Windows to Russia

As part of what I have been telling about, I am getting my major checkup here in Russia. I know, I know….Russia is a third world dump,~‽/s (~is that Sarc’ing the SARC?~) – “⸮”

But, hey I take great healthcare where I find it and in Russia, the healthcare is good and cheap…

Russian Healthcare… Russian Healthcare… Russian Healthcare…

Therefore, after I get done within the next few weeks all my tests. I will talk more about such terrible things as healthcare in Russia….there I go again being terribly sarcastic….I gotta stop doing that…

But…

After the tests yesterday, we went to eat at Burger King! Yippy, I love to have it, my way…

Have it your way at Burger King! Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce; … At Burger King, eat at Burger King!

This above image is what Burger King looks like most of the time around our neck of the woods in Russia…

Notice the free refill for drinks?

I had a King Chicken, my favorite and I num num num…

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I guess I am just glad to be alive and most of my tests are looking good. I do have to go back and have MRI with contrast for my prostate. They found a couple of spots and will redo the test for free…what? For free? Did you say, “For Free?”

Yes, but remember all these tests are running me 50,000 rubles or right now $752. I know, I know, you think I am lying! I know I know, you can’t get your toenails trimmed for $752 in America…

Sorry Charlie!

Started my health examinations…

WtR

You Have Been Warned…

Memo to all non-USA individuals/citizens;

Don’t Transit or Travel to the USA or any of its subservient countries…

(Canada, Britain, Australia to name a few…)

You have been warned…

WtR

In my capacity of shade-tree anthropologist at large, I am trying to make sense of the far Left. It is tough sledding. Most of it makes as much sense as lug nuts on a birthday cake. Help me. I am really confused. I can’t see that the Left actually is Left, I mean. The Left in its more practical embodiments used to be the champion of the working man. It fought for unions, good pay, benefits and job security. Conditions were horrible in America’s mines and factories. Things were ugly, and Leftists often got

Source: Fred Dworkin vs. the Sisterhood: Defending Women Against Bat-Brained Viragos | Fred On Everything

Lomonosov MSU is rated as one of the most beautiful universities in the world and rightly so! On this free tour we will reveal the university’s enchanting history, full of famous people, mysterious legends and the enthralling stories only local students know best. You’ll see the must-see sites & secrets, and of course we’ll give you the best recommendations for the rest of your trip, all while you meet other like-minded travelers. Due to the fact that Moscow State University is an educational establishment

Source: Lomonosov MSU Free Walking Tour | MosGo Tours

Language: In English

Starts at: Every Saturday, 12 pm

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Sounds like fun…

WtR

Run from the mean Russian Women!

This Monday Sunday I go back to be picked upon… (Then next week round three will happen.)

But the basics are…

Long term 3 month blood sugar is 4.7 mmol/l and or 85 mg/dl. Kinda low, but very very good for this diabetic….I work at my diabetes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year… It shows!

I do not have HIV… (Had four tests since coming to Russia. Russians are very good about testing for HIV and very aware of the issue…)
I have a node on my thyroid gland…
My cholesterol is low….(I keep to a diet!)
I do not have any blood markers showing cancer of any type…
In fact my numbers are better than a few years ago. 😉

Stage 1. Laboratory research: (This is done)

1 Complete blood count ✅
2 Biochemical blood test ✅
3 Lipid profile (high and low density cholesterol) ✅
4 Glycated hemoglobin ✅
5 Coagulogram + D-dimer ✅
6 TSH thyroid stimulating hormone ✅
7 T4 free – thyroxine free thyroid ✅
8 Testosterone ✅
9 PSA common – tumor marker of the prostate gland ✅
10 PSA free – tumor marker of the prostate gland ✅
11 Complex HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C ✅
12 General urine analysis ✅

Extra done early from round two: thyroid ultrasound ✅, abdominal ultrasound ✅, ultrasound of the urinary system ✅.

Now I have to get ready for round two…

Stage 2 Diagnostic examination:

13 MRI of the pelvic organs (Round two)
14 echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart) (Round two)
15 ECG with transcript (Round two)
16 abdominal ultrasound (Done already in round one) ✅
17 thyroid ultrasound (Done already in round one) ✅
18 ultrasound of the urinary system (Done already in round one) ✅
19 Gastroscopy under sedation (in medication sleep) (Round three)
20 Colonoscopy under sedation (in medication sleep) (Round three)

Not as fun of a round of tests and then Round Three which is really not fun: (Probably a week after this Mondays tests.)

