[L-I] Various Matters

Friends -

Our Pocatello Area Anti-Racism Committee [PARC] is gathering much indeed on
regional racial and culturally ethnocentric discrimination.  This is in
preparation for action stuff on that and related fronts -- and a conference
that we are planning for next Fall.  My grandson/son, Thomas' special
friend, Mimi, going into Medicine at ISU, is from Chingola, Democratic
Republic of Zambia.  Chingola is a major copper producing area -- where the
mines, mills, smelters, and refineries are all socialized. Her father is a
metal mining engineer -- now working on his PhD.  As Thomas and Mimi  and
others of us travel together about Pocatello and the general region, we pick
up some extremely weird and revealing racial reactions.

Our Tribute on Lair of Hunterbear is now substantially bigger.  You may want
to look at it.  In time, we will move it to OwlHead as well. There are new
messages, photos, stories, etc.
http://www.hunterbear.org/special_tribute_page_for_hunter.htm  We very much
appreciate the fine messages and poetry.  The financial contributions are
helping much on the high cost of some of the medicines and related things.
The positive thoughts do get through to me!

On my medical situation, about which people are reasonably curious:

It goes back and forth, up and down.

Spent about 2 1/2 hours very recently at the doctors' offices:  Basic
checkover,
taking blood, being filmed for medical classes.  This occurred on
Tuesday afternoon, March 30, 2004.

Eldri, Josie, and Thomas accompanied me.  Thomas, in Medicine, had
sharp questions and perceptive comments for the doctors.

The checkover produced nothing newly unusual -- although my feet
and legs still remain swollen.  I remain opposed to Methotrexate or
Imuran -- for myself -- as a replacement for my on-going Prednisone
since there is a
possibility, however slim, of cancer development with both those chemo
drugs. As I told one of the physicians, "This really hasn't been my year and
I don't want to push things."  He agreed and we negotiated a kind of
agreement that, along with my continuing Prednisone for the time being, may
see my occasional use of Fosamax to prevent bone shrinkage and decay which
can be engendered by Prednisone.  [Prednisone can produce diabetes which
came to me almost as soon as I began to use it.]  We used Foxamax for a
month -- late December through January -- when my Prednisone dosage was
especially high. It's now lower -- and I now take calcium pills, much
buttermilk three times a day, a big Vitamin D once a week, and a
multi-vitamin once a day.  At some point later on we will get a
bone density exam.

In addition to the vitamins, I am taking a slew of pills each day.

Then I was filmed at some length by our senior physician for medical
classes.  His methodology is interesting and valid.  We went through my
whole SLE saga to date -- but with neither of us mentioning Lupus by name.
[And we brought in lots of background stuff -- including my Native and
Scottish clans.]  The point of his film exercise is to see if students
can make an effective diagnosis on the basis of explicit symptoms
and related data.  Still a
professor, I am always glad to oblige a colleague and his students.  I
enjoyed this.

Fighting on -  Hunter [Hunter Bear]

HUNTER GRAY  [HUNTER BEAR]
www.hunterbear.org

In our Gray Hole, the ghosts often dance in the junipers and sage, on the
game trails, in the tributary canyons with the thick red maples, and on the
high windy ridges -- and they dance from within the very essence of our own
inner being. They do this especially when the bright night moon shines down
on the clean white snow that covers the valley and its surroundings.  Then
it is as bright as day -- but in an always soft and mysterious and
remembering way. [Hunter Bear]











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