More hot and more humid. Quantity and quality. We did get some clouds yesterday, with the occasional drop or two hitting the windshield, depending on where you were in town. We even had thunder and lightning in the late evening. The east coast may even get a hurricane in a few days. Good times, right?
I did some of what I needed to do. One pickup. Contact with two potential buyers for the stuff I’ve got on craigslist. Some time at my buddy’s shop. Figured out why there was no power– 5 dunning notices, culminating in disconnection were sitting at the bottom of the mailbox. I guess I’ll be getting an account set up myself.
Kids’ first day of school went well. They both have friends in classes and they can eat together at lunch. D2 has math in the same class as D1’s bestie. Kid is up two grades in math, since elementary school, and she’s keeping up. She’s got a lot on her schedule with band, theater, and debate…
Today I’ll be doing two more pickups on the other side of town, and making a run past my secondary location. I’ve also got some office stuff to do, and some more domestic bliss. And it’s kid taxi day too.
It’s all good. Still leaves time for stacking.
Which everyone should be doing, right?
nick
School brings the corporate relos out of the woodwork. IIRC, everyone has 30 days after school starts to get Texas tags.
The Sheriff sets up plate checks at the beginning of September.
“Over a hundred computers in the average car or truck. Each subassembly has its own computer. I think that the F-150 is about 120 or 130 computers.”
Every one with more computational power than Armstrong had to fly to the moon.
Must be some really tight code.
Driving home from work yesterday, my wife saw a raging vehicle fire in the opposite direction on the freeway.
Tesla.
She said the firefighters were standing back, watching the vehicle burn.
My iPhone has more computational power than all the computers, including ground based, that were used to send a man to the moon.
I doubt it. The really tight code was the code used in the Apollo computers. Read up on it. Amazing technology for its time. The concepts that were implemented in the OS were cutting edge.
The code had to be hard wired in magnetic core memory. Absolute reliability was important.
Maybe the engine and transmission control software, but the “infotainment” system is usually Hot Skillz involving outsourced or H1B labor.
OTOH, GM has experienced trouble getting their transmission control software to work on the ten speed hardware they developed with Ford. About five years ago, before the pandemic kabuki started, Allison signs sprouted on buildings around the GM plant freeway exit in Arlington like mushrooms in a forest after a rain storm.
I wonder if the transmission software development group was at the GM tech center here in town.
Americans generally need not apply except for new college grads.
Jaguar Land Rover “infotainment” development was in Portland. I went for an interview about a dozen years ago, but, since it was obvious I wouldn’t get hired, about midway through the hour, the conversation got more relaxed and some truths came out about where they were headed — the hiring manager was not thrilled.
The big JLR dealer on toll road exit for Apple employees dropped the ‘J’ a couple of years ago, even before sales collapsed 90%.
Something is burning so hot the concrete barrier turns pink. I’ve seen a lot of those lately.
n
80F and sunny. Yep, gonna be hot. Coffee and tea in place. Breakfast in my belly. Kids off to school.
Not quite ready to start my day though.
n
Something went wrong with the coffee I made this morning. I ground about the same amount of beans and put about the same amount of water into the machine but it came out watery. The only thing that makes sense is that the CIA snuck in and messed with my coffee maker. Or maybe it was the Joos. Or the Quakers. Can’t trust them Quakers.
@SteveF
check the rubber in your wallet for pinholes
Probably the same strike team that snuck into my house yesterday morning and pressed the button again on the machine and overflowed the mug.
Or Scott Adam’s “Prince of Heck”.
Have any of the dying papers reinstated his column?
No. Adams committed career suicide, and the managerial class in the US doesn’t want “Dilbert” calendars and strips back on cubicle walls.
Don’t forget the Amish! You know who.
Nissan is hawking its “solid state battery is 2 years away” mantra again. I forget how many times they said that. 1,000km range and charge to 100% in 15-20 minutes, 80% in 10.
The solid state battery will be available a year after economically viable hydrogen fusion hits the market and provides all the electricity we need.
There is never any word about the cost.
Nuclear fusion power is still 20 years away – and HAS BEEN “20 years away” for the last 50 years. There’s no sign that anything is changing.
Like everything else, if you have to ask about the cost, you can’t afford it.
