A quick one after watching a rerun of Code Black titled Unfinished Business (aired 1/11/17)
In addition to being a great show, with a great cast, this episode was amazing on many deep levels and only becomes clear (as well as life affirming) at the end.
An incredible rendition of Coldplays hit Fix You with accompaniment by a choir
Best episode all season, maybe best in both seasons.
https://www.tvfanatic.com/shows/code-black/full-episodes/
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Merry Upcoming Christmas to All, Happy Holidays as well!
Going to try to be a more persistent/consistent blogger this next year.
Looking forward to Christmas in Tiburon tomorrow. Sadly, mom can't join us as she is not a good candidate for travel right now due to the broken ribs. We'll miss her and toast her!
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Want to share some new music, some great, some odd, some eclectic, some stunning. You check em out and decide for yourselves.
The order might just be the most recently discovered.
Love is All by The Tallest Man On Earth
I recently caught this at the end of a tv show when I remember which one I'll tell ya. File under Eclectic, reminiscent of early Dylan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsZt_3MifU
O Superman by Laurie Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
File under Eclectic, VERY Eclectic! Haunting!
Nasty Letter by Otis Taylor
From the Shooter soundtrack
Great movie, better song
File under DAMNNNNN that guy can play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng-1QJZxiBY
Christmas Won't be the Same Without You by the Same White T's
I like the harmonies a bunch. We need a nice Christmas Song.....Right??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatdvr_uyWs&list=RDgatdvr_uyWs#t=5
Say Goodbye by Beck
Interesting song, can't remember where I heard it. But hey, Beck is ...BECK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cjpmMWEKqs
Voodoo in My Blood by Massive Attack, Young Fathers
NOT for the faint of heart, but nice little wacko mini movie. Loved the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElvLZMsYXlo
All for now more later, books to come as well as shows I doubt you watch, (but you SHOULD)
Going to try to be a more persistent/consistent blogger this next year.
Looking forward to Christmas in Tiburon tomorrow. Sadly, mom can't join us as she is not a good candidate for travel right now due to the broken ribs. We'll miss her and toast her!
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Want to share some new music, some great, some odd, some eclectic, some stunning. You check em out and decide for yourselves.
The order might just be the most recently discovered.
Love is All by The Tallest Man On Earth
I recently caught this at the end of a tv show when I remember which one I'll tell ya. File under Eclectic, reminiscent of early Dylan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsZt_3MifU
O Superman by Laurie Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
File under Eclectic, VERY Eclectic! Haunting!
Nasty Letter by Otis Taylor
From the Shooter soundtrack
Great movie, better song
File under DAMNNNNN that guy can play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng-1QJZxiBY
Christmas Won't be the Same Without You by the Same White T's
I like the harmonies a bunch. We need a nice Christmas Song.....Right??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatdvr_uyWs&list=RDgatdvr_uyWs#t=5
Say Goodbye by Beck
Interesting song, can't remember where I heard it. But hey, Beck is ...BECK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cjpmMWEKqs
Voodoo in My Blood by Massive Attack, Young Fathers
NOT for the faint of heart, but nice little wacko mini movie. Loved the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElvLZMsYXlo
All for now more later, books to come as well as shows I doubt you watch, (but you SHOULD)
I visited Mom today at Golden Gate Rehab, she was in relatively good spirits, she's still a bit confused about a couple of things, I suspect defense mechanisms to be a cause of this.
I brought some family photos which she liked a lot.
Her hair was nicely brushed
So she's not thrilled with the changes but I think she understands that it needed to happen.
Meanwhile the family is kicking butt cleaning, moving, re purposing everything from furniture to photos. The wonder twins Scott and Quinn are doing miracle work at the apartment on their days *off*
I brought some family photos which she liked a lot.
Her hair was nicely brushed
So she's not thrilled with the changes but I think she understands that it needed to happen.
Meanwhile the family is kicking butt cleaning, moving, re purposing everything from furniture to photos. The wonder twins Scott and Quinn are doing miracle work at the apartment on their days *off*
Friday, January 27, 2017
So we're all working on packing and distributing moms stuff to family and the cancer society. She just has too much stuff. She's at the Golden Gate rehabilitation center and healing, slowly but surely. But she will need 24 hour care going forward. While she's likely spunky enough to go home at some point, she just can't be left alone for long periods due to her propensity to fall and the potential to hurt herself even worse.
She's probably somewhat bionic, however not infallible.
What we're discovering, aside from her being just shy of a well organized hoarder, is the amazing collection of things to make things, fix things, create things. I always new that she was creative, growing up with things she had made, from tin can trees, to easter egg trees, to paintings, to all of the holiday decorations, to the collections of rebuilt Barbie's.
What I noticed when packing up her tools is how many tools she has that I sell on a daily basis to hundreds of San Franciscans at my job. The only thing she was missing is a workbench in a little shop.
Pretty sure where I got my proclivity to take apart and repair things that has been one of my
She's probably somewhat bionic, however not infallible.
What we're discovering, aside from her being just shy of a well organized hoarder, is the amazing collection of things to make things, fix things, create things. I always new that she was creative, growing up with things she had made, from tin can trees, to easter egg trees, to paintings, to all of the holiday decorations, to the collections of rebuilt Barbie's.
What I noticed when packing up her tools is how many tools she has that I sell on a daily basis to hundreds of San Franciscans at my job. The only thing she was missing is a workbench in a little shop.
Pretty sure where I got my proclivity to take apart and repair things that has been one of my
raison d'être most of my life. Both my folks were somewhat handy but mom really takes the cake.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
So Mom had a birthday last Sunday! Yep, 92 years young.
