The doctors have made their pleas to Big Insurance, we remain admitted and inside staying warm while a freak (for Aiken) snow storm dumps the white stuff outside.
Although today it is awfully hard to. Our Family Physician paid us a visit around lunch time to check in on Donna and let us know that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama was refusing to pay him because they felt that she wasn’t sick enough to have been admitted into the hospital!
I hope that they can straighten this out. My guess is that he is her primary physician so he is charged with being the admitting guy when it was it really was the colon doc who called the shot. Maybe he didn’t cross a T or dot an I. All the docs are supposed to get together in the morning and write a term paper to BCBSAL to get them to allow the hospital stay. Or tomorrow night we might be out on the street.
But at least it is wireless and free, so blogging from the hospital room is a hit and miss affair.
I know I really shouldn’t complain about the weather considering what the folks in the mid-atlantic and northeast are dealing with, but I’m going to anyway. Yesterday on the way home from I got the top down for the first time in probably 2 weeks and today there was no chance of that as winter made a come back. Temps in the 20’s in the morning climbing only into the forties with a 20 MPH wind. There was even a whisper of snow showers for Friday…
And I am very sick.
I kind of know what a healthy colon looks like and now I know what one with uclerative colitis looks like.
After two weeks of trying to make it better at home using the various meds prescribed by our GP, and after a colonoscopy this afternoon, Donna was admitted to the hospital where she could get some stronger stuff via IV. Now via hindsight (which is always 20/20) we probably should have should taken the Doctor up on his offer to be admitted last weekend. And had it been presented as more of a request to stay, not a coin toss decision, we probably would have taken him up on it, instead we picked the option where you go home.
Yesterday’s post concerned book references in the season premier of TDTVS. When rewatching the episode again, I noticed that Rose, sitting across from Jack on Oceanic 815 that did land in LA, was reading a magazine, Weekly Woodsman. What the heck does that mean?
The Red Cross did get the $10 from my GoPhone account. It just took 3 days to do it and 3 more for me to notice. Tomorrow we’ll donate another ten spot.
The answer to last nights question,”If I win I wonder how many LOST fans I?ll have to share the $12 million with?” is none. I played the famous numbers, 4 8 15 16 23 42 and breathlessly after the season premier of TDTVS for the Mega Millions drawing. The numbers picked? 6 7 26 27 49 9
We have had flashbacks as a story telling device on LOST, then flashforwards, then time travel and now this season, for want of a better term, flashsideways. We have two, two shows in one, as one part of the story telling takes place right before the the Oceanic 815’s crash and continues on as if Juliet’s 1977 detonating of Jughead actually prevented the crash in 2004. The other part now concerns our protagonists catapulted into 2007 and still on the island. Which one is real? Sometime in season two I stopped trying to apply theories or figure exactly what is going on, I am now just along for the ride.
I am a big fan of the show, but nowhere near the level of some folks. There is scene in the non-crash alternative reality where Desmond sits in a seat in the same row as Jack and they have a whole do I know you deja vu conversation, they didn’t. Desmond is holding book. A person left a comment on site where someone had live blogged the show (this is just part of the comment:
The book Des was reading on the plane was Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.
From Wiki:
“Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children’s book[1] by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie’s first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.[2]”
The book includes the following things:
– an ancient city so old that people forgot it existed
– a war between the rulers of that ancient city
– a main character who is represented by two sides of himself: an “anthropomorphic shadow” and a “diminished man”
– a “poisoned ocean” caused by above man’s splitting of himself into two parts
– a potential mutiny of one of the warring tribes led by a man who isn’t the leader
– the anthropomorphic shadow has the ability to “appear identical” to some of the people in the city
– a plan to destroy the ocean using “complicated machines powered by electromagnetic induction”
– the Big Bad is killed at the end after his ice palace melts and his giant statue falls on him
– “a landscape whose weather changes to reflect the emotions of the people currently present in it”
– the two tribes are kept apart “by a force field named Chattergy’s Wall”
– “At the South Pole of Kahani is a spring known as the Source of Stories, from which (according to the premise of the plot) originated all stories ever communicated. The prevention of this spring’s blockage therefore forms the climax of the novel’s own story.”Holy shit, that’s a ton of parallels to LOST.
Are the writers and producers that smart to find books that parallel their story or are they just plagiarizing?
Sayid, who has been laying bleeding, near death, since last season, spent his island time laying with his head in Hurley’s lap bouncing around in a Dharma van, until the newly dead Jacob shows up to tell Hurley how to save him. He is then taken on a not so quick detour to “rescue” the soon to be dead Juliet, then driven some more, placed on a stretcher, carried through the jungle, taken under a wall through a crack guarded by a long dead, one-armed Frenchman, almost having his stretcher bearers shot, dumped into a dirty pool in the middle of the Others Temple, only to be held under water until drowned.
At the very end of the 2 hours Sayid suddenly wakes up and says, “What just happened?” Both my wife and I on the couch in Aiken, SC in the year 2010 said, “Amen brother. What did just happen?”
Donna and I have always participated in two separate Early Retirement Programs to augment our 401k’s and etc. We spend a buck a draw or $2 a week on both the Powerball Lottery in South Carolina and the Mega Millions in Georgia.
Towards the end of last year South Carolina announced that they would be adding the Mega Millions to their line up. We rejoiced, no more driving “all the way over” to Georgia every 5 weeks to buy those chances at early relocation to a New Mexico life of luxury. When they announced the date of the first drawing I knew what had to be done. Tickets went on sale Sunday, January 31st and the first possible Mega Million winner with a ticket purchased in South Carolina would by drawn on February 2nd, the very same day that the first episode of the final season of TDTVS would be shown.
If I win I wonder how many LOST fans I’ll have to share the $12 million with?