Monday, December 15, 2008

Shoes, Picking up George Bush and walking the dogs, Struggling with insurance to get treatment

Aloha!

Throwing shoes at a person in the Middle East is a great insult and signifies the target is lower than dirt. I suppose throwing a yellow, Caterpillar Back Hoe at a target would signify the target is lower than dirt and do very real injury to the target.

On my walk today with Mojo and Salena I had a typical monologue with my two beautiful, German Shepherd Dogs. "Hurry up, go potty, good dogs. We get to breathe the fresh clean air together one more day, together, good dogs. How lucky are we to experience icy rain together this morning. Good Boy, Mojo! Way to make a big, steamy. Let me get my doggie poopy bag and pick up poopy. Boy,. Is "the decider" ever stinky, good girl? Best I clean up this mess, good dogs before us three or America is linked to King George and the stink stays on us even after 15 seconds of vigorous hand washing. Let's clean up the poop good dogs.

I have been struggling with my insurance company to get cancer treatment. I am in an HMO type program and not all providers take the insurance so I need to jump through burning hoops soaked in gasoline trying to get providers "pre-certified" so treatment is paid for. It is not like we are developing new technology, building the new technology, and testing the new technology, in order to get humans to the moon by the end of the decade, I am just trying to get health care paid for.

Peace and Love,

Jack "The Comet" Burton

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Brundle Fly Hairs Be Gone!, Supreme Court/Fifth Amendment

Aloha,

I had a good visit with my University of California, San Francisco Medical Center docs and nurses on Friday. The 30 or so sutures were removed from the right side of my scalp. It hurt a little. Not as much as a very, very, very, long mountain bike ride but it was not as fun getting the sutures removed but it was fun. Yeah! I get to have sutures removed and practice, long, even, relaxing breathing while a stranger removes sticky, crusty, thick sutures from my scalp! How lucky am I!

I will be starting a new intravenous treatment probably next week. It is a combination of Avastin and CPT-11. The side effects can be severe but then again, Avastin and CPT11 have not met me before. I am optimistic and I am looking forward to getting on my bicycle and whooping up on some cancer and side effects.

Well, you probably read the news about the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the Bush Administration decision to hold "persons" indefinitely without accusation or trial in violation of the 5Th Amendment, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-scotus-terror6-2008dec06,0,2479002.story. That George W. Coward Bush sure knows how to create more bad guys faster than we can kill the bad guys, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment05/ .

Peace and Love,
Jack "The Comet" Burton