Good Better Best

Good, Better, Best when it comes to any positive ruling from SCOTUS, this... June?  Yeah, no extra insight hit me.  Or predictions.  Or observtion that Gottlieb could roll to the squish side at any time, but especially in a critical time.

So you get a Good Better Best health report instead.  I am reacting to the Acalabrutinib chemo well.  No noticeable reaction, at all, actually. Taking meds to make me pee like a mad man.  Gotta get all them kilt protein bits out of there.  Still have good electrolytes, tho.  Hemoglobin still sub 8.  I will feel better when it goes 9+.  My days seem long, still because I am tired already, but often have a post work doctor visit.  That'll improve.  Feet sores still improving.  Lyrica still helping my back pain, somehow. Cautious optimism after 19 months of wheel spinning.

 

This is what they thought I had, at first

And it is no joke.

Medical people will draw a quick breath when you tell them.  My mom was a nurse for 30 years, and a good one.  She's the only one that I told it might be multiple myeloma, and I had no idea what it was.  She got real quiet on the phone. 

They thought I had this because I had back pain.  They assumed that meant I had tumors in my spine marrow.  Because that's a feature of myeloma.  I bet it hurts more and more as it progresses.

Poor bastard.  

Alec Baldwin Case

 I form opinions on the fatal situation on the Rust set, then discard them.  I have no idea what happened and no one is testifying in fine enough detail to make any of it less of a black hole.  So I have been checking myself.

Plenty of internet guessing, which I am not usually shy about, but not in the mood this time.  

Four rules, yes yes, Baldwin an ass, yes yes, union obfuscation, yes yes.  It's still, days later, opaque.

Wonder if we will ever know…

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Well, the local paper is trying to lay facts on us at least.  

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!

 

Sunshine

It's almost wool socks season....

I am unduly psyched.  Maybe I'll have been personal temperature regulations this season. 

And they are cushiony.  Good for my feet.  Which better heal.

Foot sores slightly better.  AND got a 4PM appt with the guy on Tuesday.  Good, because I get 4PM appts with the Oncologist on MWF.  This is perfect.  Maybe I can increase sick time again instead of digging a hole.

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Waiting for the chemo drug to get FedExed to me was a HUGE ordeal that burned 3 vacation days sussing out.  First, FedEx HATES to get signatures in my neighborhood.  Slows em down?  No come to the remote parking lot across town in the sketch neighborhood after dark, instead.  "Oh, you are disabled?  And this is cancer medicine?  Lemme see if we can help you, Mr. Jovian."  Always with the Mr. First-Name.  Anyway, we are now off to the races.

I Just Love This Ad

I mean just look at it. I want a Cadillac AND a Python, now.

Sorta Gun Content

That dirtbag in Parkland Florida that everyone in authority let hurt other people since pre-school until he finally murdered 17 high schoolers plead guilty to all counts.   

Murder and attempted first degree murder.  

Florida still executes folks, but a jury has to make that determination.

I think it would have been a better idea to get this kid out of genpop back in those preschool days.  Everyone knew he needed help.  Stop it and try to fix it then and this post never would have happened.  Hell, maybe the dirtbag would have been free and happy today.  

Heyyyy!

If I talk about it here, it happens in real life.  You are like a reverse jinx.

Got the call from the drug people, my Chemo is coming.

Unlike Walter White, it will be a capsule.  Huh.  Twice daily acalabrutinib.  AKA Calquence.  Almost anti-climactic, unless the monster returns from what you thought was a sure death to give you a jump scare at the end of the movie.

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Wait!  The Oncologist says I still gotta get IV fluids.  Can't Gatorade do the trick, Doc?

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Oh crap, and a crap load of other pills.  For weird stuff.  I was totally wrong on how easy this would be.  But we ARE postponing that Endoscopy, so that is good.

Daily pill to help the kidneys process out all the protein

A pill for nauseas if needed

A  pill three times a week to defend from a pnuemonia

A pill twice a day to fend off Shingles, and, yes, even if I had the Shingles shot.  