“1,000km range and charge to 100% in 15-20 minutes, 80% in 10.”
footnote is probably “assuming vehicle is within 10m of 50kv generator of adequate capacity and super-conducting charge cable is used
He should talk to the New York Post about their scheduled launch of the California Post, maybe do an exclusive three or six months run.
Not like either has anything to lose.
I can see the big introductory billboard on the I-80 now: “Tell Gavin that Dilbert is coming for him – and that Heck is riding with him!”
Stupid USAA, as in really stupid. There is no phone number to contact those people to inquire about a policy. The phone numbers on their website want a PIN. Hello, I am no a member, I have no PIN. Five minutes going through their merry go-round phone tree is enough. Are businesses truly that stupid when trying to get new customers?
That is a LOT of power and would require some really large cables or really high voltages, as in touch the contacts you become nothing more than vapor.
TVA shut down a coal fired plant. DOE is using the facility to get started on a nuclear fusion plant. Same thing they started 30 years ago where the solution is just 20 years away. I suspect this plant will still be 20 years away from achieving controlled fusion by the time my grand children are retired.
Personally I think the plant is nothing more than a way to keep local contractors involved. Especially those friends of DOE personnel who approve the contracts. A lot of people are showing at the plant as indicated by the 4:30 PM traffic rush. All of them drawing paychecks, perhaps 30% of them working 50% of the time.
I got over being mad and I called USAA again last night. Talked to a very nice lady in Florida. They sent the renewal for the house insurance and they want $2757. Fixed amount deductible is $5000. They say the house is worth 480,000 and will not go lower than $372,000 for replacement. They certainly will not go down to 200,000.
They have never seen the house. They go by what other homes in the area are valued at. Sorry, looking at what is on Zillow and the ilk isn’t actually a good way to run a business in my arrogant opinion.
That $372,000 is the gone to Kansas via tornado value. If the house is destroyed so bad I’ve lost everything I own, I won’t be rebuilding. Pull in a doublewide or get a couple of the two story sheds Home Depot sells and set them face to face and connect them with a hallway wide enough to be a nice sized living room. I have ideas. Perhaps not the best ideas but I got ’em.
I raised the deductible to 10,000. Their max limit. That dropped the annual premium from $2757 to $2129.
I’m too chicken to go without insurance. Yet. Maybe when I hit 80.
But you’re not afraid to go without PANTS…
n
I called USAA just now. They don’t have a “direct number”. You have to go through the robot system. If you don’t have a PIN because duh, you are not a member, the robot will eventually ask what do you need. “New policy” got me to a human.
The robot is trying to sort calls to the right department. Because USAA has auto insurance. House insurance. Credit cards. Banking stuff. All different companies.
1-210-531-8722 is the number I have in my phone.
Different kinds of running naked, ya know?
They have started using automation as much as possible. Probably a money saver. During our condo claims, I did it through their web system. I talked to a person once and only because I requested it. In the end we got every penny owed, but talking to a real person sped up the process. I’ve used their app for every car crunch for 5 years. It is pretty helpful uploading photos and such. USAA went to bat for me when MrsAtoz and I got crunched in El Paso on a gig. Turned out the other guy was a Mexican national with some fly-by-night insurance that kept leaving me messages to sue me. I forwarded them to USAA and then never heard anything again.
The also own The Hartford which is our biz liability insurance.
That is the number that I used. Apparently because I got their credit card, (spend $500 in 30 days, get $150 rebate) I have an account. I have no idea what the PIN would be as I never set a pin. The system asks for my SS number, but says that it does not recognize the number. Then it is back to asking for the PIN. I cannot dial by extension because, duh, I don’t know their extensions. I guess their system has my phone number so the system thinks I should know everything about their company.
I tried again online. I found a user ID that I guess I had at one time. I started an auto quote. They knew about my current policy with Acuity. But my wife’s name is incorrect. I could not find a way to correct the name. Their online quoting process will not allow the addition of my trailer, personal liability and additional personal property (cameras and such). I guess I need a human, which I have found no way to reach.
Probably does not make much difference. Their rates for the two vehicles alone was more than my Acuity policy for everything. USAA renews every six months which provides them more opportunity to raise rates. My current carrier runs an entire year for everything, one payment. This year the increase was $500.00 for everything which includes a much more expensive truck.
I don’t know how well Acuity pays on claims, but they have fairly good reviews. I looked at reviews for USAA, not so good. Of course these people are probably like me and only bitch and fume when things don’t go their way. I know that with Acuity I have been able to talk to real people, even the IT guy when there was an issue on the website.
