@BP4Politics@restoreorderusa The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,
by David Grann. Same author as Killers of the Flower Moon, and this book's also getting a screen adaptation helmed by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio at some point.
Johnny Somali has been sentenced to PRISON WITH LABOR, no suspended sentence. He will be going to a specialized labor prison, his phones will be confiscated and he also will receive offender status. Somali may appeal within 1 week.
@InezFeltscher Yep, mine was $53/mo for the exact "catastrophic" plan you describe, and then the next year, I would have had to pay $410/mo under the ACA for the cheapest plan were it not for the subsidy that dropped that figure to ~$150 due to my very low income at the time.
Unfortunately, my family’s Book of Job experience, now entering its 6th year, has shown no signs of ending, but instead has only continued to worsen in recent months & weeks.
Last month, my wife (who has been fully disabled for 2 years now) had her gallbladder removed, her 15th surgery. That went relatively routinely, but then 1 week after that, I had to bring her back into the hospital for a bunch of mysterious symptoms.
The source of those mysterious symptoms turned out to be fluid that was leaking from her spinal cord and pooling in her head, in between her brain & skull, a very rare condition that was difficult to diagnose & which caused a variety of strange physical & events psychological issues. She ended up staying in the hospital for a full week to treat that before she was well enough to come home.
Then, on the exact day that my wife finally came home, her mother, who’d recently turned 84 but who still seemed to be doing alright, suddenly had to go into the ER, & within a few days, she’d passed away from what seems to have been kidney stones that had become infected.
My wife & I spent the next couple weeks just starting on the huge process of dealing with the aftermath of all that.
Then, just this past Thursday, I suddenly got struck with horrible abdominal pain, & ended up needing to go into the hospital myself. After a whole bunch of tests, they discovered that I was dealing with multiple issues, with the main one being diverticulitis. I also have a little bit of pneumonia, I guess because I was getting over a respiratory infection right before I went into the hospital, and being virtually bedridden the past few days I guess caused an ordinary could to turn into pneumonia, which I’ve never had before in my life.
The first couple days were really excruciating because they weren’t giving me sufficient pain meds to help me to deal with it & they were simultaneously doing all sorts of tests to try to diagnose the problem.
It’s now Sunday as I write this. I’ve been on IV antibiotics & mostly bedridden for a few days & at least am now getting enough pain meds that I’m not screaming & moaning involuntary all day like I was the first day & a half I was in here.
I’m hoping to be able to go home in the next day or two, but we’ll see.
Obviously with all this going on over the course of the last couple months, I’ve not been able to get much podcasting done. In fact, I haven’t been able to do much of anything other than trying my best to take care of my wife & now just to survive myself.
I always feel awkward asking, but if you’d like to help me & my family get through this insanity so that I can finally get back to podcasting & all that, you can send me $ via PayPal here: https://t.co/YX85Q0PuGn
Or you can Venmo me at @dangerousmedia
Some additional ways you can help me out can be found here: https://t.co/hZYfa7MY7X
Thanks!
@dogwoodblooms I've been here for about 35 years. For the first half of those years, it was Lexington, but Eastern slowly won me over and it's now my favorite.