Today is one of those days where I am just watching the market take a nose dive and thinking how much money will be out of my account by the end of the day. As of now 8/18/11 - 1:30PM the Dow is down 463 points...
This is the second big drop in the last couple of weeks which does have a major affect on everyones invesments. Who do you blame? Well I am not sure who to blame, but I do know that it isn't good.
If you have a 401K tied to the stock market, I bet you don't even want to look at it ... I would suggest that you just don't think about it and hope that it recovers.....
I blame our President and all of the Congress for not having enough guts or maybe not smart enough to have taken care of our debt and make corrections sooner. My opinon is lets just get rid of all of them, President and all of the Congressmen and Senators and start over.
Thats all I have today - although I could go on a lot longer about the market... which is now down 474 points... OUCH
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Seems Like A Long Time Ago
Here it is April 17, 2011 and a lot of time has passed since my last post, and even more time since the Prostate surgery that I had back in September 2010.
Since that time I have been back to my surgeon and both times the test showed that they had got all of the cancer out and that I was cancer free at that time. Also been to my personal Doctor and his test also had the same results..........No Cancer. Just hope the results keep showing the same.
Side effects from the surgery were that I had to keep from lifting anything over 5 pounds for several weeks, couldn't drive my riding mower or do anything that involve exertion on my part.
Trying to keep from lifting anything more than 5 pounds was very difficult, it is surprising how many things weigh over 5 lbs. I hired someone to mow my hard until I was cleared, which didn't result in much, other than paying out a little money.
Of course the first week following the surgery resulted in having a catheter inserted which was the most inconvient thing that I had to put up with. There I was for about 9 days with this tube stuck up my pee pee, with it taped to my leg so it wouldn't get pulled out accidentially. Well I survived those 9 days and headed back to my surgeon to have the catheter removed - another exciting fun time. Will cover that in the next post.
Since that time I have been back to my surgeon and both times the test showed that they had got all of the cancer out and that I was cancer free at that time. Also been to my personal Doctor and his test also had the same results..........No Cancer. Just hope the results keep showing the same.
Side effects from the surgery were that I had to keep from lifting anything over 5 pounds for several weeks, couldn't drive my riding mower or do anything that involve exertion on my part.
Trying to keep from lifting anything more than 5 pounds was very difficult, it is surprising how many things weigh over 5 lbs. I hired someone to mow my hard until I was cleared, which didn't result in much, other than paying out a little money.
Of course the first week following the surgery resulted in having a catheter inserted which was the most inconvient thing that I had to put up with. There I was for about 9 days with this tube stuck up my pee pee, with it taped to my leg so it wouldn't get pulled out accidentially. Well I survived those 9 days and headed back to my surgeon to have the catheter removed - another exciting fun time. Will cover that in the next post.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Catch Up
Well a lot of water has passed under the bridge since the post back in September. Just a week or so after the last post I underwent prostate surgery to have the prostate removed.
My initial thought was that I would have a lot of pain and seriously be in a lot of hurt for a while following the surgery. Well, it didn't turn out that way, as I will explain in additional posts as to what happened and how the surgery went
My initial thought was that I would have a lot of pain and seriously be in a lot of hurt for a while following the surgery. Well, it didn't turn out that way, as I will explain in additional posts as to what happened and how the surgery went
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Enjoying Life
Something that you probably don't think a lot about until it happens to you is are you enjoying life, and if not what are you going to do about it. Well I have really enjoyed my life and never had to put up with anything that would challenge my life.
That was until this past week. Last week I went to a Urologist to have a biopsy of my prostate, which was an experience. Didn't hurt, but was quite uncomfortable. Won't list here what they did, but just think about a piece of equipment stuck up (you know where), and then they shoot 12 little needles into the part that had a concern.... Yep - didn't like it at all.
Well yesterday, I went back to the Doctor to get the results, and they really wasn't want I wanted to hear. Yes - they found cancer in the prostate. It was only in one of the 12 sections that they did a biopsy in, if that was good news. However that one section had a rating of 9 out of ten as far as how bad it was... and that was not good either.
As the Doctor went through all of the different was that it could be taken care of, which I listend to very closely sufice it to say that surgery was the only thing that really should be done.
Continued bad news - after he went through all of the side effects of the surgery, and what type of problems and pain I would be going through once I got home - I said that lets go for it.
As I work through this I will try to up date my blog with my thoughts, actions and problems. Check back
That was until this past week. Last week I went to a Urologist to have a biopsy of my prostate, which was an experience. Didn't hurt, but was quite uncomfortable. Won't list here what they did, but just think about a piece of equipment stuck up (you know where), and then they shoot 12 little needles into the part that had a concern.... Yep - didn't like it at all.
Well yesterday, I went back to the Doctor to get the results, and they really wasn't want I wanted to hear. Yes - they found cancer in the prostate. It was only in one of the 12 sections that they did a biopsy in, if that was good news. However that one section had a rating of 9 out of ten as far as how bad it was... and that was not good either.
As the Doctor went through all of the different was that it could be taken care of, which I listend to very closely sufice it to say that surgery was the only thing that really should be done.
Continued bad news - after he went through all of the side effects of the surgery, and what type of problems and pain I would be going through once I got home - I said that lets go for it.
As I work through this I will try to up date my blog with my thoughts, actions and problems. Check back
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
New Blog Background
I know - sometimes I change my blog often and don't put much on it to discuss. Maybe it is because I really just don't spend enough time coming up with new ideas to add to my blog. Although I am constantly think about things that I should put on here, but just don't get around to putting them into writing.
I constantly think about all of the political statements that I hear every day on the radio, TV and in the internet and wonder just how there can be such a big difference between the 2 parties about which way the country should be headed. It is interesting to try and understand why the left and right are so far apart in their thinking.
It seems more like the left is more of a younger crowd that thinks we should be taking care of the world and providing them with everthing that the right may not have. Hard for me to understand why more people want to provide everything for everyone and at the expense of most of the older generation.
The right seems like they want to save a lot of the money that everyone has scrimped worked for and saved so they can provide for themselves as they age. They feel that we should not be expanding all of our tax's to provide for those that don't have so the ones that have now won't have anything in the future.
On that part I agree - being retired, we live on money and investments that we worked hard for over the years so that we will be able to live comfortably on in our older age. I don't want to pay more tax's to help others, I want to pay less tax's so that I can take care of myself, and not those that don't want to work to earn a living. I don't want to pay for those that feel the government owes them a living. I don't want to allow any illegals to live in our country without paying their just dues.
I constantly think about all of the political statements that I hear every day on the radio, TV and in the internet and wonder just how there can be such a big difference between the 2 parties about which way the country should be headed. It is interesting to try and understand why the left and right are so far apart in their thinking.
It seems more like the left is more of a younger crowd that thinks we should be taking care of the world and providing them with everthing that the right may not have. Hard for me to understand why more people want to provide everything for everyone and at the expense of most of the older generation.
The right seems like they want to save a lot of the money that everyone has scrimped worked for and saved so they can provide for themselves as they age. They feel that we should not be expanding all of our tax's to provide for those that don't have so the ones that have now won't have anything in the future.
On that part I agree - being retired, we live on money and investments that we worked hard for over the years so that we will be able to live comfortably on in our older age. I don't want to pay more tax's to help others, I want to pay less tax's so that I can take care of myself, and not those that don't want to work to earn a living. I don't want to pay for those that feel the government owes them a living. I don't want to allow any illegals to live in our country without paying their just dues.
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