Apparently USAA is multiple policies for everything. One for the vehicles and possibly home. Then the RV is another policy probably with another company. The liability is another policy through another company. Personal property is another company. I don’t want three different policies. Quite inconvenient. My current carrier is one policy for everything. Quite convenient.
And I finally found a live person on chat with USAA. It took multiple steps, acting like a current customer. Gack. Whomever designs these systems apparently never use the systems.
The USAA RV insurance is through Progressive. Just no, as in HELL NO! Progressive will pay about 80% of the value and then tell people if they don’t like it, sue them.
“Over a hundred computers in the average car or truck. Each subassembly has its own computer. I think that the F-150 is about 120 or 130 computers.”
Every one with more computational power than Armstrong had to fly to the moon.
Must be some really tight code.
Both Ford and Toyota have said that their engine management code is over 30 million lines of C code.
I shepherd about 1.3 million lines of C++ and Fortran code. I cannot even imagine 30 million lines of C code. Much worse than herding cats. I cannot even imagine how many process threads there are.
One of my friends works on a NAS (300+ TB disk drives using SSDs) system for a three letter company. He says that they have to do everything themselves, no BIOS.
One reason for the high cost of the solid state batteries is the charging cables will have ½” pure silver conductors. They’ll be replaced when room-temperature superconductors hit the consumer market.
Gee, tweakers already break into vacant houses to steal a few feet of copper pipe.
Who’s going to guard those charging cables 24/7?
Just 30 years away.
as originally written:
“Must be some really tight code/sarc”
Didn’t think it needed the tag.
“Texas oil giants plot enormous Gulf oil well surpassing 40,000 feet”
https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/texas-oil-well-occidental-chevron-20817448.php
“The depth of the so-called “Bandit” rig would break a record.”
Uh, have they not read “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth” by Jules Verne ? Or “At The Earth’s Core” by Edgar Rice Burroughs ?
BREAKING: That Guy Arrested for Assaulting Federal Agent? He Was DOJ Attorney
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/14/breaking-that-guy-arrested-for-assaulting-ice-officers-he-was-doj-attorney-n3805809
I looked at the photo. The header should read:
BREAKING: That Gay Arrested for Assaulting Federal Agent? He Was DOJ Attorney
Really curious what division he worked in.
I called USAA again and hopefully not for another year.
The robot system sent me to the credit card departmant. He transferred me to where I needed.
I was getting a paper bill and mailing a check. They offer paying by credit card. So I called Discover and asked for a limit increase. Geeze, she cranked my limit to $8000 from $3200. I guess that FICO stuff matters a bit.
Then I found out USAA doesn’t take Discover. So much for getting 1% cashback. Ok, use my visa debit card that hits checking directly. That works, I just have to pay attention to transferring from Savings Checking.
I got an HEB card. No annual fee. 1.5 % cash back. 5% off of store brands… pretty much anything if the UPC starts with 41220 no matter from “Economax” all the way up to “Central Market”. No, I haven’t taken the time to see if I get both discounts at the same time. I assume I do. They raised my limit to $8000 a couple of months ago. From $2000. I guess that FICO stuff is real.
One more call to USAA to change the card they charge. Her “Would I like this done now or wait until September 10th?” Me “Oh, hit me now, like Fred Sanford says, Elizabeth I’m coming to join you!”.
She got the joke and laughed. I now have a pending charge along with $39.xx cashback.
So the card works. I’m paying a month early. But I’m going to pay anyway. Might as well get it over with.
I was about to go re-pot the last two plants but my Bovine Buddies are in the back yard. Tomorrow…..
Talking to a Computer? If it doesn’t recognize what you want, saying “AGENT” will frequently break you out of the voicemail jail. You might need to say it several times.
“Representative” and “person” frequently work too. Some systems also react to swear words by transferring the call to a human…
I have been known to swear at telephone robots, like “I WANT TO TALK TO A F***ING HUMAN BEING!”
Alley Oop: We Live Inside Rocks Like Civilized People
https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2025/08/14
Ok, that is cute.
Long before Git, in the late 90s, GM developed decentralized version control for the Northstar engine control software which could accomodate 10,000+ developers simultaneously.
Once they were done developing the engine, GM/EDS sold licenses to the version control code to various companies, including GTE where I encountered it. The system was way ahead of its time, but it was ultimately a piece-o-cr*p.
