The solar flares have been seriously messing with me since basically everything I do is online through cel technology. I have decided from now on I'm going to blame everything on solar flares.

Sun! Don't take our Liese away from us! We need her!

Suddenly I have a vision of Apollo bukkake. Sorry about that, guys.

The doctor who failed for a year to diagnose my mother's cancer is presenting at a cancer convention thingamajiggy on diagnosing colon cancer. The plan is to get my mother seated in the front row, and to get up and walk out as soon as he starts to talk.

Oh my fucking god. I am forever grateful to Bob's doctor for sending him to get scoped RiGHT AWAY when he reported his symptoms even though he had no family history of colon cancer and was way too young to generally get the disease. We were really, really lucky.

Each time I have been in the advocate role with loved ones' medical care I can't help but worry for all those that don't have someone to advocate for them.

I worry about this a lot too. Because no matter how well meaning and how competent the med staff are there is going to be something that slips through the cracks. You have to be so vigilant and not afraid to speak up. Like something as stupid as when, the day after Bob's big surgery, the kitchen sent up a regular lunch for him although he was meant to be on clear liquids still. I mean, we knew right away it was wrong and fixed it but how many people wouldn't even be able to do that?

My mother was so obviously sick. She'd lost enough weight to be lighter than me and my sister, which is just NOT ON. She'd been scanned from head to toe, and he'd looked at images of her colon, but just not interpreted the mass. In fact, he didn't until a new doctor pointed it out. At which point she was pretty much being rushed into surgery. Oh, he was apologetic, but what the fuck?

Aw. Moebius has died.

Well, it seem as though I'll be here a second night and when a nurse came in to give me meds I got a new one to handle acid. So, that must be part of my new regimen.

I'm feeling really lucky right now.

(BTW, JZ - I loved the Clydesdales - that was perfect.)

Win: I kind of figured out the keyboard so I am computing on the flatscreen tv.

That is really inexcusable. She did the right thing, saw the doctor, had tests done. If he didn't see a problem he should have asked for another consult right away.

Do you and your family have confidence in your mother's current medical team?

Yay for hospital computing! I'm glad you are being well cared for, sumi.

Do you and your family have confidence in your mother's current medical team?

Yes. They kinda brought in every big gun, sometimes for free, when they realised what happened, as a sort of communal apology. It was remarkable to see the medical community rally around her. She can pretty much get anyone in Jamaica to see her, and we've discovered every oncologist and gastroenterologist on both sides of the family too, and they're on call as well. And psychiatrist, and acupuncturist, and nutritionist, and...and...and...

She's that sort of a woman.

ita !, that is exactly the kind of team advocacy that makes the difference. Fight!