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How Tom Platz Built Those Legs by Lara McGlashan-Volz
Just starting out, I trained with Olympic lifters who taught me a reverence for the squat. They taught me that this is where life and death passes before your eyes, that this is the altar of weight lifting. But when I first came to Gold's in Venice the squat rack was cluttered and shoved in the back, an nobody used it. Sure, Arnold and Ed Corney used it in Pumping Iron, but that was more for show. When I started squatting a lot, people said I shouldn't because it would throw off my balance and symmetry. I did it anyway.
Because it was so taxing, I squatted only twice a month. It was like you were attempting something superhuman. To prepare for it, I'd get up at 5 a.m. and mentally talk to myself as encouragement and that helped make it easy in my mind. It never turned out that way, of course. It was always brutal, to the point where I'd go, "I think I felt the muscle tear off the bone. I think we should stop, Tony (Martinez)." And he's say, "You'll be okay. Rub it a little bit and you'll be fine." But I was good at talking myself into the idea of squatting, even though I knew the reality."
I'd put on my lifting shoes - I wore Adidas weightlifting shoes with a higher heel that tapered down to a thin sole - and they were part of my experience, physically and psychologically. I mean, would you go ice-skating without blades? Lifting shoes were that for me: an important piece of the puzzle that made my workout the experience that it was.
So I'd put on my shoes, grab my gear and drive from Malibu to Venice in my 1960 Corvette. As I pulled out of the garage the throaty rumble of the powerful engine would blend into my psyche and become part of my preparation as I drove. I'd purposely drive by the ocean to watch the waves smash powerfully against the rocks. If I thought about the workout too much, I'd get sweaty palms on the way to the gym and couldn't grip the steering wheel. Watching the ocean helped distract, and prepare me.
I'd pull into Gold's in Venice. It wasn't busy like it is today. There were only a few of us there, especially that early. And, of course, Tony would be there waiting for me, ready for the workout.
We'd go to the squat rack and I remember always stretching in front of the rack. I'd take the hurdler's position on the floor - one leg bent, the other straight - then lower my nose to my knee. As I stretched out I'd try to ease my mind, convince myself I was there to have fun, to just do one or two sets and call it quits. Sometimes we'd even cover the mirror with newspaper because I didn't want to see myself squat. I just wanted to feel it and experience it within my own being.
Of course this pre-workout time wasn't only about the stretching; it was also about emotionally and physically preparing for what was about to come. I'd touch the weights, the rack, the bar, and I'd have this almost religious reverence for them. I liked to use an old battered bar, slightly bent just enough so that it didn't roll off my shoulders when I was standing erect. I'd marked it with a plate, banged the plate on the collar so that I could remember which one it was, and I always wrapped a towel around the bar before I started my sets.
Done stretching, I'd put on my lifting belt - a little loose so that I could breathe - and Tony and I would warm up real slow. A set at 135 for 10 easy reps. Add another plate, nice and easy. Then we'd listen to Motown and we'd start progressing with the weight. Now 315. I'd leave space between the plates on purpose so when I came up from the squat, a real quick rep, the plates would jingle. The sound was very important to me. The music, the Motown and the plates jingling against one another - big, thick, 45-pound iron plates. That sound helped me time the reps and my movement. I liked to come up quickly with such speed that the bar would bend over my shoulders and the plates would crash together, and I relished that sensation! I'd do a quick 20 reps with 315 with all my senses focused.
One more 45 per side and Tony would put the collars on, knowing the exact space to get that sound. Tony would count off my reps . . . 10 . . . 20 . . . 30 - let's see how far we can go! When I'd get to the point where I couldn't do any more reps, Tony would say something like, "You OWN this exercise!" or "Go after it and GET IT!" He would conjure up six, eight, 10, 20 more reps out of me. Then I'd literally fall into the squat rack and jing! The plates would rattle and I'd fall to the floor. I'd take the belt off and all of a sudden I was gasping for air and I couldn't breathe. It felt like someone was driving knives into my legs, and my heart rate went through the roof. I couldn't see, I was sweating profusely, but eventually I'd come back.
Sometimes it took me 20 minutes, but I always came back. When I could see properly again I'd go outside and breathe some fresh air, then come back in and say, "Okay, Tony, one more set!" And we'd go again.
On those days when I left the gym I was high. I thought, "I lived through this. I got through this. I can do anything in life." I'd keep my belt on loosely and walk to the car, thinking victory. I was one with my spirit and with God.
I trained legs every week, but the squats were so exhausting that I couldn't walk afterward and doing another exercise was simply out of the question. So I squatted twice a month and did other 'accessory' machine movements like leg extensions, leg curls, and hack squats on alternate weeks.
Leg Extensions
Back in the mid-80s this guy named Magic, who lived in a yellow school bus behind Gold's gym, made me a special lifting belt to strap myself into place onto the old leg extension at Gold's - the original one Joe Gold had made that Arnold, Draper, Zane, Corney and all of my mentor figures had used. I'd hurt my arm - I tore the biceps tendon off the bone - and although it had been repaired, hanging onto the leg extension machine put a lot of stress on my arm. The old machine was just a seat with no back and a bicycle chain attached to the weight stack. It was antiquated, even at that time, but I liked it because I felt Draper's fingerprints on it. A lot of people had no idea how to use the machine because it didn't have a back on it, but I knew. All I had to do was look at that machine and my legs grew.
I'd lock myself into the machine (using the belt Magic made), and hook my feet under the pad. I'd warm up with some light weight, like half a stack for a set of 10. Then I had this old, bent, beat-up pin that I'd put underneath the whole stack and hand a 100-pound plate off. Tony's job was to make sure that plate didn't fall of while I was doing my reps! Then I'd start: I'd pull this weight stack with the 100-pound plate as forcefully as I could up in the air, accelerating through the whole movement. Because the machine had to back, I'd lean forward, grab the back of the machine and at this point I was almost parallel to the floor! Then I'd lower the stack and plate back to the start, controlling its descent as I sat back up. A jackknife. Rep after rep, I'd feel the tension accumulating in my muscles. And when I dropped the weight at the bottom it'd bounce on the springs of the machine. I'd lift it again and my legs would light on fire. The intensity and the tension were indicative that growth was imminent. Separation, clarity, distinction, quality -- all the freaky stuff I lived for would be forthcoming.
