So funny story, I had a visit with my Rheumatologist today here in NC. We were chatting and the topic of T came up, my Dr said he went to school and studied Internal Medicine with Twitlers doctor, Sean Conley. He said he is absolutely saying what Twitler wants him to say, Conley is one of the most straight laced guy he knows and he can't imagine the amount of stress Conley is under. I said, I hope he writes a book when all this is over, but he said he probably wouldn't, he's not that type of guy. One can dream though, lol. On a side note, one of the reasons I chose my Rheumatologist is from a 1-star Google review that said he bad mouthed President Rump. I said, that's the one right there, he's my doctor! ?
I voted via mail ballot this past week, drove it straight to our election board and dropped into an actual persons hands. Felt so satisfying! Checked online yesterday and my ballot has been officially counted. I'm also set to work as a poll worker on election day, I'm so excited and curious how many people will show up. I live near Camp Leguene, a Marine base, so I'm sure most will be Rethugs, but I think it'll be Interesting to see how many closet Dems come out.
Stephen Miller just tested positive.
WOW!!!!!!!!
It is like an full blown Opera right now. Tragedy or Comedy, depending upon your view I guess, and who is writing it.
Tragedy for the American people.
Agreed!
You know movie Fantasia, the original one. At the end of the film, there's the scene from Night on Bald Mountain (so dark and scary) and when that scene is over, Ave Maria begins to play and soon the darkness is light up by hundreds of lights people are carrying and the last scene is of the sun rising ver a mountain.
Well, that is how I feel this story is gong to end, with people carrying thousands, millions of lights after the "4 Years in Trump White House" is over and the sun finally rises.
Thanks so much to everyone here. I have laughed a lot today from everything everyone's written, and I need the laughs. The icing on the cake-
Obviously COVID's no laughing matter, but Tea Pain, upon the breaking news headline that Miller has it, tweeted, "Holy crap! It jumps species!" ?
Surreal times.
I've found the same thing happening in my own meditations, Jeanne. ?
(Now, out of meditation, when I'm just my ordinary little self, no thanks!)
Isn't Camp Leguene near Topsail Beach? My husband and I have vacationed at Topsail a couple of times. Very laid back area, beautiful beach.
I remember saying last week here that a lot of T's people would become infected.
Quickly manifested. Wow. More than I imagined.
Thank you Polarberry and Vestralux for the well wishes. Im feeling much better now but that knocked me out for about a month, including a week stay in the hospital. Sepsis is nothing to play with and put my "Im super dad and I can beat anything" attitude in check real quick.
@deetoo It is, yes, Topsail is just south of Camp Leguene. Topsail is beautiful and small, doesn't get the crowds like Wilmington and the Outer Banks does. I'm in Jacksonville, which is where Camp Leguene has all it's entrances. So so soooo many Rump flags flying here, it's pretty obnoxious.
Did anyone take notice to the wording of the 2 statements released about Trump's heath today?
"He reported no symptoms today" and "His vitals remain stable"
They didnt say he was symptom free and chose to word it as "he reported" instead of a definitive answer, even though they were fully aware of him having symptoms or not. Also, the said his vitals were "stable" not normal or good but stable. Stable means they haven't changed, so if they were bad or concerning they still are. The medical staff is walking a fine line and not lying but being very misleading, which tells me they are told what to say.
@dannyboy My family is mainly between Indiana and Kentucky. I currently live in the Indiana side of the border between KY and IN. So I've been through both Pence as governor and as vice president. When he became vice president, we got Eric Holcomb as governor. When covid hit, he actually in the beginning went by early CDC and white house rules. So we were one of the ones that went along with your state, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota. I actually was impressed at first because ones like Governor Beshear (KY) were taking it all very seriously and not going along with Trump's push to reopen or disregard the rules. Then in May when Trump was pushing so much for everyone to open up, Pence made a personal visit to our state....and the rules went out the window. It was so frustrating to watch our local news and see KY's governor sticking to his guns over the rules and ours bending to pressure to push forward.
