Recent article in the paper today has me steaming.
What is it? Mayor crimes in Bakersfield drop in 2006.
BS. Take another look Mr. Mayor.
Are crimes being taken care of by the local BPD? Hell no. It takes em at least 2-4 hours to come out to our neighborhood (we live behind the downtown Jail for gawds sakes!). Oh sure; Starbucks gets robbed and yet, when a home is robbed in the middle of the day it takes BPD hours to reach the crime scene.
Want that dozen of glazed donuts Mr. Mayor sir?
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Roses
Damon brought me a HUGE vase of Roses on V-day. We started dating on Vday 7 yrs ago. Doesn't seem like it's been that long that we have been together. Seems longer. :o)
And on Valentines Day we also lost a pet. :o( We're under the impression that she was pregno's when she croaked however, Damon mentioned that she was pretty skinny looking when he
discovered her floating up on top of the water. Maybe she ate all the babies before she departed for the open waves of the Pacific?
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Cancer and Tattoo's in the New Year
In the past, I've done a photo documentry dealing with a young cancer patient (which is why I keep my head shaved to this day to honor her memory) and, after reading a story in the paper, it's helped me with my decision on the tattoo thing. I'm getting one on the day of my birthday; Aug 13th.The big 4-0. You know when you pop a zit on your face, and the pain is intense, it'll either make your eyes water or sneeze? Well, when I turned 30, I tried piercing my nose only, it didn't work cause, when I got the ring in (I was drunk and was piercing it myself) it popped out when I sneezed. 40 will be tattoo. 50th? Hell I don't know. Prob go on a cruise. :))
I'll just have to narrow it down on what to get. I'd like to design something for the memory of both my Dad and oldest brother PeeWee. Deer antlers with a strip of 35mm film wrapped around it. The antlers cause they were both avid sportsmen (hunters) and the film for my love of photography and the yrs I put into it.
There's a story in this mornings paper abt a local woman who, has cancer and has a tattoo.
PS. Thanks Teresa for cutting your hair and donating it to Locks of Love.
Carrying the marks
Tattoo helps mother of 3 accept scars and pain of aggressive breast cancer
BY EMILY HAGEDORN, Californian staff writer
e-mail: ehagedorn@bakersfield.com | Friday, Jan 19 2007 8:55 PM
Last Updated: Friday, Jan 19 2007 9:00 PM
The wide ribbon wraps around the back of Aimee Shaw's neck and crosses near where her breasts used to be.
More video from Bakersfield.com:
Photos:
Photo by Dan Ocampo
Aimee Shaw did not opt for reconstructive surgery following her double mastectomy, but instead chose a tattoo of a large breast cancer ribbon that wraps around her neck.
Photo by Dan Ocampo
Aimee Shaw has a large breast cancer ribbon that wraps around her neck, crosses her chest and falls to her waist.
Instead of solid pink, the tattoo is full of images, or metaphors, Shaw explained.
God's hands, blood coming from the wounds on his wrists, come down from her shoulders. A jungle scene takes over one end of the ribbon; an ocean is on the other.
"The jungle side is more about the 'fleshy' part ... my personality," said the 34-year-old northeast Bakersfield resident. "The ocean part is 'spiritual.'
"And you have the rhythm of the waves, kind of like going on and off of chemotherapy."
The mother of three is undergoing treatment for her second bout with inflammatory breast cancer, an extremely rare and aggressive cancer. Instead of reconstructive surgery after her double mastectomy, Shaw chose a tattoo -- a pain that, unlike cancer, she chose and had control over, she said.
The tattoo doesn't hide her surgical scars, which is one of the things she likes about it.
"Sometimes women choose bilateral reconstruction because they want the 'world' to see and accept them as 'normal' women," Shaw said via e-mail. "For me personally, I could not pretend this never happened to me, and could not 'cover it up' by appearing to have perfect breasts."
Unlike other types of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC, doesn't usually produce the telltale lump.
Shaw thought something was wrong when she woke up one morning in 2003 and found an areola, the ring of darker skin around the nipple, swollen.
"I thought I had injured it somehow," said Shaw, a service coordinator at Kern Regional Center.
A couple of months later and after a round of antibiotics (physicians thought it was just an infection), Shaw finally received her diagnosis in May 2003.