I'd get 8-10 reps for the first 5 sets, then maybe 2-5 reps for the next 5. When I say 8-10 or 2-5,that's reps done on my own; I'm not counting the 15-20 forced reps -- baby reps, partial reps, negatives -- that Tony would assist me with. I'd raise the machine arm as high as I possibly could so that my quads were fully contracted. Then Tony would push down, in pulses almost, on the machine arm and I'd resist his pressure. He'd repeatedly push down,then let go, and I would bring it back up as high as I could. The weight would slowly get lower and lower because I was getting fatigued,and finally about 6 to 7 minutes later the set would be done. It was like a long, extended negative set with little pushes and pulls throughout. And that was just one set.
When the set was over I'd be in extreme pain, writhing around. And it was like an operation to get me out of that machine as a few guys unbuckled me and took the chains and straps off. Then I'd get up and hang onto the machine and gasp for air. But after a minute or two, Tony would look at me and say, "You ready? Let's go." And he'd lock me back into place again and I'd do 6-10 more sets.
Lying Leg Curls
I'd always do lying leg curls at the completion or our workout. We used the old Nautilus leg curl machine -- the one with a bicycle chain that made a ton of noise -- of course! Again, a very antiquated machine but the most effective one of all time, I believe. It's long gone but I still remember how it used to feel.
Because we did leg curls at the end of the workout, I was pretty tired and could only do like 1-4 sets, but I'd change it up to achieve failure. Sometimes I'd do 50 reps with moderate weight, or I'd use tons of weight for only 3 reps. The workouts depended on my mood and my level of exhaustion.
For the curls I'd do a number of reps on my own, then I'd have Tony grab my ankles and push down very, very slowly. I'd fight back the whole time and the negative part of the set might last a whole minute. Two sets like that and I was finished.
Hack Squats
Hack squats were very, very meaningful in terms of bringing out the sweep in my quads. Initially when I was developing my training protocol I tried to do hacks after my barbell squats. But because I could barely walk after squatting I had no strength to do them, so I did the hacks on alternate weeks, too.
In the machine, I was taught to put my heels together and point my toes out. That way you primarily squat on the lateral edge of your foot, putting tension on the vastus lateralis, which gives the thighs a sweep.
I'd do a warmup set with a few plates on each side to get my head on right -- of course leaving some space between the plates so they'd jingle and give me that sound I loved -- then I'd do hack squats until I couldn't do any more. Sometimes I'd have four 45-pound plates on each side for 8-10 reps. Other times I'd have a quarter or a dime on their for 50 reps. The weight didn't matter. I'd go for that mental connection to my body and my legs. I wanted to feel and grow that tension to the point where I knew it was going to be effective in the muscles becoming larger, more striated or more substantial.
I'd do several reps on my own, then I'd have Tony push down on the machine while I'd do partial reps. Or sometimes I'd have Tony sit on the machine, hang onto it and pull, and I'd do baby reps, partial reps, isometrics and negatives. Whatever it took to completely exhaust the muscles to the point of absolute failure -- then go beyond that into the red zone. We'd do a total of about 6-10 sets of hack squats.
Calf Raises
We would actually go to World Gym down the street to do calves. That's where Arnold and Frank and a lot of other guys were training at the time, and since our hard, focused work was through we could spare a little energy and joke around there. Plus they had better calf machines!
We'd change our routine a lot and sometimes we'd do standing calf raises. I'd have Tony and a couple of other guys hanging off the machine, and I'd be holding the weight as high as I could for as long as I could. Other times I'd do as many reps as I could for one set and call it a day. We also did seated calf raises. I'd have as many as 15 100-pound plates stacked on there. I'd do my reps then have Tony push slightly, pumping it with baby movements until I couldn't sustain the tension.
One time the seated calf machine actually broke! It shot me out of the machine like a bullet. Joe Gold was freaking out and yelling at everybody and I'm like, "What happened?" This was two weeks before the Olympia in 1981 and after a few moments my ankle started to swell up. I iced it and it was okay, but it was still a little swollen. If you look closely at the '81 Olympia photos you'll notice a difference in my ankles. One looks swollen. That's what it's from.
I wasn't the most genetically gifted bodybuilder, but my attitude prevailed. I attribute my physical success to my dedication and my training. It really started in Michigan, the craziness. In college, we'd plan a yearly squat-off to see who could do the most reps. We'd plan it for a whole year and I dreaded it for a whole year. I remember when the day came I did 225 for 10 minutes without stopping at all. I don't remember how many reps it was, but I do remember vowing never to do that again! But I just went there. It was part of my mentality.
When I first moved to California I actually trained with Arnold for a while. I figured if his training system worked for him and Franco, it should work for me, too. But it didn't! I got smaller and fatter training with Arnold. He trained twice a day, six days a week, sometimes seven, and used lots of sets and decent weight. I got depressed because I was shrinking and took a few weeks off. When I came back I decided to train four days a week, and I grew. Arnold responded to high frequency and high volume; I responded better to less volume and frequency but much higher intensity and heavy weights. Later I realized I was doing a primitive form of periodization, working both types of muscle fibers. But back then all I knew is that I was growing!
I did, however, borrow the idea of extending my sets beyond the standard from Mike Mentzer. I'd watched him and his partner training on the leg extension machine one day: Mike would lift the weight to the top then his partner would push down slowly as Mike would resist. So I tried it and Oh My God! I felt like I'd never trained before! My quads were burning and my muscles were firing and I simply had to incorporate this concept into my training.
I discussed it with my training partner Tony and we came up with our own version of that kind of extended set. We incorporated their ideas with some of my powerlifting background where you'd do partial reps in a power rack. We came up with a set that included negatives, forced reps, partner-assisted reps, isometrics -- everything came into play in the course of one single set. We moved the weight until physically, absolutely, neither one of us could move it any more. The longer the set, the harder it became and the more I knew it would work. Of course, there was a huge benefit-to-risk ratio. I had to ask myself, "How far do I want to push a contraction before it becomes detrimental?" I was willing to toy around in that red zone.
