Debt Ceiling, Ted Kennedy & Vomit

    John says we should all go down to the local bank and take out our money in CASH because if Obama and the congress don't pass this bill--  & it's looking bad here Monday morning as Barack plans a speech at 1100 to rip the  debt opposition a new one-- the banks won't have enough cash to cover all the depositors. Of course if you take all your cash out of the bank, the obvious question arises and that is : where to put it? a hole in the cellar floor? the attic? the mattress? All not fireproof or hood -creep-nut proof.  Imagine if all  of your savings were 'not available'?   I think this happened in 1929. The banks closed remember?This fiscal mess/debt we are in is NOT recoverable in 100 years.  An eight year old knows he can't spend more than he has and still have any left.  In paying a debt you have to spend LESS than before but still  spend all you have ( relative to what you owe) in order to decrease debt. Relative to what we owe the debt is not payable in our grandchildrens's lifetimes. Is the problem public schools don't teach home economics anymore? I really don't get what the big puzzle is here.
     I'm not an economics geek as John is but I understand a simple explanation when I hear one. I wish I could transcribe John's explanation of this for y'all.  Maybe I can..hmmm... If you're earning $100 a week you can not spend $150 a week for too long. When you decide to stop overspending there is more to consider than your debt--the debt servicing is there. And as Bill Clinton used to say--duping half the idiots out there--I decreased the debt by 50%!! Yes he was only spending $125 a week instead of $150!  Still overspending. It was still more than we had. It was still a debt. A debt is not the same as a deficit. Congress has not passed a balanced budget in almost 70 years--look that number up as I may be off a few yerrs. A few years.. Ted Kennedy-the politician I love to hate the most- never once passed a balanced budget in his entire career in the Senate--42 years wasn't it? Not one budget did they pass where they spent less than their revenue.  The Kennedys' invented the cheat sheet. I want to remind you here that Ted like Casey and OJ got away with  murder, manslaughter in the least. Maybe had you lived in Boston at the time and followed the news everyday you would have come to the logical conclusion as we all did.  It was eventually made public that the Kennedys' bought off the family of MaryJo Kopechne. BTW? MaryJo did NOT drown. That car was nose down in shallow water. MaryJo was scrunched in the back windshield area breathing air for quite a while before she died of asphyxiation.  While Ted went for help.  Hah!  Do you rememeber what he did in that first 24 hours? Go find this out first hand for yourself. We all need someone to hate besides the devil. Teddy was an alcoholic, adulterous, rape abetting ( William Kennedy Smith) hypocrite  (no wind farms on Cape Cod to this day). The Kennedys' have always fascinated me. Not the glamour; the corruption in the face of piety and pretend holiness . They were local, large and in charge. Frequently, obviously, sickenly no better than the local crime syndicate, some of which they ran.  The old man started out as a bootlegger for Christ's sake. My mother read and passed on every book ever written about that clan.  Not that every word is scripture but  there is only one truth and MaryJo remains dead. Kitty Kelley's book burns bright. Enough about the debt, the budget,   dead Ted and the big hot mess Obama has got us into.  Yeah, that's right I'm blaming Obama.  Unless you want to blame Ted or Bill or Ron or the two Georges? When does  the buck stop at Barack? Obama who never had a real job. A community organizer. A part time lecturer at university of Chicago.  No time clock, no forty hours a week, no payroll, no production of widgets. What did he do folks?  Talk . Fuck, I can talk.  Talk is cheap. Lucky he had an employable wife.
     The fourth week of the poisoning was unlike the last or the first two. It was a three drug week. Some are a one drug week some are a two drug week. You really need a playbook to keep the regimen straight and to get prepared. There seems to be no pattern, no rhythm, no predictability other than I am sick as shit for 3 days.  Wednesday is infusion day and it takes about 24 to 30 hours to kick in so I'm sick every fucking weekend.  For six months. I think I'm going to have to play crazy ( crazier) and take a week off. I cant be sick every weekend until January.
      I have avoided reading other peoples accounts of their poisoning experiences as I don't want to be influenced or imagine a symptom I'm not really having or notice. Yet I obnoxiously think my experience may help someone else. We are all different. We all have our own gene pools, weaknesses and co-morbidities.  I would not wish this on my worst enemy. Really I wouldn't. The Zofran which is supposed to relieve nausea gives me a crushing headache and stomach pains. And I vomit anyway. So I'm trading one symptom  for two side effects.  What is the point?  I'ld rather just puke with no headache.  I'm trying to keep the medicine to one at a time so I can tell which drug is doing what. I LOVE ibuprofen. My favorite drug. The phenergan relieves nausea but not vomiting and puts me to sleep for 8 hours. Not good when you have to get up to puke.  The body knows when it's been poisoned. It does not know the body owner had the poison intravenously. The primitive caveman body (current homo sapiens) can do two things to rid itself of poison: vomit and shit.  These are unavoidable and should not be avoided.  Not that I advocate no drug treatment I just think  if the poison is going to work it needs to run it's course.  No one expects the receive chemotherapy and not get sick. And you need to excrete both the bad cells and the drug.  So I'm using ibuprofen, tums, ice cream and red rose tea. They are as effective as the 3 drugs the docs want me to take WITH NO side effects. Taking the zofran, phernergan and xanax doesn't really relieve the symptoms--which are unrelievable-- it  just puts you in a state where you can't remember that you were sick anyway. No thank you, clearly life is too short for that now. And the decadron?  I know too  much pharmacology and I admit freely it is influencing my physiology. Decadron is speed, which I have never liked as I speed all on my own naturally thankyou very much! My brain can not deal with steroids. AND it takes our beautifully designed adrenal gland 10 days!! to recover from one 4 mg dose of decadron. And again I puke anyway...
    For the record and in case it might help another poisoning victim in therapy: carboplatin is Satan's drug. The worst of my three and makes me the sickest. Taxol on the other hand, especially comparatively speaking, is almost nothing. I couldn't go to work but I can function at home without being supine and miserable. The Avastin I'm not sure about yet.  I've only had one dose of that but along with the other two so who knows what they do together?  That may have added to the headache. I just don't know. BUT I DO KNOW IF I HAVE THAT HEADACHE AGAIN THE NEXT TIME THEY GIVE ME AVASTIN? THEN I'M ALL DONE WITH THE AVASTIN AND I'LL BE OUT OF MY TRIAL...