Catching up with...........

Okay before I go any further I know, I know I have have been amiss in my blog posts but I do have a Doctors note excusing me. In September I had a Crohns flare and ended up in the hospital and had surgery #12. This though was not do entirely to Crohns but a problem left over from the December 'o8 flare/exacerbation. It seems that my small intestine had popped loose twisted and had choked it self causing approximately 3 inches to die. This in turn set off a chain of looping loose stools with the end result of my being dehydrated for the last 4 months! Not good at all, in fact not good ever! Due to the dehydration I become quite the frequent visitor at BMC (Baptist Medical Center - Downtown San Antonio). I was admitted 3 times and a ER guest 4 more times. (Don't get me started about needle sticks and IV lines as I will cringe run away and have screaming fits.) I guess being stuck with needles to either draw blood or for an IV access is better than the alternative (death), so I am fairly certain I can live with the hassle and the poking! Now that I am back to reality and life outside the hospital I have alot to do and make up for. I had to suspend myself from college (Kaplan University online), and put some projects on hold for a bit, namely a small Internet show I produce, direct, edit and host (more about this in a future post so stay tuned to this blog for more information). I also have been guilty of not giving my gorgeous, talented, funny, charming wife Fasha the attention she so very richly deserves (oh did I fail to mention that she is the most beautiful woman in the known universe? well she is!! so there!!). So you can see that I have been busy since since getting sprung from BMC on 3 Dec. busy, busy, busy.

Even though Fasha has been off this week on vacation and we have vowed to rest and take it easy we are still busy! We even have a guest, Alisha, one of Fasha's co-workers daughter and her best friend at CHLC is spending the last half of this week with us. Talk about fun, this little dynamo is cute, funny and has extreme amounts of energy (where do 4 yr olds get all that energy? If I could capture, bottle and sell it, I would be rich beyond belief) and being so darned cute she has been getting spoiled rotten, hey I have to stay in practice for my grand daughters. Which leads me to about where we were supposed to have been this week. Our original plans were for us to be in OKC, OK. this week visiting Manuel, Heather and Madison then on to Sand Springs and Claremore to see Nina, Frankie, Afton, Madelynne and dad. We had the perfect romantic vacation trip planned, a nice quiet trip to OKC on Amtrak! Think about it no hassles, no driving, no having to stop for gas or bathroom breaks and no TRAFFIC or other DRIVERS to deal with! Oh well we have postponed it till next month, so same trip same schedule just different date.

Now lastly, since this is a blog about my political and social views I am almost required by law to make a comment about what else but Politics. A lot has happened while I have been kicking back in the hospital getting pampered from head to toe by literally thousands of nurses (ha ha, yeah RIGHT, wake up ED, WAKE UP NOW lol), there is healthcare, Obama's speeches, the end of Obama's first year in office, and hundreds of thousands of other things I could choose to discuss. With so many choices it is a hard pick but I have to go with Obama and the Nobel Prize. With so much to say I feel like Quagmire on 'Family Guy'. Where do I start, OMG, OMG. (Okay big deep breath, while thinking calm happy thoughts) With so many other more qualified people on the planet was the committee on drugs? Seriously were they high? Obama had not been in office a full year and he wins an award for something he has yet to accomplish in office. Here is a president who to avoid having to make a decision about Iraq and Afghanistan and how to proceed with both continues to blame the Bush administration. Wait a minute, STOP, Obama dude you have been in office almost a year, you need to grow up and be a man, as much as you don't want to take responsibility for your actions you cannot continue to blame the former president for what is happening now. This became your war after you had been in office 100 days. But seriously dude now that it is Dec. you need to stop blaming Bush for every mistake you make while you are president. IT IS NOT CUTE IT JUST CHEAPENS YOU AS AN EFFECTIVE LEADER! Stand up and be a man, if you are so against what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan you have had ample opportunity to pull out the troops and walk away, yet you have not done that. (More wishy washy than Charlie Brown). Dude Seriously get real and admit you are not the Rock Star/God the press first made you out to be. The honeymoon was cut short and now that it looks like an annulment is pending all you are capable of doing is to blame everyone else and hope your smoke and mirror magic show works. Guess what? It's not working, didn't even sell one ticket, what a shame? What makes this an even better topic is that the Dalai Lama has even said this award is a bit premature. The head lama dude also warned President Obama against relying too much on his advisers, saying, quote, "due to his advisers' views, some of the policies have been a disaster." (http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=121562). Considering only two previous sitting U.S. Presidents have won, Jimmy Carter was awarded for his work and efforts in 2002 long after he left office, and they were awarded after actually achieving peace not just talking about or having a peace plan. What is also interesting is that he has said he will donate the $1.4 million that comes with it to charity, yet to be determined. If he is really determined to reform healthcare why not set up a trust and use the funds to help our citizens that have current needs and cannot wait for Congress. Take me for example, at present I have a diagnosis of Crohns Disease, have had it since 1993, I am currently taking (in no particular order) Asacol, Prednisone, Entocort, Lomotil, Tylenol #4, Sandostatin Injection and a couple of other medications, the doctor has added Cimzia (waiting on a TB test for final insurance approval). Luckily I have healthcare coverage as both Sandostatin and Cimzia are Tier/Level 5 drugs, meaning both require approval before I can get Humana to pay for them. The cash price for Sandostatin in my area is around $700.00 per month, Cimzia is between $2000.00 and $3000.00 depending on the type of injection prescribed. This choice can also add another expense. Cimzia comes in preloaded syringes or a dry mix solution, both are sub q injections, one you can give yourself the other requires a nurse, hence the added expense. As I said before I am lucky, I have healthcare coverage through Medicare (I have a Medicare replacement policy thru Humana ) but there are others out there who don't have coverage, they have to make a choice each day on whether to buy food, medication or do something extravagant like pay a bill. Fasha and I have never had to make any decisions concerning food, drugs or utilities and I pray we never will have to. Yet there are untold numbers of fellow Americans who do each and every day. I am also concerned about those who do or will not qualify under the new reform plan through no fault of their own. What about those who have no income and cannot afford the premiums or those who don't qualify because of other factors. Will this be Obama's version of the holocaust? Only time will tell.


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Internet news articles referenced for/in this post:

http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=121562
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fgw-nobel10-2009dec10,0,410509.story
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/press.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/10/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5962550.shtml