Great article. I appreciate the honesty too. It worked for Arnold, it didn't work for me (paraphrased). Too often we try to do what Arnold, Mentzer or others did and then get frustrated when we don't have the same results. We need to be strong enough to say, "this isn't working for me, what can I do differently?"
My favorite quote from the article:
"I'd touch the weights, the rack, the bar, and I'd have this almost religious reverence for them".
The part about driving by the ocean to distract him also struck a chord with me. I always lift better if I don't think/overthink about the what is to come and the weightload. It seems siking oneself out is detrimental.
I also got the drift that doing lots of reps is a key ingredient. This article makes me wanna go out and crank out a pile of 20+ reppers.:mh:
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Since the last edition, there has been the death of a surgery pioneer -- Dr. Michael E DeBakey (1908-2008). I wrote a post on him last year. There were many mentions of him this past week. Here are the ones I ran across. (photo credit)
Michael E. DeBakey: Pioneering Surgeon, Educator & Inventor
Thank You, Dr. Michael DeBakey (NPR's Science Friday) -- has a link to a 1993 interview they did with Dr. DeBakey.
Michael DeBakey, 1908-2008 from Dr Reese, Medinnovationblog
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Some Debakey quotes:
"Man was born to work hard"
"Once you excise the skin, you find they are all very similar"
"I like my work very much. I like it so much I don't want to do anything else."
RIP, Dr DeBakey....
Aggravated DocSurg writes a moving tribute to a patient in Sara's Smile.
The day I first met her is one not easily forgotten. A new patient on my schedule, I knew nothing of her past; there was just a note requesting a cervical lymph node biopsy. I was greeted with a warm hello and a welcoming smile.
Then there is the message you hope never to send (or receive). Paul Levy talks about it (and then follows up here).
Before I start, I want to refer you to an excellent story summarizing the case written by Stephen Smith at the Boston Globe.So, here are a few things you might want to know. The things that went wrong are summarized above and simply should not have happened. The test for our place is to figure out how to make the right things happen 100% of the time. As we work on that, I'll keep you informed.
Buckeye Surgeon that looks at disclosure and honest in discussing surgical errors that occur with patients in his post "tangled up in blue".
Why did the kidney fail? I asked.
-When they were doing my hysterectomy, the "urether" got tangled up in some adhesions, she said.
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-Oh lord, maybe 30 years ago.
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-They had to go back in and try to untangle it a few days later, but the kidney died anyway, she said.
Bongi, other things amanzi, gives us another glimpse into life of the surgeon and patient in his recent post captive
the next morning the patient wasn't only alive, but he was doing very well. he was still on a ventilator, but we expected to wean him in a day or two.then two cops walked in carrying a ridiculous amount of heavy chains and shackles. they walked up to my patient and sort of dumped them on the bed with a loud clang. they then told me they were going to chain him down.
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it was the usual story and i didn't think too much of it until the next morning....... the patient's mother came in to see how he was. i have treated numerous criminals, but this was a first. i found it interesting so i decided to chat to her to find out where such a criminal comes from.
the first thing she told me is that she was a theater sister and worked night shift in a local hospital. this took me totally by surprise. firstly i wanted to believe that my patient came from a broken home or had some similar pathology in his past. but more importantly, a theater sister is like family to me. i have spent countless nights across an open abdomen with theater sisters.
Buckeye Surgeon had two posts that I think go together--Bowel Obstruction (photo from his post) and Internal Hernia.
Well, I saw a lady last week with a classic SBO on initial imaging. A year and a half ago, she had undergone a laparoscopic right hemicolectomy for a villous adenoma at a "major midwestern university program". I put an NG in but she didn't get better.
Dr Michael O'Connor, The Ether Way, in his post on Evil Humors writes about attending M&M conferences.
As an educator, one of my greatest responsibilities is this: to convey to my students, residents, and fellows an appropriate degree of circumspection regarding the limits of our knowledge and understanding.
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One of the wisest men I have ever met says: ' I don't know what it was, but whatever it was, it was the worst case of it I ever saw.'
As for me, I know: it's syphilis.
QuietusLeo, The Sandman, writes about a night on call in The "eyes" have it.
A 51 year old semi-conscious man was brought in. Full of shrapnel holes, right leg broken, a finger or two mangled, left eye looks like mush, pools of blood forming around him and most importantly an expanding hematoma in the neck.
Dr Bruce Campbell, Reflections in a Head Mirror, talks about distractions in a recent post
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
Have you ever noticed this, as well?
and about how some patients are just Boneheaded.
Someonetc, our orthopedic attending, tries to show by example how to be a good doctor in I am the boss of me.
Today, I sit in my office after 7 waiting for a case and I am not on call. Why? I feel it is the right thing to do for the patient. On the other hand, my all of resident have gone home. I guess I can't expect that they too would feel the need to stay, but I can still hope.
So, I continue to model.
Dr B, Surgery....Passionately, writes about telling a patient that you disagree with the previous doctor in her post, Prove It.
One of the hardest things, I think, in medical practice, is attempting to prove to a patient that you (as a specialist) are in the right, when, in fact another surgeon in your specialty has proven some other thing to said patient. (still with me?)
David Gorski, Science-Based Medicine, wrote about a death by "alternative" medicine and asks who's to blame?
This patient was in serious trouble. You would think that, finally–finally–she would have realized her mistake in not having gone with surgery and conventional medicine.
You would be mistaken.
The patient still steadfastly refused all surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Against all evidence that the course she had chosen thus far had not resulted in the elimination of her tumor that she expected, she nonetheless insisted on continuing with various alternative medicine treatments. Against all evidence to the contrary, she continued to refuse any form of "conventional medicine." She still believed that her " healer" could save her life, even though she now had a large, bleeding, stinking mass in her breast stuck to her chest wall that had three years ago been a pea-sized cancer that could have easily been excised with a small surgical procedure.
