HERE IS WHERE WE'RE AT: It's all the fault of my own stupidity....
UCHealth did not cover my treatment, but.... I have Medicare part A and B and have insurance and everything I need in effect NOW..
HERE IS WHERE WE'RE AT: UCHealth has given me one chemo treatment to "buy" time. Back on February 8, (today is February 24) I received the treatment. It brought the pain level down to where I can manage it again. I thought I wasn't going to lose my hair but, starting around the 19th, it has been coming out by the handful! lol
Treatment starts Monday, February 26. It is 7 weeks of radiation, 35 days...doctors and cancer take weekends off. I find out for sure Monday when they give me a written schedule and go over treatment. They pretty much keep me in the dark until then. Treatment also includes two more chemo... one in the middle and one in the final week of radiation.
I guess I get what I deserve.... but I may as well keep it entertaining. Today is February 24, I am learning patience and humility and gratitude.... thanks to everyone for their concern, kind thoughts, prayers and donations. I am so thankful to live in a country, where a wretched old man like me can flaunt convention and still be offered the best of modern medical scientific help. God bless the USA! For God has certainly blessed me by starting me at this certain time and place
The Go Fund Me effort continues....
I am fighting thru cancer and looking to my future
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thank you to everybody that reads this and I will try to get back individually with everyone on the Go Fund Me page
"That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing, being faithful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Strengthened with all might according to the power of His glory, in all patience and long suffering with joy."
Every day I post the Rosary with the mysteries for that day.
Every day I pray the Rosary this way you can join me in this uniquely Catholic prayer.
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EPHESIANS 3: 17-20
"That Christ may dwell by faith in your heart: that, being rooted and founded in charity, you may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth, to know the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto the fullness of God. Now to Him Who is able to do things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us; to Him be glory in the church and in Jesus Christ, unto all generations, world without end. Amen."
Now, I know that not everyone is Catholic or even Christian. I don't mean any offense to anyone, but I am Catholic.
Originally, this e-bike adventure was to work my way across the country to the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, MA 01262. I plan on making other stops: including The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Hope in Champion, Wisconsin. I was hoping to get suggestions for other stops along the way. Some of my brother Knights visit a place in New Mexico, and there is that place with the spiral staircase. Until I can get comments working you can e-mail me at jwwhite@mail.com with Catholic Friends in the subject line.
Every day at 3 p.m.(mountain time) I try to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy with the Marian Seminarians.
It all starts with this goofy old man's dream to ride an e-bike across country
Anyway, let's get started on this adventure...
I recently retired and can now put my plans into action. I want to take off on my e-bike and "ride off into my sunset." I've designed (in my mind over the past 15 years or so) a solar charging trailer to keep my bike charged. I mean, I'm over 70, I NEED some peddle assist and you can't just stop and plug in at a Wendy's for four hours to recharge the batteries. Although I did try that once when I was testing how far a fully charged battery could get me.
Although they did let me sit there for several hours (probably because I'm old and have that unkept homeless charisma working for me) it wasn't enough to fully recharge the battery but got me going and after a couple more short stops got me back home. It also made me realize I needed a second battery.
So three bikes and years later I'm ready to build the trailer and start the adventure...FOR REAL!
And in my mind, I could put the whole thing together. And it worked!
but...
There's always a but stinking up my life
Originally, I bought a 1953 three-wheel bicycle with a big seat and a big metal basket on the back, I think it was Schwinn. I ordered an electric motor online. It was on a slow boat from China... eventually it arrived... in a beat-up box ... a lot of little pieces and wires and no wiring instructions. I can do this but...
the bike was stolen
and then
I watched this video and came up with another plan
I don't know about you but every day I run into a vast array of panhandlers. From the people gathering around the exits of my local grocery store to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts; to backpacks for kids; to helping veterans...it all comes down to asking you for money.
It's gotten even worse!
Both political parties; pundits on every side of every issue; candidates, conmen and everything in between... in my e-mail, text messages and 25 or more phone calls a day trying to sell me something or tell me something and please help the cause.
for more information
E MAIL ME at jwwhite@mail.com
Now here I am, wanting to partake of this high tec panhandling boom. I didn't want to collect social security, but pain and age forced me to apply... I get Social Security and I will have Part B Medicare starting in February, 2024. I will write more about the plans and developments, but it would be a great relief if I could get 20 people to e-mail me for information.
