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YOUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS AS YOU GET OLDER

Early this morning well before sunrise, I had a period of sleeplessness. I had time to reflect on how I have been feeling, on upcoming appointments with my cardiologist, my urological oncologist, podiatrist, physical therapist and so on. I should mention that I’m six months beyond my seventy-fourth birthday. Or, as Jack Benny might have said, “I just celebrated the fortieth anniversary of my thirty-fourth birthday.” This post will examine your spiriual needs as you get older. Knowing when you...

SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) NEWS THREAD

When I launched this thread last May, Delta was just beginning to explore and infiltrate our communities. The vaccination rates were still climbing and many people–myself included–hoped we were out of the woods. But then the new case rate and the mortality rates climbed while the vaccination rates reached a plateau. Now, some epidemiologists are predicting another year or two of the pandemic. Note that I use the term “epidemiologist” and not “radiologist” or “opthamologist.” Doctors such as radiologists and...

DEADLY HARVEST: AGENT ORANGE & OUR VETS

On Thursday, January 18, 1962, I was in seventh grade. Chubby Checker had the Number 1 song in America, called “The Twist.” Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, the largest black university in the U.S. was shut down over civil rights demonstrations, and President John F. Kennedy gave final approval for the U.S. Military Assistance Command to proceed with Operation Ranch Hand, which was a “a massive effort to defoliate the forests of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with an herbicide known as...

Fear and heart failure in Luke

FEAR AND HEART FAILURE IN LUKE

Today is the first day of December. At the moment, many Americans are nervously awaiting the arrival of the Omicron strain of the SARS-COV-2 virus. We’re told that it may very well evade the immune response in our bodies conferred by the vaccine. Some citizens are more bothered by the prospect of having to wear masks and the odds of another lockdown. But other Americans don’t care one way or another about Omicrom. They think they are invincible, or it...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus

WHY IS SARS-COV-2 SO RESILIENT?

Origins (as described on NPR One) Originally, the so-called wet markets found in Huanan and many other cities not only in China but in Laos, Thailand, SIngapore and elsewhere in Southeast Asia were blamed for the begining of the SARS-CoV-2 in humans. At the markets, many common foods such fish, chicken and pork are displayed in close proximity to more exotic animals, which are often stacked in cages that create incredible stress on the animals, making them vulnerable to disease....

My Journey with Cancer Part 2. Cancer cells dividing.

MY JOURNEY WITH CANCER (PT 2)

To jump to the most current post, click HERE Welcome to Part 2 of my blog post My Journey With Cancer. I’m blogging daily with no understanding of when or how my journey will end. It might be ten years from now or it may be much sooner. But then, again, does anyone know the measure of time they been apportioned on Earth? And what is time? And what happens to us when that time runs out? The reason I...

CT Scan

MY JOURNEY WITH CANCER

Jump to most recent post The new year is barely two weeks old, and I’m already finding out what 2023 will bring. While some people will be coping with war and peace, poverty, inflation and unemployment, love and marriage, happiness and sadness, I (and my loving wife, Deena) will find ourselves meeting new people, visiting new places, experiencing new things and the common denominator is cancer. Our plans to travel to my homeland in Germany next winter may not occur...

General Surgery for Cancer

MY JOURNEY WITH CANCER (PT 3)

This is the third installation of my journal from the day I was first diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. These are my thoughts, my prayers, my observations and my journey as I navigate this brave new world. Read more about it in this post called “My Journey with Cancer (Pt 3.)” To jump to today’s entry, click HERE To jump back to part two, click HERE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023 (C DAY +29) My journey with cancer (Part 3)....

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