Dr Au, the Underwear Drawer, writes about her last day as a resident (she's now an attending anesthesiologist in Atlanta-- congratulations) in her post "a fitting end"
How fitting, really, to do a heart transplant as one's last case of residency. Much like the process of medical training, an organ transplant takes the ordinary and transposes it into extraordinary circumstances—in this case, taking the heart of a freshly deceased patient and having it work in the body of a patient who still might be saved. The recipient that day was a 57 year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy................... The patient's old heart was huge, congested, an angry and mottled looking purplish mass looking more like a dead thing in a butcher's window than anything else. We worked together to get the patient onto cardiopulmonary bypass, the surgeons snipped the old heart out, and suddenly the chest cavity was huge, empty, a yawning expanse waiting to be filled.
Dr Oliver, Plastic Surgery 101, has a very nice post on "What's Oncoplastic Surgery?"
This is conceptually just lumpectomy or mastectomy done better. The concept uses rotating breast tissue to fill defects at the time of lumpectomy or larger "quadrantectomy" procedures. These are maneuvers we use with breast reduction and mastopexy procedures adapted to some of the cancer surgery procedures. (photo credit)
How about appendicitis in pregnancy? Check this out at Radiology Picture of the Day (credit)
KeaGirl, UroStream, wants to remind patients that ALL of your medical history is important in her post not so insignificant.
I am always astounded at the details that patients omit on their medical history form. I'm clued in when I look at their medication list and see 3 different antihypertensive medications, yet they don't list hypertension as one of their medical condition. Usually the explanation is something like: "but with the meds, I don't have high blood pressure anymore....
Dr Val writes about living with faces that are very different from those around you in Saving Face: Kiddies and Kitties.
What struck me about the girl's story was how she described how it felt to be teased growing up, and how the worst part of the teasing was that no one stuck up for her. I've seen kids do this kind of thing before, and I can imagine how painful it is when no one has the courage to go to bat for you.
White Coat Rants shares a practical tip from a patient (photo credit) or another use for duct tape in his post, "It's Like the Force -- Only Better".
Happy Hospitalist shares his uncle's experience with surgery in Egypt.
My parents flew to Egypt to be with my Uncle Maher for an elective total knee arthroplasty. This is my mother's diary of observations:
June 19th--Again the airline Gods willing, we will get on a Delta flight that leaves JFK at 4:20 on Tuesday, June 24 and arrive in Cairo at 10:35 am on Wednesday, June 25. That is, if all goes according to plans. Maher's surgery is scheduled for July 5, so we are getting there earlier than necessary, but .....
Here is the first X-ray (credit) from a series that Dr Shroom, The Knife Man, did recently. Begin here with his post The Missing X-rays of Uncle Shroom, then go to Mea Culp Part 2, Mea Maxima Culp, and then the Finale.
Part of the 'mea culpa' series. Hopefully, a very occasional series. In several parts.
With the new iPhone released recently, Mark Borkowski writes:
I have been approached by a UK plastic surgeon who wants to discuss publicizing his new treatment. The phone call was a bit of a long ramble but essentially he wants to be the first British practitioner to surgically alter thumbs to make using an iPhone easier. I hope he is not a prankster reacting to this post.
IntraopOrate has begun a series of posts that tell the tale of how she became a surgical assistant and got to this point "meanwhile back at the ranch"
It started Sunday afternoon while he was on ER call, which means general surgical cases from the ER are referred to him. First case, a perfed (perforated) viscus at the jejunum. Fairly straightforward repair with a patch of omentum thrown over the top for added strength and healing power. He complimented me on having quiet hands. I was flattered.
Drnjbmd, Medicine from the Trenches, writes about why he chose surgery as his profession:
I was hooked on Surgery from my first case. It was a total colectomy with four females operating. My chief resident was female, the junior resident was female, the attending was female and I was female. We talked about shoes and Chanel suits during the case. I tied tons of knots and helped the junior resident close the incision. It was heaven. I found out that I loved Trauma and I couldn't wait to be on call every third day. I had the time of my life and I loved everything about surgery.
"I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight..."
But don't worry, T (and her fellow surgeon) will sing to you to put you at ease. Check out this post on "Songs in the OR"
Then, a little louder, "But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past there must have been a moment of truth." Dr. Warbucks, though feeling a little impatient over the delay with the blood pressure cuff, had gotten into the Rodgers and Hammerstein spirit.
As I secured the LMA into place, he stood up, put on his x-ray apron, and belted in my direction, "For here you are, standing there, loving me, whether or not you should!"
So I replied, and we finished together, "So somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good."
Sterile Eye may be on break to enjoy the summer outdoors with his kids, but he left us some amazing videos of sarcoma surgery. If you haven't seen them, here's the link.
If you like learning by watching videos, then check out these presented by ORLive:
Innovations in Stroke Prevention: An Update in Carotid Stenting presented by William A Gray MD, Y Pierre Gobin MD, and James McKinsey MD; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NYC, NY; July 15, 2008
Replay of Heart Transplant Procedure; Sept 19, 2007
Dr Alice, Cut on the Dotted Line, writes that urine is good. She is now a second year surgery resident.
I got to do my first transplant today.
More precisely, I assisted the attending for the first time today; but I have high hopes of getting to do more of the procedure later on. I really didn't want to ask for anything more; I was still figuring out the anatomy (well, ok, so the external iliac artery and vein are not that complicated; but the way that the donor artery, vein, and ureter fit in is), and I don't have much experience sewing blood vessels yet.
Theresa, Rural Doctoring, is a hospitalist in rural California. She tells a story of being asked to do a pre-operative clearance on an orthopedic surgeon. You'll have to read the post for the punch-line.
One day I was trying to get ready to go to the hospital when I got a page. It was one of the orthopedic surgeons asking me to consult on a patient.
"The nurses called me and they're freaking out," said the orthopod. "The guy threw up red stuff and they're afraid he's got a GI bleed. I'm supposed to take him to the OR at nine-thirty."
TC, Donorcycle, writes about the best call she ever made.
So there he is, going about his daily business, doing whatever with the missus and BANG! Drop everything, pack your toothpaste and jammies-you're going to the hospital for a new kidney! And I get to be the person who tells him it's Christmas, your birthday and the 4th of July all rolled into one.
