Oh crap, msbelle just reminded me I need a mammo this year as well.

Yeah, tommy, check in when you can this week, okay?

No problem.

You'll probably hear me screaming when the SCOTUS overturns the Affordable Care Act too....

freckle/mole people, go get looked at.

Do I really have to emphasize this? The only way we caught Rob's melanoma is because we cut the damned shirt off of his back after his solo flight. Do NOT rely on blind luck, please.

{{{tommy}}} All the coping-until-you-get-new-meds-that-work~ma you need.

Lots of ~ma tommy.

Tommyrot, take care of yourself.

Re: doctors and vague symptoms, I find that most doctors are very good with rashes, just because they've had more experience recognizing them than most patients. For symptoms like fever and fatigue, almost everything causes those, and most of the time the answer is "some kind of virus that will get better on its own in a week or two" so it's a waste of resources to figure out exactly what virus it is.

appointment made!

Though maybe I should stick to Reno. Between penny slots and cheap blackjack, I am up about $250 after my first day here.

Lee, DH is there "grading actuarial exams." Ha! You know the most I've won at blackjack was with you!

This cheered me up: Hanging 20 With the Surfing Dogs of San Diego

The Supreme Court did not hand down the ACA decisions (they are counting it as 4 decisions) today. Best guess is that it will happen on the 28th, the last possible day, although no one can be sure. They start handing down decisions at 10 a.m., and usually don't take more than an hour to announce everything. Next possible day is Thursday.

Also, they didn't announce whether or not the Montana case that would allow them to revisit Citizens United, would be granted cert., which everyone really thought would happen today.

Take care, tommyrot.

I didn't think the Supreme Court would really overturn the ACA. I mean it is WAY against precedent. Then I was reading my twitter feed today (I follow some legal scholars). I am trying to gird my loins for serious disappointment and rage.

Read the last paragraph of this link:

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If the court does overturn the mandate, it's going to be hard to know how to react. It's been more than 75 years since the Supreme Court overturned a piece of legislation as big as ACA, and I can't think of any example of the court overturning landmark legislation this big based on a principle as flimsy and manufactured as activity vs. inactivity. When the court overturned the NRA in 1935, it was a shock — but it was also a unanimous decision and, despite FDR's pique, not really a surprising ruling given existing precedent. Overturning ACA would be a whole different kind of game changer. It would mean that the Supreme Court had officially entered an era where they were frankly willing to overturn liberal legislation just because they don't like it. Pile that on top of Bush v. Gore and Citizens United and you have a Supreme Court that's pretty explicitly chosen up sides in American electoral politics. This would be, in no uncertain terms, no longer business as usual.

I let that sink in for awhile. I find it really disturbing.

Scalia is releasing some statements in advance of the formal decision which makes advocates for ACA depressed.