Basically, they poked, prodded, IV'd and did more tests. Very impressive operation. If 'activists,' the so called 'progressives,' demonstrated .0001% the professionalism, commitment, seriousness of purpose, discipline as the young folks in the ER, everyone would have a future worth living.
The blood tests, and other tests, were inconclusive.
ER doc guesses ulcer, with pain referred to rest of abdomen. Wants me to get a colonoscopy and the other one, thru the mouth to see the stomach. Gave me ulcer meds 4 times per day.
I see my home doc, Cardile, tomorrow at 8:30.
I expect to decline the tests.
What I want is the least expensive way to manage pain for the next 4-6 weeks.
Finishing out the writing I'm doing and then the rest of the death fast is 99.99999% mental, and I just don't want to lose all this time, energy, and effectiveness to the hours per day of pain. Like, uh, NOW. DAMN!
8.28.2012
Rachel Corrie, Steve Biko's Deaths - 'Accidents'
| Jewish Telegraphic Agency - |
By
Ben Sales · August 28, 2012 HAIFA, Israel (JTA) -- The verdict by a
court Tuesday in the case of Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed
in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, may have captured international
attention and touched on a range of ...
GWDF2 D11B On the way to Emergency Room. Stomach took extreme turn for worse
Since 4am the emergency room was
much on my mind - the worst flareup yet of my stomach issues of the last
10 months. Instead I went to CCNV Unity Heath Care where my beloved doc
Cardile is and she said, 'We're sending you to emergency. I'll be at
GW hospital within minutes.
8.27.2012
nd GWDF2 D11A Stomach pain much better today. Tomorrow?
nd GWDF D11A Stomach pain much better today. Tomorrow?
Rachel Corrie verdict due tomorrow GlobalPost
| GlobalPost - |
A
member of the International Solidarity Movement waves a picture of
Rachel Corrie in front of an Israeli tank during a demonstration where
Corrie was killed on March 18, 2003.
Togo women call sex strike to force president's resignation USA TODAY
| USA TODAY - |
By
Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY The ban is supported by an opposition
coalition of political parties, civic groups and movements in the west
African nation.
8.26.2012
GWDF D10B Stomach pain may force a temporary hold
It's borderline. The pain is pretty much always there, but not always debilitating. Yesterday was one of the days I've lost hours of work, just trying to manage the pain. Today, so far, I can pretty well work. I can't tell if the meds I'm taking are helping or causing. Next day of incapacitation I expect to go back in for a consultation. If tests could reveal some low cost treatment (that it is free to me is immaterial), or if there are low cost pain meds I could take, I'd like to know.
Over half way through Jim Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren," culling for the key "in their own words" quotes for the next book. He's the only one of Romm, McKibben, Brown... in whom I find moral integrity - putting their bodies where their mouths are, to I think I'll still find useful words from the others, particularly before their mass surrender at Copenhagen. Except for Hansen, they don't STAND for anything. Auth-whores, nothing more? Just reporting a blow by blow of the rape from a comfortable distance? If there's more, I can't find it. Not anymore. Just pandering to the gawkers and bureaucrats.
Over half way through Jim Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren," culling for the key "in their own words" quotes for the next book. He's the only one of Romm, McKibben, Brown... in whom I find moral integrity - putting their bodies where their mouths are, to I think I'll still find useful words from the others, particularly before their mass surrender at Copenhagen. Except for Hansen, they don't STAND for anything. Auth-whores, nothing more? Just reporting a blow by blow of the rape from a comfortable distance? If there's more, I can't find it. Not anymore. Just pandering to the gawkers and bureaucrats.
Israeli rabbi calls for prayers for Iran's destruction Reuters
| Reuters - |
The
sermon by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef added to a flurry of recent rhetoric from
Israeli officials that has raised international concern that Israel,
widely believed to be the Middle East's only atomic power, might attack Iran's nuclear facilities. "(When ...