Linus got the concept right with Git and that tool ate the world.
GM coulda been a contenda …
Imagine 10,000 developers on a Fortune 50 company project in the Late 90s, just when DEI and quota-based hiring was getting cranked up.
A lot of those projects were pieces-o-cr*p too so the management wouldn’t even blink at bad revision control as long as both the hookers and steaks were hot.
It didn’t. The system instead responded with questions about what I was needing an agent. Typing AGENT again brought up the same stuff. I then clicked on one of the options. That brought me back to the AI prompt, basically where I started.
Not with USAA. Same as typing AGENT. Although I did not use upper case.
I will not consider USAA for the primary reason that their RV, liability, and personal effects policies are with another company. RV with Progressive! I have already stated my views. I don’t want to deal with three different insurance companies. If I wreck my truck, while towing my trailer, with my cameras inside, the claim process would be a mess. USAA may do OK but I cannot speak for the other companies and one of them is a sorry-ass piece of fecal matter.
I was rear-ended by a guy, probably 25 years ago. His carrier was Progressive. They nickel and dimed everything. The driver’s seat broke, $7K to replace the seat (8 way power, heated and cooled). Progressive was only willing to pay $2K and wanted to get a seat out of a wrecked vehicle. I balked and eventually Progressive totaled the vehicle for about 80% of what the KBB and NADA stated the value for a vehicle in good condition. I found two other identical vehicles on used car lots and gave progressive a copy of those window stickers. Progressive said my car was in poor condition because ………………. drum roll please …………………….. the car had been wrecked and wasn’t worth as much as what KBB and NADA stated.
I pitched a fit and demanded arbitration. Progressive said fine, use our arbitrators. If I don’t like it, sue them and their high priced lawyers.
Meanwhile, my insurance company, Travelers, sat back and said the other driver was at fault thus his insurance needed to take care of the problem and not Travelers as Travelers was not the responsible party. Underinsured coverage was not applicable because the other guy had enough insurance. It was Progressive that did not want to pay. Travelers said that is between me and Progressive.
And that got you the porn channel?
Now, I’m not saying that we should kill insurance execs… but I’d understand. /chrisrock
Was this back when the Geico Gecko had a big stake in Travelers?
The Gecko drifts in and out of Travelers stock since the days when he essentially ran Salomon Smith Barney for a year, but in states where he is required to offer homeowners in order to sell auto, Geico resells Travelers through their insurance agency.
The Gecko loves him the insurance float.
“Zelensky’s Impossible Demands: NATO Membership, $1 Trillion in Reparations Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit”
https://thelibertydaily.com/zelenskys-impossible-demands-nato-membership-1-trillion-reparations/
So not gonna happen.
BC: Drug Testing
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2025/08/14
Eeek ! Not this boy !
Over The Hedge: A Furry Lawyer
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/08/14
Oh my goodness !
“Father of Twenty?!?!”
https://areaocho.com/father-of-twenty/
“A man in Atlanta, father of 20 children, was shot and killed while in the commission of an armed robbery of an armed person who had just gotten off of a Greyhound bus. An obvious failure in his victim selection process. Hundreds of people showed up to mourn him. Here is a picture of ten of his kids at the memorial:”
“The man’s family is blaming guns and demanding that the state not allow people to defend themselves with legally carried firearms. They are also saying that Greyhound should not allow people to carry guns on their buses.”
Of course, the family wants to get rid of legal guns.
“NASA Accelerates Moon Base Plans With 100-Kilowatt Nuclear Reactor to Outpace China”
https://thelibertydaily.com/nasa-accelerates-moon-base-plans-100-kilowatt-nuclear/
“(Natural News)—If you thought the Apollo missions were impressive, buckle up: NASA’s interim director, Sean Duffy, just unveiled plans to not only return astronauts to the moon but to stay there… permanently.”
“In a bold move to secure American dominance in space, Duffy announced an accelerated timeline for deploying a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030, a critical step toward establishing a sustainable moon base and, eventually, launching missions to Mars. The stakes? Beating China in a new space race while harnessing the moon’s ice reserves for fuel and survival.”
“Solar power won’t cut it on the moon. With lunar nights lasting two Earth weeks, solar panels would be useless for half the month. That’s why NASA is pivoting to nuclear energy. Originally planning a 40-kilowatt reactor, the agency is now pushing for a 100-kilowatt system, which is enough to power a small lunar outpost.”
