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  • Pink Glove Dance

    What makes this even sweeter, is that this video was made at the hospital where I got my open heart surgery in 1982, St. Vincent’s in Portland, Oregon. Posted in Cardiac Chronicles, Diversions, Health and Medicine Tagged: Breast Cancer [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:06am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Wired for sound

    Number of comments: 3
    Now that Multaq is working its way out of my system, I’m feeling pretty damn good.  We’ll be leaving shortly to go to the kids’ place to pick them up so we can retrieve Sweetie’s car from the Renown parking lot. Being as I’m not allowed to drive, we have to [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:41am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Petition: Don’t let women lose access to mammography

    Number of comments: 5
    From my inbox: You’ve no doubt heard the news this week about the new recommendations concerning mammography screening. While this shows that there is disagreement among experts about when mammograms should begin and on what schedule, all agree that mammograms save lives – in women over 50 and women in their 40s.  Sign [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:27pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Light posting, in case you haven’t noticed

    Healing, dealing, contemplating. I’ll be back soon. Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:05pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Love comes in all kinds of packages

    Number of comments: 7
    Through the events of the last couple of weeks and days, I have been showered with love and kindnesses too numerous to count. And I am humbled. Posted in Cardiac Chronicles [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:41pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Tonight’s the night

    Number of comments: 10
    Sending this from my iPhone: Pacemaker is going in this evening. Posted in Cardiac Chronicles [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:31pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Pacing Myself

    Number of comments: 9
    There is no underlying heart disease, and aside from the electrical issues, my heart muscle is strong and undamaged.  The ablation appears to have worsened what I had already before the ablation: that is, the long P-R interval(First Degree Atrioventricular Block).  And unless I could sit with you and draw you [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:29pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Cost savings at the expense of women’s lives?

    “At least 40 percent of the lives saved by mammographic screening are of women aged 40-49. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and apparently have been developed in an attempt to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many women may pay for this unsound approach with their lives.” Unbelieveable. Here is a rundown of [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:33pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Critters soothe everything

    Number of comments: 1
    This one is for Sweetie: This one is for Omie: This one is for Ali: Posted in Diversions Tagged: Miscellaneous Diversions [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:48pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Elizabeth Warren: “It’s socialism for the rich”

    A must watch: What exactly is going on with the economy? Stocks are up and big bonuses are back, but while they’re throwing parties on Wall Street, there’s pain on Main Street. One out of every six workers is unemployed or underemployed, according to government statistics – the highest figure since [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Sunday Morning Short

    Number of comments: 1
    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church.” ~ Thomas Paine Posted in Freethought, Sunday Morning Reading [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:21am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Wondering

    I’ve been gone two nights now. I wonder if the pups think the coyotes got me? I am missing them so much. So I just close my eyes and pet them in my mind. Daisy’s thick fur gives under my palms. I can feel her old lady moles on her [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:38am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Diagnosis: First Degree AV Block

    Number of comments: 10
    Hokay. Dr. John (one of the cardiologists with Reno Heart Physicians) came to see me this morning with the news.  And basically the problem is both mechanical and electrical.   I’ve got what’s known in cardiac circles as an First Degree Atrioventricular  Block , hereinafter referred to as “FDAVB.” In normal individuals, the AV node slows the conduction [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:35pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Hospital Rules

    Number of comments: 3
    IV plugs are required. No matter what. No matter how many times you’ve told them, and they’ve either written it in your chart or entered it into your electronic records, the next doctor in the door will make you go through your entire medical history again. If you are admitted from Emergency, [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:40am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Sarah

    Number of comments: 2
    How did I miss this? Go read. Posted in Universal Health Care [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:19am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Healing Heart

    Number of comments: 7
    I’m required to take it easy this week. No lifting anything over five pounds. I’m really not supposed to be driving, but when you’ve got an automatic with power everything and cruise control, does that really count as driving? More like sitting in a moving chair. So, after one day [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:02pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • A short review

    Back in September I wrote: Even if rates don’t go up because of an individual claim, I’ve heard that rates may be charged by your community demographic.  Could that mean, for instance, that residents in Fallon, because of the leukemia cluster will pay higher rates than people in my town? Or will it mean, as [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:20am EST
    by bluelyon

