Feeling good
Had another bad night. Swapped out the apnea masks. Finally got to go sleep around 2:30 AM. Multiple movements prior falling asleep. Woke up at 6:30 AM feeling like I could take on the world and several hours later still feel it. Ran the weed eater and then mowed the yards. Wooo Hooo ... Don't feel too bad. Small amount of muscle strain in the right arm from using the weed eater. Had trouble, once again, trying to start the dumb thing but left it alone for 10 minutes went back and pulled the starter cord and away she went!!!! Arrrggghhhh
Other than that feelin goooooood.
Took a shower, scrubbed the commode out ('bout 7 times a week I have to do this).. for the obvious reasons. Even got on my hands and knees and scrubbed around the commode and the surrounding floors. Did dishes, emptied the trash... now to sit down and have a coke. Would luv to have a jack and coke but heck it is not even noon yet. Nice day outside for sure.
Maybe I will add to this post later.
By the way have you ever been to: http://www.postsecret.com/
Netflix movie should be in the mailbox this PM. This on is called Contagion. See it at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
Other than that feelin goooooood.
Took a shower, scrubbed the commode out ('bout 7 times a week I have to do this).. for the obvious reasons. Even got on my hands and knees and scrubbed around the commode and the surrounding floors. Did dishes, emptied the trash... now to sit down and have a coke. Would luv to have a jack and coke but heck it is not even noon yet. Nice day outside for sure.
Maybe I will add to this post later.
By the way have you ever been to: http://www.postsecret.com/
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If you have never been to this site I highly suggest reviewing it. Netflix movie should be in the mailbox this PM. This on is called Contagion. See it at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Wed-23 May 12
Had trouble last night did not sleep well at all. Slept without the apnea mask because I was having way too much leakage and just did not want to deal with it anymore - this was about 1230 at night.. Last bathroom time was about midnight. Today has been kinda rough, been to the bathroom approximately one every hour and fifteen minutes. But did get some yard work in.
AND watched or rather re-watched Underworld - Rise of the Lycans prior to watching the latest one; Awakening. A couple of times the thought crossed my mind that I wished they had produced one that covered the intervening 12 years that were missing. Still like it and since they left it open ended I eagerly await the next one. If I'm still around.
AND watched or rather re-watched Underworld - Rise of the Lycans prior to watching the latest one; Awakening. A couple of times the thought crossed my mind that I wished they had produced one that covered the intervening 12 years that were missing. Still like it and since they left it open ended I eagerly await the next one. If I'm still around.
Storyline Underworld Awakening for IMDB
Mankind discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan species and they begin a war to annihilate the races. When Selene meets with Michael in the harbor, they are hit by a grenade and Selene passes out. Twelve years later, Selene awakes from a cryogenic sleep in the Antigen laboratory and meets the Vampire Thomas. She learns that she had been the subject of the scientist Dr. Jacob Lane and the Vampire and Lycan species have been practically eradicated from Earth. But Selene is still connected to Michael and has visions that she believes that belongs to Michael's sight. However she has a surprise and finds that she has a powerful daughter named Eve that has been raised in the laboratory. Now Selene and Thomas have to protect Eve against the Lycans that intend to use her to inoculate their species against silver.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Normal? - 22 May 12
Very excited this AM. What everyone else takes for granted when it happens to me I become ecstatic. I had a normal looking bowel movement this morning. Mind you the size was smaller than normal but for all intents and purposes IT WAS NORMAL LOOKING ! ! ! ! ! !
Watched the movie Abduction. It was just a little below OK. The kid can't act worth a darn but he does have a nice body and that's probably why ( along with the Twilight series popularity) he got this role.
Storyline from IMDB.
Nathan (Taylor Lautner ), a teen, along with his friend, Karen (Lily Collins) finds a website that has photos of children who are missing or believed to have been abducted. They decide to age one of the photos and discover that is of Nathan as a child. He contacts the person who placed the photo to find out what's going on. The person on the other end only wants to know info about Nathan so Nathan hangs up. The person then contacts someone in Europe and shows him a photo of the one who called. He then heads for the U.S. Nathan then wonders is it true, was he abducted. He tells his "mom" who then tells him she and his "father" will tell him. But before they can, two men claiming to be cops show up wanting to talk to Nathan, and when he isn't found they pull guns and demand Nathan be given to them. His parents fight them but are killed. Nathan runs but remembers that he asked Karen to come over...
