Well…talked to the surgeon this morning and that conversation burst my bubble of being cured from the cancer…and reading the report today there appears to still be a 2mm spot in the tissue left behind since he couldn’t take that out or all of the nerves would have been gone and I’d be peeing myself for the rest of my life…so now my life hangs in the balance with the PSA test in the first week of September…if it’s not 0, I still have cancer and we will start to talk about more treatment and that just sucks…this surgery was supposed to be it and I’d be done with it….pretty damn depressed right now…
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Since when is following the law optional?
Well…ever since the ascendance of the idiot trump and his utter disdain for the law, the repubs have embraced the idea and have all started doing the same all the time…an it’s my contention that they still think following the law is optional…for them anyway and we saw that as they protected idiot boy through two impeachments and are continuing to protect him by bashing everyone involved in all of his investigations/prosecutions. Now we have the media making a big deal that Mike Pence has said he will “comply with the law” when asked if he will testify at idiot boy’s January 6th trial…making him out to be some kind of hero for agreeing to testify…and I will say it right here…nope, he is not any kind of a hero and he has no choice but to testify if given a summons….that’s how this works…witnesses aren’t given a choice whether to testify ever…and it’s entirely up to the prosecutor who is going to testify…and now we are making pence out to be a hero when he was in the planning meetings for the coup attempt and never did or said anything about when he knew it was against the law…you know he could have spoke up on the 4th of January 2021 when idiot boy’s lawyers came to him to ask him not to certify the election results on the 6th…so, no, he is no kind of a hero…a hero would have stood up the first time he heard of the plot in 2020, and not wait til now to speak….geez…
August 8th
Well..running about on time today and I’m at this at 6:30 so I’ll be able to get to the grocery run around 8…need to hit Menards for oil and a filter for the car and I need to make a DD run to get some 1/3 pound burgers for 2.99 a pound…not cheap but I can really use a burger on the grill to try to gain some weight….the pain is completely gone in my abdomen and today marks two weeks since the surgery…was certain that it was going to take longer to heal but I am still learning the new normal with my incontinence and how it feels….not a problem during the day but I’m still having problems at night that sucks…oh, well…it was an okay day yesterday and it felt good to get something done for a change…going to do the grocery run today and I’m excited to drive my car for the first time in almost 3 weeks….top down and smiling…the idiots were at it again last night and I had to make a call and I’m going to do it every time they pollute this neighborhood with their bullshit…now it’s personal and I am going to make them pay….not much to do today…just the grocery run and maybe some cleaning but I’ll take it pretty easy…two weeks after the surgery and only 4 weeks until I can get on the bike again…do I want to before the trip? The way I feel right now is yep…going to give it a try….more later….
Who cares?
Well…the media is going crazy since desantis said something the other day…in an interview over the weekend, ole ron said that the idiot trump lost the 2020 election and that Joe Biden was the legitimate president…then he went on to say that all of the conspiracy theories that the right spouts have been proven wrong…and the media has now started to push the idea that this is a “new” ron…one who is willing to tell the “truth”…but my question is: who cares? Ole ron has been lying his ass off since the 2020 election and has toed the line of the crazies in the repub party until now…and he is furiously trying to walk back these comments by trying to say the election “was not run good” but the result are the results and we “have to” live with it…but we won’t have to live with ronnie since his campaign is going down in flames as measured by crowd size as he stumps in Iowa where less than a dozen people came out to listen to him prattle on about nothing…he couldn’t even get people to come out in NH where he offered free beer…so, let’s just ignore ole ronnie from now on and let him scuttle back and continue to ruin Florida…geez…
Got the lawn mowed..