  • “take this with perspective…”

    Number of comments: 3
    Email exchange between me and a supposedly “progressive” male friend. Sent before yesterday’s vote and under the subject line “One More Chance” said progressive sends me this Truthout article and pulls this quote:  Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:50 AM ´The congressman also said he doesn’t accept the decision to remove the [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:37pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • And we get? Updated

    Number of comments: 5
    I got an email today from HealthJustice with the subject line: Single-Payer Vote Called Off It said: On the eve of what could have been the first vote on single-payer legislation in our nation’s history, we have just learned that because of last minute developments, the vote and debate on Congressman Weiner’s [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:06pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Can’t win

    Number of comments: 3
    Posted in Atheism, Freethought [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:14am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Dude, there’s a reason they give you a script

    Out here in the wild and woolies of Nevada, we rely heavily on volunteers to do jobs that actually earn a paycheck for people living in the metropolitan areas. Volunteers are our  jewels and we know that they sacrifice time and treasure for the communities they love. We are grateful for [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:53am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Ablation done

    Oh yeah, he found the spots. Six of them, to be precise, and if he could, he would have zapped some more. It appears that my heart, when it repaired itself after the ASD surgery, decided to put in a whole lot of extra wiring. I was awake for some [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:20am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Okay, one thing before I go

    Thanks to Derek of Skepticality for posting this on FB.  As he put it: “Now, here is a case where woo can get people directly killed/dead.” The American military does not use the devices. “I don’t believe there’s a magic wand that can detect explosives,” said Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:43am EST
    by bluelyon

  • It’s the day…

    Number of comments: 3
    Today I go in for my procedure.  I’ll most likely be spending the night. Yeah, I admit it. I’m nervous. I mean, it is my heart we’re talking about. But mostly I’m worried that he won’t be able to fix it. Anyhoo…if you don’t hear from me by Saturday evening, then you [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00am EST
    by bluelyon

  • You have no right not to be framed

    Number of comments: 2
    Welcome to 1984. Or Stalinist Russia. Or Mao’s China. Really. Between this and this and this and this, do we even have any individual rights at all?  From the first (and latest) link: But here’s the twist: The prosecutors say that they can’t be sued for anything they do in their official capacities, even [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:15am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Post-election musings

    From the headlines this morning: ABCNews: GOP Sweep: Big Governor Victories in Virginia, NJ Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by bluelyon

  • I’m ready to move to Canada now.

    Number of comments: 2
    Greenwald Yesterday, the Second Circuit — by a vote of 7-4 –  agreed with the government and dismissed Arar’s case in its entirety.  It held that even if the government violated Arar’s Constitutional rights as well as statutes banning participation in torture, he still has no right to sue for what [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:32am EST
    by bluelyon

  • 3 Beliefs

    Really worth the click.  Especially #3. Posted in Freethought [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:27am EST
    by bluelyon

  • CIT Stiffs Taxpayers

    What the hell? Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — CIT Group Inc.’s decision to seek court protection probably will keep money flowing to bondholders and 1 million customers of the 101-year-old commercial lender. Shareholders and taxpayers won’t be as fortunate. CIT’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy may give bondholders new notes at 70 cents on the [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:47am EST
    by bluelyon

  • There shouldn’t have been “bail” – there should have been jail!

    First you have to read Matt Taibbi’s article. Read all of it. It begins: On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:04pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Joe Bageant: The Iron Cheer of Empire

    Number of comments: 1
    It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:19pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Magical Thinking

    We Americans are in love with magical thinking.  On the light side, we would rather believe an email from our sister-in-law that tells us that a mixture of honey and cinnamon will cure our arthritis, and so we will down the concoction, Just In Case, even though a quick Google search shows that [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Added to the Quotes Page

    If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes Posted in Skepticism [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:46am EST
    by bluelyon

  • I dunno. Do you ...

    Number of comments: 2
    I dunno. Do you all like the new look? I may switch again. Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:31am EST
    by bluelyon
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