WEEKEND UPDATE

Posted by amillionmilesblog on April 9, 2017

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Well that was a bust! The sedative did nothing for me at my MRI appointment. I think it was a placebo? Either way I didn’t really need it. This MRI machine was much bigger than the one at the hospital, & they were looking at my lower back, not my brain & entire spine. We saw the MRI, I have a bulging disc, and I’ve had it since high school. I’m guessing I have some options. A) More physiotherapy B) More messages & chiropractor visits C) Surgery

Kim just assumes it will be surgery & then got really worried about me aka she started crying. I held her & told her not to worry about me, I don’t like seeing her so worried, and we don’t even know what the doctors will say. The only thing we’re pretty sure about is no cortisone shot. They can do more damage to the bone structure than good. Kim, don’t worry whatever the doctors decide, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

That was our Friday night! No more wild parties here, we’s old!

Saturday was very lazy. We did nothing, didn’t even breakup with Janis! We watched the Blue Jays lose……..again. We also rented “Christmas Office Party” hilarious R rated comedy!

Today, I’ll be watching the Toronto Blue Jays hopefully win their 2^nd game so their record looks a bit better instead of the current 1W-4L. We can all just pretend there is no problem in LF & 1B, we’ll pretend they’ll make it to the playoffs in Sept-Oct??????

If you’re here strictly for the cancer news, that’s all I have for you. Slow/Quiet week. Stretching everyday & many routine appointments to come by the end of July.

Instead of Stone Sour giving us photos from the studio from months ago with the album title. How about a release date for the album Hydrograd?

Mr. Todd Bryanton. Did I mention he’s a really good guy too!

http://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/regina-musicians-latest-video-racking-up-millions-of-views-on-youtube

This looks like a good movie!

Everything The Watchmen do musically is AWESOME!!! Their new live album of 21 songs is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/turn-up-the-stereo-418428633.html

Albums on the way Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age, Royal Blood those are almost set in stone that they’ll be released, & of course Stone Sour.

Movies I would like to see this year.

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PHYSIOTHERAPY & SUPER HEROES

Posted by amillionmilesblog on February 9, 2017

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Yep, I had my 2nd physiotherapy session in 3 weeks last night. He basically gave me a few more stretches to add to the ones he gave me the first time. Nothing too strenuous. I was actually doing more of some of the older ones, & totally forgot about 2 older ones. I moved the papers he gave me so I’d remember them! They helped quite a bit this morning. My sciatic nerve pain is slowly going away!

When I go to almost any treatment, even in the hospital, I try/tried to keep things up beat. Kim takes the brunt of it. Needles don’t bother me one bit. When I have a blood test before a cat-scan & whoever is taking my blood, pulls out the needle, I ask Kim “Would you just hold me please?” Doesn’t work at all, but the 3 of us are always laughing.

When I was in the Wascana Rehabilitation Center, I think there was a small opening on my chest by my collarbone? There was a black goo coming out of it. Kim got one of my nurses to check it out. It was dead/rotten blood. It didn’t hurt, I just thought it was cool. When I said that, only I laughed. I love it when a joke bombs & there’s an awkward silence! Do I laugh, encourage him, is he done?

Life changed instantly for myself & a TON of other people. What did Kim & I do? With a lot of support we just addressed what we needed to! It took me longer obviously. I don’t necessarily like where I’m at personally. At least I’m alive to work on things!

I fell asleep to “Taylor Swift” the album “1989”, woke up early listened to “Sum 41” the album

“13 Voices”, then “Queens of the Stone Age” the album “….like clockwork”

I exercised to “Iommi” the album you can’t find anywhere which I bought the day it was released. Each song has a different singer on it. Phil Anselmo (Pantera), Ozzy, Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), etc.

I get it. Superhero movies & TV series are everywhere. You’ve got “The Avengers” & all of the spinoff movies. Now we have “The Justice League” along with other spinoffs. “The X-men” movies, “Star Trek” movies, the revitalized “Star Wars” franchise with new spinoffs. As for TV we got “Supergirl”, “The Flash”, “Gotham” & “Arrow”. I like the majority of them, I totally see the reasoning of others who don’t like them. It’s a lot of stuff people aren’t into, so your hands are tied if you want to watch a movie. Whatever other movie you choose to see had better be mind-blowingly AWESOME! Since you probably don’t have a variety of movies to choose from?

Kim’s not really a fan either. She doesn’t mind the “Marvel”/”Avenger” movies though. I’m all in for the “Marvel”, “Justice League”, & “Star Wars” movies. Along with “Supergirl”, “Gotham”, & “The Flash” TV series. I’m good but I know others that are not on the wagon for this stuff.

Am I a Star Wars fan? BIGTIME! Ever since I watched the original trilogy as a kid with my dad. I’m not a huge Star Wars buff, but I know enough to watch any Star Wars movie & know which one it is. I just like these movies & TV shows. “Arrow”, “The X-men”, & “Star Trek” I’m not into though.

20 AWESOME moments at the Grammy Awards

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-most-awesomely-retro-moments-in-grammy-history-20140122

Barenaked Ladies in the studio!

Rock tours this summer

What eleven will look like in season 2 of “Stranger Things”

http://www.nme.com/news/tv/heres-eleven-will-look-like-stranger-things-season-2-1970592?lazyload=0&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=flipboard_rss_feed&utm_content=nme&utm_campaign=nme-9-feb-2017-09-02-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi

http://www.nme.com/news/film/disney-boss-bob-iger-views-early-cut-star-wars-last-jedi-1970603?lazyload=0&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=flipboard_rss_feed&utm_content=nme&utm_campaign=nme-9-feb-2017-09-02-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

5 years ago this was filmed

Metallica has an annual day with baseball’s San Francisco Giants?

http://loudwire.com/fifth-annual-metallica-night-san-francisco-giants-announced/

Aretha Franklin is retiring

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/aretha-franklin-announces-retirement-final-album-w465986

Stone Temple Pilots covered by Trio of Oz. Cool jazz cover of a rock song!!!

