Well, I’m not sure how to say this. So I’ll just ‘out with it’…I have been diagnosed with Squamous Cell Cancer in one lymph node in the neck. I’ve had the punch biopsy and a CT w/ contrast. The lymph node has contained the cells and there is no other areas of the neck that are involved. It is very slow growing according to my pcp. I have no symptoms, no pain, no night sweats, no shortness of breath, no fevers, and certainly no weight loss! That is the good news. The bad news is that the primary cancer remains hidden for now.
I have a bunch of appointments this week, ENT, Med Onc, PCP, and probably surgery asap. Details to follow.
This is an open thread.
Prayers
I’ll keep you in my prayers.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/484196-supreme-court-allow-public-charge-rule-to-take-effect-across-country?amp
Excellent
Thanks yinz!
Oh man. Prayers for you.
@ coldwarrior:
Definitely on my prayer list yinz.
Bad luck about not getting the weight off +ive.
🙂
Typical. Always the way ain’t it? Those rib racks might have something to do with it perhaps! 🙂
Seriously mate. Good to know that you’re in safe hands. Find that primary mate and knock the bastard off!
@coldwarrior
Best wishes for you!
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Did I read this correct: Clint Eastwood endorses Bloomberg?
well, fuck.
If you had to get some kind of skin cancer, I guess this is the one to get, but I don’t like the lymph node/no primary presentation. So, you will, of course, tell us the test results. Or I will come up there…………and that’s when you will need everyone’s prayers.
As for the SCOTUS ruling – we have a very good friend from Peru, naturalized citizen. He married and had a child with a woman back in Lima, wanted to bring them here. We sponsored them and that meant turning over 3 years of tax returns and signing off on being willing to support them if they needed welfare. By the book. So yeah, no freebies, folks. (They’re doing just fine, btw, his business has grown to the point where we can’t afford him anymore!)
@ Guggi:
!!!!
Hi there, stranger! Yeah, it was sort of an oh, by the way, and it didn’t make a lot of sense. After saying he’s libertarian and he doesn’t like people who tell other people how to live their lives, endorsing Bloomberg made ZERO sense.
It wasn’t logical.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sotomayor filed dissenting, accusing the other justices of bias in favor of Trump.
*pop* *pop* *pop* is the sound of teeny tiny liberal brains exploding
“Yet the Court’s concerns over quick decisions wither when prodded by the Government in far less compelling circumstances— where the Government itself chose to wait to seek relief, and where its claimed harm is continuation of a 20-year status quo in one State. I fear that this disparity in treatment erodes the fair and balanced decisionmaking process that this Court must strive to protect.”
Suck it up, Wise Latina, your side started using the courts to legislate, your rules, your game, you’re just losing is all.
Fox has already called Nevada for Sanders and Biden is expected to speak in about 20 minutes. Drops out, I hope, this has been painful to watch
Prayers for you, CW
Prayers CW
eaglesoars wrote:
So we really do have that many communists in our country? This is not good. Not good at all.
/Yeah, watching a person exhibiting signs of either dementia or senility is not a good thing. I’m kind of conflicted, I was hoping he’d go longer, but at the same time, the most compassionate thing would be for him to fade from public life and lead the remainder of his years in peace.
CW my thoughts and prayers are with you. sending love and hugs.
eaglesoars wrote:
Biden will probably turn up in his afternoon snooze suit and tell everyone that he has to be outa here before so he can make it to dinner at 5:30PM with the rest of the oldsters!
🙂
If he remembers to turn up!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
No. We have a mix of people who have no idea what communism actually is, except that they think it’s ‘fair’, and a bunch of morons who think Bernie is a well-meaning person who can make things ‘better’ but whose actual extremist version is just p.r. or ‘could never happen here’.
Plus a few actual commies.
It’s going to get boring, having to kill all those people. And I am absolutely serious
@ Aussie Infidel:
your lads are looking pretty good at basin reserve.
thanks yinz. gotta get some sleep. night all!
@ coldwarrior:
sleep tight, we’re here.
Thoughts and prayers for you CW. Hope it’s nothing major and easily defeated.
Doppelgänger I will be praying for you. Keep us in the loop.
morning y’all
cW, you’re gonna be fine, you have peeps that care about you, that is the best support system there is
@ momcat:
oops
sorry, forgot to log momcat out
Does BS Bernie sound like the aardvark from the old And and the Aardvark cartoon?
@ right_wing2:
Ant not And.
right_wing2 wrote:
he does!
heh
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/22/msnbc-melts-down-bernie-nevada-caucuses/
WTH is this?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/dhs-whistleblower-against-obama-administration-found-dead-shot-and-killed/
hmmmm…might get to try some medical grade marijuana….
😉
well this explains rather alot
https://theothermccain.com/2020/02/22/a-failed-state-california-admits-it-cant-teach-black-children-how-to-read/
@ rain of lead:
the nuns can teach anyone to read, write, and do math.
believe me!
a guy going back to work and engaged does not commit suicide. he was vindicated and a triumphal return…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/philip-haney-dhs-whistleblower-during-obama-era-found-dead-police-say
Prayers for you and yours, CW.
coldwarrior wrote:
this case showed up in the law enforcement newsletter yesterday morning, it was the first thing I saw. No one believes this was suicide
From Steve King, Congressman from Iowa
Phil Haney was a friend & patriot. He was a target because of all he knew of Islamic terrorist coverups. He insured his life by archiving data that incriminated the highest levels of the Obama administration. Phil Haney didn’t kill himself. RIP, Phil.
https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/1231416281737367553
Also, I’m see tweets from people in Italy that the country is shutting down due to coronavirus quarantine measures. I also saw Georgio Armani cancelled his fashion show, also. I think that was in Milan.