Watched the movie Abduction. It was just a little below OK. The kid can't act worth a darn but he does have a nice body and that's probably why ( along with the Twilight series popularity) he got this role.
Abduction(2011)
Storyline from IMDB.
Nathan (Taylor Lautner ), a teen, along with his friend, Karen (Lily Collins) finds a website that has photos of children who are missing or believed to have been abducted. They decide to age one of the photos and discover that is of Nathan as a child. He contacts the person who placed the photo to find out what's going on. The person on the other end only wants to know info about Nathan so Nathan hangs up. The person then contacts someone in Europe and shows him a photo of the one who called. He then heads for the U.S. Nathan then wonders is it true, was he abducted. He tells his "mom" who then tells him she and his "father" will tell him. But before they can, two men claiming to be cops show up wanting to talk to Nathan, and when he isn't found they pull guns and demand Nathan be given to them. His parents fight them but are killed. Nathan runs but remembers that he asked Karen to come over...
Thought you might like to know and understand the why of it....
Monday, May 21, 2012
Another movie - Post #3 for today - Exiled
Started to vacuum the family room so turned on Netflix and started to watch a movie entitled Exiled. Talk about a real shoot 'em up. Blood spray well done.
Had to stop running the vacuum and sit down and watch it. 50 times better than Apollo 18, even with the english captioning.
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From IMDB . . . . . . Exiled (2006)
Storyline: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this backdrop come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost.
Had to stop running the vacuum and sit down and watch it. 50 times better than Apollo 18, even with the english captioning.
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From IMDB . . . . . . Exiled (2006)
Storyline: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this backdrop come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost.
Apollo 18 - post # 2 for the day
Watched Apollo 18 this morning. 3 things.
1. - I'm sorry I bought the Blu-ray edition,
2. - I'm sorry I bought it at all,
3. - I fell asleep watching it.
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IMDB synopsis
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
In December, 1973, the crew of the previously-cancelled Apollo 18 mission is informed that the mission is a go, though it has now been deemed a top secret Department of Defense mission. Commander Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen), Lieutenant Colonel John Grey (Ryan Robbins) and Captain Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie) are launched towards the Moon to place detectors to alert the United States of any impending ICBM attacks from the USSR.
Grey remains in orbit aboard the Freedom Command/Service module while Walker and Anderson land on the moon in the lunar module Liberty. While planting one of the detectors, the pair take samples of moon rocks. While attempting to sleep, the pair hear noises outside and a camera captures a small rock moving nearby. Houston (Andrew Airlie's voice) claims the noises are interference from the ICBM detectors. Anderson finds a rock sample on the floor of Liberty despite having secured the samples. During further exploration they discover footprints that lead them to a Soviet LK lander nearby, finding it functional but blood-stained. Anderson follows tracks leading into a dark crater and finds a dead cosmonaut. Walker queries Houston about the Soviet presence but is told only to continue with the mission.
1. - I'm sorry I bought the Blu-ray edition,
2. - I'm sorry I bought it at all,
3. - I fell asleep watching it.
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IMDB synopsis
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
In December, 1973, the crew of the previously-cancelled Apollo 18 mission is informed that the mission is a go, though it has now been deemed a top secret Department of Defense mission. Commander Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen), Lieutenant Colonel John Grey (Ryan Robbins) and Captain Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie) are launched towards the Moon to place detectors to alert the United States of any impending ICBM attacks from the USSR.
Grey remains in orbit aboard the Freedom Command/Service module while Walker and Anderson land on the moon in the lunar module Liberty. While planting one of the detectors, the pair take samples of moon rocks. While attempting to sleep, the pair hear noises outside and a camera captures a small rock moving nearby. Houston (Andrew Airlie's voice) claims the noises are interference from the ICBM detectors. Anderson finds a rock sample on the floor of Liberty despite having secured the samples. During further exploration they discover footprints that lead them to a Soviet LK lander nearby, finding it functional but blood-stained. Anderson follows tracks leading into a dark crater and finds a dead cosmonaut. Walker queries Houston about the Soviet presence but is told only to continue with the mission.
run for the wall -21 May 12
Had a nice weekend... was lazy and did not do too much.
