A baker's dozen for you:
1. She has no rigors or shaking chills , but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
2. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
3. Discharge status: Alive but without my permission.
4. Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
5. The patient refused autopsy.
6. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.
7. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
8. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
9. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
10. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized. (Wow!)
11. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
12. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.
13. Large brown stool ambulating in the hall.
Could be sleep deprivation.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
They Found Them!
From the Washington Post:
A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.
Civil division trial lawyer Helen H. Hong made the disclosure at a court hearing provoked by a 2007 lawsuit filed by outside groups to ensure that politically significant records created by the White House are not destroyed or removed before President Bush leaves office at noon on Tuesday. She said the department plans to argue in a court filing this week that the administration's successful recent search renders the lawsuit moot.
Hong's statement came hours after U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. ordered employees of the president's executive office -- with just days to go before their departure -- to undertake a comprehensive search of computer workstations, preserve portable hard drives and examine any e-mail archives created or retained from 2003 to 2005, the period in which e-mails appeared to be missing.
I laughed when I read this story. It is decidedly not funny, but I laughed. The Bush maladministration finally complied with court's orders and spent $10 million of our money to find the "missing" emails. Are you wondering if any person or persons tried, without success, to make them disappear permanently? I know I am.
The dispute over recovery of the missing e-mails was provoked by the disclosure four years ago that the White House, in switching to a new internal e-mail system shortly after Bush's election, had abandoned an automatic archiving system meant to preserve all messages containing official business. Under the new system, any of the 3,000 or so regular White House employees could access e-mail storage files, enabling them to delete messages.
An internal White House report noted in 2005 that e-mails from specific periods appeared to be missing, including key moments related to the invasion of Iraq and to a federal probe of the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's classified employment with the CIA. White House officials called that study flawed after congressional investigators released it.
What an amazing coincidence! My goodness! What could the Bushies possibly want to hide in their email correspondance previous to the invasion of Iraq and the outing of Valerie Plame? Nothing there, folks. Move along.
Regarding the congressional investigation, the investigators did not have access to the "missing" emails when they produced their "flawed" study.
Five more days.
A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.
Civil division trial lawyer Helen H. Hong made the disclosure at a court hearing provoked by a 2007 lawsuit filed by outside groups to ensure that politically significant records created by the White House are not destroyed or removed before President Bush leaves office at noon on Tuesday. She said the department plans to argue in a court filing this week that the administration's successful recent search renders the lawsuit moot.
Hong's statement came hours after U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. ordered employees of the president's executive office -- with just days to go before their departure -- to undertake a comprehensive search of computer workstations, preserve portable hard drives and examine any e-mail archives created or retained from 2003 to 2005, the period in which e-mails appeared to be missing.
I laughed when I read this story. It is decidedly not funny, but I laughed. The Bush maladministration finally complied with court's orders and spent $10 million of our money to find the "missing" emails. Are you wondering if any person or persons tried, without success, to make them disappear permanently? I know I am.
The dispute over recovery of the missing e-mails was provoked by the disclosure four years ago that the White House, in switching to a new internal e-mail system shortly after Bush's election, had abandoned an automatic archiving system meant to preserve all messages containing official business. Under the new system, any of the 3,000 or so regular White House employees could access e-mail storage files, enabling them to delete messages.
An internal White House report noted in 2005 that e-mails from specific periods appeared to be missing, including key moments related to the invasion of Iraq and to a federal probe of the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's classified employment with the CIA. White House officials called that study flawed after congressional investigators released it.
What an amazing coincidence! My goodness! What could the Bushies possibly want to hide in their email correspondance previous to the invasion of Iraq and the outing of Valerie Plame? Nothing there, folks. Move along.
Regarding the congressional investigation, the investigators did not have access to the "missing" emails when they produced their "flawed" study.
Five more days.
" Please Keep Praying!"
JCF has left a new comment on your post "Please Continue to Pray For Sue And Fr. Ed":
Update (I'm posting on this thread, as it's linked to "The Three Legged Stool", where Sue&Ed are also being prayed for).