This happens alot....Pence puts pressure on Indiana republicans (I imagine KY goes through the same thing with Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul). Indiana has as of this month no restrictions anymore. The only thing Holcomb now says is if you are in a high risk category stay home or wear a mask....as Indiana's cases again are climbing. Anyway, I glad you mentioned the education association and labor union. I didn't know where to look. I spent a couple hours researching the school board ones and judges. I'm ashamed to admit I did look at some social media posts to see what the members on the school board thought of masks and school safety to make up my mind. It shouldn't be so hard to find information on these things. All I could mainly find where these little summaries that all sound good on paper but can be very far from what attitudes and actions actually are. Truly is it that hard for people who are up for elections to just have a transparent clearly defined platform to actually give people a chance to make educated decisions.
Years ago, I worked in public relations for a major university medical center and one of my responsibilities was to give medical updates about public figures to the media (obviously pre HIPAA.). In addition to the routine conditions like good, serious or critical, I could state whether or not the patient was “stable.” It was meaningless. Dead is a stable condition.
@mas1581 Oh so very glad you are ok now!!!! I lost a good friend to sepsis... he died at home alone because he was a single guy and didn't want to stay in the hospital because he lived alone except for his two cats and he had no one to go and feed and care for them he said. I talked to him the night he died... did not tell me he was that bad off or what he had. It broke my heart but I know his pain and suffering had ended. He had addiction issues and was fighting them. :-(
@kiki glad you posted, I was a long time lurker as well. I really enjoyed reading your post and welcome.
@mas1581 sorry you were experiencing so much pain, glad you’re feeling better.
@vestralux excited to read all your intriguing posts again.
Wow, the forum is super heightened today. Love all the posts, humor and the incredibly elevated energy.
I had a vision posted on here in August about Darth Vader
“Then Darth Vader appeared and said May the Force Be with You. He somehow used his force/power to burn all the Maga hats.”
It never occurred to me that Darth Vader could possibly be the Virus since Darth is a combination of death and dark and Vader is taken from invader and possibly influenced by water.
People were at the rose garden event without masks and spitting on each other unknowingly.
share the love and light
Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms
In a statement released on Tuesday, Facebook said its staff had begun removing content and deleting groups and pages, but that "this work will take time and will continue in the coming days and weeks".
"Our Dangerous Organizations Operations team will continue to enforce this policy and proactively detect content for removal instead of relying on user reports," the statement added.
This should have happened long ago...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878
Not an internist or even a GP, but an osteopath.
@vestralux, so sorry to have to disagree with the disparaging tone about osteopaths, from otherwise respected commentators at MSNBC, from a well respected attorney on Youtube, and now from you, simply because some osteopathic physicians have been burdened with the care of a very difficult patient. As an (allopathic) MD myself, I worked side by side with many osteopaths because they are very common in the military, providing both primary care, emergency, and specialty care. Osteopathic medical schools use the same medical textbooks as regular allopathic medical schools; they take and pass the same tests for board certification. There are osteopathic internists. For several years my own primary care physician was an osteopathic internist, and boy, she was good at spinal manipulation to break my back spasms, and taught me how to provide that kind of treatment to my own patients. So I hope my comments here will encourage you and other readers of this forum to look deeper what osteopathic medicine is all about, and not disparage the profession simply because a bad patient who happens also to be their boss, forces them to parade before the press trying to tactfully explain what is going on, in the middle of a complete farce.
I took the route of stubborn dad who wasn't sick enough to go to the doctor. In my defense, I am the work from home parent(stay at home at the moment because my business went under from covid) and my wife worked outside the home. I had 3 kids, twin 2 year olds and an 8 year old,, to take care of and didn't want my wife to miss work because of me being sick. She ended up losing her job and the next day she made me go to urgent care, who sent me straight to the ER. She got a good severence so financially we are fine, but if she hadn't gotten let go I wouldn't have gone in until it was much worse. The thought of sepsis never crossed my mind because it took only 3 days from me noticing the abscess til I was septic.