Well…looked outside when I got up this morning and knew I had to mow the lawn today…had no pain at all so I went out and walked about half speed and made sure to put no strain on my abdomen…and now I’m sitting here still with no pain so I guess I did it right…still not going to lift anything heavier than 8 pounds for a couple of weeks just to make sure I don’t hurt myself…didn’t want to have to have my son do the 80 mile round trip to come out here to mow when I am feeling no pain…might have a little stiffness from it but that’s to be expected…but now I’m taking the rest of the day off as I look for a political topic for a little later….back in a while…
August 7th
Well..damn, it’s almost 7:30 and for some reason, my hands and fingers feel like they are asleep today…I think it’s from sleeping okay last night…didn’t wake up once all night but sure don’t feel like it…pretty worn out today and it looks like I’ll be easing into it since it’s the only path forward right now….the coffee needs to work soon or I’ll be taking a nap by 8….had an okay but lazy day yesterday…didn’t get anything done at all but cook but I am going to break the rules today and mow the lawn…but not my normal way of doing it where I throw the mower around…it will be a mindful mowing where I think about every time I have to exert myself to make sure I don’t injure my abdomen…made a salad with the leftover Romaine lettuce my daughter bought and I put my pickled onions on it and it was so good…might go out to DD to get some Angus burgers for 3 bucks a pound…just want to drive the car for some reason and a grilled burger would taste so good….need to get back to being me while balancing that with continuing to heal….is this going to be my life now? Sure don’t want to be a “cancer survivor” the rest of my life…if I can get through the UK trip and ride my bike a couple of times, that will be enough….more later…
Climate change is really real…
Well…I don’t understand how anyone can still think that climate change is not real…and it not just weather…weather changes all time is what the deniers say…but that does not explain how Phoenix has had 37 days in a row of over 110 degree highs…the arctic has even had hundred degree temps this summer…in South America, it’s the middle of winter and 9,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes it is over 100 degrees…temperatures that have never happened before…and this heat is melting the snow cover that people downstream depend on for water to survive in the summer…now that IS climate change, folks…these temperatures are higher than in Paris this summer that has caused heat emergencies all summer….we need to stop subsidizing the oil and gas companies and have a government program that will put solar cells on every house in this country…not low cost but free…I know that sounds socialist but the good things in this country comes from socialism…think roads, schools, and infrastructure….our taxes pay for that stuff and it can do the same for renewable energy…geez…
Pickled green peppers are good..
Well…just before my daughter left yesterday, she reminded me that I had half a green pepper that needed to be used…so, I got the brainstorm to slice it up and put it in the jar of pickled red onions I made…just got them out to put on the sausage I’m cooking for lunch, part two and they are just so good…a mix of green pepper taste and onion taste that I think I do again when I make the next jar of onions…going to put the rest of the green peppers on the sausage when I eat here in a minute….
August 6th
Well…running a little late this morning and I’m easing into the day so I’ll probably be late for everything all day…not that I have any schedule to adhere to today…have a high winds notation at the bottom of the screen right now but the rain has been moved out to tomorrow so that’s a little disappointing but what can you do? I am going to harvest the rest of the broccoli this morning and make a meal of it but I’m not going to plant it again next year…way too little harvest from those huge plants…it’s going to take a little while to get used to being here alone again but it’s okay…it took a lot of energy to interact all day everyday for the last two weeks and now I need to recharge a bit…I did get out to get some yard work done yesterday but I need to rest today and take care of myself no matter how I feel…feel okay and don’t hurt too much this morning so I guess I’m doing it right…still not gaining any weight so I need to eat more today and keep that up for a while…not much to do today…going to watch the MotoGP race in a few minutes and then just wing it for the day…more races on later and maybe even some soccer…need to remember that I am still on restrictions and don’t do anything stupid….more later….
Trump is dumbest person on the Earth…
Well…if you listened to the arraignment of the idiot trump earlier this week, you heard the judge warn idiot boy to not threaten witnesses…and made sure he knew it is a crime to do so…but that didn’t sink in to the thick head of the idiot…just last night he posted this to his failing truth social “you come after me, I’ll come after you” and immediately, Jack Smith asked the judge for a protection order to keep his staff safe from any of the crazies that may take that as a order to attack Jack Smith and his staff…a brilliant move that flagged that trump had broken the restrictions without actually saying it…and this judge is not having any of it and has ordered idiot boy’s lawyers to explain his statement by 5 pm Monday afternoon….and trump has been backpedaling and making excuses ever since trying to explain away the threat he made…but I don’t think that is going to matter to the judge…at the very least she should impose a gag order on idiot boy…or my preference, lock him up until the trial just like any other defendant would be…and that would be 6 months in the slammer even before the trial…finally, maybe she can get idiot boy to shut the hell up so we don’t have to listen to him anymore…geez…