Maybe my last oil painting

[fishinwrench]

43 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

No kiddin, Wrench?  I thought Obama Care made it mandatory that everyone has insurance or they hit you at tax time with a penalty.

On a personal note, I hope you stay healthy.  The place would get boring without ya.

You thought right.  A 900.00 per year penalty I can afford, but an additional 700.00 per month payment I can't.   And expanding my business so that I could afford it would make my life suck.  I'd rather live a shorter awesome life than a longer sucky one.  ☺

[MOPanfisher]

Smoking, a variety of chemical cleaners, many different pesticides, welding, depliynwnt to various disastwr areas, etc.  more than enough reasons to "get" me.  in the end it as a follow up to an annual physical that cost me a year and half or so of my life, a lot of my memory, and a good chunk of physical ability in balance and agility.  according to the Dr. it was nothing more than that I lost a genetic lottery.  I honestly have no idea how much the total bill was, by the grace of God, through my employment I had some very good insurance, essentially after $6K a year everything is covered.  I am able to see my grandson grow up and my daughter take on life in the work force, watch my son go through college and enjoy the occasional day fishing etc.  (Never enough though).  Prior to all of the drama the diagnosis and subsequrnt chemo and a bone marrow transplant I was an annoyingly healthy and aging un gracefully adult male, crap can hit you gast and out of nowhere.  Don't ignore signs or problems, get them checked out, somethings can be treated a LOT easier and more successfully the earlier it's found.  However I make no claim to be unbiased.

[Gavin]

We used to wash airplanes with trichloroethylene at MCAS El Toro. That nasty stuff always gave me a splitting headache.

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[Jerry Rapp]

Wrench, you hit the head on the nail about crazy females!  I had never thought of that!  On the other note, people like you should be the ones who should be able to good health insurance at a reasonable price.  You are a small business owner, getting by, and enjoying life.  Why this is a close Presidential race is beyond me.

[BilletHead]

            Yep some of the stuff we have all used makes us a ticking time bomb. Had some bad crap in a spray can we used to clean underground power cables when we were terminating them in underground transformers and on dip poles. While on the ground there was no way to avoid the fumes. Now on a pole just swing to the upwind side if at all possible. They or someone decided it was a cancer causing agent and formula changed. New stuff didn't work too well. Then there was Polyclornated bypheneals . Can't remember how to spell that oil. PCB's for short. Been up to my elbows in that liquid rewiring pole hung transformers. Then they decided that was bad and we started testing everyone of those at any place that had anything to do with processing food. Then if any blew up spilling oil we had to dig up all dirt and soil that had an oil sheen, put it into a 55 gallon drum to be tested and shipped off to who knows where?

    Like it or not we are all lab rats from time to time .

   Speaking of doctors it is time for blood work and a physical. What will be heard through the stethoscope?  What will the blood my Mrs. draws say when it gets tested? Tick, tick, tick as we get older.

  BilletHead

[Mitch f]

15 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

            Yep some of the stuff we have all used makes us a ticking time bomb. Had some bad crap in a spray can we used to clean underground power cables when we were terminating them in underground transformers and on dip poles. While on the ground there was no way to avoid the fumes. Now on a pole just swing to the upwind side if at all possible. They or someone decided it was a cancer causing agent and formula changed. New stuff didn't work too well. Then there was Polyclornated bypheneals . Can't remember how to spell that oil. PCB's for short. Been up to my elbows in that liquid rewiring pole hung transformers. Then they decided that was bad and we started testing everyone of those at any place that had anything to do with processing food. Then if any blew up spilling oil we had to dig up all dirt and soil that had an oil sheen, put it into a 55 gallon drum to be tested and shipped off to who knows where?

    Like it or not we are all lab rats from time to time .

   Speaking of doctors it is time for blood work and a physical. What will be heard through the stethoscope?  What will the blood my Mrs. draws say when it gets tested? Tick, tick, tick as we get older.

  BilletHead

Speaking of blood work, I just had mine done and am way too close to diabetes for comfort. I started a diet and have lost 13 pounds in about 2.5 weeks. I feel better already

[jdmidwest]

You can't live forever.  But I am enjoying my extra period.  A year ago Friday, I was diagnosed with cancer.  Surgery was on Nov. 22. to take it out.

I still have to wonder if it will come back since there was no direct cause attributed to the cancer I had.  I really can't "Stop" doing anything to keep it from happening again.  Just have to keep an eye on myself and watch out for anything new.

 

[Johnsfolly]

17 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Polyclornated bypheneals

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's). We have run some of the fish and invertebrate testing with these materials. Can affect your thyroid function and is an endocrine disruptive compound.

17 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Like it or not we are all lab rats from time to time

Often the chemicals that were really effective turned out when tested to be fairly toxic to animals and humans. It may be formaldehyde that is my undoing in the long run based upon the thousands of fish and plankton samples that I have processed in grad school. 

Al - I hope that you find the root cause or at least the latest trigger, possibly the solvents that you are using. I also hope that you are fine painting with the acrylics. Take care of yourself. As much as I enjoy and learn from your posts, I would hate to think about the possibility of not seeing another one of your new paintings. Though the next stream painting could use a few more darters .

10 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

I just had mine done and am way too close to diabetes for comfort. I started a diet and have lost 13 pounds in about 2.5 weeks.

Mitch - congrats on the weight loss and good luck on getting your sugar levels in line. 

[BilletHead]

                Thanks for the lesson Johnsfolly. Especially the spelling part . I was so far off spell check would not recognize it. That or they did not know what it was. 

   jdmidwest are you still of the chewing tobacco? Hope so bud,

BilletHead

[jdmidwest]

8 hours ago, Mitch f said:

Im like Phil, this is very intersting.

Ive had the EXACT same irregular heartbeat my entire life and have just lived with it. Maybe its our Scotch Irish heritage Al! The doctors I've spoken to havent been too concerned, and told me just to live with it. I drink a bunch of coffee and maybe it would help if I stopped. Also interesting on the chemicals...My mother died of bladder cancer 2 years ago at age 88, the doctors asked me if she ever worked in an environment with certain chemicals, like solvents. I told him not that i know of.

We all need to watch our sugar intake more than anything, I believe Sugar has been linked to cancer for sure. I remember talking with the doctors after finding out if my moms cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. He said the test they perform is basically inject a high dose sugar shot in her blood before an X ray. Her lymph nodes lit up like a Christmas tree. It was ceratinly horrible news.  She was 88 and lived a great life, watching all her kids live happy, productive lives. Please watch your sugar intake everyone.

Mitch, that was the PET Test.  You fast for 24 hours prior to the test, lowering the blood sugar in your body.  They inject a radioactive glucose IV into the bloodstream that has a certain half life that shows up on the scanner.  Cancer cells take in glucose faster than normal cells so they glow when scanned by something like a CT Scanner, aka the PET machine.  Been there, done that.  Then passed out on the chair when doc explained the surgery from low blood sugar, nerves, and lack of sleep worrying,  That happened a year ago next Wed.  I got lucky, PET only showed the basal tumor, with no spread.  Sorry about your Mom, cancer is an evil creature that needs to be eradicated from this earth.

But sugar, like anything else in excess, is bad for your body.  Nature does not offer many food sources naturally that have the amounts of sugar we consume in our daily diets.  And our sugar comes from so many processed sources that could hardly be construed as natural.  That in itself complicates it even more.  The world we have created has brought on our health problems.  God only knows what caused mine.  I often wonder it it could be a cell phone that caused mine.  Cancer is showing up in so many more people today than I ever saw when I was younger.  Look at the things we use in our everyday lives.