I saw Sue at home today.
Yesterday, she got put in a cast almost to her hip. As you might imagine, it's none too comfortable (and she's having trouble sleeping). Pain at the worst, itching when not in pain.
DESPITE this, she's in good spirits. She very much appreciates the prayers! And, for you animal lovers out there---and I know there are many in Episcoblog-Land---she's benefitting from the "ministry" of her 3 cats: Jasper, Sapphira and Zechariah (all of whom have found places on her hospital bed to love *g*).
I also saw FrEd today, at the (usual) Wednesday evening Mass. He seems slightly more together, too (the last couple of Sundays, between you and me, he came pretty close to biting a bothersome person's head off: the man's been at his limits!).
Please keep praying! [I asked Sue when she'd be back at church, and encouraged her to shoot for Shrove Tuesday, and pancakes. But maybe as early as Candlemas? "DV"]
Original prayer request here.
Update (I'm posting on this thread, as it's linked to "The Three Legged Stool", where Sue&Ed are also being prayed for).
I saw Sue at home today.
Yesterday, she got put in a cast almost to her hip. As you might imagine, it's none too comfortable (and she's having trouble sleeping). Pain at the worst, itching when not in pain.
DESPITE this, she's in good spirits. She very much appreciates the prayers! And, for you animal lovers out there---and I know there are many in Episcoblog-Land---she's benefitting from the "ministry" of her 3 cats: Jasper, Sapphira and Zechariah (all of whom have found places on her hospital bed to love *g*).
I also saw FrEd today, at the (usual) Wednesday evening Mass. He seems slightly more together, too (the last couple of Sundays, between you and me, he came pretty close to biting a bothersome person's head off: the man's been at his limits!).
Please keep praying! [I asked Sue when she'd be back at church, and encouraged her to shoot for Shrove Tuesday, and pancakes. But maybe as early as Candlemas? "DV"]
Original prayer request here.
"We Never Know...."
We never know which interactions will be our last ones. And so every single moment we are called to compassionate presence. There is not a one of us that doesn't know this. But how easy it is to live out of the grudges, the impatience, the frustration. How very human.
From LJ at Wild and Precious. LJ's father died this past Monday. She wrote a beautiful account at her blog of her dad's last days - what those days were like for him and what the days were like for her and her mom.
LJ's words above resonated powerfully for me, especially these, "We never know...so every single moment we are called to compassionate presence." Amen!
May the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep the hearts and minds of LJ and her mom in Christ Jesus.
From LJ at Wild and Precious. LJ's father died this past Monday. She wrote a beautiful account at her blog of her dad's last days - what those days were like for him and what the days were like for her and her mom.
LJ's words above resonated powerfully for me, especially these, "We never know...so every single moment we are called to compassionate presence." Amen!
May the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep the hearts and minds of LJ and her mom in Christ Jesus.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Racism Is Dead In The US?
Some say that the election of Obama shows that racism is dead in the US. Others say that is not true. Count me in the "others" category.
Video from TPM TV.
Thought For The Day - From The Lord
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart."
1 Samuel 16:7
1 Samuel 16:7
Rick Warren Offers Shelter To Departing Episcopalians
From the Orange County Register:
Prominent evangelical pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church has thrown a lifeline to a conservative Newport Beach parish on the verge of losing its house of worship because of a feud with its parent church.
The California Supreme Court this month ruled that St. James Anglican Church, a 500-family congregation on the Balboa Peninsula, forfeited the rights to its church property when it split in 2004 from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and the national Episcopal Church.
....
"(Our) brothers and sisters here at St. James in Newport Beach lost their California State Supreme Court case to keep their property," Warren wrote, according to Christianity Today.
"We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans. I offer the campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County."
....
"We are overwhelmed by his generosity," [St. James's rector, Rev. Richard] Crocker said. "It is an encouraging sign of support from Christians in the community."
Warren would not make the same offer to progressive Episcopalians who have lost the use of their property, however temporarily, because he could hardly say with any honesty that he stands in solidarity with them, since, in his view, they would not be "orthodox, evangelical Anglicans".
