Last blog

well everyone this is my last blog and i thank you for listening to my rants. it has been an enlightening and tiring experience. first i learned that every doctor i have in new jersey sucks! i also saw what real doctors are about and hopefully none of you will ever need them but know that there is someplace that practices real doctoring and they all care.

the last doctor i saw stuck thirty needles in my neck, (this time i'm not lying) with me being awake. if i wasn't so scared moving for fear the foot long needle would kill me i would have punched him in the mouth.

i'm really quite attractive with a hole in my head and a black and blue swollen neck. i kind of look like i was in a bar fight which is probably why no one took notice.

i'm still waiting on some of the biopsys but as of now they found quite a bit wrong with me, (no surprise), some can be treated some cannot, but as of now i'll continue to be around to drive you crazy.

again, thank you all for putting up with me, i love you all. i'm home now and trying to bond with my puppies who are as mad as hell at me. they will come around, i brought them home lots of goodies and they were well taken care by their wonderful aunt cathy who spoiled them rotten.

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First day back - 2nd week

oy-vey, what a day i had today. i should have known it was going to be a bad day, the doorman at the clinic didn't come to open my car door or walk me in. spending eight to ten hours a day does come with certain perks. i can't walk into a room without someone yelling, "hey new jersey". even the doctors are doing it. this tells me i've been here way too long and need to get out of dodge.

the first doctor read my scans and told me he has seen mummys bones that looked better than mine, cheery thought.

the sleep disorder doctor, who is a psychiarist, spent an hour bullshitting with me after our initial dancing around each other to see who's smarter. we really had a good time and he offered me a job to work with him, he says he's too soft and needs a no nonsense hard ass for the difficult patients. yea that will happen.

the endocrinologist ordered test after test, the final one being the old, lets stick lots of needles in the neck. the last time i had that done i was afraid to drink water thinking it would leak out of the holes they had made. after that i ran out of his office telling him i was getting out before he decides i need an ear cut off. he was still laughing when i saw him later in the day.

the perfect end to the day was my visit to the dermatologist. now one would think this would be an easy one considering his job was to look at my head to see the pattern of my hair loss, but nooo, that would have been too easy. the nurse over my protests made me strip naked. (that alone is traumatizing) i kept asking what the hell that had to do with my head but miss sweetness repeatedly replied, we just do what the doctor orders. dr movie star comes in and procedes to look at every wrinkle and crevice of my NOT perfect body. that was fun. when he finally got to my head (i'm sure he was turned on) he called another doctor in and they agreed i needed a deep biopsy. a half hour later i walked out with a hole in my head with a bunch of stiches.

i immediately went shopping for lots of cookies.

help, i'm being held prisoner in jacksonville florida!!!!!!

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had quite a week of shopping. didn't think i would have as much fun as i did. naples has a lot of good shopping. nothing really goes together but what the hell, i love everything i got. it's a big house and need a ton more. my favorite thing so far is a burgundy/wine suede sleeper couch for the sun room.

the highlight of my shopping was a confrontation with a saleswoman. she copped an attitude with me and to her shock and dismay ripped her a new one. (guess i might have found one of the few, out there, nasty southerners, whoopee) bought some stuff from an antique and consignment shop owned by two gay guys who fell in love. got GOOD prices.

we went to an appliance store to look at washers and dryers but i sat on the floor watching the big screen tv, it's been a week without one. i was jonesing and sandy had to drag me out kicking and screaming.

on our way back to jacksonville we stopped at the alligator farm to visit all my friends. watched them eat dead rats. it was a good day.

well tomorrow starts all the testing again at 7:30 am.

if i don't get home soon i'm going to be a blithering idiot.

love and miss you all.
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For the next 3 weeks I’ll take a dare (http://www.mydunktank.com/mechele ) and make a fool of myself in exchange for a small donation to a fantastic cause. Size really doesn’t matter -- $5 or $50 – whatever you feel comfortable with.

I’m trying to help local shelter dogs at the Associated Human Society by raising funds so they can do background checks on potential adopters.

Why? The Human Society is seriously overcrowded and needs to adopt out dogs quickly to avoid euthanizing them. The problem is they don’t really know who they’re adopting them to. More and more they are unwittingly placing these dogs with abusers who use them for fighting, medical testing or worse.

This is a HUGE issue right now and it’s breaking my heart!

