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(12-10-2016, 12:58 PM)Anthony Wrote: Who else is getting a passport?
It's #1 on my To Do list for 2017.
The soon as the latest government shutdown attempt is resolved, one way or the other, I will be doing it.
I really believe that scores of millions of people are going to be leaving the country within the next 8 years or so - and the soon as I perceive a trend of people of leaving, I will join it.
I intend to get a passport. I live only 120 miles from a free country.
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If Donald Trump pulls a William Howard Taft and caves in to the oligarchs, the future of the working class in America is to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, then come "home" to barracks-type housing, 100 (wo)men to a single large room - after the oligarchs abolish the minimum wage and replace the income tax with a per-person head tax.
Obviously they are not going to take such a massive decline in their living standards lying down - even if it means emigrating to the Middle East and converting to Islam (the African-Americans emigrating to Africa instead); remember that the ancestors of today's Pakistani Muslims were low-caste Hindus who converted to Islam to escape the Hindu caste system.
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I have a doctor appointment in January in Austin, Texas with an autoimmune specialist. No insurance accepted. I booked my flight tonight. I have never been so excited in my life to go see a doctor. I got the lab slip of what they want tested here from whatever doctor will do the blood draw and forward the results to her. It is a very lengthy list. Some of the stuff on there has never been tested at all, and from my understanding should have been.
It's wild. I'm freaking excited about a doctor visit and getting a vein popped with a needle. bizarre. I've researched this doctor to absolute fullest that I could before booking an appointment. I have faith in this one, she suffers from one of the same autoimmune issues I do, so she at least will grasp what I live with. Hers is in remission, so I am praying so hard she can help me get mine there. Well worth the airline flight, hotel, and car expenses if she can.
I just want to feel good again. Have energy.
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(12-08-2016, 11:59 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: (12-08-2016, 04:51 AM)Galen Wrote: (12-06-2016, 02:23 PM)taramarie Wrote: (12-06-2016, 07:58 AM)Odin Wrote: Well I swear I heard them saying he was popular. Maybe I just wasn't fully awake yet and they actually said unpopular? 
Despite what ideologues like Galen think, NPR's Morning Edition is a very sober show that doesn't make shit up.
You do not have a popular leader when what he does causes both sides to mass against him.
Apparently NPR does make shit up or can't be bothered to figure out what is true.
Well, without having a clip of the segment Odin was listening to you are just speculatively bloviating.
Here it is in text form, and the source of, "he is/was popular" is not NPR but The Guardian. This took less than 5 minutes to research. Just saying.
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(12-13-2016, 09:02 PM)Danilynn Wrote: I have a doctor appointment in January in Austin, Texas with an autoimmune specialist. No insurance accepted. I booked my flight tonight. I have never been so excited in my life to go see a doctor. I got the lab slip of what they want tested here from whatever doctor will do the blood draw and forward the results to her. It is a very lengthy list. Some of the stuff on there has never been tested at all, and from my understanding should have been.
It's wild. I'm freaking excited about a doctor visit and getting a vein popped with a needle. bizarre. I've researched this doctor to absolute fullest that I could before booking an appointment. I have faith in this one, she suffers from one of the same autoimmune issues I do, so she at least will grasp what I live with. Hers is in remission, so I am praying so hard she can help me get mine there. Well worth the airline flight, hotel, and car expenses if she can.
I just want to feel good again. Have energy.
We're all pulling for you.
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(12-13-2016, 09:02 PM)Danilynn Wrote: I have a doctor appointment in January in Austin, Texas with an autoimmune specialist. No insurance accepted. I booked my flight tonight. I have never been so excited in my life to go see a doctor. I got the lab slip of what they want tested here from whatever doctor will do the blood draw and forward the results to her. It is a very lengthy list. Some of the stuff on there has never been tested at all, and from my understanding should have been.
It's wild. I'm freaking excited about a doctor visit and getting a vein popped with a needle. bizarre. I've researched this doctor to absolute fullest that I could before booking an appointment. I have faith in this one, she suffers from one of the same autoimmune issues I do, so she at least will grasp what I live with. Hers is in remission, so I am praying so hard she can help me get mine there. Well worth the airline flight, hotel, and car expenses if she can.
I just want to feel good again. Have energy.
Good luck!
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(01-09-2017, 06:12 PM)taramarie Wrote: In an hour and a half I will be having a colonoscopy. Looking forward to going home as soon as they cauterize whatever caused me to gush out blood from my back end for hours. This is the first day in 3 days i have been clear of blood. I hope they find it n fix it so it does not rip again n freak me out like that. I threw up everywhere n had two tachycardia attacks as i thought i was bleeding to death. I easily could have. Hope it all goes well.
Wow, scary! Get well soon.
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(01-09-2017, 06:12 PM)taramarie Wrote: In an hour and a half I will be having a colonoscopy. Looking forward to going home as soon as they cauterize whatever caused me to gush out blood from my back end for hours. This is the first day in 3 days i have been clear of blood. I hope they find it n fix it so it does not rip again n freak me out like that. I threw up everywhere n had two tachycardia attacks as i thought i was bleeding to death. I easily could have. Hope it all goes well.
YIKES! Get better soon!
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I did the definitive act of abstract expressionism. I did a yellow background, all with one brush, with the idea that I might try to put something upon it. It has some interesting texture, so I stopped while I was ahead.
I understand that some painters have made big money with such paintings, only on a larger scale.
Of course, I'm not sure of what I am expressing. But it is abstract.