Because it's so rare, the cancer is often misdiagnosed, Shaw said. IBC accounts for 1 percent to 5 percent of all breast cancer cases in the country, according to the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
It's also aggressive. The five-year median survival rate is about 40 percent, mainly due to delays in diagnosis, the lack of expertise and IBC's resistance to standard chemotherapy, according to the Web site for the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, which has one of the only IBC clinics in the world.
Shaw underwent seven rounds of chemo, four drugs and then the double mastectomy.
And the tattoo.
After shopping around, she chose Outer Limits Tattoo and Body Piercing in Costa Mesa.
"It's like putting your insides on your outside," said Kody Cushman, Shaw's tattoo artist. "It (cancer) is a pretty big burden to carry around, but you're beautifying the experience."
Shaw's husband, Al, was hesitant at first but later warmed to the idea.
"Now it's not one big scar and nothing to show for it," he said.
About $2,000 and 20 hours under the needle later, the design had to come to a stop, with the bottom portion of the ocean side of the ribbon, still to be filled in.
Shaw, who had been in remission since March 2005, found out the cancer had spread to her ovaries and other lymph nodes in September.
She got a hysterectomy and went to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in October. She is now undergoing more treatment at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center on the Truxtun Extension.
Shaw hopes to go back under Cushman's needle once she's done with needles of chemo, whenever that may be.
Cancer has "deepened" her, Shaw said.
Shaw, who doesn't easily show or talk about pain, became more expressive with her feelings post-diagnosis, through art and writing, she said.
She proudly holds up a painting she did at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center of what she thought her cancer looks like. A dark circular mass is surrounded by a sea of blue. Lines of different colors and patterns radiate from the mass, representing her feelings about cancer, she said.
And along with the ribbon tattoo, she's gotten others.
Inspired by the 2004 movie "The Blue Butterfly," in which a terminally ill 10-year-old boy dreams of capturing the Blue Morpho butterfly, Shaw got three Blue Morpho butterflies on each foot.
"He returned home and found out he was miraculously cured," she said of the boy in the movie. "I wanted to wake up from my surgery last September, and in my anesthesia-induced delirium see those blue butterflies poking out of my hospital bed sheets."
I'll just have to narrow it down on what to get. I'd like to design something for the memory of both my Dad and oldest brother PeeWee. Deer antlers with a strip of 35mm film wrapped around it. The antlers cause they were both avid sportsmen (hunters) and the film for my love of photography and the yrs I put into it.
There's a story in this mornings paper abt a local woman who, has cancer and has a tattoo.
PS. Thanks Teresa for cutting your hair and donating it to Locks of Love.
Carrying the marks
Tattoo helps mother of 3 accept scars and pain of aggressive breast cancer
BY EMILY HAGEDORN, Californian staff writer
e-mail: ehagedorn@bakersfield.com | Friday, Jan 19 2007 8:55 PM
Last Updated: Friday, Jan 19 2007 9:00 PM
The wide ribbon wraps around the back of Aimee Shaw's neck and crosses near where her breasts used to be.
More video from Bakersfield.com:
Photos:
Photo by Dan Ocampo
Aimee Shaw did not opt for reconstructive surgery following her double mastectomy, but instead chose a tattoo of a large breast cancer ribbon that wraps around her neck.
Photo by Dan Ocampo
Aimee Shaw has a large breast cancer ribbon that wraps around her neck, crosses her chest and falls to her waist.
Instead of solid pink, the tattoo is full of images, or metaphors, Shaw explained.
God's hands, blood coming from the wounds on his wrists, come down from her shoulders. A jungle scene takes over one end of the ribbon; an ocean is on the other.
"The jungle side is more about the 'fleshy' part ... my personality," said the 34-year-old northeast Bakersfield resident. "The ocean part is 'spiritual.'
"And you have the rhythm of the waves, kind of like going on and off of chemotherapy."
The mother of three is undergoing treatment for her second bout with inflammatory breast cancer, an extremely rare and aggressive cancer. Instead of reconstructive surgery after her double mastectomy, Shaw chose a tattoo -- a pain that, unlike cancer, she chose and had control over, she said.
The tattoo doesn't hide her surgical scars, which is one of the things she likes about it.
"Sometimes women choose bilateral reconstruction because they want the 'world' to see and accept them as 'normal' women," Shaw said via e-mail. "For me personally, I could not pretend this never happened to me, and could not 'cover it up' by appearing to have perfect breasts."
Unlike other types of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC, doesn't usually produce the telltale lump.
Shaw thought something was wrong when she woke up one morning in 2003 and found an areola, the ring of darker skin around the nipple, swollen.