If the sharing works out for the congregants of St. James and Saddleback, then God bless them as they continue their worship.
UPDATE: If anyone has information as to whether all 500 families in St. James left with the Rev. Crocker, I'd like to know.
Prominent evangelical pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church has thrown a lifeline to a conservative Newport Beach parish on the verge of losing its house of worship because of a feud with its parent church.
The California Supreme Court this month ruled that St. James Anglican Church, a 500-family congregation on the Balboa Peninsula, forfeited the rights to its church property when it split in 2004 from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and the national Episcopal Church.
....
"(Our) brothers and sisters here at St. James in Newport Beach lost their California State Supreme Court case to keep their property," Warren wrote, according to Christianity Today.
"We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans. I offer the campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County."
....
"We are overwhelmed by his generosity," [St. James's rector, Rev. Richard] Crocker said. "It is an encouraging sign of support from Christians in the community."
Warren would not make the same offer to progressive Episcopalians who have lost the use of their property, however temporarily, because he could hardly say with any honesty that he stands in solidarity with them, since, in his view, they would not be "orthodox, evangelical Anglicans".
If the sharing works out for the congregants of St. James and Saddleback, then God bless them as they continue their worship.
UPDATE: If anyone has information as to whether all 500 families in St. James left with the Rev. Crocker, I'd like to know.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Blessing - Bishop Gene Robinson
"Blessing given by the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, at the end of services at All Saints Church Pasadena on Sunday, July 15, 2007."
The video is an example of a blessing by Bishop Gene Robinson - a taste perhaps of the type of invocation we may expect from him at the opening event of the Inaugural Week activities, “We are One,” to be held at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, January 18, at 2:00 pm.
Of course, the choice of Bishop Robinson by President-Elect Obama and the bishop's announcement that the blessing will be neither "happy Clappy" nor specifically Christian are already being roundly criticized by the Christian right, but no matter. It is good and right that he should do this.
Today Is A Better Day
A picture of me yesterday
Yesterday, I spent the better part of the day trying to get my flight reservation to England fixed. After I had already paid my credit card bill for the flight to England, I noticed, much too late, that another person's name was on my e-ticket. I checked the airport and flight information on the printout, but I did not check the name. Who would think that someone else's name would be on the ticket? Not I.
Into stress and panic mode and on the phone with the number punching and long waits. I thought it would be a simple matter of correcting the ticket, but no, the airline, which I would dearly like to name, but I won't, said that they would have to initiate a fraud investigation to make sure that no one stole my reservation. They let it slip that the person whose name was on the ticket was from California. If my credit card number had been stolen, it seems to me that I would have had other fraudulent charges on my bill, but I did not. What I believe happened is that someone typed in the wrong name to my reservation made with my credit card, but the airline would not admit that and their attitude was "take no responsibility and CYA". It's not as simple as I have stated, because I was passed from person to person, then to a supervisor, with long waits in between conversations.
The airline said that they would contact my credit card company after they had done their investigation, but I did not trust them, so I called the company myself. Their service was excellent. The person I talked to laughed when I said that the airline was doing a fraud investigation. The rep said, "This happens often. The airlines put in the wrong name." Ha! She said that they would proceed to challenge the charge and issue me a credit and give me a new card number "just in case".
So now I have no reservation, because the other was canceled. I checked around the internet and made a couple of calls, because I really, really did not want to fly with the same airline, but no other airline had flights which were equal in price and convenient flight times, so I booked again with the same airline, and I now have a ticket in my very own name, for which I had to pay, of course.
Part of this trouble was my own doing for not reading the information on the ticket carefully. I am not a detail person, but, nevertheless, I should have read every word on the ticket. I've learned a lesson - I hope.
Grandpère took my place in picking up the grandchildren from school and staying with them until I could get my affairs arranged and get myself together to go to my son's house to relieve him. I wanted to see my grandchildren, because it was their last day with their dad.
End of story.
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