Finally, some common sense.
@Greg Norton
I’m so glad you didn’t have a photo of that–I’d be flossing my eyes about now.
I know a guy (internet “know”; never met him in person) who works for a law office. Paralegal, maybe; he mostly does research and crunches numbers. It’s mainly a plaintiffs’ attorney office, focusing on suing health and auto insurance companies to pay what they’re contracted to. He agrees that most plaintiffs’ attorneys are scum but insurance companies are bigger scum and wouldn’t pay out without the threat of legal action. From what I’ve seen and heard, I can’t disagree.
This month’s electric bills arrived. Interesting to me. The price just for having a meter went up from a year ago. The rest fluctuates. All you can really track is kWh used.
EDC used 407 kWh hours versus 404 kWh last year. But I installed Starlink in May. Pretty much “in range” of “no freezer or the fridge or the a/c are failing” and sunny days do take more a/c.
The house, I don’t know. 537 kWh hours this month versus 637 kWh hours last year. I think I’m cooking (or not) as much as last year. What changed? New fake wood (the laminate stuff) flooring in the living room to replace the carpet is all I can think of. The underlayment foam is rated R4. I cranked the a/c down a lot while they were installing and they were in and out a lot while working.
So, give it a few months to see if the R4 underlayment makes a difference versus foam padding covered with carpet. Right?
It’s hard to tell by feet if the new floor is warmer or cooler than the parquet wood in the dining room or the carpet in the bedroom. They just feel different.
Anyway. I have a phone number from a friend of a friend and (networking baby!!!) another friend and he does the spray foam insulation. I have no idea what that costs. About half of the house is not insulated under the floors. I guess they ran out of time or money or give a dam. Shrug. And I never got motivated to do it myself.
The house had no skirting. Just some lattice make pretty crap. I covered that up with tarpaper to stop the cold wind under the house. Big diff. Then I re-skirted the house with hardi board. Total air block. I have a couple of gaps I can open and close so it stays dry under the house.
Just for curiosity, I’m going to wait to call him. I want to track a few more months of electricity usage. And that will give numbers of “kWh used” versus “price of spray foam insulation”.
Just added power service to my buddy’s old shop. It’s month to month, no penalties, no contracts, no minimums. $10 plus usage at $0.22 /kwh. Taxes and fees will probably bring it to $20/mo.
n
FAFO:
ICE Crashes Newsom’s Press Conference
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/14/ice-crashes-newsom-press-conference-n2661855
Good. Let’s do the French Laundry next.
Noem Reveals How Many Illegal Aliens Have Self Deported
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/08/14/noem-reveals-how-many-illegal-aliens-have-self-deported-n2661861
Story is incorrect. Her post on “X” says 1.6 million. That’s a start, and sand in the faces of the “experts”.
“Is Starlink’s $5 ‘Standby Mode’ Actually a Great Bargain?”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/is-starlinks-5-standby-mode-actually-a-great-bargain
“Despite complaints, some Starlink users view Standby Mode as an affordable, albeit very slow, way to access the internet on the go. However, don’t count on it as a long-term solution.”
“On Wednesday, the company introduced Standby Mode for Starlink. It caused some controversy because it replaces the free “Pause” function that many customers on the Starlink Roam plan used to temporarily pause service (and monthly bills). To them, Standby Mode is a price hike.”
“Still, some Starlink customers are eyeing Standby Mode as the ideal way to get cheap, basic internet access in areas without strong wireless connectivity. Although Standby Mode restricts satellite speeds to a measly 0.5Mbps, it’s only $5 per month and offers “unlimited” data. That’s a major discount from the other Starlink Roam plans, which cost $165 per month or $50 per month for 50GB of data.”
Just added power service to my buddy’s old shop. It’s month to month, no penalties, no contracts, no minimums. $10 plus usage at $0.22 /kwh. Taxes and fees will probably bring it to $20/mo.
Houston or BOL ?
Torrents.
Plus, UUCP networks are attracting interest again, secured using ssh.
“California Again Rejects Starlink Launch Increase, But It Might Not Matter”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/california-again-rejects-starlink-launch-increase-but-it-might-not-matter
“The California Coastal Commission unanimously votes against increasing Falcon 9 launches to 100 per year. A US military loophole will probably allow them anyway.”