Italy suspends Venice’s world-famous Carnival amid coronavirus crisis
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-suspends-venices-world-famous-carnival-amid-coronavirus-crisis/a-52488725
@ lobo91:
and outlining this exact scenario is what got zerohedge permenantly banned from twitter.
eaglesoars wrote:
Because the Chinese own Twitter
@ lobo91:
oh. And here I thought it was the Saudis
@ eaglesoars:
The Chinese certainly seem to control Twitter, Google, etc., anyway.
Chris Wallace is aligning himself with Schiff and McRaven. I’m done with Fox
@ lobo91:
Russia Russia Russia!!!!11ty!
My favorite day. Enough surplus was made last year to pay my CC dues.
I’m spending the afternoon smoking a big slab of ribs and listening to music.
This is exactly how Samantha Fish opened the show in Denver a couple of weeks ago. In fact, she’s even wearing the same outfit:
coldwarrior wrote:
Given the kind of work you do, I’m not sure you guys even have time to talk about it, but I saw a blurb today that said the UK gov’t has been told it is not out of the question that half of the place could come down with coronavirus.
I always look at headlines like this with a “who wants the money” cynicism. OTOH, this does seem to have taken some people by surprise. My common sense tells me that if you live in a place where people don’t defecate in the street, you’re probably ok.
Then I remember. San Francisco. Which has a VIBRANT Chinese community. And a lot of poop on the streets.
Thoughts?
@ lobo91:
cigar box?
@ eaglesoars:
not living in filth and in close proximity to birds and pigs helps greatly.
save a buck
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/trump-trade-adviser-navarro-china-put-export-restrictions-on-n95-face-masks-then-nationalized-a-us-factory-that-produces-them-there-video/
we need to put an end to this sort of thing.
Here’s the piece I saw about half the UK being infected
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1243138/coronavirus-uk-latest-update-nhs-hospitals-infections-treatment-china-death-toll-symptoms
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, but can’t say I blame them. Their need was life-death. I would have done the same thing.
eaglesoars wrote:
To start with. She changed guitars about four times in those three songs.
It’s Bulletproof, then Kill or Be Kind, then right into Watch it Die.
eaglesoars wrote:
we damn near traded our security and health away for what?
Another interesting singer/songwriter/guitarist I recently came across:
That’s Bobby Wallace and Elijah Owings of Ally Venable’s band playing with her in that clip.
coldwarrior wrote:
They sure are with the bowlers doing the job on the Indians. I was expecting a high scoring game as the outfield at the Basin reserve is lightning fast and the boundaries are fairly close in. Not so!
The Kiwi fatties tied the Indians down frustrated them and forcing them to chance their arm and got out!
Who thunk?
🙂
fatties = Fasties
🙂
Bloody predictive strikes again!
🙂
Best wishes for a total recovery, CW.
…and thanks for unblocking me, whoever unblocked me. It’s been years of wandering in the wilderness. 🙂
@ Octopus:
you were blocked?
news to me
@ Aussie Infidel:
fatties is funnier.
@ coldwarrior:
he’s been grumbling about it over at DoD for awhile
Hey OCTO, great to see you over here.
don’t be a stranger
@ rain of lead:
someone needs to keep me in the loop…
damn!!!
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/359238/#respond
rain of lead wrote:
i almost chocked on this lovely Cabernet.
Thinking about you CW.
Also, on a different topic this place suddenly went low class and downhill.
Hi Octo!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Being in the loop is highly overrated.
/something
CynicalConservative wrote:
ooda loops or loop de loops or fruit loops
coldwarrior wrote:
Low prices.
/at least that’s what we citizens traded for. Our political overlords traded for more power and money
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/23/excellent-video-celebrating-president-trump-visit-to-india/
Mrs coldwarrior and I watch a lot of Bollywood.
This is brilliant
@ coldwarrior:
I think I cracked a rib laughing
The literal translation of the lyrics is:
This small flame has erupted into a huge fireball
The shelf of my heart has become filled (with happiness) today
This black night has become rainbow coloured
Look how badly we have defeated the enemy…
@ rain of lead:
Mrs coldwarrior loves the Bollywood films. Over the top productions!9
@ coldwarrior:
https://news24online.com/news/World/trump-goes-tweeting-spree-ahead-india-visit-shares-video-himself-baahubali-73803638/
new thread
The next few weeks are key, depending on how quickly people in China go back to work.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/02/12/target-best-buy-coronavirus-supply-disruption/41223461/
coldwarrior wrote:
Do you know Aishwarya Rai? (sp?). Probably one of the most beautiful women ever born
nah, Trump would NEVER do that.
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/commie.png
I forget where I saw this, but somebody had a great idea for Bernie’s VP pick
Angela Davis
That would be so much fun
@ eaglesoars:
Sweet Jesus, she’s at least as crazy as Bernie.
I’d actually expect Stacey Abrams.
@ Possum:
I’ll stealth block him. He’ll never figure it out.
https://local.theonion.com/dog-can-t-believe-owner-left-on-fucking-msnbc-to-keep-i-1832791796?utm_campaign=SF&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=Facebook&utm_content=Main
Labrador suffers abuse