Sipsey Street Irregulars: Update.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Update.

Went to my oncologist yesterday and it was, as usual, a mixed bag. The wound in my back continues its "heal, burst open, drain, heal and burst open" cycle, but we have determined that the anti-cancer medicine Gleevec -- which I have been off of now for two months to see if that would help -- is not responsible. Thus, I am now back on the Gleevec, with all its wonderful side effects. Which is okay by me if it keeps the "Alien"-like tumor from regrowing. We have about concluded that the drainage from the back wound is not coming from the esophogeal-gastric resection as it was before they glued me up, but just where it is coming from remains a mystery. My weight has stabilized at between 180 and 190, so I am not looking so gaunt these days. I was marveling the other day that I am now wearing a medium M65 field jacket. Quite a come-down from the XXL I used to wear. Not that I recommend a GI stromal tumor excision as a weight-loss program. Anyway, keep me in your prayers.

13 comments:

Drew Rinella said...: Hang in there.; November 20, 2013 at 4:57 AM
J said...: Prayers continue as always.; November 20, 2013 at 5:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Praying for you. God Bless.; November 20, 2013 at 6:27 AM
MamaLiberty said...: Prayers continue. :); November 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Anonymous said...: As always...

gfa; November 20, 2013 at 11:13 AM
Earl Flanigan said...: I honestly believe you're to ornery to go out that easily! Prayers and offerings of burnt powder to you and yours.; November 20, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Daily prayer sent, you are doing His work. Ask Him if there's anything you need to do to further your healing.; November 20, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Prayers for your recovery.
All the crap you've been thru and some you're still going thru is just horrid. Thank you for still continuing your blog thru all of this !
God bless you and your family.

SB Smith
TX; November 20, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Prayers as always. Hang in there brother. Your example encourages me to continue fighting my health problems too.; November 20, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Anonymous said...: I hope you are able to heal and continue your good works. You have a strength of will and character not often seen. God bless.; November 20, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Baruch Hashem. you should hear only
good news. all the best, cycjec; November 20, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Backwoods Engineer said...: You are in my prayers, Mike, both for your body and your mind. Stay strong; you are more important to this fight than you know or want to believe.; November 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Anonymous said...: May you find comfort knowing that you're never given more than you can bear; when you see only one set of foot prints in the sand behind you, you know whose prints they are! Peace be with you.

HinMO; November 21, 2013 at 12:30 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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