Still here, no thanks to Chemo…
Since being diagnosed last Dec, the Chemo sessions I endured have had no effect on the Leukemia, but did a number on me. One cocktail administered in Feb almost did me in. A simultaneous reaction of acute body rigor, low back pain and cold chills shocked my care nurses, who gave me a shot of Demerol which thankfully knocked me out. Not clear on events afterwards but I was back in the hospital for several days.
In the middle of April, a 1:30pm appt, another cocktail administered, seemed to be tolerated with no bad reaction; however, finally getting home after 6pm, I felt more fatigued then usual. A followup appt, (twice a week they did blood draws) revealed that the Chemo had compromised my Immune system, requiring several units of blood transfusions were needed over the next few weeks.
What I thought was to be a blood draw in mid May on a Wednesday, instead was a plan to administer no less than three different cocktails in three different IV bags; the first one nearly completed caused violent reactions; one of which had my caregivers administer Oxygen because of severe labored breathing. They gave me several drug injections to counter the other reactions, but it seemed an eternity before even my breathing finally slowed to a semi normal rate, unlabored, and slowly, the other pains diminished.
I again got home late but had to go back the next day for yet another Cocktail to be administered. Shortly thereafter it began to cause similar reactions, so the drip was stopped. My care nurses were concerned that one of the reactions had caused chest pain. They wanted me to go to Emergency Room, but I had had enough of E.R.’s slow, bureaucratic, time killing methods, and refusing that avenue, just drove back home.
It had totally trashed me, it wasn’t until the following Monday that I felt remotely “human” again without severe fatigue and weakness. Now, some weeks later, the after effects have diminished, but my blood draws are borderline; barely enough to avoid needing more blood transfusions. I point blank told one of the nurses, that the Chemo sessions were my Leukemia’s best friend.
Though I had been told another Chemo session was to be June 9th, the calendar provided indicates an Oncology appt that day, and a Chemo session on the 11th. Today, at least I wake up without fatigue, but still weak. I had been 5′ 10″ and 165 lbs when first diagnosed; now I’m 5′ 8″ and 145 lbs. It’s eating me up. I don’t know whether it is the Chemo, or the Leukemia, but even my sense of taste has been affected; some foods taste different. Very bizarre.
I still have my hair, but it has been thinned out, and my hairline is two inches further back. Ironically funny, I had purchased more razor blades because track two blades are getting hard to find, and expensive; but I discovered that after four days of not shaving, my beard wasn’t growing back, and my Moustache doesn’t need trimming. This is where I’m at; so much for Medical expertise.
Unrelated; I was 23 yrs old, and liked this Head East song from their Flat As A pancake LP.
https://youtu.be/hI8Vg53nuF4
Cremation is Pagan.
Christians should never accept cremation. The Bible speaks directly on this subject:
The following Old Testament references show that disposal of a body by cremation was prescribed only as a sentence of particular punishment and warning:
Joshua 7:15 records one of the rare cases of cremation, and it was as a sentence of contempt indicating severe punishment: “And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.” This does not mean that they were burned alive. Verse 25 makes it very clear that Achan was first stoned to death, and then his body was burned.
“And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.” Lev. 21:9
“If a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.” Lev. 20:14
As in the case of Achan, this no doubt does not refer to any being burned alive, but to the bodies being disposed of by cremation, as a manifest warning to all Israel. Cremation was clearly an extreme disgrace, showing God’s contempt for sin.
The New Bible Dictionary states that “Cremation was NEVER a Jewish practice.” (p. 172). Human burial developed from the belief that the dead rise again. Like a seed, a body is planted in the earth to await being raised an incorruptible body at the Great Last Day (1 Cor. 15:42).
A hideous example of immolation comes from India; the British took action against the Hindu practice of Sati in 1829:
The Bengal Sati Regulation, or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was a legal act promulgated in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband—illegal in all jurisdictions of British India and subject to legal prosecution.
The ban was the first major social reform legislation enacted by the British in India. It led to legislation against other old Hindu practices in the Indo-Aryan-speaking regions of India that limited the rights of women, especially those related to the inheritance of property. The Regulation was repealed and superseded by the Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 when attempts to revive the custom in the 1980s brought further legislative focus on the practice.
Additionally, The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible states, “The proper interment of the dead was a matter of great importance to the peoples of the ancient Near East. It is attested by frequent references to burial in the Bible and other ancient writings and by the presence of thousands of tombs which modern archaeologists have excavated in Bible lands” (article Burial, vol. 1, p. 474).
Great respect and care was given to the bodies of the deceased. The corpse was first washed (Acts 9:37), then anointed (Mark 16: 1), wrapped in linen garments with spices enclosed (John 19:40), and finally the limbs were bound and the face covered with a napkin (John 11:44).
‘Nuff Said.
Update on my beast…
To understand what this particular Leukemia does, you need to know how Lymph Nodes function:
Excerpts from clevelandclinic.org
What are lymph nodes?
Lymph nodes are small structures that filter fluid (lymph) in your body. They function as a place for immune cells to look for and get rid of foreign substances, damaged cells and cancer cells. They’re part of your lymphatic system, which is also part of your immune system.
