Oh The Joys Of Post Radiation Life...

...are seemingly never ending. Tomorrow morning, I will start taking medicine for low thyroid hormone production to boost those hormones. Seems my thyroid has started to get sluggish and probably explains why I have felt like run down crap for the past couple of months or so. Can be due to age and such but they think it probably a product of my having gone through getting my neck broiled by radiation treatments last year. That was over with early  last November but it  apparently just keeps on giving more joy as time goes by.

It is better though than had it not worked. The real bummer is, I will probably have to take this crap for the rest of my life - or so it says in the info sheet from the pharmacy. Then again, if it makes me feel better -  suppose that's going to have to be okay.

At least the doc told me that both my blood pressure and my triglyceride level had dropped. The BP was 124/82. The triglycerides fell from about 450 to a decent normal range, I think 139. I guess that a couple of weeks of cutting out an ice cream bar per night had something to do with them getting lower, maybe cutting back on the beer too. The vodka and other hard spirits, that I have been drinking in place of some of the beer, may have helped there since carbs convert to triglycerides. As usual, my cholesterol levels were very good; they are virtually always good ice cream and beer or not.

The doc also told me, I lost a couple of pounds. That is also good since having low thyroid hormones often means you gain weight. Nice to see I bucked that trend.

All the best,
Glenn B

In Honor of Jay G Shaving Off His Stache...

...as part of a pledge raising promise he made for Kilted To Kick Cancer, during September; I figured the least I could do to sow some solidarity was to shave the beard. Sorry Jay, my stache stays.

This is my new profile pic, taken tonight. I know its a lousy pic but that is exactly how I wanted it to look. Well, maybe I would have liked to look about 30 years younger and in better shape but you get my point (and if you don't, tough noogies).

All the best,
Glenn B

U.S. Department of State - Bizarro World Style

I don't know what it is that makes the Obama Administration think that the American people will keep buying into its bullshit on almost every topic imaginable but here they are doing it yet once again. Do they expect to get a rise in the polls from this sort of obviously outlandish falsehood?  They are now reportedly claiming the the State Department never said the attack on our consulate, resulting in the deaths of our ambassador and three others, was related to the so called anti Muslim video.

See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/10/state-department-denies-concluding-film-sparked-consulate-attack-in-libya/

The sad thing is that there are probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the American public who will buy this story, from the Obama Administration, as 100% truth. Truly, we do live in Bizarro World!

All the best,
Glenn B