I’ve lost 3 weeks…It’s been 3 weeks today that I fell in the Drug Store.
I sent out mail to most of you. It put me down, more later. I lost my phone and Internet all at the same time. So I’m late in my update.
Last week on AMC, I watched the original MATRIX movie……for the 9th time. That film best tells my beginning and current approach to this adventure. I’m of course the hero, Kenau Reeves and the “Agents” are the “beast”.
Last Tuesday I asked one of the best Oncologist in the country what was next and he said there is no next. I’m trying an oral drug that I’ve used in the past called Cassadex but it’s only to slow things down. I tell ya, they expected me to be dead by now….but here I am still being a pain in the ass. At the time I’m waiting for FDA approval of a new drug that has passed clinical trial and is just waiting for final approval. I’m just in a state of waiting. I did ask the Doc the dreaded question “How long do I have?” His answer….”It’s impossible to tell”.....In a bad real estate market I used to tell people if they were asked how was real estate to answer “It’s unbelievable” that pretty much covered it without commitment. He also used the work nobody in treatment wants to hear: Hospice! He asked if had enough care.
The fall caused me to literally have to sit on my ass for 3 weeks and when your “Life is From Here” that’s an eternity. I had company, I like company, cause for the last 3 weeks I haven’t been able to go anywhere.
The Fall: I had to go to the Drug Store. I’ve been pretty stable lately and may have gotten a little complacent, but I was in the cosmetic section and saw a ball similar to one I had bought my grand daughter and reached to get it……I felt myself going over and started say “oh no, oh no”!! There I was…….sprawled….right under the security camera…..When Sking you’re taught to first just lay there which I did….then I did something I thought I would never do and that is yell “HELP”. A young couple came by and I was helped up. The manager helped me out to the car and I went home. I was fortunate not to have broken my hip (I just hyper-extended my left leg) and since there have been 3 recent hip breaks with my parents…all the paraphanyia needed, wheel chair, crutches etc. was already there I was able to determine a broken hip or not. I’ve never broken a bone before and never felt pain like that before so I figured I had broken it. But I was an invalid for 3 weeks!!!
I saw most if not all of the Olympics! I thought Ping Pong was claustrophobic until I saw DOUBLES!!! And who knew there were so many different ways to play volleyball and soccer? And Cheerleading? They have Gymnastics!!!
I had a lot of time to reflect…some mornings….before the drugs would take affect I would wonder “what does it feel like to die?….would I know? Will I go to sleep? Is today the day? "It's impossible to tell!"
OK, you control all the money. A man and his wife and child show up and says “Please give me some money and I’ll feed my family tonight” At the back door is a man that says “Give me the money for my business and I’ll give the other man a job and he’ll feed his family every night!” What part of that doesn’t make sense? It’s the fish thing in the Bible for Gods sake!
OK let's do the math: 14% of $20,000,000 is $2.8 million in taxes.....Even 25% of a Walmart managers say...$100,000 is only $25,000.....who paid the most?
A General Motors ad for Chevy says they have had their greatest year! What does that mean? It wasnt for volume, or profit and they still owe the tax payers 25 Billion dollars which we will probably neve see a dime of. That's my dollar paying for the ad Mr. President!
I usually flip the bird when I see a Prius!
Ya know I do have a plan “B”. Plan “B” is the plan of survival….maybe not total recession but close. Ya know, I’ve never tried to look at this any other way.
I’ve been saved by the bell, pulled from the train….so many times
I’ll have some “splainen” to do to my creditors but it would be fun and worth it!
Thanks for the Spiritual Energy and Prayers. Bob
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