Memnison Journal

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

*snifl* Went to bed around 8:45, and woke up at 10:30 when Susan came to bed - partly because I was stuffed up and couldn’t breathe well through the CPAP, and partly because of the fuss of Susan getting into place and the dog trying to get next to MOMMY for the night.  Looked around [...]

Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by.   Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]

Been having a lot of difficulty with my injured foot over the last few days, and the podiatrist looked at it today and threw in the towel on the course of therapy I’ve been getting since February.  He said it’s opened up deeper, and he’s bascially decided to operate on the thing and fix it [...]

When I get the mail, I open up the bills, and of course, there’s always a bunch of statements from Blue Cross / Blue Shield on The Bills.  Having a damned expensive year on health costs, due to your Humble Narrator’s health problems, has been also damned painful.  And a LOT of paperwork.  At this [...]

Vertigo.  Bad case of it over the weekend, woke up with it on Saturday morning, two major attacks that left me losing my stomach and so on.  Tried some meclizine that was left over from a similar attack when I had an ear infection a while back, and it didn’t cut it.  Susan ran me [...]

Mere came down on Wednesday and Thursday with a high fever, and the doctor concluded that it was strep throat; I had to keep my extreme distance until she was no longer massively contagious.  She ended up being allergic and breaking out in hives with amoxycillin, but she’s on something else now, and it seems [...]

For the last several weeks, I’ve been undergoing a special treatment for my foot wound that had been seemingly working to heal the thing up; it’s been problematic for six months, and required two operations and a lot of IV and otherwise antibiotics.  But last week, my podiatrist said that he didn’t like what he [...]

Still tired from the con; the entire family went minus Grandma Connie but including my visiting niece Kelbi, who decided to volunteer for the childcare room, and worked her butt off there! ( I think she racked up 15 hours…very dedicated.) She didn’t want the con, she wanted the kids!
Well, chacun a [...]

Bush: Let’s move the USDA contagious disease test operation from a deserted island to the middle of Kansas farm country!
A simulated outbreak of the disease in 2002 — part of an earlier U.S. government exercise called “Crimson Sky” — ended with fictional riots in the streets after the simulation’s National Guardsmen were ordered to kill [...]

Back from the meeting with the leukemia doc, and Susan’s totally worn out and has stumbled upstairs to bed to crash.  Her leg’s been really bad today; the doc says that it’s a type of knee problem, where you aggravate the knee and a cyst with excess fluid forms in the back; in her [...]

…this one to Northwestern, for the ‘radical biopsy’ which will essentially cut out my  lefttsalivary gland and some related tissues to see what’s going on in there.  I have my suspicions, but this should be resolved over the next two weeks of tissue studies and whatnot.
My greatest fear in regard to the actual surgery is [...]

The ear infection is dying out; still taking the cipro for it, along with the other stuff, and the pain died down earlier this week so that it’s bearable.    However…

The whole poisonous-crap-in-Chinese-products thing is expanding all the time.  Here’s a WaPo story going on about the roots of it all; the corrupt deals between the Communist Party powers and fast-buck businessmen who all want to make the quickest buck possible, as the expense of anyone else, and are not interested in being exposed.  That’s [...]

NY Times on US Guidelines for a Flu Pandemic