Satisfied with her lung power despite 8 broken ribs, mom smiles at the job well done.
We celebrated at the nursing home/rehabilitation center where she is recovering from her big fall.
Good celebration which everyone enjoyed. Great company, Marge, Herb, Scott, Quinn, and well wishes from relatives all around. Paul called but we couldn't connect, but we sent pics to him and he returned best wishes.
Caught a couple of pics of the nonagenarians enjoying the cheesecake/birthday cake.
A good time was had by all.
Satisfied with her lung power despite 8 broken ribs, mom smiles at the job well done.
We celebrated at the nursing home/rehabilitation center where she is recovering from her big fall.
Good celebration which everyone enjoyed. Great company, Marge, Herb, Scott, Quinn, and well wishes from relatives all around. Paul called but we couldn't connect, but we sent pics to him and he returned best wishes.
Caught a couple of pics of the nonagenarians enjoying the cheesecake/birthday cake.
A good time was had by all.
Friday, December 23, 2016
I hear the term Life Happens a lot.
I've been made aware of that in spades these past few years, starting 3 years ago this week when I was diagnosed with cancer.
Since then several of my friends and a couple relatives have been diagnosed and 5 of 7 have made it through. RIP to Gene and Debra.
I'm sure there are more, it's one of those diseases that people don't talk about a lot unless it directly affects them.
Stay healthy, get checked up, see your doctors sooner rather than later. Of the 5 survivors, the one thing we shared was catching it early. Paid HUGE dividends!
The other telling stat is that 3 of those 5 were non smokers, 1 had quit a long while back, one hadn't.
ALL of the doctors said our chances of kicking the little bitch cancers ass was 30% higher having never smoked. That's a hell of a return on that investment! Just Sayin!
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Now that the public safety announcement is out of the way time for current events.
Some of you know, but most don't, that Mom fell a couple Wednesdays ago and broke multiple ribs!
Apparently she must have been feeling frisky and decided to leave the wheelchair in the kitchen and saunter across the living room with her walker and nobody to watch her.
That proved to be a very bad choice indeed!
She managed to break several (count unsure, between 3, 5, and 8)
She pressed the Alert 1 button and help was on the way. Paras took her to her hospital of choice St. Francis where she was admitted and stayed 4-5 days. Of course the hospital was itching to get her out so they started pushing to send her to a SNF. (word to the wise when dealing with hospitals, SNF's, insurance companies, etc.) STAY on top of it! ADVOCATE for your loved ones, get names of people who can make changes, get names of case managers, social workers, etc.
We finally got her admitted to Golden Gate Rehab Center (on Pine at Divisadero) basically 2nd choice of 4 or 5 options in the city that her insurance approved of.
The staff there is great! Very Caring, seem competent. She's on pureed food right now to lessen any possibility of aspiration induced pneumonia. (A concern with being in bed with busted ribs and compromised breathing)
Yes I know you'll be surprised that she's basically miserable, but today I was pleasantly surprised when I visited and had dinner with her. She was the most lucid she has been in the past couple weeks, and talkative. She had spent much of the day sitting up in the wheelchair (good!) as opposed to laying in bed all day (Bad!) She had better color and had been off the oxygen for a few hours which showed that she was breathing better.
More later.
I've been made aware of that in spades these past few years, starting 3 years ago this week when I was diagnosed with cancer.
Since then several of my friends and a couple relatives have been diagnosed and 5 of 7 have made it through. RIP to Gene and Debra.
I'm sure there are more, it's one of those diseases that people don't talk about a lot unless it directly affects them.
Stay healthy, get checked up, see your doctors sooner rather than later. Of the 5 survivors, the one thing we shared was catching it early. Paid HUGE dividends!
The other telling stat is that 3 of those 5 were non smokers, 1 had quit a long while back, one hadn't.
ALL of the doctors said our chances of kicking the little bitch cancers ass was 30% higher having never smoked. That's a hell of a return on that investment! Just Sayin!
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Now that the public safety announcement is out of the way time for current events.
Some of you know, but most don't, that Mom fell a couple Wednesdays ago and broke multiple ribs!
Apparently she must have been feeling frisky and decided to leave the wheelchair in the kitchen and saunter across the living room with her walker and nobody to watch her.
That proved to be a very bad choice indeed!
She managed to break several (count unsure, between 3, 5, and 8)
She pressed the Alert 1 button and help was on the way. Paras took her to her hospital of choice St. Francis where she was admitted and stayed 4-5 days. Of course the hospital was itching to get her out so they started pushing to send her to a SNF. (word to the wise when dealing with hospitals, SNF's, insurance companies, etc.) STAY on top of it! ADVOCATE for your loved ones, get names of people who can make changes, get names of case managers, social workers, etc.
We finally got her admitted to Golden Gate Rehab Center (on Pine at Divisadero) basically 2nd choice of 4 or 5 options in the city that her insurance approved of.
The staff there is great! Very Caring, seem competent. She's on pureed food right now to lessen any possibility of aspiration induced pneumonia. (A concern with being in bed with busted ribs and compromised breathing)
Yes I know you'll be surprised that she's basically miserable, but today I was pleasantly surprised when I visited and had dinner with her. She was the most lucid she has been in the past couple weeks, and talkative. She had spent much of the day sitting up in the wheelchair (good!) as opposed to laying in bed all day (Bad!) She had better color and had been off the oxygen for a few hours which showed that she was breathing better.
More later.
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