Uveal Blues is an ex-USA-expat ophthalmologist with a strong interest in international healthcare. He gives us this post on Countries Make Push to Increase Eye Donors.
The non-acceptance of corneal transplantation in the third world continues to be a problem. It is encouraging to see that efforts to increase acceptance are being made in Syria. I should also acknowledge that Dr. David Paton, who started Orbis' Flying Eye Hospital, also started the first eye bank in the Middle East. (The article also quotes my friend, Dr. Hunter Cherwek, the current medical director of Orbis).
Plasticized gives us another example of the extreme alterations some people do to their bodies (photo from his post)
Our Next Generation of Surgeons/Anesthesiologists/etc:
Med Obsession My Life has officially begun 4th year orientation.
The first day was sooo fun. ..........Today, I did my first hysterectomy… on a cadaver!
Derrx, Silent River, writes about "The Junior Intership (12 months of REAL medical drama...) -- Part 2"
Surgery, probably the most diverse rotation of them all... when i say diverse, it's because of the different subrotations each has to go into. i dont exactly recall which rotations came first so i'll go with whatever comes to mind first. anyway, when i think of surgery, the first rotation i will remember would be that of Amang Rodriquez.
Dragonfly, The Dragonfly Initiative, writes in her post Orthopaedics for beginners
Orthopaedics is (so far) going better than expected. In one afternoon (joint replacements are not exactly quickies) I get to realise 2 of my childhood dreams - surgeon and astronaut. Now if only there was a way to be an life saving, space exploring prima ballerina....
and then in her post the hidden world of arthroscopy likens it to
Like taking a tour through an underwater cave .On our left are fronds of seaweed/synovium, waving in the currents of irrigation fluid.
Jeffrey (Monash Medical Student) sent me this link to a cartoon (photo credit).
Ms Ellisa writes a great post about learning (and teaching) in My Airway.
He raises his hand and stops her.
He says:"No. Not that. If you don't know the BASIC A-B-C-D's you will LOSE him, no matter what else you know"
And he turns to me, points at me with the same already raised hand, now in approval- the same in which he clutched her face in the dirt (okay okay I'll dial it down :) ) points at me and says - in words roughly translated because you can't find the exact translation in English -
"Say it baby!"
And I simply explained that "A", is "Airway", and you have to make sure he can breathe first, before doing anything else...
Some of our patients and their stories
Martha Watson gives us her side in "The juicy details of my hand surgery"
If you are planning to have bone surgery in your hands, it truly is incredibly painful. Immediately afterwards, it feels like you shut your finger hard in the car door, and just for kicks, did it again and maybe once more, to see if it couldn't hurt any worse..........
My favorite type of anesthesia for hand surgery is the Bier Block, a combination of tourniquet and a local anesthesia (numbing shot). ........... You'd think a shot in the armpit would be horribly painful, but really it's not at all. This surprised me the first time I had it done, as this was the thing I feared most about that operation................
A woman who lives in Florida writes about her experiences in My Brain Surgery
Angiograms are not fun. But it was very interesting that I had my own personal fireworks/laser show behind my eyes. I saw little flashes of light every time they injected the dye. The doctor said I was seeing the synapses of my brain firing. It was quite amazing. Sometimes at night when I close my eyes I can still see faint flashes. Weird huh? It has been three years since my surgery. There are some remaining after effects. I have diminished vision in my right eye. I lost memories. I lose my train of thought very easily. My mind goes blank just like a TV during a power outage in the middle of a movie.......
Molly's Trek (which all began with Strep Throat) is an incredible story of a simple sore throat that went on to wreck havoc with her health and her journey back. If you go back through the posts, you will find multiple surgeries (wound debridemont, skin grafts, amputations, hand surgeries) and now her therapy. Here is an excerpt from the most recent post after hand surgery:
For example, we know nerve regeneration continues in Molly's hands which is evident because she says she feels like she has better control and command of objects she is holding.
Pepe received a lung transplant on July 3, 2008. Posts since then indicate that she has had many postop complications, but hanging in there. This is from July 13, POD 11
She had a new X-ray that showed recession of her pneumonia in the lower lobes. She also had a second bronch in which the doctor cleared much of the mucus and took more biopsies that remained negative for rejection. All great news. Pepe is tired and in some pain but much more comfortable, breathing more easily despite a lingering "roughness" from the remaining infection. Her sat is up to 94 percent on 10 liters. Her PaCO2 has dropped dramatically, into the 40s, not far from normal.
What do you do when you are a patient who needs to use medical adhesives and are allergic to them? Well, it seems that Amy Tenderich, Diabetesmine, is unfortunately going to find out.
"You're the only one in the family who needs medical adhesives, and now you're allergic to them. Isn't that ironic or something?" my 11-year-old blurted out on the way home from the dermatologist late last week.
One of our fellow doctors who just happens to be a patient writes a blog called The Tale of My Left Foot. Read her take on being a cancer survivor.
Oh you're a cancer survivor that's incredible. To which I had to take pause.
Cancer survivor- not a label I apply to myself. The very term seems off to me. The whole concept of survivor is final- like there is a great battle and you survived it, or some natural disaster, or some other calamity...............
Some thought provoking posts (not necessarily surgical)
Amanzimtoti writes a thoughtful post on Third world aid.
We recently had an American delegation from PEPFAR (the United States President's emergency plan for AIDS relieve) visit our clinic. I didn't stick around for the circus because preceding the visit a list of demands was given to the clinical manager. Now PEPFAR isn't even one of our major sponsors - from what I understand the money they've given us was just enough to put up some shelves in our pharmacy. Don't get me wrong, we're grateful for any donations, but if you're going to give money for a worthy cause, you should do it out of the goodness of your heart, not so you can make them jump through hoops for you.
Dr. Shaheen Lakhan, Brain Blogger, submitted this thoughtful post, Ethical Obligations of Health Care Workers During a Pandemic
The romantic notion of selfless sacrifice in medicine may be the exception rather than the norm in the face of a global pandemic, which would stretch our already over-stretched resources to the breaking point. Although history has given us many noble figures in medicine, how noble will we be if we are faced with a highly virulent strain of flu to which none of us are immune, and to which a vaccine to prevent the illness might not be available until after the outbreak of the disease has already begun?
