Guard Your Health

Guard your health. 

It's the most prescious possession God has given you.

Once it's gone, you are doomed.

Back Home

Finally back home after ten days lying on my back
in the Hospice medical facility with a catheter in my
bladder so they could irrigate it -- sort of like flushing
out the radiator of a car.

Then last Wednesday when they were going to send me
home there were more clots in my urine so they sent me
to the emergency room at Del Webb Hospital in Sun City
on Thursday for a possible bladder bypass.

When you called me I was in the emergency room.

The folks at Del Webb took an ultrasound of my kidneys
to see if urine was backing up into my kidneys and found
out that my kidneys were ok and they wouldn't have to do
the bladder bypass after all.

But the results of a blood test showed that I had a urinary
tract infection. The doc gave me an IV of antibiodics for
that and the doc sent me home with a prescription for more.

The "golden years" definitely suck . . .

I'll Have Another Eyes Triple Crown

I'll Have Another ran down Bodemeister again, this time at the Preakness on Saturday May 19th and won by a neck to win the second leg of the Triple Crown . 

Will this great little thoroughbred have what it takes to win at Belmont in three weeks?

Why I've Been Away

Last year was not a good year for me, medically speaking.  Early in 2011  I was diagnosed with chronic leukemia, then a few months later bladder cancer.  They couldn't remove the bladder because I had vascular problems (blocked carotid artery) and a history of heart problems that caused people at the VA Medical Center to conclude there was a good chance I wouldn't survive the bladder surgery.

So I was sent to 21st Century Oncology at Boswell Hospital in Sun City for radiation treatment on the bladder, but before they started the treatment, the doc ordered a PET scan to see if there was cancer anywhere else in my body.  When the scan results came back a couple of weeks later they called me and told me they had cancelled the radiation treatment because the cancer had spread to outside the bladder, and that I also had cancer in both lungs.

They referred me back to Dr Salvatore, Oncologist at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix. When I got to see him a few days later, he told me that he had seen the report from the PET scan and that he believed I had "zero chance" of making it for another year.  That was back in December 2011.  He then asked me if I'd like to be referred to Hospice Nursing Care.

I've been getting weekly visits from RN Celia Lomas, a Hospice of The Valley nurse  and also visits from a social worker and a Hospice Chaplain for the past two months. While this has been going on, I moved from an apartment in Youngtown to a condo in Sun City, where I have a wonderful patio out back with a little garden area in which I'm growing a few vegetables and trying to make the best of my situation.  I've gotten somewhat weaker of late and take a lot of naps, but I really don't feel all that bad, considering my dire situation.

I'll continue to post articles on this blog for as long as I'm able.

When talent was talent -- a classic

http://videos2view.net/Hope-Cagney.htm

Bob Hope, age 52, and James Kagney, age 56, entertain at a Friars Club dinner.

Politics -- Ed's Rental.com says it all

Supreme Court rules no Nativity Scene in Washington DC

The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be

a Nativity Scene

in the United States’ Capital this Christmas season.

This isn't for any religious reason.

They simply have not been able to locate Three Wise Men in the Nation's Capital.

There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

A search for a Virgin continues.