The run for the wall is happening again and with that in mind......
Last night was not the best of nights. Woke up at whatever time and had a "midnight" snack of a glass of milk and 2 sandwiches. Comes 3 AM and my butt hole hurts and I'm ferociously passing gas ferociously. Only one thing to do so I went to the bathroom. Was in there for at least 1/2 hour. When done kinda hurt. Just the lucky life I live I guess.
Stray thought..... Sometimes I laugh so hard tears run down my leg.
The run for the wall is happening again and with that in mind......
Last night was not the best of nights. Woke up at whatever time and had a "midnight" snack of a glass of milk and 2 sandwiches. Comes 3 AM and my butt hole hurts and I'm ferociously passing gas ferociously. Only one thing to do so I went to the bathroom. Was in there for at least 1/2 hour. When done kinda hurt. Just the lucky life I live I guess.
Stray thought..... Sometimes I laugh so hard tears run down my leg.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Movie-Friday #2
Just finished watching Colombiana. What a cool little revenge flick. Zoe Saldana makes skinny sexy... She was good.
Friday and Breakfast and a movie
As a side note having nothing to do with today. After a couple of hours messing with the blogs' layout yesterday, I figured out how to have music play while someone is reading this drivel. Emotional high spot ! !
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Unusual for me but I cooked, for lack of a better description, breakfast this morning. Make a 3 egg, ham and cheese, omelet. Along with the eggs I had buttered toast and orange juice. Seriously breakfast, most of the time, is cereal, cream of wheat, oatmeal, and sometimes chicken noodle soup. So again this was unusual for me to do.
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Did the dishes and then watched a movie called "The Darkest Hour". Description taken from IMDB:
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Not a bad little sci-fi movie. Well, at least, I liked it.
As an added bonus this morning's constitutional was about 90% normal another unusual occurrence. I would post pictures but even I'm not that gross. Makes me feel almost normal.
Maybe more later.
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Unusual for me but I cooked, for lack of a better description, breakfast this morning. Make a 3 egg, ham and cheese, omelet. Along with the eggs I had buttered toast and orange juice. Seriously breakfast, most of the time, is cereal, cream of wheat, oatmeal, and sometimes chicken noodle soup. So again this was unusual for me to do.
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Did the dishes and then watched a movie called "The Darkest Hour". Description taken from IMDB:
Storyline
The American software designers Sean and Ben travel to Moscow to sell their software to investors. However, their Swedish partner Skyler pulls a fast one on Sean and Ben, and they are out of the business. They go to a nightclub, where they meet the Americans Natalie and Anne and they flirt with the girls and see Skyler in the club. Out of the blue, the population is surprised by lights, which they mistake for natural phenomena. But soon, they learn that the lights are aliens invading Earth and using power supply to annihilate mankind. Sean, Ben, Natalie, Anne and Skyler hide in the kitchen and when they leave the place, they seek out survivors on the street. Are they the last people on Earth?**************************************************************
Not a bad little sci-fi movie. Well, at least, I liked it.
As an added bonus this morning's constitutional was about 90% normal another unusual occurrence. I would post pictures but even I'm not that gross. Makes me feel almost normal.
Maybe more later.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Weight chart & My therapist
Took my therapist in for his 8 week grooming appointment. He came out looking like the cutie he is.! ! ! !
Here is the most recent weight chart but what I don't understand is why I did not lose more weight because of the last few kinda miserable days. Oh well.
Here is the most recent weight chart but what I don't understand is why I did not lose more weight because of the last few kinda miserable days. Oh well.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Intimate bathroom time
One of those "things" I've dreaded happening to me happened tonight at 10:15 or so and that was I shit myself. I have/had drunk a lot of water today that contained crystal light - must have been all the sugar, and that might have been why my system was not able to handle it. (Although, drinking Mexican coke with real sugar does not have that kind of affect one me.) I was/have been going to the bathroom once an hour for a least 7 hours with it being basically colored water and minimal particulate matter. Enough so that my hemorrhoid decided to pop out and started to bleed again.