Is Death the Enemy? by Dr Jay, Missionary Doc in the Making
You know, death is an interesting event. As a physician in training it kind of feels like failure....
So now that I have set the morbid tone of my entry, :), my day actually started out with beginning of two new lives. Today, I assisted in a C-section where the mother was pregnant with twins…two beautiful baby girls............
After witnessing two new lives enter this world, I witnessed two leave it. As we were rounding on the male medical ward (which I noticed is composed of mostly HIV reactive patients) we were evaluating a patient who was experiencing dypsnea...........He looked at me and said, "Kaposi sarcoma". There is nothing we could do; the sarcoma had infiltrated his lungs and progressed so far that you could see the vascular papules on his hard palate.
For any parent/surgeon/doctor, I hope your children might write this about you:
On behalf of children everywhere with doctor parents who worry, fret, and guilt themselves over the time they have to spend apart from their children...I want you to know that we love you, and even if it's hard when we're little to understand what you do, or why you're gone so long sometimes (though we tend to vaguely grasp even then the idea that "work" is very hard and busy and keeps you away even though you love us very much and wish all the time that you were here with us), we're proud of you and love you very much. We do our best to understand and accept these struggles with you, and we see better while looking back from older ages all of the sacrifices and difficulties you've endured for us, and just how much you've always loved us--and at all ages young to old, we love to hear you say it on nights when you're around to tuck us into bed. (read the entire post here)
How to Pick a Nursing Home for an Alzheimer's Patient to Pick a Nursing Home for an Alzheimer's Patient by Ray Mullman; July 14, 2008
Surgery in the News and on TV
The film Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs Cesareans and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique. We follow Cumbane from her home in the Mozambican capital Maputo, into intensive medical classes, through night shifts in the delivery wards, and watch as she fights for recognition of her surgical competence.
Coalition doctors remove tumor, save Afghan girl's life by Army Sgt. Daniel Love; Armed Force Link, July 15, 2008 (via Chris, Made a Difference)
Jeffrey, Monash Medical Student, gives a critique of the
You can even watch the episodes online for free.
Rise Seen in Medical Efforts to Treat the Very Old by Anemona Hartocollis; NYTimes, July 18, 2009 -- When is too old for surgery?
Doctor Gets 10 Years in Prison for Surgery Scam -- Surgeons like this make us all look bad.
Teen Nixed from Transplant List Because He's a Foster Child -- Sadly, I can see why this rule exists. There has to be a support system of responsible care for the patient. There has to be someone responsible to make sure the anti-rejection drugs are taken as prescribed, make sure appointments are keep, etc. By putting it in the news, maybe a good Samaritan will come forward to "foster" this child.
Donor Kidneys Removed with Single Bellybutton Cut By Thomas J Sheeran; Associated Press, July 17, 2008 (commentary by Buckeye Surgeon here)
Costs, quality of life drive doctors from the baby business (via Kevin, MD)
Okay, folks, I went looking for a lot of these posts (I kind of enjoy doing this). Most were not submitted (as they are suppose to be). That said, please, SUBMIT your posts for the next edition of SurgeXperience here. The next edition will be published on Sunday, August 3. Deadline for submission is Friday August 1st. Our next host will be Bongi, Other Things Amanzi,who is much busier than I and most likely will not seek out your posts (no matter how good).
And Dr Schwab if you happen to still be reading blogs, we miss your writing. We miss you.
Thanks for allowing me to host this edition of SurgeXperiences. Hope you'll visit all the blogs. Here is the catalog of past surgXperiences editions for your reading pleasure. If you wish to host a future edition, please contact Jeffrey who runs the show here.


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Skip to comments.HE HAD A BLOG...he said a lot. Then he went to Somalia to join the jihad, and now he's dead.
Posted on 03/28/2010 3:58:55 PM PDT by Cindy
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...he said a lot.
Then he went to Somalia to join the jihad, and now he's dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
28 March 2010
SNIPPET: "The dead man's blog is at 3 o'clock. At 9 o'clock is a blog associated with al-Qaida in Indonesia."
Sounds like he needed a Kevlar vest
Don't bring a blog to a gun fight.....
Is this about you?
(Hey, look! There is a part of FR that isn't about blogs!)
Note: The following posts are a quote:
Terror group claims Canadian recruit killed
SNIPPET: Toronto man Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim one of six Canadians of Somali origin believed to have joined militant Islamist faction in recent months
Joe Friesen
From Thursdays Globe and Mail
Published on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 7:47PM EDT
Last updated on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 1:21AM EDT
SNIPPET: Al-Shabab, a militant Islamist faction tied to al-Qaeda, released a video of a man described as Mohamed al-Muhajiri, which means one who travels with purpose, saying he has succeeded and that he was calm rushing toward death.
SNIPPET: Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern Somalia, was recently placed on the list of banned terror groups by the Canadian government.
SNIPPET: His death could not be officially confirmed.
SNIPPET: The announcement of his death was posted on YouTube in a message that brought glad tidings to the youth in Canada. It advised them not to be saddened but to march forth in the ranks of the honest mujahideen in Somalia. It made no mention of when or how he died.
130 posted on March 18, 2010 3:59:00 AM PDT by Cindy
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ADDING to post no. 130:
Toronto man with al-Qaeda ties ran extremist blog
Stewart Bell, National Post
Published: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
SNIPPET: TORONTO A Toronto man whose reported death in Somalia has sparked fears that the militant Al-Shabab is recruiting Canadians was the author of a blog that posted the extremist propaganda of radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki.
The blog, called The Gardens of Paradise, features letters by two of the Toronto 18 terror suspects, an al-Qaeda propaganda video that calls fighting obligatory for Muslims and several of Al-Awlakis video and audio statements.
The author of the blog is identified only by his online name, Shadows15, but a posting on an extremist Internet forum indicates it was the blog of Mohamed Elmi Ibrahim and an official source confirmed that was correct.
131 posted on March 25, 2010 4:55:54 AM PDT by Cindy
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HE HAD A BLOG...he said a lot. Then he went to Somalia to join the jihad, and now he's dead and in a bog.
