"Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it..?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #337)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                            Sunrise/Weather Photos, August- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2091~Kimo's world #337

 Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it?

 

 Getting old is no laughing matter, or is it? A few years back I had my first colonoscopy, the dreaded roto-rooter.

The coming of age for seniors, where you are officially admitted to the old-timers club and are worthy of your senior discounts.  

Now just a couple of years later, they tell me I need a cystoscopy, where they go in through a man's urethra with a camera and look at your prostate to see if you need any of the multiple procedures available for prostate health or to see if you have one of the multiple potential cancers associated with the prostate, bladder or kidneys.

This procedure had me stressed, my heartbeat was up, my blood pressure was high, my glucose was climbing and I was having dreaded thoughts about what could potentially go wrong.  Sitting there on the examination table with no anesthesia and just some numbing topical ointment on my private parts before the doctor inserts the camera can make one feel a little on edge and a little embarrassed if you're on the shy side.

After the camera was entered I felt faint as we watched my prostate on the monitor. I thought I saw two little men walking on the left side of my prostate,  so I shouted silently to them, 'smile and say cheese!' I'm glad the doc and nurse couldn't hear me. The only question that remains is, where will medical science decide the next best place for a camera?

If you have this procedure, make sure you have a great doctor and supporting staff, as I did. The best thing to develop from COVID was the online virtual doctor's visits, now if they could only figure out how to do procedures like this and surgeries online without leaving home!

After this event, I could finally breathe and gloat about the success of the procedure. I was telling my female neighbor about this process and she was astounded that a camera could fit up a man's urethra. We talked about modern medicine and then she said,  "Do they use a Digital Single Lens Reflex 35mm camera or smartphone when taking the pictures inside your urethra?" I told her, on me, they used a 35mm Single-Lens Reflex camera with a 200 mm lens! We both laughed, she then said grinning with a big fat smile on her face, "you only wish!"

This blog also appeared as a column in the Wellness section of the

Garden Island news on Wednesday, 08-31-22

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/08/31/lifestyles/rosen-getting-old-is-no-laughing-matter-or-is-it/

Hana Hou (Encore) 

"The Dems are eating their own..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #336)

 

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer  

amongst other things is a humorist writer.

Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i

                                         with his best friend and spiritual adviser,                                  

                                   Ivanka "Costco" Obama, The bipartisan Dog!

                            Sunrise/Weather Photos, August- 2022

              These photos appeared on Hawaii News Now

                    Blog #2090~Kimo's world #336

 The Dems are eating their own

 

 The Yiddish word mensch

has become widely used and mainstream in the English language and is defined as; "a person of integrity and honor." The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual's qualities. 

A person who organized

Lt. Governor, Dr. Josh Green
giving a measles vaccine in Samoa
back in 2019

a team of volunteers to go to a foreign land and give measles vaccines to a country where many deaths had occurred, and many of those to keiki would be considered a mensch. 

A politician who

Lt. Governor, Dr. Josh Green
volunteered time to give
many COVID vaccines

in their off time volunteers and gave COVID -19 vaccines would also be considered a mensch. How many politicians do you know who did that?

The politician I speak of is Dr. Josh Green, Hawaii's Lt. Governor who is currently running for Governor in the state's Democratic primary.

On December 4th, 2019 Lt. Gov.  Dr. Josh Green arrived in Samoa to help combat a measles outbreak that had already killed 60 people, many of those children.

Green, who’s also an emergency medical room doctor, organized a team of 55 Hawaii nurses, and 10 doctors that also made the trip with support staff to deliver much-needed immunizations and health care.

Dr. Green has

Greens opponents in Democratic
primary;
Vicky Cayetano
and Kai Kahele

been continually bullied by his opponents and the Democratic party because they want to see records of all his income. Let's also do the same for his opponents, everyone has skeletons in the closet. 

Josh Green also has gone through racist rants of antisemitism amid protests outside

Green made breaking news
last August when he was invited on 
almost every major network to talk
about the vaccine mandate protests
outside his home and the hateful 
antisemitic hate rants and signs.
From Fox News to MSNBC

his Honolulu home against the public health mandates meant to halt the spread of COVID-19 back in August of 2021.

When Hawaii announced restrictions earlier last year state and county workers had to

show proof of vaccination or face weekly tests. Last year 50 to 100 unmasked vaccine opponents gathered almost nightly outside the downtown Honolulu condominium building where Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who is Jewish, lives with his Hawaiian wife and

two children, ages 14 and 10.

There were those yelling antisemitic rants into bullhorns and shining strobe lights into Green's apartment. Flyers with his photo and the words “Jew” and “fraud” had been plastered around the neighborhood.

Green tore them down and turned them over to the state attorney general’s office.

It seems the current Democratic

The Republican candidates for
Governor are;
Heidi Tsuneyoshi
Duke Aiona
BJ Penn

party of Hawaii is now eating their own, on the contrary, the Hawaii Republican party all seem to be supporting one another.

There's an expression that goes, someone who hates you normally hates you for one of three reasons;

1-They see you as a threat.

2-They hate themselves.

3-Or they want to be you.

In the case of Green's opponents, I believe it's all three.

My only regret is

I wish I could vote for Green, as a registered Republican I cannot vote for any Democrat in the primary. In the General election, we are free to vote as we wish.

Let me tell his opponents, Those without sin can cast the first stone--- and that Josh Green is more a mensch and decent human being than most politicians in this crazy polarized society.

 I am appalled at the treatment of the Lt. Governor. 

This blog appeared as an Op-ed column in the Friday

08-12-22 edition of the Garden Island news!

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2022/08/12/opinion/voices-the-democrats-are-eating-their-own/

Hana Hou (Encore)