“At Thursday’s hearing, neither SpaceX nor US Space Force representatives showed up, likely because the military sidestepped the commission by classifying the Falcon 9 launches as a federal activity. The launches at Vandenberg base have involved both Starlink and Starshield, a military-grade version of the satellite internet service.”
Wait, Starshield ? I have never heard of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
There was an article that confirmed that many IVR systems (phone tree) will respond to anger and profanity by immediately routing your call to a live person.
I have tried it many times and it usually works.
n
SF Teachers Get a Warning: Leave Your Politics Out of the Classroom
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/08/14/sf-teachers-get-a-warning-leave-your-politics-out-of-the-classroom-n3805826
My last two years of high school were booked solid.
My response would have been “How would you like a lawsuit?”
Re: starshield.. I guess we know for sure that starlink (some of it anyway) has look down and intelligence applications…
n
OK, my neighbor who has the miniature shetland pony, alpacas, and the kangaroo on her two acres has surfaced. They are cute!
Our current HOA board is trying to get rid of her non horses. She is fighting to keep them. We are replacing two of our five HOA directors next week. The fight is getting louder and louder.
The current HOA board just released a new set of guidelines today, a 43 page single spaced document. The old guidelines were 11 pages. What a bunch of Karens !
Re: starshield.. I guess we know for sure that starlink (some of it anyway) has look down and intelligence applications…
Starshield appears to be separate satellites. From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
“As of 2025, at least 183 Starshield satellites have been launched, with the latest batch of 22 satellites being launched in April 2025 as part of NROL-145.”
More like Priyas.
Or Fatimas.
Two of the Colonist class were in the next cube at work yesterday discussing how to get kids into the elementary schools they aren’t zoned to attend. The problem with the “good” schools in Round Rock is that they tend to be in older neighborhoods like mine where the houses are small and … used.
They were discussing the problem in Hindii (?), but I caught the gist. Fancy Lad is a universal language.
I presume the 2 replacement HOA board members will assist in rolling back the changes?
ADDED:
I would probably parse the rules and figure out if a demo derby 50’s Chebby on blocks would better pass as a planter or a mailbox. Or maybe sky-mount for a flagpole.
I saw an ARNP of the Club Hijab demographic at a walk in clinic at the beginning of July for an infection on the back of my knee.
She coded the visit ineptly so I ended up getting charged $300, which I assumed was out-of-network and paid using my HSA.
Yesterday, a check arrived in the mail refunding $200 from the management office of the clinic.
Apparently there are sometimes one or two included in a normal Starlink launch.
Nobody talks about that much, but it is said that the “tell” is that the sometimes count of Starlinks aboard a F9, which # they publish, is shorter than usual, because the Starshield’s are “secret” and not counted for public announcements.
I guess you could watch the dispensing in orbit (if you had that kind of worldwide surveillance) and compare to published numbers.
Dunno.
“Apparently there are sometimes one or two included in a normal Starlink launch”
High Frontier CrackerJacks.
The Powers that Be are gearing up for war.
n
The Powers that Be are gearing up for war.
Yes. Is this 1938 or 1940 ???
Trump is about to cut a deal with Putin.
Rule of Acquisition 125.
Trump is about to cut a deal with Putin.
Rule of Acquisition 125.
Who is dead, Trump or Putin ?
I am now a patient at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The Internal Medicine staff are arguing if they want to see me now or wait six months to do another MRI ? CT ? test to see if the 0.4 cm nodule in my lungs changes. They already have a report on me from the cardiologist that a radiologist looked at and recommended reimaging six months from August 4. I suspect that the six monthers are going to win as the report is good enough for now even though they have yet to see me.
https://www.mdanderson.org/
Luckily, I turned 65 a couple of months ago and am on regular Medicare now so I can choose any place that I want to go to. The Obamacare HMO that I was on before specially forbade me going to M. D. Anderson, Methodist Hospital, St. Lukes, etc. Oh, and my cardiologist who immediately tested the hound out of me when I came back after two years.
I have three of the five bad history items related to lung cancer:
But, I am not a smoker and there is just one nodule. But it was not there three years ago.
M. D. Anderson actually has a paper on the subject. They say don’t worry about nodules.
https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/lung-nodules–what-you-need-to-know.h00-159703068.html
@lynn, that sounds like good news. Sorta? Wait and see has its own set of difficulties.
n