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I had an epic post in mind when I sat down at my, now fully functional, computer. Then I started playing Fallout and it all slipped my mind. Here's the short version:

This year has gone very well so far. After being gone from California for a week, Cody (aka The Girlfriend)flew up here and stayed with me for the last 4 days. She left...
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In 1 1/2 hours I will leave the house. Raseny and I will brave the icy roads in her little car, and we will make our way, slowly but surely (and hopefully safely), to St. Vincent Hospital. There I will wait in the emergency room to get admitted. Then I will wait to go on dialysis, and then I will wait for dialysis to be...
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This December sucks. It that way it is the perfect end to a mostly crappy year. You might wonder, "Why are you posting this now, Orion?" Well because in all the turbulence of the month so far I thought the worst was over. Of course, I was wrong. There is one final horrible circumstance to make this month of FAIL cross the line into EPIC...
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I think there needs to be a special line of Holiday gift cards - the You Ruined Christmas! line. Specially designed cards to reward and recognize the douchebags who make all our holidays difficult. If Hallmark doesn't jump on this idea I suggest someone else does. The word Goldmine comes to mind.

OMG!

I have a Playstation 3!

My girlfriend ROCKS!

On Wednesday I met with Dr. Barnatan - the wunder dok behind my still attached left arm. A month or so ago he installed a new dialysis access in my left leg. The meeting was a simple post-op checkup to make sure things were looking good. They were. The meeting ended with him saying he never wanted to see me in his office again. I...
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So this idea just occurred to me:

If you're in California and you want a divorce, could you just say your wife was a dude when you married them? Now that they are post-op does that mean the marriage is safe from Prop 8?

Go science go!

When I started on dialysis they told me the average lifespan of a person on hemo without a transplant was 3-5 years. Around the 4 year mark they raised the life expectancy of hemo patients to possibly 20 years thanks to new technology and improved methodology.

I consider all this a fine example of the way I look at my life -...
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I no longer seem to have a middle ground on the quality of my days. Bad days are when I end up in the hospital - everything else is a good day. And when it's a good day the days seem overwhelmingly good. Today was, by prior standards, an uneventful day. Some might even say boring. I am so happy with boring days that the...
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Some day I will look at the doctor who stands over me with bad news rolling off their tongue, and I will smile. I'll nod, and breath deep and say, "Now it's time, isn't it?" I will say my goodbyes, and then I'll take the easiest way out they offer me. This I know. One day will be no more fighting, and no more extensions....
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