Well…after the meeting with the radiologist this morning and finding out that the radiation treatments go on for almost 4 months, I decided to do the surgery instead…and got the ball rolling by talking to my surgeon’s scheduler to get the surgery scheduled…and it will be October 24 at 7:30 in the morning…going down the night before and staying in a hotel with my daughter and then a 10 minute drive to the hospital….and the scheduler is going to set up all the rest of the follow up appointments and the rehab…so, finally, some movement…going to donate my prostate to medical research for an ongoing study U of M has….so maybe that will help someone else that gets this crap….if I waited any longer, I’d have to have another biopsy and MRI…and I never want another biopsy
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Arrest the ass…
Well…normally, that title would signal that this one was going to be about the idiot trump but it really isn’t…this time the ass is ron desantis who is back to his game of spending taxpayers money fly asylum seekers to California, just as he did when he sent a planeload of people to Martha’s Vineyard and abandoned them there…but this time he may have chosen the wrong state since the AG in California is looking into charges for kidnapping and other felonies to bring against this moron…and a sheriff in Texas has filed a felony criminal complaint for the earlier stunt just today…so lets get moving and indict this punk and derail his delusion that he is going to be elected president…and his losing ways just keep going when a judge just today ruled that his bill outlawing transgender care is unconstitutional, saying that there are no facts in the bill but just dog whistles of hate and finding for a permanent injunction to keep it from taking effect…so desantis is just another right wing loser who has tried to codify hate and has failed spectacularly….geez…
June 6th
Well…up at 5:53 this morning and I’m feeling pretty worn out after all the work yesterday but it’s going to be an easier one today…just have the radiation oncology meeting at 9:30 and then have the rest of the day off…need to figure out what to eat today but nothing grabs me…need to get on the bike for the first ride by 7:30 and then do the second one when I get back…it is nice to get the cancer treatment moving and know that something’s happening instead of just waiting…and I’ve been waiting since last October…it got down into the 50’s last night but still no rain…and the low is going to be 50 tonight so I’ll have to remember to close this place up tonight…it’s cold in here right now and I think that woke me up this morning…I like it hot but the cool is a little refreshing…I now have a “beach hazards” warning on my lower banner and the wind is supposed to pick up later today so there will be high waves…think I may go to the beach for a swim Thursday and try to get back into my routine after all of the doctor stuff this week…not much to do today…just going to do the appointment and then try to clean a bit….health stuff is a lot of work…more later…
It’s getting close…
Well..with the widely reported news that the idiot trump’s lawyers met with the DOJ today, the speculation is that the DOJ was informing them that they are getting close to indicting trump in the stolen documents case…and after that meeting, idiot boy went absolutely apeshit on his failing social media platform tweet out a bunch of all caps tweets that were nothing but lies and delusions…going back to the oldie but goodie that Biden has 8,500 boxes of documents stored in his garage next to his Corvette…the boxes with records of his time as a senator and as VP that were donated to the University of Delaware and that were handed over by the National Archive, following the rules for those records…but idiot boy is too stupid to know any of that and always projects his own crimes on everyone else…hoping for a perp walk for this one…they really should confiscate his passport since he is a flight risk sine that is the only way he is going to get out of this one and the coming indictments from Georgia….tick tock, trump…you’re going to jail…geez…
One down…
Well…got the first of the three doctors appointments done and I am happy with this surgeon…it’s all he does is prostate cancer work and he removes it through 4 small holes using a medical robot…3 hour surgery and one night in the hospital…the only thing is that it has to happen the week after we get back or I have to have another biopsy and MRI and have to pay for it and after the 5 grand for the surgery, I don’t want to spend any more money….my daughter is driving in from Maryland to keep her schedule flexible and stay later or go home earlier depending on how I’m feeling…and she is going to load the car up with household stuff from the summer home that I can use…good to get the process started…
June 5th
