March 16, 2003

•      My last post was quite long. I tend to go on & on when it comes to plants & my ideas for landscaping (among a host of other topics). The job I loved the best of all I have done was working for a nursery back in Texas. I would have loved to have the position of landscape artist, but that was left to the men there. *Sigh* As an artist, I know I could do a great job landscaping, with the money, tools & labor to back me up, as well as the plants.
       One of the things I left off was some things I learned about the doctor I’m seeing again at Tripler. He has an award on his office wall from one of the major medical universities. It was given to him in recognition of pediatric urological reconstruction. Seems he may have pioneered a few techniques in that area. His ‘I Love Me’ wall was covered with other awards as well.
       I did some online research about the procedure he wants to do, as well as looking him up. I found 2 things authored by him. One was a research project he was involved in, regarding testicular cancer. Another was an article he wrote about fractured foleys (the end of catheters).
       I don’t remember how much I wrote about a neighbor of mine, who royally pissed me off at the time I was so ill & going through surgeries for my cancer. He threatened back then to shut off the spigot at the community center, which is the only source of drinking water for many of us in this subdivision for about 10 miles. I told him he couldn’t do that, since we all pay association dues to cover those expenses until the county pipes in water. He thought he was god & could. I called the Environmental Health Office the next day & they assured me that I was right. His action to block that faucet was stopped.
       He is of the Baha’i faith, supposedly Christian do-gooders. This man has to be one of the most selfish people & biggest liars I’ve personally known. As an example, when I worked for the subdivision, he promised to help the employees get paid what they deserved. I was making less than $6/hour as an Office Manager, while the board was paying a board member (as a temporary consultant, who was only supposed to be there 3 months, but was there for over 1.5 years!) $10/hour. This woman knew very little about DOS computer systems, & yet was supposed to square away the data on a system that didn’t run Windows at all. She hired me because I DO know DOS. But she managed to continually interrupt my work, dragging me off onto other projects & continually running her mouth. Her computer expertise was limited to punch card computer programming of the 1950s & Win95 (barely). Anyway, she was the reason I walked out on that job, after my doc insisted that the job was way to stressful for me. I’m a fixit. I found that they weren’t providing the employees with law-granted benefits, so made an enemy of myself by getting them what they were entitled to. She was a no-nothing, whose best talent was getting others to do the work for her, while she took the credit & the money.
       After I left, they hired the then board president’s daughter, at $12/hour! They eventually fired nearly everyone I had worked with, accusing them of doing things they really weren’t (except for that woman & the First-to-Work flunky she brought in, who was a virtual slave to her). They ended up contracting with a temp agency, because of the health care costs for the employees (which was what was being denied to all but the full-time employees… me & the maintenance supervisor, when state law mandates it for those working 20+ hours/week). What they had to pay for each of these employees through the temp agency was almost twice what they had paid us. How was that saving money? It didn’t, since I was the bookkeeper until I left, & knew what our running expenses were.
       Back to my neighbor… the promised pay raises never came. He personally fired most of the others after I left. (By the way, I drew disability compensation through their insurance because of the working environment, until I went to work, temporarily, for the 2000 Census, which didn’t last but 3.5 weeks for me! I could have refiled for it after my job with the Census ended, but didn’t bother. I also could have drawn unemployment, but only if I COULD work a full-time job, which the doc didn’t recommend.) At the time he told me he was going to shut off that spigott, I told him he was NO Christian, & to go to hell! I also mentioned ‘What if it was YOU or one of YOUR FAMILY who had cancer & needed a place to shower for surgery (I learned he had the water heater shut off in the bathhouse at the community center & I was going for surgery the next day & just ran out of porpane, with no money to buy more, or transportation to get it!)? He’s also on catchment. If his pump broke down, or his water heater quit, do you think he wouldn’t take what he needed from the community center, even when he denied it to others? HAH!!! He has a supposedly great filtration system on his water catchment, yet I catch him filling drinking water from that same faucet he wanted to shut down! Does he limit himself to 5 gallons at a time, as is mandated by the sign next to the faucet? NO!!!! The rules he imposes do not apply to him & his.
       So guess what I learned a few months back? I thought that his wife, having been raised in Hawaii & possibly exposed to the same government bio/chemical testing they did here as I was, might turn up with cancer. Nope. HE DID!!! He was diagnosed with prostate cancer, & had the cancer surgically removed only last month. I saw him recently at the community center & thought to ask if my urologist doc is the one who helped him. Yep. Same doc. He told me that the doc is very good. I asked if he was going through chemo or radiation, & he said no, that the doc said he got it all & there’s no need for those treatments. Maybe this doc has gotten smart to the devastating & almost worthless effects of chemo & radiation for cancer patients, like what research I’ve found, where they make the stuff look as though it works by the way they word their findings & manipulate the numbers. Those treatments work in less than 25% of the cases in actual fact!!! Those treated with them often have a recurrance of the same cancer in another part of the body (ie: breast cancer tumors in the lungs, neck or head), or another form of unrelated cancer… over 70%, within 5 years!!! Within 10 years, the numbers of those with some cancer return jump to about 85%, with nearly 100% within 15 years.
       I have met ONE woman who has lived longer after a double radical mastectomy back in the 60s. I have to wonder if her eating habits had changed since the initial diagnosis (most cancer prevention can be linked to what you eat), or that she was misdiagnosed (it still happens today, with all the checks in place to prevent that from happening). Whatever the case is with her, she’s in her 70s & loving life! God bless her!
       In the case of my neighbor & my argument with him, was I predicting what he would be dealing with? Was I spiritually ‘seeing’ his cancer even then? Or was it that I was cursing him with it? I hope & pray not the latter, since I don’t want to wish this disease on ANYONE! I was just very angry at the time… & did say some things I would not, under most circumstances. I’m not usually confrontational, most of the time biting my tongue, until I have the facts in front of me to back my argument, which even then, I’ve had people dispute, like the Hawaii State Employment laws on healthcare benefits (intentionally? misinterpreted to back her postion).
       He’s also a Navy Veteran, like me. Some commaraderie, huh? But, being the person I am, I have given him the herbal remedies information, in general, to help him with his cancer, asking nothing in return. That’s me… I want to HELP others!

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