Anyway went to bed at around 9:30, after the sleeping pill started to kick in, so was not able to finish watching the season ending episode of NCIS: LA. At 1015 the pressure at the butt hole had increased enough to wake me up.
I hurriedly slipped off the apnea mask and started walking to the bathroom but it started leaking out of me about 3/4 of the; thankfully nothing leaked onto the carpet. I was able to contain it by grabbing the boxer shorts legs to keep it off the carpeting but by the time I hit the tile in the bathroom it could not be staved off. Needless to say the bathroom floor, the exterior of the commode, my rear, my legs, and the commode interior got coated with excrement. Disgusting Disgusting Disgusting
Now its 1130 PM I've had a shower, the commode has thoroughly been cleaned, along with the tiled floor in the bathroom.
This is the first time since leaving the hospital in August 2010 that this has happened. At least the humiliation was contained to the house. Wife does not even know about it yet. Will probably tell her in the morning.
So now here sitting and drinking a mexican coke and thinking about getting something to eat. Edit: Ended up making 2 ham sandwiches.
How crazy is my F'd up life. At least if I would have had cancer I would have totally recovered or totally died not this piss ant lingering life I now lead. AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! !!
edited on 17 May to add a couple of words
Anyway went to bed at around 9:30, after the sleeping pill started to kick in, so was not able to finish watching the season ending episode of NCIS: LA. At 1015 the pressure at the butt hole had increased enough to wake me up.
I hurriedly slipped off the apnea mask and started walking to the bathroom but it started leaking out of me about 3/4 of the; thankfully nothing leaked onto the carpet. I was able to contain it by grabbing the boxer shorts legs to keep it off the carpeting but by the time I hit the tile in the bathroom it could not be staved off. Needless to say the bathroom floor, the exterior of the commode, my rear, my legs, and the commode interior got coated with excrement. Disgusting Disgusting Disgusting
Now its 1130 PM I've had a shower, the commode has thoroughly been cleaned, along with the tiled floor in the bathroom.
This is the first time since leaving the hospital in August 2010 that this has happened. At least the humiliation was contained to the house. Wife does not even know about it yet. Will probably tell her in the morning.
So now here sitting and drinking a mexican coke and thinking about getting something to eat. Edit: Ended up making 2 ham sandwiches.
How crazy is my F'd up life. At least if I would have had cancer I would have totally recovered or totally died not this piss ant lingering life I now lead. AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! !!
edited on 17 May to add a couple of words
15th of May- - Tuesday - Grass
Short note maybe more later. forgot to weigh myself this AM. Now it is 1015 hrs. had 3 bowel movements this morning. Almost made me not do anything but since no pain no problem.
East side of the house, the side with the 3 Blue Spruce trees I planted grass seed in the bare spots. So got to wait another 3 weeks to see if this seeding takes root. So to speak.
Using this
will hopefullybe become this
Not much was accomplished with the cancer/blood doc yesterday. Am going to restart the liquid iron into my system then 6 weeks go back and be tested. If iron levels are OK they are OK an nothing more to be done. If not OK then the decision to either infuse or infuse with the bone marrow testing. Am probably wrong but I don't think this doctor believes my iron levels are low because the short intestine. I think his specialty blood cancers are overshadowing the short bowel syndrome. We will see.
East side of the house, the side with the 3 Blue Spruce trees I planted grass seed in the bare spots. So got to wait another 3 weeks to see if this seeding takes root. So to speak.
Using this
Not much was accomplished with the cancer/blood doc yesterday. Am going to restart the liquid iron into my system then 6 weeks go back and be tested. If iron levels are OK they are OK an nothing more to be done. If not OK then the decision to either infuse or infuse with the bone marrow testing. Am probably wrong but I don't think this doctor believes my iron levels are low because the short intestine. I think his specialty blood cancers are overshadowing the short bowel syndrome. We will see.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Monday the 14th
Sunday did the yards - weed whacked and mowed. Did not hurt too much. Must mean I'm re-building some muscle....I hope.
Picked up 3 DVDs tday. 1-Underworld: Awakening
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2-Columbiana
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3-Apollo 18
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The two bone marrow tests are aspiration (as-pih-RA-shun) and biopsy.
