{"id":50505,"date":"2019-05-17T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50505"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:28:42","slug":"immoral-and-barbaric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50505","title":{"rendered":"Immoral and Barbaric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190510_172130-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50506\"\/><figcaption>CBE and visitors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been warm, even hot down the hill. When I went to the Avengers movie, it was 85 when I came out. Largest temperature swing I can recall. It was 66 when I got back to Shadow Mountain. Not a fan of the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate went to the board meeting at CBE last night. She stayed for the whole time, three hours. Her stamina has improved a great deal and she&#8217;s using her rollator less and less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just put the all season tires in the truck. Headed to Stevinson&#8217;s this morning to replace the snow tires and get some dye in the air conditioning system. We&#8217;re gonna fix the air conditioning one way or the other this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, Anova Cancer Care at 12:30. Told Kate yesterday that I want definitive treatment rather than quick treatment. My anxiety level is low. Doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not feeling some stress. Of course I am. Just not projecting outcomes, results. So, Dr. Gilroy, here we come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did see this yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/16\/health\/judge-proton-beam-therapy-recusal-unitedhealthcare\/index.html\">Judge rips insurance company<\/a>:  &#8220;A federal judge blasted UnitedHealthcare last month for its &#8220;immoral and  barbaric&#8221; denials of treatment for cancer patients. He made the  comments in recusing himself from hearing a class-action lawsuit because  of his own cancer battle &#8212; and in so doing thrust himself into a  heated debate in the oncology world.&#8221; The issues are slightly different, but guess which insurance carrier I have?Immo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been warm, even hot down the hill. When I went to the Avengers movie, it was 85 when I came out. Largest temperature swing I can recall. It was 66 when I got back to Shadow Mountain. Not a fan of the heat. Kate went to the board meeting at CBE last night. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immoral and Barbaric<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,23,127,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-geekworld","category-health","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50507,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50505\/revisions\/50507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}