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(01-10-2017, 04:01 PM)taramarie Wrote: (01-10-2017, 08:09 AM)Odin Wrote: (01-09-2017, 06:12 PM)taramarie Wrote: In an hour and a half I will be having a colonoscopy. Looking forward to going home as soon as they cauterize whatever caused me to gush out blood from my back end for hours. This is the first day in 3 days i have been clear of blood. I hope they find it n fix it so it does not rip again n freak me out like that. I threw up everywhere n had two tachycardia attacks as i thought i was bleeding to death. I easily could have. Hope it all goes well.
YIKES! Get better soon!
Thanks. Turns out it was a large internal ulcer which burst. They took samples all round my bowels and as i was not groggy and otherwise fine i was allowed to go home. I just got in 13 hours sleep. I have not had a proper sleep since the ordeal started 4 days ago. I am sore and weakened but happy i am alive and home. I have been instructed it could burst again and if so go to hosp immediately. I also have to go to the doc next week to see what the rest results show as to what caused the ulcer. They mentioned crohns disease whatever that is but could be other things too. But will see next week and will get medicine or advice from my gp.
Glad to hear that you are recovering.
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Taramarie, hope you are feeling- & getting- better
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(01-11-2017, 05:39 AM)Marypoza Wrote: Taramarie, hope you are feeling- & getting- better
Seconded.
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(01-10-2017, 04:01 PM)taramarie Wrote: Thanks. Turns out it was a large internal ulcer which burst. They took samples all round my bowels and as i was not groggy and otherwise fine i was allowed to go home. I just got in 13 hours sleep. I have not had a proper sleep since the ordeal started 4 days ago. I am sore and weakened but happy i am alive and home. I have been instructed it could burst again and if so go to hosp immediately. I also have to go to the doc next week to see what the rest results show as to what caused the ulcer. They mentioned crohns disease whatever that is but could be other things too. But will see next week and will get medicine or advice from my gp.
I hope you are on the mend. Take it easy and use this time to indulge in guilty pleasures (i.e. watching trash TV, reading romances, or whatever floats your boat).
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(01-11-2017, 01:27 PM)taramarie Wrote: Thanks guys. Means a lot. I just woke up. No blood passed so that is a thumbs up. Hopefully I am a bit stronger today when walking round the house. Lol yes Wonkette I have been indulging in Youtube seeing as walking is clearly a no atm. Luckily I was holding onto something when the cat jumped on me as he just about bowled me over and he is a tiny thing. Kind of embarrassing how shaky I am atm. My mother is helping me when she can too which is nice. Keep up the painting/self expression pbrower!
I'm glad that you have no sign of any unwelcome 'positive'. I would have said more except that I am queasy about discussing the lower part of the digestive tract.
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(01-18-2017, 02:01 AM)taramarie Wrote: I will be attending the Women's March this Saturday which as you all should know is a global movement against what Trump represents and some of the vile people who stand for him. Looking forward to it.
Wow! I didn't realize that it was global.
My 22-year-old daughter and I plan to be down in the Washington DC main march, since we only live about 5 miles from the White House/Capitol.
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(01-18-2017, 02:53 PM)taramarie Wrote: (01-18-2017, 01:19 PM)The Wonkette Wrote: (01-18-2017, 02:01 AM)taramarie Wrote: I will be attending the Women's March this Saturday which as you all should know is a global movement against what Trump represents and some of the vile people who stand for him. Looking forward to it.
Wow! I didn't realize that it was global.
My 22-year-old daughter and I plan to be down in the Washington DC main march, since we only live about 5 miles from the White House/Capitol.
Oh yeah like over 30 countries are doing this march against the rise of the alt right as well as what Trump feeds and some of his followers. This is global. It pleases me that so many are standing up to this. You betcha I will take part in this.
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(01-18-2017, 01:19 PM)The Wonkette Wrote: (01-18-2017, 02:01 AM)taramarie Wrote: I will be attending the Women's March this Saturday which as you all should know is a global movement against what Trump represents and some of the vile people who stand for him. Looking forward to it.
Wow! I didn't realize that it was global.
My 22-year-old daughter and I plan to be down in the Washington DC main march, since we only live about 5 miles from the White House/Capitol.
So will the widow who has been showing some interest in me. She has a longer trip from Michigan.
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You should join her. Cheer from the sidelines or something. Probably good for you.
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(01-19-2017, 02:54 AM)taramarie Wrote: Biopsy results for anyone interested ....clear. It was not the ulcer that burst. The bleeding was from the stomach doc says. As the colon is clear it was more than likely higher up. He says my symptoms sound like I have diverticulitis.It is something which is more common with older folk which makes me feel like a lively spring chicken hearing this. Apparently it can be very dangerous as you can bleed to death due to the stomach having so many blood vessels. So, yeah....least it is not cancer. I have been warned it could happen again. I am supposed to avoid certain foods, medicines, and certain drinks as well as eat or drink a lot of fiber.
Good luck. Hope you get better soon.
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(01-19-2017, 02:54 AM)taramarie Wrote: Biopsy results for anyone interested ....clear. It was not the ulcer that burst. The bleeding was from the stomach doc says. As the colon is clear it was more than likely higher up. He says my symptoms sound like I have diverticulitis.It is something which is more common with older folk which makes me feel like a lively spring chicken hearing this. Apparently it can be very dangerous as you can bleed to death due to the stomach having so many blood vessels. So, yeah....least it is not cancer. I have been warned it could happen again. I am supposed to avoid certain foods, medicines, and certain drinks as well as eat or drink a lot of fiber.
Wow. That's really rare! Usually diverticula occur in the colon. I've been hanging around the medical field for 40 years and never heard of a gastic diverticulum. Kudos to your doctor for picking up something that rare.
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