Archive for: May 2007

Not out of the woods, but on the mend:

Dan,

It’s possible I might get out tomorrow. I had felt that I wasn’t going to budge from this hospital until i was sealed up (not leaking, spewing or oozing…) no matter what. Now that my wounds are less active I am starting to get hospital scratchy. I think I would do better out than in. I still have way too many drains and catheters than what they would usually release – but i think the doctors see the wisdom of getting me the hell out of here.

My guess is tomorrow or Monday I will leave.

A big issue is home health care. I will need a nurse at least four times a day for IV in/out (drugs and drawing blood). Problem is, I live in the boonies. I have a PICC line and the PluereX catheter (to drain fluid from around my lungs).

I still have a dicey road ahead with the heart. I keep having random spells of tachycardia and some kind of oxygen profusion problem related to blood clots. They say i have plural edema – I always thought that was instant death. Apparently, the clots can slowly dissolve and I’ll be OK. It is not ideal but there is nothing to be done.

I had a couple of bad afternoons. Weird spells and fevers etc.

i might as well have them at home.

This tires me out…

Thanks for all you have done. It is really nice when imaginary friends pour on the love.

That damn monkey is a physical manifestation of all that is good in Protein Wisdom. It really brought me up at a low point. I still laugh at it. I was going to tie balloons to him for the pic…. but i was doing good just to shuffle fifty yards to the patio.

Peace & Love,

Keith

Wherever two or three are gathered in its name . . . 

Q: How many fundamentalist Christians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: Never more than 2.  And of course, only if they’re married.

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update:  Oh. And for Chrissakes, please restrict yourself to the traditional light bulb screwing …

For the cover story of its May 21 issue, the Weekly Standard featured a brilliant piece by self-styled “equity” feminist Christina Hoff Sommers in which the controversial author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys …

Mike, of Of Thee I Blog, who links here, is undertaking a visit to each of the capitals of the 48 contiguous states (with a couple of layovers for sightseeing).  If …

In the comments to yesterday’s meta-post post, “Brian T” writes:

You’re just sad now—as tired and irrelevant as your prose.

Perhaps if you went back to your internet tough guy act of slapping people around the face …

How do you stack up?

h/t paul ilc at Bloody Scott

Wow.  I had no idea, Ace.  Brutha.

A funny thing happened with that Naomi Wolf piece that I mentioned yesterday.  It was apparently mentioned in another article, and then picked up by one of the ladies at Pandagon as though it were current, …

In case you need to be reminded why the guy oughta be in jail.

Pardon me . . . where’s the vomitorium?

Paula Abdul says she didn’t figure out her …

me: “Okay, not bad.  Now, concentrate on your aim.  Or else, give me some advance warning that you plan to let things fly, and I’ll stretch you a canvas.  After all, we may as well turn a …

1.  Conversation between Cindy Sheehan and Billy Jack.  Punchline:  something having to do with Sheehan’s being the “face” of a movement, with a possible play on “movement.” Or “face.” or “Jack.”

2.  Miss USA booed by Mexicans—who …