This is my only article today, as I’m going out with my friend in about 2.5 hours, and I still have to eat, dress and get ready to go. I heard from Dr. Nameless this morning on the PET Scan results. I did not know I have liver cancer, until I saw the PET Scan report. Dr. Nameless confirmed that and said that is their primary concern. I have esophageal cancer. You’ve seen the pictures of the tumor. I also have nodules in both lungs. Dr. Nameless found that the cancer has metastasized to my spine at T-11. I thought that the terrible backaches I’ve been having were from spending too much time in my power chair. The report gave no prognosis, so I’ll have to wait until 3/17. Dr. Nameless may correct my oversimplifications. In a word… ARGH! Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:29 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LET IT GO – A Parody
Thanks, Don! We on the left have been willing to coexist and compromise during my adult lifetime, and we still are. However, it is impossible to coexist and compromise with the Republican Reich, because they refuse to coexist and compromise with us. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): I Am a Rock
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
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Cartoon: So very sad & depressing.
PPC: Good harmonizing. Great song/video!
BFTP: Loved and still do, … this song! (describes dt to the nth.)
Tom, I am so deeply saddened with your info re: yourself, and wish that I could make it all go away for you. I will continue to pray… and pray that the good Lord takes good and comforting care of you, on this daily post. Let me know if there is ANYthing that I can do to help you. Taking each full day with friends here, soothes the soul, and the many prayers that all will provide. Rest easy, my dear friend, and know that you are loved. Many, many, many, …BIG ole Hugs from Texas
xo
Thanks, Nameless for the info.
*This just in: “The stock market is in the tank, NK firing off missiles, Turkey & Syria are at war w/Russia pulling the strings, the UK is a mess. We all told his supporters he is unfit and they still think he’s a genius.” ~ Steve J.~
2. “Rex Tillerson is still accurately correct. The guy IS a f’king moron.” ~ Peter V. ~
3. DT is a symptom of a disease worse than any virus, it’s relentless greed and ambition which will divide and destroy the hopes and dreams for future generations before they are ever born. ~ Mary C. ~
4. “Wash your hands like you just shook hands w/Trump.” ~ Randy T. ~
TC, I am very saddened by your news, and wish, this time, that it were fake news. Do take as good care of yourself as possible, and know that we all care about you. You have touched many lives, for the better, and that is, in my personal philosophy, what we need to do in our lives,living in a random universe that spins wildly through time. So, we may as well hold one another’s hands as we go.
‘Toon: One of Fascism’s favorite tools! That and scapegoating.
PPC: One great message, from one great group! Mu idiot cousin and I, after a little bit of further back and forth, she who thinks Dumpy may be “The best president we’ve ever had,” agreed to stop that back and forth. What I had sent to her was “aggravating” she said. I did not respond with “Yes, because to listen to what it says asks/demands that you consider something that is contrary to the fairy tale by which you live. We agreed to continue to love one another.
“I touch no one, and no one touches me.” “And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.” “And what the hell do I care if masses of people die from the virus I say is no big deal? I feel no one’s pain, I am the best, bilgiest rock there ever was and ever will be.” OYYY!
saddened by your news, but as a cat you always land on your feet and seem to get into and out of things that seem impossible…..hoping, wishing, praying for the best for you
Running too late to do it today.
Oh, dear. I can’t even. Well, no nagging today. Spending time with Sandi is almost certainly the very best thing you could do for yourself today. I hope you get to do more of it. We will still be here.
Cartoon – Unfortunately.
Other PP – My new earworm that showed up in my head this morning is “FFV” from “1776.” It reminded me that even then slaveholders were so goddamned (fill in the blank with as many adjectives that see, good to you) that thry would not even vote on a motion to pursue independence if it were introduced by a Yankee. #MoscowMitch is their direct spiritual descendant. However, it also remonds me that there was one anyway who was willing to help. Are there any today? Well, there’s Steve Schmidt, there’s Rick Wilson, there may even be Mitt Romney. It’s not s huge group. One oher thing that Don, and certainly Bill, are not taking into the mix here is that many of these people have committed croimes, not crimes like jaywalking, but crimes like treason and RICO crimes. Sure, we could let that be. But that’s what we did after the Civil War, and, frankly, it didn’t turn out so well. Not that anyone listens to me.
