Posted on 02/05/2006 5:16:31 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gen. Michael Hayden, the principal deputy director of national intelligence; House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Boehner; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Gen. Michael Hayden; Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi; Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador to the United States; Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor; Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.
My first transplant was in 1980, I was under general anesthetic and I stayed in the hospital for 5 days. The second surgery was in 1990 and it was done as an outpatient procedure and I was only under a general anesthetic. Nearly an hour of micro surgery with me awake and I could watch the whole thing from the inside. The trauma from that literally had me shell shocked for 6 months. The third and most recent transplant was a repeat of the first eye in 2003. Most of these types of transplants only last 10 to 15 years, so 23 was really good. It was again outpatient but it was a general (or "hypnotic") anesthetic and I don't remember a thing. When I woke up a few hours later in recovery I went, "Oh, that wasn't so bad."
I've done pretty well with this last surgery, but have had more problems with the contact lens than previously (I have to wear contact lenses, otherwise my vision is 20/800). Over the last few months I've had increasing problems wearing the lens in that eye and have started leaving it out except for things like driving. More recently my contact lens in the other eye started popping out fairly frequently, which is a symptom of that eye needing a new transplant. I went to my surgeon and went through a week of no lens in that eye, which meant that I was depending on the other eye where I could only wear the lens for about 4 hours. Thank goodness I have a tolerant boss. The surgeon finally said that I didn't need a transplant, yet, in the eye where the lens was popping, but I would need cataract surgery in the eye with the most recent transplant. It was one of those "hooray... wait!" moments.
Having said all of that, I have to put this in a bit of perspective. I had to go to a funeral for a 36 year old woman who was in the same group I'm in at work on Friday. She died of cancer, after a nearly 10 year fight. She left behind a husband and 4 young children, ranging in age from 6 to 12.
I sometimes feel sorry for myself until I think about people like her, and people with far worse physical problems than I have. "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet" is a sign I have tacked up on my wall. My problems are a pain in the ass, but they are nothing in the great scheme of things.
Thank you for the kind words and particularly your prayers. It might interest you to know that you have joined what I think are a special bunch of people who have prayed for my health due to this condition. It started while I was still in the hospital after my first surgery. I got a letter from Roger Staubach, who had been the speaker at a corporate event my father hosted the night of my surgery. After learning of my surgery he sent me the letter to tell me he was adding me to his prayer group's list. For someone born in Dallas that was the best possible news I could hear.
Again, thanks.
The teddy bear ads wouldn't be surprising at all on some of the cable networks, they have much worse from what I've seen. What IS surprising is to see it on a news network!
Agree!
ROFLOL!!! Too funny!
BTW - just a little under 6 hourse until the SB ;-)
Maybe Pres. Bush feels the jury is still out on Specter. Who knows how he'll come through on future "hearings"? He may astonish us all with his fairness!
He has always been way out of bounds, he is just more way out of bounds now because it is fourth down and goal to go for the Dems, and he thinks that he is Thurman Thomas and has the ball. I thought that Boehner was perfectly contrite when he had to be,explained in detail that counter-acted everything that the Russert Slime machine sent him, and was a Gentleman that looked as innocent as a newborn babe being assaulted by an ugly,mean, fat, old geezer. I loved it when Boehner came back at Russert when Russert spewed out all the Garbage about cutting student loans, and education etc. Boehner was so well prepared and gave such a reasoned,believable,knowledgeable,and "I was there" performance I clapped my hands. After that response Russert looked defeated, and some of the wind was out of his sails.
I could think of 3 Freepers off the top of my head.
Congressman BillyBob....Doug from Upland....John Hueng II
No, his face is getting fatter. lol
Polls depend on which big city, blue state or red state they take them. If it is a city poll they probably will be against Bush. Rural areas seem to support Bush.
It depends on which poll you look at Rasmussen had him at 48% IIRC. Rasmussen polls are ususally more reliable. The other polls tend to poll adults (not likely voters), use more Dims that Pubbies (sometimes by 10% or more), skew their questions to get the response they want and often poll on weekends when more D than R are home.
In spite of all that, the poll on NSA surprised them - -there were a lot of people who supported Bush on this, which was not the response they were looking for.
The true face of the Democratic Party!
Thanks for that uplifting report we all need to be reminded that there are other far worse off than ourselves.
I like your analysis. Thanks...
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