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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:36 pm
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Thanks for the post LY.
While I have no comment re the "rogue's gallery" remark, the consistency and shape of one's daily fecal expressions are of some diagnostic and self-diagnostic relevance. The difference between "floaters" and "sinkers" (albeit not covered in the chart) is the amount of fat and fiber in one's diet. If you are cracking the bottom of the bowl with every "expression", you might want to decrease the fat content of your food intake. Back to the chart: if one has a consistent history of what we might call "man-turds", thick, massive placements of fecal matter and, of a day or days, one finds these replaced by thin pencil-like leavings, some blockage of the colon might be indicated...and that would be worth checking out. For example, for months, until the radiation therapy decreased the size of my rectal tumor to a sufficient degree, my toilette was decorated with the thinner variety - the blockage inevitably changed "the shape of things to come" (as Jeff Beck said). Honestly, I didn't notice or, if I did, have any clue that something might be in the offing. Wish that I had. So, while the chart may not necessarily become part of your bathroom wall decor (although it's not a terrible idea, actually) the essence of the message is valuable....Check your dumps, then ask your Doc...and that ain't no merde, people. Seriously. |
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| SharynS |
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:42 am
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20/20 hind sight the real deal.
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:43 pm
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True enough, Sharyn, true enough  
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:50 pm
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Hindsight...the final frontier. 
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:01 am
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Easter - a fete of resurrection, of spring after a long winter
Passover - a memoire of transition (and of getting the hell out of Dodge, with apologies to my Jewish friends and compatriots for this rather barbarous interpretation). It is with this in mind that I have the fortune to let you all know that I will, it appears, be going back to work in about a week, next Saturday night, to be precise. This is a good thing for the simple reason that, if for no other reason, I am running out of things to do around the house. I am not going to make a very good retiree, it seems. More precisely, the incision from the ileostomy reversal has healed quite nicely; things at the South Pole are getting along reasonably (do not sell your stock in DEPENDS just yet, however ).
I checked in with the oncologist last Monday and had blood drawn for the quarterly analysis. Got the results in the mail yesterday: CEA (cancer markers) are still within "normal" range although a bit higher than the last analysis in October when I was in the middle of chemo; all the other stuff - a long list - is well with "normal" range. So, timne to get back to raising hell and cooking for the crew. Any thoughts on what the first meal should be  
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| Laboryes |
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:50 am
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Bill Sable wrote: So, timne to get back to raising hell and cooking for the crew. Any thoughts on what the first meal should be How about a big platter of hot wings? Sorry Bill couldn't help myself 
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| rogead |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:41 am
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Quote: Any thoughts on what the first meal should be I think a big simmering pot of chitterlings might be appropriate
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:16 pm
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Nice to see some folks equally creative (read: sickos.!!!!)
Rogead, you work night crew, too..????????? |
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| rogead |
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:00 pm
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Quote: Rogead, you work night crew, too..????????? Actually, I'm a baker; but we have our own degree of strangeness! Have you been back to work yet Bill? |
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:41 am
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Far be it from me to mention it, but you are right, Rogead...bakers do have a righteous night-crewish kind of thing going on.
Something to do with the yeast, perhaps.
We had this guy, the night shift baker at my store back a bunch of years...let's just say bizarre behavioral standards were rampant...even by our own standards. |
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:51 am
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It is the vast pleasure to announce that my first week back at work went really damn well, all things considered.
The bag-thing was OK but I am here to tell you all that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, like having your own asshole back. These are words to live by, folks. I'll say it again: your butt, your rectal orifice, is a vastly underrated location of your anatomy, subject to physical and verbal abuse, rarely if ever given the TLC it deserves. I mean, seriously, when was the last time you called the CEO of your employer a "lung" or an "appendix" or a "pancreas"
Well, never...it always....well, you know what word you use...and that's just wrong as well as being totally uncreative. Again, work went pretty well. I've been working out with weights and walking alot the past couple or three weeks (and doing alot of physical chores around the house, as well), so the physical part of things went remarkably well - not really sore in the least. The incision part of the surgery was not a problem at all; the timing of the colon was an issue but a less serious one than I had planned for. Note: Immodium (or the Safeway generic version) is helpful; likewise, those green/blue bed-pads can be cut into smaller sizes to protect from "accidents" along with (or without) the Depends. Again, things did not go perfectly but they did go well. I did feel some true fatigue (from chemo effects and from surgery)but I was prepared for it mentally and in terms of scheduling (2 on, a floater, 2 on) which helped. Slept a ton which is unusual for me. Fatigue did not interfere with my cooking  (the chicken roasted with rosemary, garlic and lemon served with risotto with bell and pasilla peppers was the best meal of the week, but the teriyaki chicken was pretty good, too). Day crew folks are missing some good food...I expect Bobby Flay any night. 
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| SharynS |
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:59 pm
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Out of sight out of mind WJ.
Strange thing about getting back to the job after a threatening illness, however conditioned that is, it's like the ultimate confirmation you're gonna' make it, the last mile on the way to normal. Before any assholes out there get too excited I should clarify, it has absolutely nothing to do with any intrinsic value slaving in retail, because there isn't any, but everything to do with life routine. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie |
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:21 am
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Evening, all...
Just a quick update. As you know, I've been back to work the past two weeks, 4 shifts rather than 5. Things have gone remarkably well, considering. Some fatigue (or else I am simply sleeping like "normal" people do), a few mad dashes to the restroom but that's really about it. I do take at least one Immodium pre-shift which seems to help for a few hours. The menus have been damn good---pent-up cooking urges The prawns roasted with fresh orange (zest and juice), garlic, fresh rosemary (from the yard), dried red pepper, salt and olive oil were really exceptional.
It's nice to be back...
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| SharynS |
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:41 am
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Evening WJ, I'm guessing night crew is glad to have you back. Dammit the menus!
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| Bill Sable |
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 4:55 am
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Sharyn,
next time I'm up your way or next time you and yours are down here, I promise to cook. Honest.. 
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