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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • So, a couple of things… Fighting stage 2 colon cancer right now.

    6 months ago they found 17 polyps, 2 were an unusual size, 20mm and 30mm.

    Rule of thumb is “Anything more than 5 or anything bigger than 5mm.”

    But - not cancer. Repeat in January. 6 more polyps including one that’s 20mm and stage 2.

    So it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months. I’m going to lose my entire sigmoid colon and all the lymph nodes around it for biopsy.

    If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, that’s stage 3 and I’ll have chemo, but we won’t know until after the surgery.

    Don’t sleep on this. My symptoms were anemia and tiredness all the time.

    Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

    But - you can mix in gatorade powder so long as it’s not red or purple. 😉

    March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue!



  • "The judge disagreed, finding the stalking charges did not amount to “crimes of violence” and dismissed two counts in Mangione’s federal case – the murder charge and a related firearm offense.

    “The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person – and indeed many lawyers and judges – as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her ruling. “But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case.” "

    Supreme Court: “Not like this…”


  • I had a cat oddly addicted to the flyers printed by Lincoln Automobiles.

    Went to a car show, got a bunch of pamphlets, he’d pull out the Lincoln one and roll on it.

    Coincidence? I’d stack them all up, square off the stack, he’d DIG through the pile until he found Lincoln and walk off with it. LOL.

    Expensive tastes!