Your lymph nodes are like a security checkpoint. They’re home to immune cells, whose job inside your lymph nodes includes:
Removing damaged, abnormal or cancerous cells
Looking for foreign invaders — like viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi — and destroying them or marking them for other immune cells to destroy
You have anywhere from 400 to 800 lymph nodes throughout your body. There’s no precise number that everyone has.
Throughout your body…
Okay; so now you know why this cancer is unconventional; you can’t localize it, and using methods other then chemo, shrink it; then provided it hasn’t metastasized, surgically remove it with enough surrounding tissue to ensure all cancers cells are gone, and declare the person to be “in remission”.
The old school of thought was if the person remained in remission for five years, they were cured.
This beast is system wide. The doctor who needed a lymph node sample had to go deep in my groin; the angle of the incision was to cause other problems; which went unnoticed, till one of my home care nurses, who thinks outside the box, realized that the 3M vacuum device I’d been attached to,was not addressing a substance in the incision which could cause serious infections.
I don’t want to describe the dressings needed to connect to that 3M device; it was grotesque. I was glad to be disconnected from it. A generous layer of bandages was applied. The next day, the “boss lady” for the other home care folks checked the bandages, noted a large discharge, and uncovered a hideous, yellow substance that would have filled a soup bowl. I’m not being a drama queen; it was a large amount.
Subsequent changes of bandages, and visits to the wound care center, (per the attentive home care nurse) resulted in the incision area becoming smaller, until the 26th of last month, when it was finally declared healed.
However, trouble seems to find a way… the initial side pains that sent me to a hospital, returned, and this time, were far more pronounced; when they act up, there is no position, sitting, lying down, leaning forward, which will alleviate them. They can persist all night, or as suddenly, just diminish and go away for several hours before returning to plague me some more. My Dr ordered a urine sample, and that wonderful home care nurse came by next morning and took it so I didn’t have to make a trip to the lab.
Meanwhile, the Dr has scheduled me for a “Pet/Ct” scan; I never had one of those, apparently the Dr want to see the results before employing his planned attack on this cancer.
Hopefully, this next round of chemo, (with its own set of scary side effects) won’t attack the patient, (me) near as much as it attacks the cancer. Leukemia is relentless.
So as Walter Cronkite used to say, “And that’s the way it is…”
Official Super Bowl Ticket Packages
Call it morbid curiosity; I wanted to see what was being charged to view Superbowl LX.
There are no Christian adjectives for the prices folks are expected to pony up to see the Superbowl. They start at $5,755.00 per person, and that is in the top areas where you’d need binoculars. A good seat near the field, C113, at about the 30 yd line goes for $16,505.00.
Nobody I ever knew had that kind of green to piss away on a game.
7 Famous Actors That Chose God Over Hollywood
This is way overdue. We’ve all experienced loss, adversity, perhaps betrayal.
How we respond to such things determines whether the result is positive, or self destructive. The stories you will see are a reminder that regardless of our personal struggles, others have had a rough road as well. Standing up for what is right has a cost.
Matthew 10: 28-33
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
“Someday great white father”… The Song of Crazy horse
The tragic lesson on “manifest destiny”
Pastel drawing of Crazy
Horse by Mary Bryan
Forsyth, 1957. This image
captures Crazy Horse’s
facial features best:
light colored hair and
skin, relatively narrow
face and sharp straight
nose, pronounced scar
to the left and below his
left nostril. Mari Sandoz
Heritage Society – M. A.
Anderson and E. Hamilton
Below link is to The Song of Crazy horse.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoVldylcmA
Questioning blind obedience to Authority
Irrespective of my lymphatic leukemia, I remain a Constitutional Conservative.
Point blank; if, ICE has egregiously overstepped their mission, of apprehending known illegal aliens, and deporting them; if they are targeting citizens merely exercising their first amendment rights, Trump needs to rein them in.
There are enough allegation being raised, that I resent the word protecting being in quotation marks by Fox news.
Assaults against brave ICE agents unfold in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The left has encouraged anti ICE actions against these agents bound to rid our city streets across our country, of heinous individuals, whose crimes defy description. These illegal immigrants have done much damage and ICE is committed to rid us of them. I encourage all to obtain access to LiveNOW from FOX, available via Tubi TV, to view developing events. https://tubitv.com/live/555127/livenow-from-fox
Image from anti ICE movement in Assaults against brave ICE agents unfold in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
‘Nuff Said.
Mounting international issues
As I had stated last April, long before I became diagnosed with this lymphocetic leukemia, “For all the good Trump is doing, and much good will be accomplished, the trepidity I felt with his remarks about Greenland and Canada is not unfounded. The fundamentals of The Monroe Doctrine are a two way street. We have no business interfering with other sovereign countries affairs. Greenland is a part of Denmark. Period. Will we yet forget History’s lessons?”
Also, Trumps strikes on Venezuela is bizarre; long ago as a young man, the principal problem w/ drugs was and continues to be Mexico. The actions seem an overt attempt to control Venezuela’s oil reserves.