I bit down on this stupid chicken bone and got and got ....a splinter stuck in my head....
so close....
I made numerous adjustments to the trailer design....I want to give a special thanks to Gary for welding... I'm pretty sure he was getting tired of all the adjustments and readjustments
and welding...
After changes and tests and changes and tests
I was finally down to reattaching the motor and testing it...for what I believed would be the final test before departing on my trip'
drum roll please
but....
that stupid chicken bone started hurting like hell
24/7 pain
I couldn't sleep well
My ear would hurt, my tongue would hurt, I kept biting my tongue when I was eating. It was horribly distracting. It messed with my sleep. I would fall asleep hurting and wake up hurting. All motivation about the trailer and trip evaporated by the constant pain. Then my tongue started to tingle and go numb on one side, and I started talking (I'm sure this is not politically correct - no offense meant) like a freakin' retard! Then my stupid tongue doesn't work right on my left side when I'm chewing food and I'm eating like a... (well, hopefully you get the picture)
This caused me to rethink social security and medicare...
I retired in July at 70. I thought I didn't need or want social security or Medicare. I was going to build my trailer, hop on my e bike and ride off into the sunset.
I know, I know what a dumb idea...and I called that my plan.
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Now I ain't scared of dyin'
but....
yet another "but" in this old man's saga
.... I really don't like pain. I can tolerate a good deal of pain...But this chicken bone was killing me. So, I thought I will go ahead and sign up for Social Security and Medicare. But the pain was too much, so I went to see a dentist .... told her about the bone.... she couldn't see anything on the x-ray. She sent me to a dental surgeon...nothing he could do. My dentist recommended that I see my primary doctor.... I don't have one. Oh, did I forget to tell you I haven't been to a doctor in years. I have no insurance. I always figured if something was gonna kill me, it would kill me. I didn't want to pay some doctor to tell me.... we all gotta go sometime.
Like I said I can tolerate a good deal of pain ....
Now, I am getting Social Security and Medicare....and starting February 2nd I have Medicare Part A and B and D and any other alphabet I should find need of, plus I now have insurance from United Healthcare. UCHealth is meeting with me in a few days, January 31, to go over treatment options. They have also offered to pay for all my treatment. This does not mean an end to my GoFundME, so I would still appreciate your support.
And continue writing to see what interest I can snare
Writing off into the sunset...
This doesn't mean an end to my trailer or trip. I'm just putting that on hold until I can see a doctor or learn to live with the pain and drool. I can quit talking outloud and just talk in my various posts. (I get as much feedback either way) Mostly I feel like I'm talking to myself anyway...
I guess what I am still looking for is people to follow me on
The comment section and subscribe buttons work on the substack account. Nothing seems to work properly on this blog. If you could go to substack and give me some feedback, some insight in to how these portals can be improved....or just say HI so I know people are reading. ... or some word of encouragement.... or even discouragement because that would be more encouraging than nothing.
since this is my first post I am really just experimenting with what I can do with layout and other such crazy things.
I want to thank Rob Hoey at Brain Flushings for making me aware of this site.
Elon Musk has been under pressure and scrutiny by the regressives and their counterparts in the lame stream media because of his efforts to make the Twitter platform a free speech marketplace of ideas.
While cutting back on staff and inspiring twitterers, he has brought the platform back as the world's town square in the marketplace of ideas. But tuning up the idea of free speech in a world where censorship and tyranny threaten from every corner is a costly enterprise in terms of money and time. And we all know time is money.
Only in America is free speech enshrined in our Bill of Rights. Only in America are #Godgiven rights part of our foundational document, The Declaration of Independence, which declares and describes such immutable truths to be self-evident and individually endowed by our Creator. So, one would think this great country would be the perfect place for such platform to grow and flourish.
I guess what I have to know now is why none of the links work in the preview.
And the other question would be how many inches of typed lines am I limited to per page? I am assuming I have to publish to get the links working. So let's continue....
Would it look better with a link like above or a video box...