Your donation will fund adopter background checks so the shelter can verify that potential adopters do not have criminal backgrounds and won't use the dogs for fighting or abuse them.

Please help me make a fool of myself by donating a dare so we can help protect these homeless dogs!

Thank you!!!
Mechele

Here's how it works:
- Go here http://www.mydunktank.com/mechele
- Either vote on a dare or make up your own
- I do the dare that gets the most votes
- Donate whatever you like

in florida after 1st wk of tests

finally made it to the library. it's really good to talk to the outside world. HELP!!!!! to say i'm a little cranky would be an understatement. i'm a prisoner in an empty house that has such an echo that when i yell, i hear back, "you're a loser", now that's bad. so far we bought a spring and mattress and leather chairs for a dining room table we don't have. of course we did go into goodwill where i wrestled a homeless woman for a three dollar tea pot.(i won) and didn't feel the least bit bad about it.

we finally got to the everglades to visit my alligators, no one told us they don't show up on mondays in july, it sucked. of course we stopped at our favorite quaint indian restaurant to get their wonderful chili and fry bread. the atmosphere has changed a little, instead of looking at the beautiful swamp out the glass wall there are now two huge flat screens to watch. we chose to sit outside in the 99 degrees with the bugs. it was a delight. the whole world is going to pot. in fact i wish i had some. (that is if i used )

aside from yelling at sandy about the air conditioning my only activity is saving the lizards from the pool and reading stephen kings 1000 pages plus new book. god i miss bravo and hgtv. when sandy was outside doing whatever he does out there he met another neighbor. she was taking her three children, three dogs and two horses for a walk. he said she was very nice but didn't talk very much because she didn't have her teeth in. another neighbor stopped over on sunday and offered to go shopping with me. that didn't happen, i have enough friends, don't need any more.

don't know when i can reach out again but need this more than you do. talking to you all (even though you can't talk back makes me feel better) i can see more intelligence on your faces right now more than the people i've been trying not to talk to.

will be back at the clinic monday at 7:30 am for more good news.

i really need to get home, i'm getting dumber by the moment.

miss and love you all.

In transit and offline

Gerry is traveling to new house so will be offline for a few days.

5th day

as i was wandering through the hospital hallways i realized i kept passing the same people. they all had a dazed look in their eyes. as i myself know they are pretty overwhelmed by this perfectly well oiled hospital machine. then it dawned on me that they were all tightly graspsing their agendas for the day and the vacant look was as much being on overload as it was being lost in this monster place. i was feeling pretty confident as i got off the elevator until oneof the receptionists asked me if she could help me as i had passed her desk four times within ten minutes.

got my first bit of news today, suffering from copd, not happy.

needed to self medicate so went shopping in the nearest target. bought some clothes and was feeling a little better. i was approaching the ten or less items fast checkout when a cute little southern belle pushed in front of me. she sweetly smiled and said in her high pitched twang that she was sure i would understand her going in front of me as she was in a hurry and wanted to beat the rain. she had just gotten her hair done and didn;t think she could stand ruining it. (oh yea) i took a minute and told her i'm sure if i were from the south and was moved at all by her coyness i would have no problem letting her push in front of me and say, bless your heart, but since i'm from new jersey, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!!!!!!

any way tomorrow is more testing and then we will be going down to our empty house in naples. will be down there until testing resumes.

not sure when the next blog will be because i'll have to go to the library to get hooked up. check back when you can.

love you all.

Day 4

the mayo clinic seems a little bit science fiction to me. place is huge and spotless. everyone smiles so much i tend to believe they are robots with southern accents. the clinic is so crowded it's scarey. seems a testiment to how many bad doctors there are that we wind up in a place like this.

we parked in the wrong parking lot and walked forever to find where i needed to be, i think this is how they determine who gets treatment. if you live long enough to get there, you're in, i myself just made it with the help of sandy dragging me on.

spent the entire day talking to doctors, being examined and having labs and tests. everyday you recieve a schedule to tell you about your exciting next day. right now it looks like i'm captive through the beginning of july, if i don't jump out of the hotel window first. oh yea, i forgot you can't open the stinking windows.

tonight i'm going to practice a fake smile with a southern accent and learn how to say "that's nice". inside joke to those who have heard it.

talk to you soon in a believeable twang.