8.25.2012
Loving, here. Have you ever been taunted at one of your coffee shops? Sworn at? Viciously and cruelly discriminated against, repeatedly?
August 25, 2012
My dear friends at xxxx coffee shop, (their Identity protected, so far)
Have you ever been taunted at one of your stores? Sworn at? Viciously and cruelly discriminated
against, repeatedly? I have. Not by your
staff, who are genuinely nice and professional folks, but still, at your
store. Is that what you are about? It was clear discrimination. That’s illegal I suspect. It certainly is not what xxxx, or the
building owner wants to be associated with here in DC just blocks from
Judiciary Square. Is it?
The most recent cursing and discrimination against me at your store was
today. I arrived about 8:30, purchased a
large cup of decaf, and your store being quite empty that early, sat discretely
at a table back in a corner for an hour.
You see, I have facial tattoos, and as a courtesy to you, I sat in a
rear corner out of the way of folks.
Your staff is very nice. I try to
show my appreciation. Last evening for
example, at about 7:30pm, I spent at least 10 minutes, probably 15, cleaning up
and straightening up your patio. Your
staff would have done it but you must
have had a busy day, chairs were all over, and trash was all on the ground, all
around. By the time I was done, all the
chairs were in their place and the trash picked up.
Today, after drinking some of my coffee, not wanting to take
space in your store, customers were accumulating, I went to a remote part of
your patio to continue working for a while.
Within 10 minutes, as has happened to me at least twice before, the
power was cut to the outlet I was using for my laptop. Within 5 minutes after that, the man that did
it the first time, a dark skinned man, early 40’s I’ll guess, when I saw him I
said, ‘I purchased coffee here this morning.’
He said nothing. ‘I’m going to
speak to the manager about this,’ meaning your store manager, to which he
replied, “I’m the manager you son of a bitch.”
HUH? HUH??? Cursing at me?
The prior time I saw him directly was about 2 months
ago. Again, I had purchased a drink, and
was sitting in a remote part of your patio.
After about 10 minutes the power was cut. 5 minutes later, the man who today said he
was the manager, came out and taunted me.
WHAT? ‘Oh, did something happen
with the breaker? Oh, I don’t know
anything about it, but I guess it did.’ Lying
to me. What?!?!?!?
Is it because I have facial tattoos, that obviously don’t
have a lot of money, from my appearance, probably don’t have a home, or is it because
of those three things on top of which I am a highly educated, multiple degrees,
white guy? It is absolutely rank
discrimination, which as I’ve said, to
my knowledge, is against the law in America, in DC.
I expect that like every other of your customers, from here
on in the future, I will be treated exactly as are all of your other customers,
including, the power outside will be on, and left on when I use it. Period.
I know you will do with this letter what best serves this
end, so that I need not do so. It can be
used by you with your corporate management, DC Homeless Advocacy Law Center,
the building manager, other DC Legal advocacy… or whomever you need to
terminate this discriminatory, illegal, unprofessional behavior. I wish this nasty man nothing ill. I wish the discrimination to stop, by your
action, not mine.
NOW. I’ll know your response by how I’m treated in the
future. I know your staff will all vouch
for my civility as will dozens of Secret Service, and Park Police officers in
town who have watched my respectful advocacy for human rights these last 9
years or so.
Your brother, no matter what,
James E. McGinley
GWDF2 D10A Debilitated with Pain again today. Bk 3 -
Sleep, thank goodness, so far is relatively painless.
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
When I awake I have 2-300 of my daily 800 calories, partly, so I can take the Prilosec and Iron without too much pain. Uh, not today. For the last 3 hours it is all I can do to try and doze and deal with the stomach pain. :-( So much work time being lost.
If this continues, Monday I'll seek an appointment with the doctor for pain management.
Those hours that I can work I'm compiling, "Your next 200 billion kids are on planet Hell unless now.... The Words of James Hansen, Lester Brown, Joe Romm, Michael Mann, IEA, IPCC...."