Well…damn…it felt like I slept in this morning but what I thought was 8 o’clock was really 6:13…and I was cold with leaving the bedroom window open and no covers on….it got down into the 50’s last night and the heat is going to break a bit so that will be welcome…today is the video conference with the surgeon and I wonder why they have to make it so frickin complex and not just do a phone call…this is really stressful for me and people living in the modern world don’t understand it…they just assume that everyone has new computers, smartphones, and tablets that work seamlessly and I won’t be able to relax today until it’s over…at least the channels are back on emby so I don’t have to spend two hours getting them back again today….I think not eating enough has become a downward spiral for me…just don’t care about it anymore with not being able to taste anything…if this keeps up, I could get down into the 150’s by July and I know that’s not healthy…I am going to get two rides in this morning but I need more coffee first…need to clean up the couch to make for a neat backdrop for the video call today and I need to drag the tripod up from downstairs to hold the tablet…this whole process of being sick is so damn tiring….more later…
The garden lives…
Well…I just realized that it looks like the garden is going to survive and I even have some surviving tomato plants…and I noticed that the potato parts I planted have come up and are about 8 inches tall…pretty cool….and the broccoli has shot up about 4 inches this week in the heat….along with the radishes…I wonder if you can freeze radishes? Even the pepper plants are rallying and look like they are going to grow….the beans already have flowers on a couple of them but the plants are pretty small so the beans probably will be, too….just remembered to go out and feed everything before I watered for the last time today….so there is hope I’ll get something from the garden even with the crappy start…can’t wait to see what I get….I think I even have lettuce up that is cool…
A little politics…
Well…have been pouring over all of the media that I read every day trying to come up with a political topic with no luck at all…okay, a little luck when I read about a new poll that states the phrase “adults in the room” has started popping up in comment in the polls…and it has started to move the needle toward the dems since Joe Biden got the debt ceiling threat taken care of and the repubs had their shiny toy of the debt ceiling taken away…oh, and Fani Willis has expanded her investigation that most pundits are saying signals a possible RICO charge for the idiot boy…and that is a minimum of 20 years in prison with a conviction…oh, and there is some rep from Colorado named Buck who thinks that idiot boy being indicted for 34 crimes so far and losing the 5 million bucks in the civil suit and facing all the rest of the coming charges is going to be good for him since it shows that idiot boy is “tough”….man, what the hell are these guys drinking? Geez…
June 4th
Well…up a little before 6 this morning and have just spent almost 2 hours getting my emby guide re populated so I can use it today…and that made me too late to get a bike ride in before the F1 race at 9…I am just so damn worn out today and I’m not looking forward to all of the damn medical crap this week…might even take the day off the bike today but you know I won’t….there is a red flag warning for wildfires today with no rain, wind, and high temps for today….it looks like we are going to go another 10 days with no rain out here and that will get up to 50 days without any and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my long life….we’re into June without any storms at all? That is pretty darn strange….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with very little motivation going on with me…I know that half a pork chop, two spoonfuls of potato salad, and some asparagus is not enough to support two rides but without being able to taste anything, I just don’t care about eating anymore….not much to do today….just going to sit here for a while and have more coffee as I try to figure out what the day is going to look like….more later…
Almost forgot…
Well…darn, I almost forgot to come back here and do another one today…and there really isn’t any reason for it other than I’ve been bored…the tv service my son runs and where I get all my live tv has been down all day and that sucks since he isn’t talking to me…I did text him this morning but won’t hear back so I missed all the races today and will probably miss them tomorrow, too…sucks…I did get a few things done today…pulled the weeds in the lawn, did laundry, and made dinner of asparagus in the air fryer…it looks like I’m getting my bills again with getting the electric bill yesterday and a credit card bill today…so that takes a load off…I need to spend the day getting all of the paperwork done for my consults on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday…and I can’t wait for them to be over…my daughter sent me another care package today that had 2 Contego coffee cups, 2 instant pot cookbooks, 2 pairs of compression socks, and two huge, 100% cotton beach towels in it…they are selling the summer home and she said I’ll be getting lots more home stuff like sheets and bath towels over the next few weeks…I can use anything and I have room for it so why not?