Bone marrow aspiration usually is done first. For this test, your doctor removes a small sample of fluid bone marrow through a needle. He or she may have some idea of what the problem is, and the sample gives him or her useful information about the cells in the marrow.
A bone marrow biopsy is the followup test. It's done to provide more information about your cells. Also, a biopsy is done if your doctor wants to examine the bone marrow structure itself. For this test, your doctor uses a needle to remove a sample of bone marrow tissue.
Let us just hope neither is required but as I said just do an infusion ! ! ! !
Friday, May 11, 2012
Friday.. In some pain
What a beautiful day; unfortunately I am not enjoying it very much. In a lot of pain due diarrhea all last night and today. Even prep h is not helping and the one hemorrhoid is the size of my thumb. Lordy Lordy but I do hurt. Honestly 'tis my fault. Sometime early last night, I think around midnight, I got up and had two bowls of cereal as the night time munchies. Super mistake.
Coumadin level was a 2.9, so so but I don't have to go back and get it checked until the 31st of the month. Getting better.
After the wife came home yesterday we went to Walgreens to pick up some drugs, Pet smart for doggie treats and dog food, and finally to Sam's Club. Picked up some AA batteries, 2 big bags of mulch, and another hose reel like the one I bought a week or so ago. While we were there we spent an additional $4.60 for 3 Nathan's hot dogs and 2 large sodas. A sumptuous feast in my book ! ! !
Coumadin level was a 2.9, so so but I don't have to go back and get it checked until the 31st of the month. Getting better.
After the wife came home yesterday we went to Walgreens to pick up some drugs, Pet smart for doggie treats and dog food, and finally to Sam's Club. Picked up some AA batteries, 2 big bags of mulch, and another hose reel like the one I bought a week or so ago. While we were there we spent an additional $4.60 for 3 Nathan's hot dogs and 2 large sodas. A sumptuous feast in my book ! ! !
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Nice lady
Should have done this a week ago! ! ! Wife works at a rehabilitation center and was in a conversation with either the head cook or one of them. Wife was talking about what I am not able to eat, things like raw vegetables, which leaves out salads (whoever thought I would be the one to say I miss salads) which my system cannot process among other items. Mind you I can eat anything I want but I pay for it by not being digested and passing straight through my system.
Wife goes in to work the next day and the lady brings her 5 huge Ziploc bags filled with different kinds of pasta salads. I swear there must have been 10 to 12 pounds of food there. Tuna pasta salad, pasta salad with grapes and pineapple, pasta salad with different kinds of cheese and I forget the other two.
Wife asked her how much it cost and the lady got offended ! ! ! I guess she loves to cook, and believe me, it was reflected in all food she made. Lip smakin goot ! ! ! Except there was no broccoli (horrid . . horrid .. vegetable) which I guess tyhe wife told here I disliked with a passion.
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Hard to believe there a folks like that left in this world. Yea sure everyone you talk to say they are that type of person but it is nothing more than the mouth moving and no truth behind it. Anyway what a wonderful and kind lady.
From what I have been given to understand she will just decide to make something and she ends up making a lot of it and her neighbors become the recipients. Damn sure will never turn down any type of food she gives me. grin
Wife goes in to work the next day and the lady brings her 5 huge Ziploc bags filled with different kinds of pasta salads. I swear there must have been 10 to 12 pounds of food there. Tuna pasta salad, pasta salad with grapes and pineapple, pasta salad with different kinds of cheese and I forget the other two.
Wife asked her how much it cost and the lady got offended ! ! ! I guess she loves to cook, and believe me, it was reflected in all food she made. Lip smakin goot ! ! ! Except there was no broccoli (horrid . . horrid .. vegetable) which I guess tyhe wife told here I disliked with a passion.
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Hard to believe there a folks like that left in this world. Yea sure everyone you talk to say they are that type of person but it is nothing more than the mouth moving and no truth behind it. Anyway what a wonderful and kind lady.
From what I have been given to understand she will just decide to make something and she ends up making a lot of it and her neighbors become the recipients. Damn sure will never turn down any type of food she gives me. grin
thursday-coumadin appt.
