NBC NEWS: Justice Department official posts social media photo revealing investigation into Ohio State

Justice Department official posts social media photo revealing investigation into Ohio State
The head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, appears to have inadvertently revealed the probe into admissions policies at Ohio State’s medical school.

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The Roads to Mattis, Iran, Trump, and Hormuz.

Let’s talk about Trump blocking the DHS deal and then fumbling his own response….

As Belle says tRump started a war and is blocking the funding for the very department in charged with securing the country against foreign threats until the all important trans people playing sports are banned.  tRump is putting paid unmasked ICE agents in airports so why can’t they go unmasked on the streets of our towns and cities to stand around watching TSA agents work for free all because his feelings are hurt by trans people.   She said something similar about FEMA but it all comes down to tRump using the scape goat of trans people and the Christian nationalists need to have a white male straight cis nation to live in even though those people are not representative of most of the nation nor of all Christians.  But to not fund FEMA during horrific flooding and wildfires, to not fund DHS and TSA for security, to not fund the coast guard for our protection and assistance in local waters, and more just because he has a hard time understanding the truth that trans people exist and are normal members of society that deserve full unconditional civil rights and equality.  Hugs

My labs from Tuesday

On Monday March 23 I had an epidural in my back.  On Tuesday I had to have my blood work done for some upcoming doctor’s appointments.  Ron and I went over the results and they don’t look good.  They look worse on the computer screen than what came out in print because the print did not have all the colors and marks.  But I looked up some of the results.  One said it could be an indicator of anemia, which I have had in the past bad enough to put me in the hospital.  The other suggestion from looking up the fact that all this dealt with my red and white blood cells was leukemia or kidney disease, and more likely autoimmune issues.  I have all the symptoms of lupus, and my immune system has long been compromised.  So that is a possiblity.  My PSA  is elevated and my TSH keeps dipping low.  That is my thyroid which means is it going hyperactive.   My first endocrinologist said that the thyroid reacts to things happening in the body so it could be dropping due to my other results.  Medicare kicked back three tests because of changed codes / incorrct codes / or too early.   The tests were PSA, A1C, and lipid panel.  The lab wanted over $400 for the tests.  I declined to pay for it.  Here are the printed labs from the website and then scanned so I could include them.  I deleted / covered the sensitive identifying information. Got to go get shots from the allergy clinic, they had to put me back on weekly for 5 weeks. Oh and I am salt wasting.  No change it is actually the same from the last test and up from the low of  117.  My kidneys don’t get the signal from my brain to stop taking salt out of my blood.  At 115 you can start to have seizures.  I am one of the few people told to eat as much salt as I can.  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Mills DISASTROUS Maine Senate Town Hall

 

Newsmax Host Picked The Wrong Guy To Debate Cuba With…

One thing that was not mentioned is the reason Cuba has such poverty is all the US sanctions over 60 years.  When Obama lifted sanctions things got much better for Cuba.  The Cuban government is not the problem and when there was less sanctions the people were happy with the government.  We are the bad guys in this.  We, the US government is refusing to let any other country send any supplies because we demand they have a capitalist oligarchy system of government mimicking the US one.  How is that working out for us?  Cuba has free universal medical.  Free education.  Do we?  But that is the old guy mentality that every country should / must do and be as the US and profit must be king.  All this reparation for what was nationalized?  Why?  US corporations and wealthy land owners were raping the land and hogging the profit and goods.  They had a better system if left alone.  But again the old red scare from the USSR days.  Remember “better off dead than red”?  The US must push democracy and oligarchy.  Venezuela was the same thing, we did not like that they had a government for the people, a socialist  / communist one and they nationalized the oil systems because the profits were not going to the Venezuelan people but to western corporations.  Other countries have a right to their own resources.  But remember tRump demanding that Ukraine give up half of its mineral rights to the US / tRump family?   Hugs

THE GUARDIAN: Venezuelans deported by US detail fresh claims of torture and abuse at El Salvador mega-prison

Venezuelans deported by US detail fresh claims of torture and abuse at El Salvador mega-prison
Petition seeks accountability from Salvadorian authorities over human rights violations at notorious Cecot facility

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Trump Stooge Struggles To Answer Simple Question

Tracking Anti-Trans Bills | Erin Reed | TMR

And update on our appointment with the heart doctor and then Ron’s melt down. I am so tired and even more tired of trying to stay reasonable.

OK so we had the appointment with his new heart doctor.  I liked him he smiled a lot and was a genuinely happy man even though it was clear he had a bent spine and so was hunched over.  When Ron told him I was his spouse the doctor totally seemed OK.  I was wearing my white pride hat as usual.  He remembered Ron from the ICUs and asked if I was medical as well.  I replied no Ron was the doctor in our family which got a smile and chuckle from him as Ron tried to protest that which made the doctor smile more.  He said he would talk to both of us on my level, even if it was basic for Ron because he wanted me included.  When I had a question he would answer it  and totally include me in all the discussion. Ron has one blockage they think is 80% and and at least two that are 70% and one that is just starting.

The plan is to do a heart catheterization.  They will go in through the wrist and prep the groin in case.  They feed a sleeve into the wrist then thread a wire all the way to the arteries around the heart.  They then open the blockage, put a stent surrounded by a balloon where the blockage was.  If a part of the blockage breaks they can introduce medication right then to stop it from doing any damage.  

Wow Ron and I had a huge argument.  I dislike it and he totally blames it on me.  But when the surgical center called to schedule him for the heart catheterization, and instead of  taking the first appointment he asked for one three weeks later.  I interrupted and said no you want it sooner if possible.  

He kept the appointment for nearly a month and a week out.   When he got off the phone I asked him to explain that.  Wellhe replied I have Diane flying in on 3-28, and we are scheduled to fly out april 2nd.  I was angry and argued with him that this same thing killed his sister’s husband and if he asked her she would agree he needs the early appointment.  Which was when he fucked around and after we had a huge fight where I told him that his sister could get her friends and her husband’s friends to do what she had wanted Ron to do.  She wants help with the moving company and then driving from Texas to here.   When he calmed down from our argument he called her and she agreed with me.  So then he was so angry that we had another exchange.  I was trying to stay calm but he was so upset he was almost out of control, throwing things.  I asked him to think of us.  If he suffered a heart attack on the road or moving around furniture at her house he could easily die.  I couldn’t keep or repair this house.  I would not be able to keep Tupac and no one else around us will let him live with them or pay the 75 dollars for his thyroid medication every 6 to 7 weeks.  He is incontinent and he leaves poops dropping out of his butt because he was hit by a golf cart and it damaged his spine and nerves.  So he would have to be set on the rainbow bridge.  I told him I would end up having to rent a room at Randy’s as he has offered it.   Ron was furious and said I was thinking only of myself and I replied he was thinking only of his sister.  

But by then it was too late to get in touch with the scheduling department.   The heart place is huge and they have their own surgical center there.  They only do six procedures on an operating day.  So he hopes they will call him today.  I worry that he will not be able to get a quicker date so I don’t know what will happen.  Hugs