The Smallest Minority

 

 ...late in the evening, I was rolled into surgery at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona where a stranger's liver was transplanted...

This is me in ICU post-op from the liver transplant.  And they had the machine that goes "PING!" I'm much better now!

The new kidney is functional.  I was told today "no more dialysis"!!  The first night of getting up every 90 minutes to two hour...

For my non-Facebooking readers, I received a call from Mayo Tuesday morning - they had a kidney.  Had the surgery Tuesday evening.  They...

A year ago on this day I was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. Yeah, it was kind of like that. Kinda graphic images below the f...

I meant to do this a while back, but I've been busy and not particularly motivated to write.  Because so many of my readers obviously ar...

During my second, third hospital stay? my daugter set up a GoFundMe fundraiser, and - being cogent - I told her to take it down.  She did.  ...

I'm pretty damned sick, but I'm still kicking (weakly). So far I've had four hospital stays: Memorial Day through the followin...

This year I was a first-time attendee of Blogorado, and fell in love with the Farm Fam.  One of their own - well, I'll let Old NFO tell...

When I got up yesterday morning I had an ache in my groin area (I know, TMI! TMI!) on the left side. Didn't know what it was, but it wa...

One of my Facebook friends is someone I went to High School with.  She posted this tonight: Tonight I decided I wanted to be fully i...

Near ‘Collapse,’ Minnesota to Raise Obamacare Rates by Half Minnesota will let the health insurers in its Obamacare market raise rates by ...

I've covered the Obamacare debacle here at TSM for quite a while , with the earliest post on the topic being Multiply by the Zip Code ...

So the Supreme Court has handed down its decision in King v. Burwell , the second "Obamacare" decision.  This one was not 5-4, but...

Well, he's right .  I made the argument during what passed as "debate" over Obamacare (as did literally thousands of othe...

According to Wikipedia : Kabuki is a classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the ...

Hitler gets Obamacare: (h/t Mr. Completely )

OK, the memesters are running with it: But will it be repealed?  Of course not!