Attribution: BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that a day that starts with an early morning needle poked into an eye is likely to improve as the hours go by. The eye treatment procedure for macular degeneration is one that many people endure …
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Category:Health
The Beat Goes On
Illustration by Micheal DiMilo By Geoff Carter Because of heart disease in my family, I recently had to undergo a battery of cardio testing. There was the ECG, the stress test, and the cardio imaging test. For the final test, I was placed on my side and ultrasound machine took pictures of my heart at …
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Kickass and Skin Cancer
Attribution: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s minor brush with cancer as a couple of young VA dermatologists had at the back of his right hand with scalpels to excise a lesion that had suspect ambitions. As cancer threats go, the keeper’s is …
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Kickass and Organ Recitals
Attribution: OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in promoting his conversation guide for seniors in an effort to put limits on lengthy “organ recitals,” like the one at a recent lunch table with Phyllis, Jane and Donna. (The winning recital had to …
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Working Out the Kinks
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter My new habit of going to the gym is not because I made a New Year’s resolution. No, I’m merely taking advantage of my Medicare Advantage program, which allows me to join as many gyms or fitness programs as I wish. So, this new determination to work out …
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Kickass Salutes Caregivers
Attribution: WaveLength Charity, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in a heartfelt salute to the caregivers on this day of Mar. 3, 2024. Caregivers, of course, are those who are called upon to go far beyond the bounds of being a considerate companion to …
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Kickass and the Call of the Sandhill Crane
Attribution: Andrew C, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be unavailable for social and business contacts as they closet themselves in their Audubon unsanctioned work to perfect the “unison cough” as in the mode of the sandhill cranes unison call. While the …
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Kickass and Coughing
Attribution: Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that under the heading of “gifts-that-keep-on-giving” is the chest cold that Phyllis gave the keeper about three weeks ago and which has settled in as a cough that promises to stay with him on into his next life when …
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Kickass and a Gift of a Cold
Attribution: NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cannot help but admire the way the keeper and Phyllis dealt with the Christmas gift exchange issue by sharing a common cold. It was apparently Phyllis’s idea as she shopped around until she found a cold that suited her and after …
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Kickass and the Heimlich Maneuver
Attribution: Evolution and evolvability, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the frightening experience of the keeper and Phyllis as dinner companion Dorothy suddenly choked and was immediately successfully rescued by the skillful administration of the Heimlich maneuver by her daughter Sigrid. That Sigrid is an experienced nurse …
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Kickass Pays for Root Canal
Attribution: Ruth Holcomb, U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper moves on from his silliness over being seriously intimidated by the prospect of two root canal procedures. It turns out, as most others obviously knew, that root canal surgery is a different thing …
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Kickass and Root Canal
Attribution: Suyash.dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is no help to the keeper as he attempts to structure a proper attitude for two eminent root canal procedures scheduled for later this morning. In sorting through the feelings of anticipation available on the open thought market, the keeper has …
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