Tag: Personal Thoughts

Time For Me To Share

I do not usually share much of my personal life here on IST but from time to time I feel it necessary to do so to explain some odd behavior of mine.

Most time some of the personal is just that and I do not want to share….but times change and times require a little more information.

This ordeal started in July and the visit with my doctor for my semi-annual check-up….everything was okay until they found a small amount of blood in my urine.

This prompted me to go see a urologist for a more detailed exam…..after the poking and prodding and the much loved finger wave….I was told that there was a mass on my prostrate and was given an appointment for a biopsy.

The biopsy took about 30 minutes and your body is in a humiliating position.

That went well and of course I had to sit around on pins and needles waiting for a call that the results were in.

After a week I was called to let me know the findings were in and could I return for a consultation.

I sat on pins and needles waiting for the doctor and he finally showed and said that the biopsy came back positive and that he wanted to send me in for a PET scan.

Another week of anticipation is just what I needed.

My next visit was to show me what the PET scan had located….sure enough there was a tumor and of course my stomach got tied in knots as he told me what was going to be done.

He said that we could treat it with meds and see if that will shrink it.  That made me feel better and a huge sigh of relief but as you would expect there was another shoe to drop (there is always another shoe)

The PET scan had also found what looked like something on my lung and was referred to a lung specialist.

Another gut punch.

Another damn week waiting for my call from the doctor after the referral.

Finally the call came and off I went with even more anticipation and dread.

She studied the scan and finally said that the mass was not from the one on my prostrate but it still needed a biopsy to determine what course of action to take.

Of course I was devastated and was in a state of total pissed off for I am so over all this hospital time.

Waiting for another week of stewing and the call came and off I went for a 9 hour trip to out patient surgery.

Before the biopsy I had to go for a CT scan and then into the OR and put down for the hour and half procedure.

When I came around I was told that the following Monday I had an appointment to consult the doctor on what was found and what is to be done.

So five days of anticipation and you can imagine the horrible scenarios running through my brain….and waiting does not help one little  bit.

Monday finally came and off I go for the news that I probably do not want to hear.  I anticipate another gut punch.

I was correct in my assumption…..I have lung cancer.  The semi good news is surgery is not call for especially because of my age.

So now I await a decision of which cancer doctor and radiologist I will see about treatment

More waiting….just what I do not need right now.

I got a call and was told I have an appointment with the oncologist on Friday.

The consultation went well the cancer doctor said that the tumor was small enough that radiation would be better than a slice and dice.

Now I have a date with the radiologist for 19 November to see the course of action to follow.

I am sure that the radiation treatments may kick my butt so hopefully my readers will bear with me.

And that has been my mind f*ck since July….at least now I know what I have to deal with in the coming weeks and months.

Sorry to dump this on my readers but I thought you guys might like to know what has been going on with me….hopefully it will help explain some of my erratic behavior lately.

Enough crappy news!

May you guys enjoy your Sunday and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

Peace Out

The Joy Of One Dimensional Thinking

Ever noticed that the ones that bitch about “fake news” are the ones that spread it the deepest?

We now live in a world on “fake news”…..both sides accuse the other of passing off “fake news”….that is news that does not fit the paradigm they wish to push…for instance the latest attack in the UK…the Right wants the world to believe that the mayor of London said “there is nothing to be alarmed over” (that is a paraphrase before the grammar police show up)…he in fact did say that but he was referring to the amount of police and military on the streets…..if one would just use the Google button they are so fond of then they would see the whole interview that the quote was taken from (it does not take an IT genius to find the interview)….

This is how their “fake News” becomes mainstream…..enough toads passing on shitty news to the shit for brains on the Right.

These people can only grasp on line of thinking at a time and they will play it for all it is worth until they are given another tidbit to chase.

More on one dimensional thinking later….give the slower people on the Right a chance to catch up to the rest of the world….

Good News Saturday!

I have been doing the blog thingy for about 7 years….it started off pretty slow but has slowly built into a pretty well read site……I was thrilled when I posted my 5000 post and really excited when I went over 100,000 hits….but I think the thing I am most proud of is that sometime after midnite I went over 500 followers…….

I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to all those people that are helping me make this a site that people can appreciate and find informative.