Past – Yes. You are. A rock and a fighter. But not an island. You do and have touched many and we have touched you as well. And we are here for you.
Tom,
I’m so sorry that you are having to go through so many health issues. I’ve been reading your posts since way back in the Care2 days. I hope to read many more. I will send healing thoughts your way. I had a neighbor friend that also has the spine issue and she has been able to manage it with good medical care. May your prognosis be much better than you expect.
Robert B.
The Cartoon – “Der ist Schuld am Kriege” – roughly translates to “The war is his fault”
WRT the PET Scan, I would add one HUGE caveat: I am neither a radiologist nor an oncologist – so I would advise some caution in my interpretation of TC’s scan.
I would additionally add that I’m not sure it’s their “primary concern” – but it’s the Primary (first/original) site of malignancy. But that’s only based on the ordering physician’s Indication for the study in which s/he indicated the liver cancer as the reason for the study. That’s a reasonable conclusion on my part, but not necessarily an accurate one.
And in the interim, I hope TC is not shy WRT requesting from one of his docs some pretty hefty pain meds.
Nameless, on your caveat, I realize you are “neither a radiologist or an oncologist.” Nevertheless, if I survive over three years, I will blame you for my good fortune.
I consider it more likely that the the radiologist considered it the original malignancy. Before the PET Scan, none of my doctors knew the liver or spinal cancers existed.
Well, Alex Trebek recently made it to one year (18% odds) and his oncologist fully expects him to make it to two (7% odds.) The vid is nuder two minutes.
Great vid, JD, but since it was “nuder” two minutes, I expected to see dirty pictures, while watching it!
LOL! You have no monopoly on typos.
It saddens me too to read of the medical results. I have been and will continue praying for you, TC.
I hope that there’s things that they can do to help you like slow down the growth,ease/prevent pain.
Cartoon: Sad indeed.
PPC: Great one.
Hope you had a nice visit with your friend. You certainly needed to get out for a positive reason, instead of medical ones.
Take care.
Thanks TomCat
I’m dumbstruck reading about your overall results of the PET-scan, TomCat. It seems unreal that all of this has developed and spread so fast when all signs that you had combatted the tumour in your eye so effectively. With you, I hope with all my heart that the prognosis is much better than these raw results suggest as many different treatments have been developed over the past few years which could give you a number of years more with quality of life. Part of that may be not shying away from strong painkillers which do not affect your mental capacities. Because there’s absolutely nothing wrong with those and they’re what make you TomCat.
3:36 Don’t choke on a fishbone.
Cartoon: That’s how it started…
PP: Great song, great harmonies, great video but America’s left will have to be the one to let it go, Bananrepublicans never do.
BFTP: Alltime great. You’re a tower of strength, TomCat, but you’ll never need to be a rock or island because we’re there with you, even if we can only virtually love and comfort you.
Thanks everyone for your strong concerns and wishes.
For those of you who suggested strong pain meds, the only way I can get Oxycodone in Oregon is to deliver my prescription to the pharmacy in person. So, I’ll ask when I’m at the hospital next Tuesday, and hopefully fill a big supply at the hospital pharmacy.
Painful Hugs to all!
Tell me about voter suppression. We have Goddess-awful voter suppression here in Georgia, which is how we got Brian Kemp as our Governor. He sat on over 50,000 voter applications, and oversaw the attempt to close numerous voting locations in a majority black county. The attempt, thankfully, failed because enough people raised enough hell. However, we still have insecure voting machines, as well as a system that favors rich, mainly white neighborhoods over all others. Polls in lily-white conservative neighborhoods have plenty of machines that work, and thus short lines; polls in minority and/or economically disadvantaged neighborhoods have fewer machines. People can take only so much time from work in order to vote.
Sorry I’m late learning about this, TC! Can you get medical marijuana?
I have no words to express my feelings about your health news. Do what makes you happy and do your best to enjoy every day.
You know how many of us love and appreciate you. Peace, love, and prayers. Hugs from Carrie and Barry.
Thank you both very much for your kindness and concern.