A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hey,  Jackiesue nominated my blog for an award so I guess I'll have to post something.

I was reading Huffington Post last night and they had an article that caught my eye.
Unless you’re from Floridian you may never have heard of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.).
They were having their time to speak about the Health Care Bill and he chose to use his time to talk about the number of people who die because of having no health care. He took it farther and using a study from Harvard about next year’s projected deaths due to no health care. He then proceeded to list every Republican House member and the number of deaths in their districts if the health care effort fails.
The Republicans let him continue until he got to Oklahoma when they tried first to get him to yield his already shortened time and then asked the Chairman to strike it from the Congressional Record. They adjourned and when they came back Grayson finished his list.
He has a web site called Names Of The Dead and the list of Congressman is on The Huffington Post and is out on You Tube somewhere also.
The list I would like him to read is the one that lists all the people who have died since the spring while both parties screw around. They might not be coming to vote next year.

I had a little news the other day. My health Insurance has been canceled. With my union they are allowed to do this if you don't work for six months. They never even notified me or the people putting the claims in.
Now I will only have The Boss's Plan which is almost the same as mine and even from the same company. I figure they will find a reason to drop me pretty quick.

The people in Washington want to delay the start of even their watered down bill until after the 2012 elections. Experts say it could be up and working in a few months.

Gotta go. I have an appointment with my surgeon in a little bit.

I have some music to go with hunting season.
First this cartoon to warm up.


Dick Cheney Hunting Cartoon - Watch more Funny Videos


Click on this link and then pick The Second Week Of Deer Camp.
http://www.myspace.com/dayoopersofficial

Lots of good music here.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

 It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
Michael Servetus



Halloween is over and the Grand kids had fun.




They put on a big thing downtown called The Dickens Victorian Village where they found a use for all the maniquens from the failed bussiness' in town. They change their heads and dress them up and put them in sciens on the sidewalks. It's spookie when you drive through at 3:00 am.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
Chris Rock


I have a feeling that this is a joke, but I know people who would  follow all the sugestions

I found this here.   http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/10/finding_masculine_halloween_co.php

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Anthony Trollope

Well, that having been said let's talk about me.
I've been home for about five weeks now and it sure beats the hospitals.

I had hoped that I would finally get some rest but my daughter left the monster boyfriend and moved in just before I got home, so I have her and the grandkids waking me up all the time. At least in the hospital the nurses woke you up at the same times every day.

I had two therapists' when I came home three days a week. One was physical therapy and the other was occupational therapy. One worked my arms and the other worked my legs. They are done now after saying that they couldn't do any more for me. I also have a  wound nurse who comes in three times a week to change my dressings on my belly and the base of my spine.Also once a month she changes my catheter which I've had so long that we have to retrain my bladder. Maybe I can get it to roll over or shake hands or something. The wounds are healing slowly and I'm getting impatient.

The nurses got me to the point where I can walk around the house some but I have to use my cane or walker for anything too long. Stairs are very hard for me to manage unless I have support.

I got my last sick pay check last Saturday and am wondering where the money will come from now. I'm lucky that the Boss has a good job.
The charges that her and my insurance have paid are well over $1,000,000.00 now. I bet I'm the insurance companies customer of the year by now. They were calling and quizing me about my condition and when I would be able to go back to work. They also talk to my Doctors and nurses too and enveryone has a good laugh about me going to work. There is no such thing as light duty where I work.

This is a picture of me taken on June 7th in the ICU. I was on a respirator and was bright yellow. I was suffering from total kidney falure and major malfunctions in my liver. I went through 4 or 5 hours of dialysis every other day. You can't see most of the machines I was hooked up to and as you can see I was being injected almost all of the time.
I was actually in a good mood in this picture.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach






I got moved to a rehab and live in care unit. I don't have a phone and The Boss swiped my cell phone cause hers broke.
I have been doing rehab on my whole body. I use a walker and a wheelchair.
I found out why It's taking so long to heal, The doc. waited 6 days to cut me thinking all I needed was some Exlaxe. It turns out that it was a blood vessal that had a clot so by the time he opened me and took out 12" of small intestine it was too late. A few days later another surgon was drawing fiuid from my belly and got fresh blood instead of water.
He opened me up again and found that who;e repair fell apard and he had to keep me open for another week to get all the dead tissue out. Now I have a big hole in my stomach (about 8 more inches taken out) and clear up the septosiemia. Turns 0out that the first surgen has 6 pending lawsuits and settles them out of court. My daughter has a friend woh sued him for $500,000.00 She selleled for $250,000.00. She called the lawer who handeled the case and before she evev outlined all the screw-ups he said he would take the case and ask for a lot more. He will be here tomorrow to get more details and get my records fore his doctors to look at. who knows I might be able to get a new computer soon. I didn't know, most of that time I was in a comc or taking Morphine.
The insurance kicked me out of the last hospital and are acting like there going to do the same here. Then I'll have to go home and the rehab lady will come to my home as long as I need help. Thay may kick me out of here tomorrow.
As you can tell by the mistakes I'm making I still have the shakes bad. They said It could take 6 or more monthes to get all the drugs out of my mellon.
Don't send email as the is the rehabs computer and they don't like it when you download stuff. I missed another Westfest. come to think of it I missed spring and summer too.
Talk at you later.

Steve.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Sholem Asch





Well, I'm still in the hospital, and it look's like I will be here for a while longer.
My brother fixed up an old laptop but I still can't get my email to work.

I wanted to thank everyone for the cards and good wishes. The cards are put away so they don't get lost.

The big hole in my tummy is taking forever to heal and I picked up a blood infection that won,t die. 104 days and counting.

Well, it's getting late and my hands are shaking to much yo type so I'll try to post more later.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
Allan Bloom



I almost forgot my Easter tradition.








Starting new ones is important too.






Happy Easter!
I want an egg of a different color.