Gotta get my blood checked today. Curious to what the coumadin level will be. Have been fighting to get it back down to 2.5.
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Know it sounds infantile but I love..LOVE.. I say..... my 2001 FLSTS . Just hope I can get my body back into a condition I can start riding again. Even though the Doctor's (all of them) say it is an extremely bad idea to start riding again. Kills me beyond belief...
Being cleaned up after a trip.
As an aside, means nothing to anyone unless you are an Heritage Springer Owners Association (HSOA) member, as I am, and this ring brought up in a discussion.
Check this website out. What a cool ring.
http://www.kinektdesign.com/
Be really cool to have an HSOA ring based on the first image.
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Know it sounds infantile but I love..LOVE.. I say..... my 2001 FLSTS . Just hope I can get my body back into a condition I can start riding again. Even though the Doctor's (all of them) say it is an extremely bad idea to start riding again. Kills me beyond belief...
Being cleaned up after a trip.
As an aside, means nothing to anyone unless you are an Heritage Springer Owners Association (HSOA) member, as I am, and this ring brought up in a discussion.
Check this website out. What a cool ring.
http://www.kinektdesign.com/
Be really cool to have an HSOA ring based on the first image.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
And she got fired ! !
The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations.
April 30, 2012, 10:24 pm
You’ll have to forgive the lateness but I just got around to reading The Chronicle’s recent piece on the young guns of black studies. If ever there were a case for eliminating the discipline, the sidebar explaining some of the dissertations being offered by the best and the brightest of black-studies graduate students has made it. What a collection of left-wing victimization claptrap. The best that can be said of these topics is that they’re so irrelevant no one will ever look at them.
That’s what I would say about Ruth Hayes’ dissertation, “‘So I Could Be Easeful’: Black Women’s Authoritative Knowledge on Childbirth.” It began because she “noticed that nonwhite women’s experiences were largely absent from natural-birth literature, which led me to look into historical black midwifery.” How could we overlook the nonwhite experience in “natural birth literature,” whatever the heck that is? It’s scandalous and clearly a sign that racism is alive and well in America, not to mention academia.
Then there is Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of “Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s.” Ms. Taylor believes there was apparently some kind of conspiracy in the federal government’s promotion of single family homes in black neighborhoods after the unrest of the 1960s. Single family homes! The audacity! But Ms. Taylor sees that her issue is still relevant today. (Not much of a surprise since the entirety of black studies today seems to rest on the premise that nothing much has changed in this country in the past half century when it comes to race. Shhhh. Don’t tell them about the black president!) She explains that “The subprime lending crisis, if it did nothing else, highlighted the profitability of racism in the housing market.” The subprime lending crisis was about the profitability of racism? Those millions of white people who went into foreclosure were just collateral damage, I guess.
But topping the list in terms of sheer political partisanship and liberal hackery is La TaSha B. Levy. According to the Chronicle, “Ms. Levy is interested in examining the long tradition of black Republicanism, especially the rightward ideological shift it took in the 1980s after the election of Ronald Reagan. Ms. Levy’s dissertation argues that conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, John McWhorter, and others have ‘played one of the most-significant roles in the assault on the civil-rights legacy that benefited them.’” The assault on civil rights? Because they don’t favor affirmative action they are assaulting civil rights? Because they believe there are some fundamental problems in black culture that cannot be blamed on white people they are assaulting civil rights?
Seriously, folks, there are legitimate debates about the problems that plague the black community from high incarceration rates to low graduation rates to high out-of-wedlock birth rates. But it’s clear that they’re not happening in black-studies departments. If these young scholars are the future of the discipline, I think they can just as well leave their calendars at 1963 and let some legitimate scholars find solutions to the problems of blacks in America. Solutions that don’t begin and end with blame the white man.
And their response.. To see Chronicle editors’ final response to the above post, please read “A Note to Readers.”
AND yes I blatantly stole this story and when they (whomever they are) yell at me I will remove it.
QUESTION:::::: Shouldn't everyone have the right to view or read all viewpoints and that was all it was just a viewpoint. So now they pushed me over the edge and I won't be so open minded on this subject any more... so there.
BTW..She is married to a black man. Damn but she sure is prejudiced..
