Janine & Alan

Janine is Michele Budny's little sister. They're 7 years (?) apart. Janine and I have been excommunicated from One El for reasons too innumerable to enumerate, but we continue to be concerned for her. 

Janine closed down her apartment in D.C. and consolidated into her condo in Cleveland, Ohio (not Tennessee).

She and paramour Alan were in Denver for a wedding and decided to see White Sands. Albuququerque's on the way.

Catzilla t-shirt

By the afternoon I was on an even keel and fetched food from Golden Pride. 

The burrito was okay, but the fried chicken & ribs didn't have the jenny say qwah of repasts of yore. Sigh!

The conversation was fun and afterward i slept from 3 pm - 11 pm when I was awakened by a fecal accident. I miscalculated the amount of laxative needed to offset the constipating affects/effects? of the opiates and when i contracted my stomach muscles to roll over and check the time, there was an expulsion.

There's an elaborate layering for just such occassions and along w frequent pauses to let the nausea subside, it took 2 hours to change the bedding.

Despite the sublingual ondansetron's quik-dissolve, it still takes about an hour or so for it to take effect. One does what one can while waiting. 

My right ear gave out a couple of days ago. I'd been treating it w dexamethasone, a general purpose steroid that's $174.00 for 5milliters.

Reynolds Price mentions it in his tale of woe A Whole New Life as giving him a nice boost from the fatigue and relief from the nausea etc.

When i mentioned it to Jessica she said they prescribe it a lot at the end as it relieves all the symptoms the other drugs are supposed to but don't. Problem is, in about three months steroids cause your bones to become so brittle they break at the drop of a hat. The list of side/effects, many serious, and their qwik onset, mean the-powers-that-be save it for the end. 

But, Jessica said, for those three months a patient's quality of life can (maybe) be improved. She wondered though about a woman who died a couple of days ago. She was bedridden, so aside from the relief of the nausea and breathlessness, she didn't get much else. And they cause "moon face," a self-explanatory affect that makes a person look fat. The worst!!!

Here you've spent your whole life restrictively eating in order to be visually stimulating only to lose it at the end. A bum deal to say the least!