From Blog to bog in one easy lesson.
To the tune of Oh Susanna!
At least that is the tune that popped into my mind when I read it.
To: All
Kenya frees American suspected of terrorism links
(AP) via Google.com ^ | March 26, 2 hours ago | n/a
Posted on March 26, 2010 1:17:15 PM PDT by Cindy
Blog Entry:
police arrest somali American Jehadist Suleman Essa. on terror list attempting to board plane to Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya -
SNIPPET: Another Kenyan police official identified the American as Suleman Essa. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the press. The official says Essa, Canadian Ahmed Ali Hassan and Kenyan Muhammed Hussein Hash were about to board a plane.
132 posted on March 26, 2010 1:39:33 PM PDT by Cindy
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Canada ping
Blogs for Frogs...
Sounds like a TOOL to me.
Is this Al Ameriki?
"Leave your Blogs at home Bill"
Aw, that's sad. Thanks Cindy. :')
Hey, you want to buy a used blog? Never been commented on and only hacked twice.
He had alot to say.
He had alot of nothing to say.
We'll miss him.
We'll miss him.
He had alot to say.
He had alot of nothing to say.
We'll miss him.
We're gonna miss him
We're gonna miss him
So long.
We wish you well.
You told us how you weren't afraid to die.
Well then, so long.
Don't cry.
Or feel too down.
Not all martyrs see divinity.
But at least you tried.
You're welcome SunkenCiv.
>Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern Somalia, was recently placed on the list of banned terror groups by the Canadian government.
So Canada has terror groups that are not banned? Figures.
Not dead. I Googled. Arrested.
Isn't that the point of the jihads? Then he can get his 72 virgins?
Cry me a river.....
So real-life flame wars can be a little bit more permanent than the online kind. Good to know.
Works for me.
I finally started the dead jihadi, dead jihadis Fr key words because one couldn't ignore anymore the line or link, if you will from internet to global jihadi.
Of course, it's not the Internet's fault; I lay it firmly on the wannabe who finally finds his/her place in the world of jihad.
You can take it out of the jihad realm and look at hip hop/rappers - gangbangers taking it from words to actions or prison gangs from words to deeds, etc.
Thank you Clive.
A happy ending, Haiku poem???
It really makes you feel like you knew the guy.
domestic jihad bump
Thank you for the bump Dajjal.
Need to read later
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Today I am so lucky because I have Christina Henry on the blog! She's the author the Madeline Black series. I absolutely love this series and you can find my review of Black Wings HERE, and Black Night and Black Howl is a double review you can find HERE.
Thank you so much for having me here today!
Paranormal and urban fantasy are huge right now and running across similar concepts isn't so far fetched. As a matter of fact I recently read several different takes on the grim reaper in different books. Fortunately so far everyone's take is so incredibly different it's like reading about totally different things anyway. I love that yours is an agent of death and it's more like a job with paperwork and all that. When you wrote the book were you concerned about it being unique enough, that it would stand out on it's own? Or did you feel you were just writing the story you needed to tell?
I did want to create something a little bit different, but most of all I was concerned with writing the book that I wanted to write. You can never predict what trends will become big in this field and as a writer you can't worry about those things.
When I was writing BLACK WINGS there were very few stories featuring angels on the market, but the year BLACK WINGS was published there was an angel explosion! Basically, you just never know what else is in the pipe for publishers so you have to focus on writing the best story you can and hope that it finds its audience.
I also think that every writer brings something different to the table even if the basic subject matter is the same. There are tons of vampire stories out there right now, but every author has their own unique take on vampires and that makes each book worth reading.
I write chronologically, and while I have a vague idea of what's going to happen I usually just let the story unfold as I go. Sometimes I'll write a scene that will materially change what I had planned for the book, and I am OK with that. I like the process to be very organic. If you get too caught up in a plan or an outline you can miss an opportunity for your characters or your world.
Time! I never seem to have enough of it.
Beezle is my favorite character to write, because he is the most like me. I spend most of my time thinking about food.
Nathaniel is the most challenging because he is never what seems to be. I'm always finding new layers in his personality.
I love Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series. They all have books that I have read and re-read many times.
Right now I watch "The Walking Dead", "Grimm", and "Once Upon a Time". When "Game of Thrones" and "True Blood" start back up I'll watch those, too. That's probably my upper limit for TV. I prefer shows that are serialized rather than stand-alone episodes, and I don't necessarily watch TV every night. Episodes tend to get stacked up in my DVR and then I'll have to watch large chunks of a show at a time. I like serials because if you watch two or three episodes at a time it's like watching a movie.
Japan. I love Japanese film, Japanese culture, Japanese food. One of my life goals is to learn to speak Japanese so that I can watch Kurosawa films without the subtitles on.
In theory I like the idea of traveling back in time, but I really don't know if I could live without flush toilets. It would probably be interesting to travel to the future and see what's going to happen next.
Oh I think I'd be scared to travel to the future! Though if you knew you could get back I sure would be curious to see what you found!
Thank you so much!
Find the list of tour stops HERE.
Visit Christina Henry on her website HERE.


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Jacen and Annette Benson announce the marriage of their daughter, Jennifer to John Steinman, son of the late Jerry Steinman and Ronda and Glen Gruver. They will be sealed on Oct. 20 in the Logan Temple.
A reception will be held in their honor on Oct. 28 from 6-8 p.m. at the Senior Citizen's Center, 190 North 300 West, Ferron.
Justin and Teresa McFarland announce the marriage of their daughter, Krystle to Justin Sjogren, son of Don and Lisa Sjogren on Oct. 13.
A reception will be held in their honor that evening at Sunbrook, 2398 West Sunbrook Drive, St. George from 7-9 p.m. A reception will also be held on Nov. 4 at the Sugar City Gray Church in Sugar City, Idaho from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Tracy and Kathy Nielsen of Hyrum announce the marriage of their daughter, Josie Nicole Nielsen to Jared Dee Allred, son of Dick R. and Raelene Allred of Huntington.