Ugh.  

Moral Dilemma Meme

Well...

 

Yeah, if your dog fell in the icy canal, and a person fell in at the same time.  A stranger.  The cold will overcome them quickly.  It is only possible to save one in time.  You save the person.  That's some mother's child!  Someone's brother.  Mourn your dog.  What a horrible thing to have to face.  

If someone is badly hurting your dog for no reason, and you are willing to shoot them, well, that person has demonstrated who they are.  They are willing to hurt a dog.  Imagine how much else that person is capable of.  Yes, I would value my dog more than that guy's life.

Trying to steal my dog?  A bit of a gray area.  

  

Medical Hmmmmmm...

I am suppose to get a procedure done Thursday.  Endoscopy.  No, the front end.

"We might have to reschedule you because the machine is down and we are waiting for parts.  I'll get back to you."

Huh.  Real, and this is just a thing that happens?  Delays from supply problems?  Lack of staff because you canned a buncha nurses for non-Pfizer-compliance?

Supposed to get a call last week about starting Chemo.  Initially it will be one from insurance company, "Hey, your doc called about us shipping him a buncha SUPER expensive cancer juice with short shelf life to give to you.  Are you expecting this?" To which I am supposed to answer "Yes.  Let's get this treatment started, finally."  Still no call.

Huh.  Real, and this is just a thing that happens?  Delays from supply problems?  It's not a lack of staff at the Oncologist I don't think.  It's not like they need a suite of medicos to start an IV while I sit in the La-Z-Boy.

Look what they done to me

I tell ya, Dentists have nothing on Podiatrists for causing pain.  These are bullshit.  Suppose to wear these whenever I am not sleeping.  Shower every other day.  Change the dressing underneath after the shower.  

Doctors aren't there to make you better.  They are there to make you sorry.  

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Angry

 

Court Martial

Of the Marine Lt. Col. that spoke out about upper command regarding the conduct of the GWOT.

Huh.

I did NOT expect that.  

Letter of reprimand and a $5k fine.  Now he gets an honorable discharge.  And the judge was disgusted by the unnecessary pre-trial detention in the brig.  

Michigan, the PLEASURE Penninsula...

Forget it.  It's not what I thought it was.  SO disappointing.

 

Va.

I was told it was JUST the University of Virginia that was a rape factory.  Now I learn it's the DC suburbs Virginia High Schools, too.

 

Brade Runnah

Adult Swim

 

I agree, Chuck

“No family should have to choose between heating their home or putting food on the table,” Sen. Charles Schumer says as federal officials tell Americans to expect sharp increase in heating bills. https://t.co/Exsipjc0CZ pic.twitter.com/EvmP89mJw8

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 14, 2021

I Really Have to Stop Going to Doctors

I just get more RAGEY each time I do.   One of the things about having lack of energy from the Anemia?  I makes me more hesitant when it comes to the breakables.  Like: "I could smash this coffee cup because the special boot the foot doctor gave me threatens to make things worse my blowing out my knee, THUS ENRAGENING ME!!!, but then I'd have to sweep up all the pieces and make a new pot of soup, so, exercise a bit more self-control.  Hey, write a blog post about this!"

Still stuck in stage 2 of the 5 stages of grief, clearly.

My Rep used to say Pearl Harbor

Changed to Fort Sumter pretty quick.  Now?

Looking forward to Steve Bannon's deposition tomorrow and receiving all the testimony and evidence we subpoenaed.

This is a legal order as well as a civic duty to share info about the most sweeping violent attack on Congress since the War of 1812.

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) October 13, 2021

 

Here is footage of those Trumpists trying to break in and it IS worse than 1812.

“Put the tasers down!” protesters chant at police who are using tasers to clear the crowd around the doorway of the Department of the Interior. Some activists are walking away from the doorway hurt, and protesters are yelling for medics to help. pic.twitter.com/4SvT9tfuYT

— Ellie Silverman (@esilverman11) October 14, 2021