{"id":42918,"date":"2021-02-24T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=42918"},"modified":"2021-02-24T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:56:34","slug":"personal-update-2-24-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/24\/personal-update-2-24-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 2\/24\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The last day has brought a few changes that will be difficult for me to deal with.&nbsp; First, WWWendy, who is coming this afternoon, has two other jobs, both of which have been at least partially on hold because of the Republican plague.&nbsp; Next month, she has to return to both, full time, which means she&#8217;ll have a lot less time to spend on me, when I need it most.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll have to juggle patch changing with home health nurses, get showers on a less regular schedule, and take long and excruciatingly painful Lift Bus trips to the doctor, if I&#8217;m able to do that at all.&nbsp; As frustrating as that is to me, I have to recognize that she can&#8217;t give up her main employment to take care of me, when I won&#8217;t be around that long anyway.&nbsp; In addition, I heard from my Oncologist yesterday.&nbsp; She wrote me that, even without contrast, the my CT Scan in the ER is so obvious that there is no need for another.&nbsp; She wrote that I can go back to chemo or go into the home hospice program.&nbsp; Chemo would likely kill me from septic shock, like it almost did twice before. That&#8217;s a terrible death, IMHO.&nbsp; In any case, I&#8217;m going to have to spend the next few days reorganizing my life.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve left out a lot of info, because there is so much that I don&#8217;t know yet.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll keep you posted as I learn more.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:52 (average 4:55).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2021-02-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0224Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&amp;list=PLZsGVEpucFe2j86BIby2EgPf8qStfClgh&amp;index=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WANNqr-vcx0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST the Republican Reich<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#8217;t Let Republicans Steal YOUR Future!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day has brought a few changes that will be difficult for me to deal with.&nbsp; First, WWWendy, who is coming this afternoon, has two other jobs, both of which have been at least partially on hold because of the Republican plague.&nbsp; Next month, she has to return to both, full time, which means <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/24\/personal-update-2-24-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3718,3811,3705,3714],"class_list":["post-42918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-music","tag-personal","tag-resist","tag-video","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}