By Jack
I’ve been pretty much out of circulation for the last week. Had knee surgery at UCSF and they removed a rather large tumor. Haven’t heard the biopsy results yet, but doc was sure it was not cancerous. The shredded meniscus that drew attention to the tumor is still a problem, but that’s healing too.
So, now I’ve got a big, fat, swollen leg that hurts like @#$% when I put weight on it. Actually it hurts no matter what I do. Oh, well, I’ll live, I’m joking, but that part was in doubt until a few days ago.
If you have to be sick, let me clue you in, UCSF is the place to be! No joke. State of the art, professional, the best of everything. The staff attention I received in this the new $5B hospital was amazing. It was beyond all my expectations, even the food menu (about 8 pages) was filled with whatever you could reasonably want and it was delivered in less than 30 minutes…hot and delicious.
If it were not for the pain, I would have felt like I was on a vacation. I met some really nice people in my ward too (speaking of the patients). Since we were in the cancer ward I know this was likely the last hope for some of them.
The American Cancer Society is one charity that ranks pretty high with me. Cancer hits so many people and it doesn’t seem to matter how young, old or physically fit you may be, it can happen to anyone. Which reminds me: “Women ages 40 to 44 should have the choice to start annual breast cancer screening with mammograms (x-rays of the breast). Women age 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year. Women 55 and older should switch to mammograms every 2 years, or can continue yearly screening. Screening should continue as long as a woman is in good health and is expected to live 10 more years or longer.” (This is from the American Society)
I had no idea there was so much breast cancer in this country until it hit our family, we were lucky because it was caught in time. So ladies, please, get those screenings like they recommend, will ya?
Well, that’s it for my medical update. Coming up, I’m working on a story for you about our favorite character, Barack Hussein Obama and how he regularly dismisses the advice and undermines the position of, his secretary of defense. He’s thrown three of them under the bus so far and done his own thing despite their pleas. I can’t see why anyone would want to work with Obama on anything? Okay, enough, I’ve got to elevate my swollen leg above my heart for about 20 minutes (takes the swelling down) then I’ll work on the article. Can only sit normally for about 30-40 minutes. Takes a bit longer, but I’ll get there.
Welcome back!
Had knee surgery myself, so I can truly say “I feel your pain.” Glad you’re back, and best wishes for a speedy recovery!!!!
Wow Jack I thought you were just taking a well deserved break after so many months of covering for me. Sorry to hear it was something more serious but glad to know you’re doing okay. I wish you a speedy recovery and the best possible overall outcome.
Praying for a speedy recovery and the pain reduces to a level you won’t need meds.
Looking forward to hearing the positive results on the tumor and your upcoming BO article.
Jack,
Best wishes in a speedy recovery. Knee surgery is no fun at all.
Steve
Palm trees? You must be in the swanky new Mission Bay facility. Those are your tax dollars at work, Jack. A whole lot of them, so no more crabbing.
Get better soon.
Our federal tax dollars at work for Jeffrey Immelt and GE:
And he’s just one of many. Less of this would put more in our pockets. If the people weren’t being taxed so heavily at the federal level for stuff like that we could afford to fund needed things like hospitals privately…of course that would eliminate the cost of the bureaucracy and the kick backs to unions so we can’t have that.
In fact if wealthy people were not taxed and controlled with ever changing noncompetitive rates and complex regulations maybe more of them would spend less on lobbying and more to build things like hospitals directly.
Quit your cheer leading for higher taxes.
Thank you all for your kind words. And yes Libby, I was at the Mission Bay Hospital and it was amazing. I’ll never crab about it, but you know a lot of the money that went into the construction came from the pockets of just a few billionaire entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Without their help it wouldn’t be the same place.
Shhhh Jack! Don’t be mentioning funding from billionaire entrepreneurs and philanthropists, you’ll be sending Libby and Dewey into apoplectic fits.
Boy, is it tough to get figures on this stuff. Benioff donated $100M, which was enough to get his name on the children’s hospital, but only 6% of the $1.5B for the whole project. Looks like private donors came up with about 20% of the total.
So, with the nation’s Benioff’s holding half the nation’s wealth … when the ratio is 80-20, instead of 20-80, I’ll shut up.