Friday, May 4, 2012
Friday... 4 May 12
Guess I went a little overboard yesterday on my venting. Let myself get a little angry. oh well.
Have a doctor's appointment today. My primary. Now who is she again? Been so long since I've had to see her, been at least a year, well maybe not that long but almost. Heck, while in the hospital for a week in December, I never even heard from her. Good system or is it just very few Doctor's want to come to New Mexico. Guess they can't make the shekels here...
BTW:
shitz
Have a doctor's appointment today. My primary. Now who is she again? Been so long since I've had to see her, been at least a year, well maybe not that long but almost. Heck, while in the hospital for a week in December, I never even heard from her. Good system or is it just very few Doctor's want to come to New Mexico. Guess they can't make the shekels here...
BTW:
shitz
Just another way of saying shit, (noun) without it looking so bad, used to express anger or frustration or confusion or excitement etc...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Trust issues..
Hit another high regarding weight today. 140 pounds even.... dang ! ! Thats' 15 lbs in a month. WoW . . . . .
Let me tell you a little story about trust. If you, by chance, have read any of my previous postings, you will remember the ones about ************************************************************
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SB has become everything he, and I still do, ever hated growing up and that is fanatical over the top christianism. So every time he txt messages me I get biblical quotes and every time he calls and leaves me a message it is a sermon. I just don't need or want my life complicated with or by fanatical pseudo christian fanatics.
Ok the point of this story is I get a txt message out of the blue (May 2nd) from my HS saying, and I quote:
....... ""Hope u were not offended I gave SB your number... He is like how SS was with me. he just wants a relationship with his brother... I remember you saying you had respect for him.. OK. Have a good day."" end quote.
Wonder where that came from or what drove her to text me that message... Oh yeah I remember, asked my SS to not say anything. Gee talk about trust.......
Maybe she should look in the damn mirror and start to truly re-evaluate her own damn life and not try to complicate others. It is just one txt msg or voice message away from locking them all out again. Maybe HS would want me to say something to the supposed molester so that they can work things out. Doesn't she have an understanding of what trust is all about... DAMN DAMN...
I have been super successful over the years in staying out of the family drama and but as soon as I open myself up a little bit look what happens.....
Forewarned is forearmed
Saw an odd little movie called Shadowboxer. It is a thriller saturated in sex and violence, is an extravagance that leaves you with your mouth hanging open — partly in admiration of its audacity and partly in disbelief at its craziness. Playing one of the most unlikely couples in screen history, Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr. are Rose and Mikey, contract killers and lovers living in Philadelphia who happen to be stepmother and stepson.
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Let me tell you a little story about trust. If you, by chance, have read any of my previous postings, you will remember the ones about ************************************************************
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Anyway. ********************************************
SB has become everything he, and I still do, ever hated growing up and that is fanatical over the top christianism. So every time he txt messages me I get biblical quotes and every time he calls and leaves me a message it is a sermon. I just don't need or want my life complicated with or by fanatical pseudo christian fanatics.
Ok the point of this story is I get a txt message out of the blue (May 2nd) from my HS saying, and I quote:
....... ""Hope u were not offended I gave SB your number... He is like how SS was with me. he just wants a relationship with his brother... I remember you saying you had respect for him.. OK. Have a good day."" end quote.
Wonder where that came from or what drove her to text me that message... Oh yeah I remember, asked my SS to not say anything. Gee talk about trust.......
Maybe she should look in the damn mirror and start to truly re-evaluate her own damn life and not try to complicate others. It is just one txt msg or voice message away from locking them all out again. Maybe HS would want me to say something to the supposed molester so that they can work things out. Doesn't she have an understanding of what trust is all about... DAMN DAMN...
I have been super successful over the years in staying out of the family drama and but as soon as I open myself up a little bit look what happens.....
Forewarned is forearmed
Saw an odd little movie called Shadowboxer. It is a thriller saturated in sex and violence, is an extravagance that leaves you with your mouth hanging open — partly in admiration of its audacity and partly in disbelief at its craziness. Playing one of the most unlikely couples in screen history, Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr. are Rose and Mikey, contract killers and lovers living in Philadelphia who happen to be stepmother and stepson.
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