8.24.2012
nd GWDF2 D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
nd GWDF D9B Pr. #1: Compiling the Essential Hansen, Brown, Romm, McKibben. Daily Headline Posting on HOLD.
Mass. Commuters Save Woman, Son From Train... ABC News
| ABC News - |
Quick-thinking
Boston-area commuters are being praised for rescuing a woman who
tumbled off a subway platform and onto the tracks with her 4-year-old
son in her arms.
8.23.2012
nd 'If you know, but you do not do, you do not know.' Anonymous
'If you know, but you do not do, you do not know.' Anonymous
nd GWDF2 D9A Stomach Pain Much Less today. Work proceeding
nd GWDF D9A Stomach Pain Much Less today. Work proceeding
8.22.2012
nd GWDF2 D8B Stomach Pain Largely gone last 4 hours
nd GWDF D8B Stomach Pain Largely gone last 4 hours
nd 'I'd just let it go if today's adults were the one's to be crushed, C, L, R. But the kids?' Loving
nd 'I'd just let it go if today's adults were the one's to be crushed, C, L, R. But the kids?' Loving
GWDF2 D8B Severe stomach pain 2nd day
My concern is the distraction from work. Today, I'm managing to keep working, pretty well.
My dear doc Cardile had proscribed prilosec several weeks ago. I took it for about 4 days and stopped because it seemed to bring on the ache. It is supposed to de-inflame the stomach lining. Starting this morning I'm trying it again. It can take up to 4 days if it is going to work.
Late this week or early next I expect to see the doc again if this continues.
My dear doc Cardile had proscribed prilosec several weeks ago. I took it for about 4 days and stopped because it seemed to bring on the ache. It is supposed to de-inflame the stomach lining. Starting this morning I'm trying it again. It can take up to 4 days if it is going to work.
Late this week or early next I expect to see the doc again if this continues.
8.21.2012
nd 'Jesus, King, Gandhi... made the word, Flesh. We're to do the same.' Loving
nd 'Jesus, King, Gandhi... made the word, Flesh. We're to do the same.' Loving
GWDF2 D8A Back on post. Debilitated by stomach pain. :-(
GWDF D8A Back on post. Debilitated by stomach pain. :-(
Uneventful return trip, except my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't work, only try to rest, and that has continued the several hours I've been back. Was it the rocking of the bus? Progression of whatever I've got? Too much exertion? I'll watch it tonight, tomorrow... if this continues I may reconsider the tests, cuz I can't work, I can't concentrate with this pain. Wimp!
Mercifully, all of the stuff I left under a bench was there undisturbed, except for some work by rats, the four legged kind.
That's all for now. Got to go back to resting and trying to deal with this stomach pain.
Uneventful return trip, except my stomach hurt so bad I couldn't work, only try to rest, and that has continued the several hours I've been back. Was it the rocking of the bus? Progression of whatever I've got? Too much exertion? I'll watch it tonight, tomorrow... if this continues I may reconsider the tests, cuz I can't work, I can't concentrate with this pain. Wimp!
Mercifully, all of the stuff I left under a bench was there undisturbed, except for some work by rats, the four legged kind.
That's all for now. Got to go back to resting and trying to deal with this stomach pain.
8.20.2012
GWDF2 D7B Slept 17 hours today. Silence? Privacy? I'd forgotton. Seems my Body hadn't forgotten.
I had no idea my body was so exhausted - between living in a fishbowl on the streets for 1/3 of a year now, the internal bleeding, anemia, years for to-death's door hunger strikes, half rations now, not an hour's break in so many years I can't remember (how I Love it)...
Slept 12 hours yesterday, and 17 hours deep rest last night. Little other work completed these two days besides telling some folks that have been rocks, angels in my life that I Love them, and repacking, shedding a bunch of stuff for beloved friends to store and eventually disperse.
