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Monday April 02, 2012 · 5:00 PM PDT

2012/04/02 · 17:00

Tonight's post will include much audience participation. Susan has been dealing with her very seriously ill husband, Ed. I'd like us to think of her. I have not had an update from her since very early Sunday morning, which was not optimistic.

By all means post what you are reading; it would be cool to hear remembrances of great reviews Susan has done. I'm too new to have read much of her work. Also, Aji has mostly agreed to contribute at least one Monday piece in the future.

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Vote for your favorite type of mystery and why; add types left off in comments.

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Vote for your favorite type of mystery and why; add types left off in comments.

Historical English; Agatha Christie, etc.

11 votes

Contemporary Western; CJ Box, Tony Hillerman

1 vote

Police Procedural; Ed McBain, Carol O'Connell, J.D. Robb (!?)

2 votes

Private Eye; Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade

0 votes

Contemporary P. I.; Robert B. Parker, Sue Grafton

3 votes

Historical European; (Fill in the blank)

1 vote

Russian Mystery

1 vote

Asian Mystery; Barry Eisler, S.J. Rozan, Leslie Glass

1 vote

Cambodian Mystery; Colin Cottrell

0 votes

American Genre-blending; Jim Butcher

2 votes

Forensic Anthropology; Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell

0 votes

Sporting Mystery; Dick Francis, Harlan Coben

0 votes

Contemporary British; Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin

6 votes

Legal Eagles; John Grisham, Scott Turow, Lia Matera

4 votes

Medical Mysteries; Tess Gerritsen, etc.

3 votes

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Saturday March 31, 2012 · 1:22 PM PDT

2012/03/31 · 13:22

Susan Kosmailed me at 2 a.m. this morning with this news:

I just got to check my mail and found your post and then your diary. I am still in tears as I type this, tears of gratitude and comfort.
First, I am in good shape financially, and we have both Medicare and Tricare for Life insurance to cover all of Ed's care, as well as any co-pays or deductibles. And, his adult daughter drove out from Chicago three weeks ago to help. She is still here and has been a treasure who has two cats at home and an English Bulldog that came with her. My cats aren't quite sure what to make of the dog, but they love the daughter. We also have close friends in the area and his family nearby.

The TEE was cancelled as Ed became hypoxic before they could insert the camera probe into his esophagus. Full body scan with radioactive isotopes was done that showed a concentration of the infection in the thorax area, around the heart. He has a metal aortic heart valve that MRSA has an affinity for. Since they were unable to do a simple TEE, he is not a candidate for another valve replacement.

Tonight a new chest X-ray showed that the infection has attacked his lungs, making the valve replacement a moot point. I'm not sure how long we have left, but I plan on returning to the hospital tomorrow morning, early.

It has occurred to me that if hospitals had to pay for the cost of treating this hospital borne infection, perhaps out of CEO salaries and corporate dividends, we would probably see a lot less of it.

Irony: the reason that three doctors diagnosed muscle pull was that he had a full body bone scan on Feb 12th, looking for cancer mets as a routine part of his prostate cancer care. The scan came back negative for metastasis and did not show the compression fracture. There was no reason to suspect that it was anything more than a muscle pull. It was only when the pain became so intense that the ER doc looked for trauma to the spine and wanted another X ray. Bad timing. And then bad luck to pick up the MRSA.

Thank you for the diary and for all of the amazing support the commenters provided. It will make tomorrow much easier. I hope to be able to share it with Ed.

BTW, yes, we do hail from THE 29 Palms, known and loved/hated by all Marines. Someday I'd like to write a diary about the Marine who married the hippie and lived happily ever after.

Thank you again for that wonderful diary that will mean so much, not just to me and Ed, but also to the family. I'll keep you posted.

As some of you know, Susan from 29's husband Ed had a sore back that was misdiagnosed as muscle strain three times before they went to the E.R. due to unbearable pain, where another x-ray showed a fractured vertebra. Read More

Monday Murder Mystery: Shakespeare's Landlord

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Monday March 26, 2012 · 5:00 PM PDT

2012/03/26 · 17:00

Shakespeare's Landlord, by Charlaine Harris, 1996, A Dell Book, 245 pages, paperback

Charlaine Harris is a Southerner, and proud of it. Before Sookie Stackhouse, Ms. Harris had amassed a significant bibliography of non-supernatural characters. This series, with Lily Bard as protagonist, takes place in Shakespeare, Arkansas. No tea and crumpets here.

Lily Bard cleans houses for a living. She is also a green belt in a martial art, which she practices frequently. Something very bad happened to Lily a few years ago, when she lived in Memphis. Knowing she is strong and capable is very important to Lily. While she could not prevent what happened to her then, she is no victim now.

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Monday March 12, 2012 · 5:00 PM PDT

2012/03/12 · 17:00

Just as San Francisco is essential to Armistead Maupin's Tales in the City books, New York City plays an integral part to the Mallory books. Detective Kathleen Mallory is one of New York's finest; however, she's brilliant, beautiful, and a sociopath. But usually on the legal side of the law.

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Friday March 02, 2012 · 1:18 PM PST

2012/03/02 · 13:18

Recently I wrote a diary to highlight a trend I saw of women speaking out; the response to that was beyond my expectations, both in the comments made and the further writings I've seen since.

And we are growing new branches.

Here's a list to celebrate:

SwedishJewfish, Avila, 2thanks, Damnit Janet, euclid11, Laura Clawson, weck
Militarytracy, ginmar, Barbara Morrill, whatGodmade, shortgirl, dear occupant, Vetgirl

jdmorg, gagme, Lorikeet, rachetracks, mamabigdog, legalchic, Denise Oliver Velez

kaliope, Kitsap River, Greyhound, Statusquomustgo, thomask, shesaid, joanneleon

Jessalyn Radack, nyceve, zaka1, maybeeso in michigan, itsbenj, Sharon Coleman

broths, Yasuragi, Sandy on Signal, mnemosyne, noweasels, nonnie9999, virginia dare

Lorinda Pike, bluejerseymom, Clytemnestra, JayRaye, greblos, Kaily Jo Gray, boatsie

LaFeminista, slinkerwink, mahakali overdrive, thomask, mijita, Pam from Calif, JAM11

Joan McCarter, floridagal, , Mother Mags, Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN, Cali Scribe, Chinton

notdarkyet, Pluto, a2nite, jayden, triciawyse, WheninRome, rserven, TexMex, earicicle

Onomastic, nomandates, a gilas girl, cedwyn, mollyd, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Xavier Onassis EMTP, lgmcp

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Wednesday February 22, 2012 · 4:21 PM PST

2012/02/22 · 16:21

"I am woman, hear me roar,
in numbers too big to ignore
for I know too much to go back and pretend."

I believe I see a trend this year - women getting tired of the same old shit we have had to deal with for eternity and fighting against it. I'm going to try to pull together what I've seen.

While the state legislatures have been passing new restrictions on women's healthcare and reproductive choices almost as fast as Mitt Romney contradicts himself, one positive action was the slapdown of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. However, that's nothing in the face of the 1,000-plus new rules and regs in the states. Gov. McDonnell of VA is maybe wavering in his support of the pre-abortion rape by medical personel, but that is also a grain of sand compared to the Sahara desert.

The real click for me was getting 20 recs for a comment I made in a diary, something like 'women have always had power, we just never use it'. While 20 recs is certainly not a landslide, it suggested to me there were threads to be pulled together here.

Thread pulling begins after the Fleur-de-Kos.

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