The couple will be married Oct. 13 at the Hyrum Civic Center in Hyrum. A reception will take place that evening at the Hyrum Civic Center from 7-9 p.m.
Josie is a 2002 graduate of Logan High School and is currently attending Salt Lake Community College in their nursing program. Josie served a LDS mission in Tuscon, Ariz. from 2002-2004. Josie is currently employed at America First Credit Union.
Jared is a 1995 graduate of Carbon High School and a 2002 graduate in biology and chemistry from Utah State University. Jared is employed at Idaho Technology.
The couple plan to reside in the Bountiful area.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade and Lori Hancock announce the marriage of their daughter, Heather Ann to Kade Lee Huntington, son of Mike and Kollette Cologie and the late Lloyd Huntington on Oct 13.
A reception will be held in their honor that evening from 5-7 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 35 West 200 North, Ferron.


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Season 2, Episode 1
Interior: House that is too nice and far too well-decorated for "poor girl" to live in. CARA and HOT GUY are kissing on her tastefully feminine bed. MOM is nowhere to be seen, and will not show up for at least several episodes, spending her time in her trailer drinking and cursing the fact that, at twenty-eight, she was relegated to the role of "mother" while the twenty-six-year-old CARA got to be the hot, hot teenage cheerleader.
CARA breaks away from the well-biceped grasp of HOT GUY and smiles tenderly at him. He tucks her hair behind her ears in the classic Aren't-I-a-Good-Boyfriend-Because-I-Notice-Things-Other-than-Your-Hot-and-Quite-Probably-Surgically-Enhanced-Body move, and wonders at what point in this episode he is contractually obligated to show his abs. He is a very, very good actor when it comes to his abs.
I'm glad that things are going so well between us. We had so many issues last season, between you finding out about my secret pregnancy that, even though it didn't affect you in the slightest since it happened before we met, somehow caused us to break up for several episodes, and then my finding out you are actually an immortal half-kraken creature of darkness and that you don't even play football. That one nearly killed me.
That I'm two-hundred years older than you and have suction cups that pop up at inopportune times?
No, that you won't be the quarterback. But I love you so much and so deeply and so forever that not even our lack of cheerleader-quarterback perfection can drive me away from you. Also, I'm finding cephalopods pretty hot these days. Suction-cup hickies notwithstanding.
Good, because I'm nothing without someone to obsess over. Eternal life is pretty boring without some hot, hot teenage girl to be the center of my universe.
Do you ever miss Sirena? I mean, you two had an epic, violent love affair back when she turned you into a…you know, whatever it is you are.
That was two-hundred years ago. Besides, how could I miss anything when you are around?
CARA bats eyelashes, and several minutes of intense eye-contact ensue, reminding us that CARA and HOT GUY are MEANT TO BE.
Everything is perfect.
And, in spite of the fact that we should totally see something coming since this is the episode that will set up the drama for the rest of the season and we slipped in a reference to a character never-before-seen on the show, I'm not worried at all. Everything is perfect.
Romantic music swells as the scene shifts to EXT: School. School is pristinely clean and filled with "students" that look like they came from a) a modeling shoot or b) are forty years old. No actual classes are ever shown because academics are irrelevant when you are as hot as CARA and HOT GUY.
PLAIN FRIEND walks up to CARA, looking, as usual, just as beautiful as anyone else in the show but inexplicably unable to get a boyfriend because, well, she is PLAIN FRIEND.
Hi! I can't believe how many shifts they have me working at Generic Hip Teen Meeting Spot this week!
I think it's so cute how we pretend like anyone cares about your subplots!
I'm hoping for a ratings-dip so they'll try out a much-advertised lesbian kiss for me even though there's no follow-through and it's played insincerely for drama instead of with integrity.
There's always that.
Did you hear about the new girl? I hear she's a really good singer.
CARA is about to answer when HOT GUY walks up and puts his arms possessively around her in case her too-nice-to-be-a-love-interest ex-boyfriend comes onscreen. PLAIN FRIEND smiles as she disappears into the background, her one role for the episode dutifully fulfilled.
CARA and HOT GUY both look up as a suitably popular-and-filled-with-sexy-attitude pop song swells and the camera cuts to
HOLY CRAP HOT GIRL WITH ATTITUDE, who is walking down the hall in slow motion with a breeze that affects no one else blowing her hair out sexily behind her. HOLY CRAP HOT GIRL WITH ATTITUDE is wearing an outfit no high school would ever allow, but since she is HOLY CRAP HOT no one cares.
That must be the new girl!
HOT GUY's eyes fill with a look that should combine angst with longing and struggle, but mostly just comes across like every single one of his other "smoldering" looks.
Uh oh.
Hot Guy! I can't believe it!
HOLY CRAP HOT GIRL WITH ATTITUDE wraps her arms around HOT GUY and pulls him in for a kiss, much to the horror of CARA, who has only now realized what new plot twist will serve to complicate her relationship for at least the next twelve episodes. However, this may mean kissy-face time with SMOKING HOT COUSIN, which is always a bonus.
SMOKING HOT COUSIN appears as usual at exactly the right time, giving a smoldering, ironic grin to MAIN GIRL.
Sirena's back. This should be interesting.
CARA, who should have seen this plot twist coming
At least she's not my long-lost birth-mother.


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Harmony Pregnancy and Resource Center would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for making the 2013 Doris Nash Memorial Golf Tournament such a success:
On March 6th we spent the night at the Chiefland Best Western Hotel while on our way to Tarpon Springs. Being retired military, we always look for a VFW or American Legion. We found very nice and welcoming people at the VFW and thank them for a very enjoyable evening.
Levy County home owners, when Gov. Scott was campaigning, he promised to bring 80,000 new jobs to Florida. What he really meant was he was going to bring 80,000 cows to Florida to finish off the springs and rivers.
The Divided
For some time now, there have been banners set up around the county, with the words, "Levy County Sheriffs Office Employees Support Bobby McCallum for Sheriff".
The Chiefland Area Athletic Association needs your help. We are getting ready to host our 19th Annual Halloween Carnival on Oct. 27. The event will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Strickland Park.
Dear Editor,
Yard signs stolen—dirty politics
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