Thanx everyone….now let’s get busy!

Random Thought 18Jun13

We all have heard the atrocities that are being committed in Syria and our Neocon lawmakers that are bitching about the 93,000 Syrians that have been killed……..finally the imaginary “red line” has been crossed and the US will act…….the first step is to send arms, small arms, to the Syrian opposition…..now my thought is…..just how will the killings stop with more4 weapons introduced into the conflict?  Just who among you thinks that war will be a better place with even more weapons for both sides to use on each other?

                                                

This is not going to end well for the US!

Name Change UpDate

Yesterday I decided to change the title of my blog……it has gone through a couple of changes since 2006…..Studies and Observations…..Info Ink….Opus Libertas…..Blue Nation Agitations…..and several in between….but none of they popped for me…..and last night I found a small book of poetry I did in the late 70’s….the title was In Saner Thought……BAM!

That pops for me……no matter what your political or economic affiliation the title will mean something.

Thanx to my readers that help me through this agonizing search and decision……I appreciate all the assistance

Name Change!

I started my blog back in the days when I was in rehab for a crushed leg, then it was titled, “Studies and Observations”.  I have long been a political animal, mainly in political thought and not so much into the day to day activity of a party….although I have from time to time bitched and moaned like most of the others bloggers on certain topics and issues.

In the beginning it was mostly a spot for me to comment on the war between Lebanon and Israel……and cut and paste of accounts of that war……and then I started injecting my political thoughts into to content and it began to morph….it was at this point that I decided to re-name the blog, Info Ink, in honor of a company I started back in the early 90’s…….after awhile I changed the name again because I figured that if it was Googled most of the pings would be for ink prices and such….the new name was Opus Libertas or Liberty’s Work.

Today I have to decided to try again to find that perfect title for my blog……Opus Libertas is just not doing it for me.  But what to change it to was the gnawing question….and over coffee I was thinking about my past…..the days when I was an anti-war activist, a union organizer and political writer I was attending a conference presenting a paper on the shortcomings in theory of non-violence and was introduced as a proven agitator and a working class warrior…….after about a pot of coffee my decision was simple and clear…….

Since I am a deep blue political person and I live in a deep red state the choice of a name was all too obvious…………why not return to my days of agitation?  My blog from this point forward will be titled………Blue Nation Agitations!

A Personal Thought

It is a new year and I was reading a friend’s blog (My Corner To Vent…go to blogroll…it is a good and thoughtful blog) and he posted on his most popular posts of the last year and I thought that it was a great idea and I went to my stats to see what was the winner in my popularity poll……..

I do a lot of reading and writing and have spent many many hours in front of this damn keyboard…lots and lots of post and opinions on economics, politics, and just about everything that I thought would be of interest to my readers….after searching the stats I was shock and a bit disappointed…after all the observations on the happenings in the world and my most popular post was………..WATERMELON MAKES YOU HORNY……..

The world is going to sh!t around us and watermelon making someone horny is the most popular……now that is just fuc*ing sad…….

Random Thoughts

This is a regular feature on Info Ink, it is notes that I have made but that did not necessarily make it into a post.

To begin with, it is Thanksgiving and I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a joyous day; enjoy the fun, food and family and I will see you the day after.  Thanx for the visits and the comments they are much appreciated.

And now for something completely different (to quote Monty Python)

1–Do you realiuze that $33 trillion worth of wealth has been lost since the first of the year?

2–Could Bowflex have found a more pretentious bunch to hawk their product?

3–Just what the hell does “Economic Patriotism” mean?

4–Tiger Woods gets dumped from Buick–about a $7 million cut in pay

5–Without China and the Saudis the US economy would not exist.

6–How many times can the politicos in the media say the word “transparency”?  22 times in a 5 minute interview.

7–Anne Coulter has had to have her mouth wired shut–see!  there is a GOD!

8–Question?  If gas is falling like a lead balloon, how much has an airline ticket dropped?

9–On T/giving day a group will be running “Thank you, Sarah Palin” ad.  Is that a good idea?  I mean she was interviewed in front of a turkey killing machine in action.  Would that not remind people just how callous this woman is?

That is all for now…Peace….Out