My bus back to the Canadian Embassy leaves at 9:50am. I can hardly wait to get back in the fight.
800 calorie per day slow-death-fast continued. Losing about 1/4 to 1/2 pound per day from 164 lbs on 8/8, the day before Nagasaki.
It remains to be seen how many of my belongings are left. Megabus has a 50lb weight limit that I exceeded mightily but had to leave 2/3 of my belonging's under a bench. If I were black, and a con, they'd be fine. But I'm not. We'll see. May have to re-create the signs, do without sleeping bags, etc.
Slept 12 hours yesterday, and 17 hours deep rest last night. Little other work completed these two days besides telling some folks that have been rocks, angels in my life that I Love them, and repacking, shedding a bunch of stuff for beloved friends to store and eventually disperse.
My bus back to the Canadian Embassy leaves at 9:50am. I can hardly wait to get back in the fight.
800 calorie per day slow-death-fast continued. Losing about 1/4 to 1/2 pound per day from 164 lbs on 8/8, the day before Nagasaki.
It remains to be seen how many of my belongings are left. Megabus has a 50lb weight limit that I exceeded mightily but had to leave 2/3 of my belonging's under a bench. If I were black, and a con, they'd be fine. But I'm not. We'll see. May have to re-create the signs, do without sleeping bags, etc.
8.18.2012
nd 'The Entire Gospel - Give everything you are to our Global Neediest. It's Heaven. There's none other..' Loving
nd 'The Entire Gospel - Give everything you are to our Global Neediest. It's Heaven. There's none other..' Loving
GWDF D7A - FACT: Joe Romm surrendered to defeat years ago in his "Hell..." book: I didn't realize. Unlike Brown,
Unless he did a total about face in the final chapter? Oh, and yes, per the subject line, Brown hasn't yet conceded, in words, but in deeds he's always conceded. Fact.
Traveling to Phila for 2-4 days to
say goodbye to dearest friends. While waiting in the cattle chute for
Megabus I began re-listening to an audio version of Hell and High Water
in the Library.
The following isn't personal. My
next 200 billion children are currently doomed by Plan Armageddon. Only
THAT is personal to me. The rest is figuring out how to save them and
who might help, and who is hindering.
I'm going to have to listen again.
But it is 92% clear. He is 99.9% clear. 'Politically, things just
aren't going to change. The best we can hope for is for 40' sea level
rise next century.' WTF!?!!?!? Maybe he saves his courage for the last chapter?
Four major features to his background:
1. Fact - MIT science;
2. Fact - Gov and non-profits - never had responsibility or experience leading people to high stakes change, nor doing it himself.
3. Fact - He has been at this for decades
with total failure, objectively, in bringing change. It is the rare
person that can take the blame for that on themselves;
4. Fact - His audience goes to zero, like
mine, if he steps up to the impossible, because more than maybe
anything we've made the bargain in this society to avoid facing the
needs of society so we can devote all to ourselves;
5. Fact - His funding goes away, from is
books, his job blogging, the American Progress Think Tank - an arm of
the Democratic Machine - they'd not have Joe playing with the platforms
of the party.
Hmmmm.
No wonder he and I are on different planets. My bad. So much to learn, so little time.
Conceding defeat is almost impossible for me, and for Joe, it is all he's ever known. Fact.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
ps: McKibben has so embraced defeat he isn't even worth mentioning, my brother tho he is.
pps: Hansen is the one that hasn't caved yet, and probably won't, but he hasn't the background or character to be able to stand and even begin to fill the leadership background.
8.17.2012
nd GWDF2 D6B Going to Phila to Say Goodby to Dearest Friends - 4 days - back Tuesday.
nd GWDF D6A Going to Phila to Say Goodby to Dearest Friends - 4 days - back Tuesday.
nd "Over my dead body does Earth's temperature rises over 1.5 degrees C." Loving
nd "Over my dead body does Earth's temperature rises over 1.5 degrees C." Loving
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