3/5/2026

 Thursday, March 5, 2026

1927 1,000 US marines landed in China to protect American property

1933 Nazis won 43.9% of the vote in the Reichstag elections

1963  Patsy Cllne died in a plane crash with 

2025  Trummp's CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced that the United States had suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

2025  The Department of Veteran Affairs announced it wiould lay off over 80,000 jobs to comply with the Trump administration's plans under the Department of Government Efficiency

In bed at 9:30, on LZB in the middle of the night with back & hip pain, up at 6:40.  37/29/41/36  125/71/57  103  206.6

Morning meds at  noon.   

Two years ago today, I underwent my last fulguration of the lesions in my bladder.  My procedure was successful, though unpleasant.  After the general anesthesia, I regained consciousness in recovery with a painful nostril from whatever it was the doctor put in it or through it and a bad case of shivering.  It reminds me a bit of the last fulguration I  underwent at the Rawson Avenue Surgical Center with Dr. Silbar and some anesthesiologist several years before this one.  I arrived on a Monday morning for that procedure in intense, actually excruciating pain nd had to wait quite a while because the facility's oxygen tanks had leaked over the weekend, and the anesthesiologist wasn't willing to proceed without oxygen being available if needed.  He and Silbar gave me nothing for the pain I was experiencing pre-op, and when I 'came to' in the recovery room, I was on a morphine drip with a nurse sitting next to my gurney, monitoring my blood pressure and controlling the drip.  I was in considerable pain for a while and had no control over my left arm, which was flailing in the air.  A thoroughly awful experience, after which I saw Silbar for one post-op appointment and then stopped seeing him.  When I asked him why I was in such pain after the procedure and required the morphine, he said he didn't know.  It could have been insufficient anesthesia, he said, or the anesthesiologist would probably say he, Silbar, burned too deeply into the bladder lining.  Unbelievable.  When the young urologist at Zablocki asked me before the cystoscopy that revealed the lesions whether I wanted him to fulgurate them - without anesthesia - I was almost stunned. I said no because of my last experience with Dr. Silbar.  I still can't understand what happened then or why, if anesthesia isn't necessary for a fulguration, I had had anesthesia for my 3 prior procedures and the docs at Zablocki were willing to provide it to me simply on my request.  My medical mystery. 😳

Afternoon shopping.  I took a ride up to Walmart in Saukville to buy some safflower seeds, ink jet cartridges, and other stuff, and then to Costco in Grafton to fill up with gas ($2.79/gallon vs. national average of $3.26, look at iPads, and buy some eggs, CoQ10 (?), and something else.

Another not-so-felicitous excerpt from This is Happiness:

. . . in my thinking, hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life.  There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise.  You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortunre was yours.

It reminds me of my family, we 4 Clausens, Grampa Dewey and Grandma Charlotte, Aunt Monica and the 3 Cummings kids.  It reminds me too of my 'Boppa' Denny and Uncle Jim and Uncle Bud and Aunt Mary.  Living through the Depression, World War II, and a lot of PTSD.