Not Cancer

by on June 15, 2022 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

As I said yesterday, I’ve been going through some tests lately. I’m tired and worn out, sore muscles, my left shoulder was basically nonfunctional for a while, and a lot of other stuff has been going on. Now obviously, I’ve been through a lot of stress lately, both mental and physical, so that could easily be the source of the issues, but the Mayo Clinic has been investigating. One test was a full skin examination due to my family’s history with skin cancer and my age, which is approaching the big five oh. Then I got a full photographing session called a mole study, because I have a lot of those as well. Now the Clinic took a couple chunks out of my skin during the original examination to test because they looked hinky. Well, I just got the results and they are benign. That’s a pretty awesome message to get, let me tell you. That’s one worry I get to give the Oreo treatment. Hold it under the milk and smile until the bubbles stop. 😉

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Not Cancer

by on June 14, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I’ve been going through tests at the Mayo Clinic of late. I gave blood back on the 3rd, and have learned a lot from it. Last week, my doctor ordered some more tests done on that blood. Somebody entered an order into the system for me to call and schedule an appointment to give more blood instead. I was with mom in hospice and didn’t call them until today to schedule a completely different test. Which is when they told me about the order to give more blood so they could run the ordered tests. I asked why they hadn’t done the tests on the existing blood sample. They said that blood samples expired in six days, so they needed more blood from me. I said that the doctor had ordered the tests when the blood was still good, and asked why they hadn’t just run it then. They said that I hadn’t called them, so now they needed new blood. *sighs* So now I’m fasting again so they can take more blood from me, so they can run the tests they should have run last week. So stupid…

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Louis

by on June 13, 2022 at 12:01 am
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When the partners failed to assassinate Louis Mattioli’s character, they tried to assassinate him all the way. They attempted the tried and true applications like sabotaging a car first. He kept walking away from the wrecks though, and all it did was help car companies diagnose faults in their security and send out targeted updates. They tried various biological, chemical, and cybernetic attacks next, but the Cybernetic Council tends to frown upon people killing their favorite people. So they helped make sure none of the attempts worked out. And Louis continued to calmly represent people in court without ever once accusing his old law firm of doing anything at all to him. The news media followed the various cases with far more interest though, and every failed assassination attempt became one more step on his path to cultural folk hero.

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Louis

by on June 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
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When the partners controlling Louis Mattioli’s old law firm realized they were in a fight for their lives, they began to fight as if their lives depended on it. They tried to assassinate his character. To be honest, there was a lot to target there, especially with the various stories out there, but he answered the public charges forthrightly. He said that, yes, another him had done Bad Things after War’s End, but he came from before The War, and never done anything like that in his life, and he just wanted a fresh start. And the company he built. Really, that shouldn’t be too much to ask, right? When properly given, the people love a good fresh start story, and we Cowboys may have made certain we helped bolster it as much as we could. It was really rather fun.

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Louis

by on June 11, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Our man Louis started a one-man legal war with one of the most powerful and richest law firms on Earth and Alpha Centauri. And then he proceeded to beat them like rented mules again and again and again. Every time he won, he said that he would see them again next time, and wink. It did not take long for word to get around that if they represented you, then Louis Mattioli would be seeing you in court soon. And you were probably going to lose. Companies soon began canceling their legal contracts with the law firm and finding other representation, and even insurance companies began increasing their rates if a corporation used their services. It was a bloody legal battle that more and more companies sought to distance themselves from, and that did not make the partners happy.

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