In any event, God is in charge; the lynchpin not to be distracted from, is what goes on with Israel. The terrorist groups in Gaza use human shields, hide their forces in hospitals, that would force harm to innocents in order to stop the militants, and have raised violent Anti Semitic actions against Jews.
My time here is up to Him. Whether I am to remain 3, 5 yrs, more or less is His decision.
I must stand steadfast in His will; do what is right, not what is convenient, and for however long He allows.
For all who have followed my blog- God has acted, my way home has been enacted.
Early Dec, I suddenly had pains in my left side; after having no result form my chiropractic sessions, I admitted myself to the hospital on the 21st. after having taken some blood samples, the initial diagnosis was – “acute lymphocetic leukemia”
Don’t be sad. Throughout my life, I’ve been able to stay well w/chiro sessions, and nutraceuticals.
I know this beast quite well. Lots of conflicting info delayed specifics as to where I stood; it was a sudden breaucratic decision to release me and receive help at home today on the tenth of Jan, from care divisions from the hospital; though I received calls from two different entities while being processed out, and I had requested them to call me later, at home. neither has called back.
I’ve been homes since about 3pm PST. it is now 5:17pm.
The last action the hospital had taken was an incision in my abdomen; they had established the a areas of lymphnodes was in the lower abdominal and groin regions, the operation was to to remove and examine them. (This should provide the definitive info they need)
Knowing labs, this could a minimum 2 weeks… before my doctors get the report.
It can go two ways; a 3 to 5 yr Rx program that has established a high degree of success; so I can function at “near normal” but there is no cure ever mentioned. Eventually, the beast will get me.
God is in charge; this is my way out of an amoral, deceitful, aberrant world.
Luke 17:26 “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.”
Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged-Up Holiday Special
This was released just over a year ago. A bit much with some rather blue innuendo but mostly clean; Jeff starts off with with Walter…
Image is a direct link.
Daniel K. Inouye
Of the 3,528 Medal Of Honor recipients, just 61 are still alive. Many would know Mr. Inouye was a U.S. senator, but presently, few would recall the he was a Nisei, and served with the 442nd regimental combat team in WW II. For his heroic actions as a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team—resulting in the loss of his right arm—the World War II veteran ultimately earned the nation’s highest award for military valor, the Medal of Honor; however, it wasn’t until 2000 when Pres. Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Honor for his service in World War II. (born September 7, 1924, Honolulu, Hawaii [U.S.]—died December 17, 2012, Bethesda, Maryland)
Daniel Inouye was an American Democratic politician who was the first U.S. representative of Hawaii (1959–63) and who later served as a U.S. senator (1963–2012). He was the first Japanese American to serve in both bodies of Congress.
Inouye was born to working-class parents of Japanese ancestry. His father had moved to Hawaii as a child, and his mother was born there. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Inouye, who was a Red Cross medical aide, assisted in caring for victims of the raid. Intending to become a surgeon, he enrolled in the premedical program at the University of Hawaii. However, he left in March 1943 to join the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army, a unit composed solely of Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), and he eventually attained the rank of second lieutenant. Inouye was seriously wounded in Italy in 1945, and his injuries necessitated the amputation of his right arm. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and several other honours as well as a promotion to captain.
After nearly two years in an army hospital in Michigan, Inouye resumed his studies at the University of Hawaii, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in government and economics (1950). He then attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., receiving a law degree in 1952. Inouye subsequently returned to Honolulu and briefly practiced law before becoming the deputy public prosecutor for the city (1953–54). In 1954 he was elected to the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives, where he served as the Democratic majority leader (1954–58). In 1958 he became a senator for the territory. After Hawaii’s accession to statehood in 1959, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Inouye was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962 and continued to win reelection into the 21st century.
During his tenure in the Senate, Inouye developed a reputation as a mild and genteel politician who nonetheless doggedly advocated for his positions. He first came to national prominence when serving on the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (popularly known as the Watergate Committee; 1973–74), and in 1976 he was the first to helm the newly formed Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In 1987 Inouye served as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, which investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. He was also variously chairman and vice chairman of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs (1987–2005).
In 2000 U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Honor for his service in World War II. In January 2009 Inouye was appointed chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee following the resignation of West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd; he also replaced Byrd as president pro tempore of the Senate after Byrd’s death in 2010. In 2013 Inouye was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Eight States Could Vote on Abortion in 2026
Pro-life advocates are bracing for a pivotal battle in 2026 as voters in seven states prepare to weigh in on ballot measures that could either safeguard legal protections for the unborn or create a fake right to kill babies in abortions.
Myth & fact – food as a secret weapon to good health
When I have posted on nutrition, bad foods, and Monsanto, there has been little response. Perhaps this documentary, made in 2018, will rattle your cage enough to take action. Image is a direct link:
2001’s “HAL” was a fiction; this is real.
Tesla Optimus: Complete Analysis of AI, Specs & Future Outlook:
https://botinfo.ai/articles/tesla-optimus
This would be laughable, except the robots have at times, demonstrated independent thought.
Tesla Optimus Gen 3
partnering with eagles 