Cancer

by on April 16, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Mom’s cancer battle is continuing. She had some pain in the legs for a while, and the doctors put her on morphine. And as can happen with morphine, mom got very confused. So this week we took her back off the morphine, and the pain is gone, so she has been able to operate well this week. Her blood pressure has dropped into the normal range. She has generally had high blood pressure, and as even taken blood pressure pills in the past. She went off them when it was time to do cancer treatments, so it has been a relief that her blood pressure never spiked. But now that it is actively dropping into the normal range, I’m both relieved and worried. Is it a good or a bad sign that her blood pressure is now normal? I don’t know. Next week will be another keytruda treatment, so we shall see what happens with that.

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Good Friday

by on April 15, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Today is Good Friday. Today billions of people remember the death of Jesus. Some celebrate it. Others use the word remembrance. Jesus came in saying things the religious rulers of the day didn’t like, so they cancelled him all the way. They called up a paid mob to protest and demand his head, and the civic ruler bowed to their demands and sent him to be tortured and hung on a Roman cross until he was very dead. He wasn’t the first person killed by the rulers of the day because they did not like what he said, and he wasn’t the last, but he is the one who is most remembered. Because his disciples spread his story and teachings far and wide. And most of them were killed as well. Christians have known since the very beginning that saying things the rulers don’t like can be very unhealthy. And yet they continued to speak.

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Katy

by on April 14, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Kathleen Reynolds was the only Ageless member of the Spittin’ Kittens during her tenure in command of the unit. She spent decades teasing everything she could out of her limited precognition to the point that she could feel danger coming hours ahead of time. The advantage that gave her squadron on their long deployments in the outer colonies cannot be overestimated. As a reward for constantly outperforming their sister squadrons, they received more than their fair share of the hardest missions. And yet Katy’s influence held their casualty rates down to one of the lowest records in the service. That is why the military chose to test the newest, best, and still very experimental supersoldier treatments on them when The War came upon us all.

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Katy

by on April 13, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Kathleen Reynolds and her Spittin’ Kittens were resting and relaxing at the beach when the Shang attacked us. They had to weather the fall of Yosemite Station like everybody else in America, though less debris hit their spacebase than western spacebases. The local automated defenses were able to burn most of the debris up before landfall, reducing property damage to a minimum, and Katy and her people got to their fighters and launched with only minor difficulties. They actually beat some of the ready fighter squadrons into the air, though they were not exactly in their regulation uniforms at the time. A local news crew recorded their scramble from the beach to the fighters, though the segment that made air required some strategic placement of black bars. It was one of many videos later spliced together by the military showing our brave men and women going to war. They called it a moral boosting video. They were not wrong.

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Katy

by on April 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I do not know where Kathleen Reynolds and her Spittin’ Kittens were when The War came upon us all. The Space Force may be a joke, but their lawyers will chase you to the ends of the worlds if you violate their security regulations. Best lawyers in the free worlds. No joke. So I absolutely do not know where she was. And anyone who says I am in possession of documents that revealed her location at the time is absolutely wrong. That said, I have heard she was engaging in aggressive negotiations with the Chinese in the outer colonies when the Shang were coming to attack Earth. You must understand that this was a de-escalation mission, not a fight, definitely not a war, and nobody won, but the Chinese left. Katy’s squadron was called back to Earth for rest and relaxation for a successful mission. That is why they were in Earthspace when the Shang attacked us.

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