22/10 Future blogging

I intend on still using this blog to write about specific issues related to the magazine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. I will be writing about other things, other projects, perhaps even my irregular journaling, at my new blog (and new destination site) Aragorn @ Anarchy Planet.

17/07 What did you do with your summer vacation?

As I mentioned in my last post I spent a little time in the middle of June outside of the hospital, but it was only a few days. Between June 8th and July 5th I basically spent every waking hour in the hospital or laying on the couch recovering from what had been promised to be a simple surgery. Now I am on the slow heal with a vacuum pump attached to my stomach as a large abscess heals in my gut.

Prior to my surgery I had made the claim that the big problem I have with allopathic medicine isn't necessarily the techniques but the fact that once they (the practitioners) have you in their grasp they hold on tight. Once you get healed you really are just establishing a relationship with the providers of this healing. A relationship that never ends and can demand more in more.

My current situation is the obvious case in point. Twenty years ago I had an emergency repair done to my spleen and kidney. As a result I earned a mainline incision along the middle of my belly that over time weakened (herniated). My simple surgery was a repair of the herniation from that twenty year old operation.

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15/06 I am back to the land of the 'living'

For those of you who were not informed I went into the hospital last week for a surgery to repair an old injury. During the course of the surgery they inadvertently shut down my entire Gastro-Intestinal tract resulting in a quick turn around to the hospital and 4 days with a tube stuck down my throat sucking out everything I had consumed in the 2 days time. 5000 mL of torture until the system seemed to slowly kick start itself. Nothing amazing is happening now (although I have an entire new respect for shit) and it will be days before I am really up and about I figured some of you might have heard something and liked a bit more information. Now you have it.

Aragorn!