Some people make me sick. Like one acquaintance of mine who is best described as a Gay Nazi, and when I say Nazi, I’m not using the term figuratively as in “grammar nazi” or “feminazi” but rather in the literal sense of the word: a follower of the doctrine of Adolf Hitler. He’s racist, sexist and antisemitic, and his self loathing is epic. We were friends on Facebook until he posted a comment to my wall to the effect of “atheists should be hunted down and killed by Second Amendment Americans.” First I sent him a message telling him to f… himself. Then I unfriended and blocked him, and the bastard’s damned lucky I didn’t report him to Facebook. …
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Okay, the initial shock of my cancer diagnosis has passed. Last Thursday they did an abdominal CT scan, which was particularly unpleasant because it involved drinking a quart of barium. The stuff is opaque to x-rays, so it allows my intestinal tract to be imaged. The stuff tastes nasty, like drinking a chalk-flavored milkshake. The last time I had to use it was for an upper and lower GI series when I was nine years old. It’s probably one of the more traumatic memories of my childhood. The CT scan didn’t show any bad news. I have a couple of swollen inguinal lymph nodes, but that could also be an effect of HIV. The radiologist’s opinion was that this … ShareFriday, March 16, 2012
Beware, Caesar, said the soothsayer, at least according to Shakespeare, beware the Ides of March. That was yesterday, March 15th, which was the day in 44 BCE when Julius Caesar was assassinated. Now I have my own Ides of March, right up there with my Pearl Harbor Day, because it was on the Ides of March in 2012 I was told that I have cancer. More surgery next Tuesday, which means missing a rehearsal, and I need someone to drive me, so I’ve put out a call to friends of the Chorus for a ride on Tuesday so Jim doesn’t have to miss, too. Today I’m having a CT scan and I have to drink barium to prepare for … Share |
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