Then consultation time with the doctors…

21 Consultation cardiologist
22 Consultation urologist
23 Consultations of a gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, and neurologist are also included.
24 Consultation therapist

So far just two issues that I see: One a node on my Thyroid and we will have to retest for sugar in my urine. Something not right with the urine test…

Oh! Remember that diabetes can be controlled. Never gotten rid of, but controlled. Eat right, exercise, take you medicine and test your blood sugar: I mean test it all the time…

WtR

CBC said “Meng Wanzhou arrested on suspicion of violating trade sanctions against Iran”. Therefore that means we can arrest anyone due to suspicions and to hell with rule of law…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday demanded that Canada release an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei who was arrested in a case that compounds tensions with the U.S. and threatens to complicate trade talks. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Ltd., faces possible extradition to the United States, according to Canadian authorities. The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing law enforcement sources, said she is suspected of trying to evade U.S. trade curbs on Iran. Huawei, the biggest

Source: China demands Canada release executive of tech giant Huawei

Ignorance of our actions does not make it right. But I promise that soon reciprocal actions are going to start happening. I guess we are just going to rant and rave at the whole world, because we are falling farther and farther behind in almost literally everything…

First: Iran sanctions are illegal….period…illegal…
Second: We just put CEO’s of America in the bullseye as they travel the world to do business…

Can you say, “USA Isolation!” and or maybe worse yet, “We Want War!”

WtR

PS: Bad China, Bad Russia, Bad Venezuela, Bad North Korea, Bad Brazil, Bad Iraq, Bad Syria, Bad Iran, Bad Qatar, Bad Yemen, Bad Gaza, Bad Balkans, Bad France, Bad Mexico, Bad Cuba, Bad Belarus, Bad Democratic Republic of Congo, Bad Zimbabwe, Bad Sudan, Bad Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Bad Burma, Bad Libya, Bad Lebanon, Bad bad bad bad and more and more bad countries… I know you can name a few more…there is dozens more…

Its really amazing that the government would go out of its way to have Ms.Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, and a non-U.S. citizen, arrested in Canada,for supposedly violating U.S. sanctions, yet can’t come to grips with arresting the Clintons, who are far more flagrantly egregious. Says a lot about how poor our justice system really is…

She tried to wait and see the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow;
She never did see him, but she got some images and a few videos…

and a video…

I like the part when the lady runs out to meet a monk and kisses his hand. That is very common and I see our Father Pavel in the Tiny Russian Village have this happen to him constantly…

Maybe Sveta will post the information about what and where this monastery is?

And yes turn down the volume, “The Bells Will Be Ringing!”

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait should serve as a reminder to European allies of the United States why the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is a “bad idea,” a senior State Department official told reporters in a press briefing on Tuesday. “I would say the Kerch incident is a reminder that the less infrastructure you have, the less gas infrastructure you have bypassing Ukraine because of Nord Stream 2, the weaker the deterrent – deterrence is to Ru

Source: State Dept Says Kerch Incident Should Remind EU Why Nord Stream 2 ‘a Bad Idea’ – Sputnik International

Just reverse what is said and you understand the reason that Europe needs an alternate to Ukraine for stable gas deliveries…

Ukraine you are being used and abused…

Wake up people…

WtR

Walking early morning, before the world gets up…

It is so wonderful as the snow falls and maybe I will take another picture at this spot a month from now. The snow will not disappear and will just get deeper and deeper…

This is Russia…

WtR

I thought the US was now a net oil exporter?

I assumed that meant we (America) produced enough oil to take care of ourselves….but we have to buy still half our oil. We either are an exporter, because we have excess or we are an importer, due to we do not produce enough…

Which one is it?

Neither! And that’s the problem…

The US consumes just short of 20 million barrels of oil per day. Recent figures show the US produced a record 11 million barrels per day. Do the math. The intentionally uninformed like to claim the US is energy independent because we produce more energy than we need, fail to realize and or care that figure includes all or most forms of energy such as coal and gas which a lot of gets exported. To the detriment of our own people in price and availability…

Canada supplies 40% of our oil. Saudis 9% with smidgens from dozens of other countries. The rest that we use is home grown. In 2017, the United States imported approximately 10.14 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of petroleum from about 84 countries…

So it seems to me that if we had our act together, we would be self-sufficient, with the exception of minor needs for different blends of oils from the world…

Thus, I seem to miss the boat with understanding. We do not produce more than we need. We produce about half. But we sell a bunch to the rest of the world and then buy from other countries, because we sell all of our oil, gas and such….We seem to relish in the fact that we sell our production of gas and oil and then turn around and buy it all back, because we would not have anything to run our country on…

Kinda seems to be stupid is as stupid does….twist it how you want, but playing with numbers to achieve a result that makes people happy to look at, is not the answer….GDP is part of the game and it is false GDP…

We still import a gosh darn bunch of oil…

WtR