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MY DIET

Posted by amillionmilesblog on January 25, 2017

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I fell asleep to “Metallica” the new album “Hardwired”, got up to pee & listened to “Soundgarden” the album “Badmotorfinger”

I did a lot of stretching to “Anthrax” on shuffle

Let’s get one thing straight here. I’m the man-baby of this house! Not this man baby…

I’m not necessarily trying to lose weight, when I’m rid of this nerve problem, I’ll lower my exercise somewhat. Maybe to 6500 crunches, 500 squats, 500 leg lifts, & 500 pushups a week, and some walking or exercise bike on Saturdays. We are walking in our suite, with this pinched nerve on Saturdays, just to move the muscle a bit. I don’t walk a huge amount, my foot starts to tingle and then I sit down. Energy wise I could go much further, but my tingly foot prevents me, that’s why we’re walking in our suite. I say we because Kim comes with me to make sure I don’t fall & crack my head open.

Despite me not really exercising over the holidays I’ve managed to lose more weight. I have the time to exercise, & my diet stayed fairly consistent. Sure there was alcohol, cookies, chocolate, gingerbread, etc. Instead of devouring all of it, I had it in moderation.

My breakfast & lunch are quite healthy. A hardboiled egg & a glass of blended fruit & vegetables for breakfast, sometimes multi grain Cheerios with skim milk. Lunch is usually some fish, then vegetables or rice crackers & hummus for a snack in the afternoon. Supper usually involves wild rice & quinoa with some type of meat or a stir fry of some type. I don’t need to pay someone to tell me what to eat, I’m lucky that way. I understand if other people do though. I’ve never been so focused on anything before. The weight loss is a byproduct from my exercise and diet to be able to walk, be more independent & more able bodied.

Sorry I need to get some Toronto Blue Jays stuff off of my chest. Mostly, IS ANYBODY DOING ANYTHING THIS OFF SEASON?????? Every team seems to be sitting on their hands. Spring training starts in mid-February, 2 weeks & a few days. There was a PILE of sluggers on the free agent market, & there still is a few. The Blue Jays went into the off season trying to get younger, more left handed, & faster. Everybody involved from Edwin Encarnacion, his agent, & the Blue Jays’ GM screwed up royally and Edwin ended up in Cleveland for less money. Edwin left to see if he could get more than the Blue Jays had offered $80,000,000 over 4 years. The GM signed a 33 year old switch hitting designated hitter for $33,000,000 over 3 years bargain, right? Sort of! If I see that guy putting on any kind of glove other than a batting glove on, I’ll be yelling at my TV loud enough they’ll hear me in Toronto. This off season is very close to being over & they need to fill in some holes yet. They’re getting a good backup catcher, who will be 32 in May & he’s a switch hitter. Now they need, 2 left handed relief pitchers, a left fielder & I’d like to see 1 more outfielder or first baseman. That’s a lot to do in a limited amount of time! The link below is one of the sites I get my Blue Jays info from, that site & other sports talk shows.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/

That’s a tough choice for me. Both “The Agonist” & “Stitched up Heart” are really good!

http://loudwire.com/battle-royale-suicide-silence-debut-strong-earthside-video-countdown-no-1/

25 worst albums by legendary bands. Even hard core Metallica fans would say this is not a good album. No solos or production at all. LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://loudwire.com/worst-albums-legendary-bands/

A tiny bit of info/reaction from Mark Hammill/Luke Skywalker regarding Star Wars Episode VIII.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/rian-johnson-shares-photo-star-wars-last-jedi-title-sequence-1958093?lazyload=0&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=flipboard_rss_feed&utm_content=nme&utm_campaign=nme-25-jan-2016-25-01-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

I guess “Deadpool” didn’t get an Oscar nomination? I’m guessing it’s because the movie is an action, comedy, comic book, & R-Rated film?

http://www.nme.com/news/film/oscars-2017-reynolds-responds-to-deadpool-snub-as-patel-garfield-celebrate-nominations-1959479?lazyload=0&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=flipboard_rss_feed&utm_content=nme&utm_campaign=nme-25-jan-2016-25-01-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 greatest Metallica riffs

http://loudwire.com/10-greatest-metallica-riffs/

New “Walk off the Earth” video

Interview with “Clutch”, their sound engineer on tour.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Voting episode from last year.

Mike Myers guest on Jimmy Fallon.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-mike-myers-jimmy-fallon-stage-goofy-canada-v-us-dance-off-w462872

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YAY PHYSIO!

Posted by amillionmilesblog on January 24, 2017

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I fell asleep to “Ed Sheeran” the album “X”, followed by “Alter Bridge” the album “The Last Hero”

Monday was a good day at home. My nerve didn’t really bother me much. I had an appointment at the physiotherapist & felt bad for the guy. He knew my lower back was sore, & I’ve had a bulging disc in my spine since high school. He said my back was tight & gave me more stretches to do. Unfortunately Monday was pretty much a pain free day, & he didn’t really see a severe problem. I see him once a week for at least the next 3 weeks. More/additional stretches & things are finally back on track. I was tempted to do some exercise today before the appointment but I figured better safe than sorry. I’m wishful to get rid of this nerve pain sooner than later, at least I can see a light at the end of the tunnel!

I did part of my stretches this morning to “Nothing but Thieves”. I do them throughout the day, so I’m not done them completely yet.