"I thought I had injured it somehow," said Shaw, a service coordinator at Kern Regional Center.
A couple of months later and after a round of antibiotics (physicians thought it was just an infection), Shaw finally received her diagnosis in May 2003.
Because it's so rare, the cancer is often misdiagnosed, Shaw said. IBC accounts for 1 percent to 5 percent of all breast cancer cases in the country, according to the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
It's also aggressive. The five-year median survival rate is about 40 percent, mainly due to delays in diagnosis, the lack of expertise and IBC's resistance to standard chemotherapy, according to the Web site for the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, which has one of the only IBC clinics in the world.
Shaw underwent seven rounds of chemo, four drugs and then the double mastectomy.
And the tattoo.
After shopping around, she chose Outer Limits Tattoo and Body Piercing in Costa Mesa.
"It's like putting your insides on your outside," said Kody Cushman, Shaw's tattoo artist. "It (cancer) is a pretty big burden to carry around, but you're beautifying the experience."
Shaw's husband, Al, was hesitant at first but later warmed to the idea.
"Now it's not one big scar and nothing to show for it," he said.
About $2,000 and 20 hours under the needle later, the design had to come to a stop, with the bottom portion of the ocean side of the ribbon, still to be filled in.
Shaw, who had been in remission since March 2005, found out the cancer had spread to her ovaries and other lymph nodes in September.
She got a hysterectomy and went to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in October. She is now undergoing more treatment at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center on the Truxtun Extension.
Shaw hopes to go back under Cushman's needle once she's done with needles of chemo, whenever that may be.
Cancer has "deepened" her, Shaw said.
Shaw, who doesn't easily show or talk about pain, became more expressive with her feelings post-diagnosis, through art and writing, she said.
She proudly holds up a painting she did at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center of what she thought her cancer looks like. A dark circular mass is surrounded by a sea of blue. Lines of different colors and patterns radiate from the mass, representing her feelings about cancer, she said.
And along with the ribbon tattoo, she's gotten others.
Inspired by the 2004 movie "The Blue Butterfly," in which a terminally ill 10-year-old boy dreams of capturing the Blue Morpho butterfly, Shaw got three Blue Morpho butterflies on each foot.
"He returned home and found out he was miraculously cured," she said of the boy in the movie. "I wanted to wake up from my surgery last September, and in my anesthesia-induced delirium see those blue butterflies poking out of my hospital bed sheets."
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy New Year
Another New Years Eve without Damon. Last yr he spent NY with a bunch of HighSchool friends while I sat at home and slauk. NOT. Went and watched a hocky game. HOWEVER, it would have been nice to have brought the NY in with him. This yr he'll be at work, while I'm here at the house with a good friend from work. She's making me (would have been us with Damon) dinner, then play PS2 but, you get what you can. :-)
Happy New Year all.
Resolutions?
Taking my breaks at WORK! Hell yea!!!!
Love and peace to all.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
We are not alone
It's about freaken time that they put the ole noose around that dicks neck. But here's my thought on it. We know that he's been a totally sleaze ball with, coming up look a-likes of himself. What if the government managed to pull one of his doubles in his stead while, he dresses himself up like an old woman (with wig and all) and jets out on a plane to South America? It's been done before. Look at WWII with all of Hitlers co-horts. Where would you find Generals of the Nazi army? Try Argentina. If we're really lucky, and Saddam has managed to pull a fast move on his old country and on ours, and left to go to South America; maybe he'll get caught by head hunters and they'll do away with him real quick. Shrink his head and send it to ole Bush.I have no feelings for our government. Specially the local shit. DA? Pfttt blow me. Fathers who have tried their best to get a job but, have no luck on getting one, are getting screwed by ole Ed. They get their licenses yanked. Can't get a job, cause they can't drive to work. Can't pay their support cause there's no licenses. Security job? Think again. The state gives you a temp, until you fill out a paper, walk it (cause you can't drive because you don't have a licences) to the DA's office, give head or PLEAD your case so some bitch of a caseworker who says either; ok or NOT ok. You're screwed no matter what. Isn't there someone out there, that has the BALLS to run against Ed Jagles? This son of a bitch has been in office too long and needs to retire.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
the "OTHER" man in my life
I swear that the cat is taking over our life now. I worry if he doesn't have food and then, I start to stress out if he's left out in the cold all nite.
I'll share my bed with him but I DO draw the line of sharing my bathroom! So Bob; stop coming in the bathroom while I'm in the shower!
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