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Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 76-81

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted September 3, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • LINER NOTES: Doctors, Bosses, Patients, Siblings, Teens...Deli Meats... Oh my! Captain Sarc Awareness to the Rescue! (please scroll down) (keep scrolling down...sorry) To read Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes ...

HEALTHY AIR!!!!

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted July 29, 2009
  • 15 replies
  • MY name is _______. This is my irreproachable, tearful, heroic, heartfelt journey. I’m sharing this journey with everyone I know so I can help my fellow sufferers on their wellness journeys (and to get ...

The Joy of Cussing

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted June 4, 2009
  • 25 replies
  • WARNING: For the politically correct or the milquetoast enabled, the following journal entry may contain “challenging language” and/or “colorful rustic expletives” that require mature linguistic discretion ...

“You order red dog, you eat red dog!” Shroomsville Experiment UPDATE

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted April 20, 2009
  • 15 replies
  • “You order red dog, you eat red dog!” I’m off the Red Reishi Mushroom bandwagon. It does not work. The only thing it seems to benefit is the person selling it. As you may have read (re-printed below ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 71-75

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted April 7, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • LINER NOTES: Sally continues to play verbal whack-a-mole with the truth and deceptions behind colloidal silver. (please scroll down) (keep scrolling down...sorry) READ NEXT CARTOON >>> To read Rabid Barking ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 65-70

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted April 1, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • LINER NOTES: After an all-to-brief interlude of symptoms, Sally is thrust back into the blender of Sarcoidosis cure-alls. READ NEXT CARTOON >>> To read Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes from the start, Click ...

Screaming Bloody Murder in the Streets and other Medical Advances.

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted March 27, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • (April is National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month) We Americans are a verbose lot, especially in large perturbed groups when we smell an outrageous injustice. Just ask any AIG executive hiding under a manhole ...

Disjointed Thoughts VI

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted February 27, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • Disjointed Thoughts VI For the sixth time, I shall endeavor to dislodge the gritty biddies of my cerebral spackle; scraped, usurped, and shucked from the colon walls of my seething skull oyster; all unabashedly ...

CRAP for a CURE!

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted February 19, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • CRAP for a CURE Now this is cool. This is what happens when Snarky Sarkies get motivated. Our good friend and fellow Snarky Sarkie, Dave Rojo, from the sovereign country of New Jersey, came up with this ...

Snarky Sarkies... Everywhere!

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted February 6, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • The bad news is: There are a lot of Snarky Sarkies out there. The good news is: There are a lot of Snarky Sarkies out there making noise about it! A quick update on the grassroots Snarky Sarkie campaign ...

The Sarcoidosis Fairy Tale Reader

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 28, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • The Sarcoidosis Fairy Tale Reader The Sarkie Princess and the Frog Once upon a time there was a beautiful young Princess, but all she could do was sit by the babbling brook and cough her brains out from ...

“Give us this day, our daily Preds”

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 22, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • Predni-ZONE“Give us this day, our daily Preds” If there is one unequivocal truism that I have learned about Sarcoidosis, it is that the disease is rarely seen in public without its conjoined evil twin ...

"Baby, the Cat is Vibrating!"

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 13, 2009
  • 36 replies
  • "Baby, the Cat is Vibrating!" As most of you will have noted from my signature sign off, my wife and I entertain two dogs, a cat and, of course, my Sarcoidosis. I originally phrased it like that to show ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 64

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 11, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click Here! Read More of TheGardener's Journal Here ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 63

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted December 31, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click Here! Read More of TheGardener's Journal Here ...

How the Grinch Restored Christmas

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted December 16, 2008
  • 15 replies
  • How the Grinch Restored Christmas My son has entered his teenage years and thus, my wife and I are customarily becoming more “stupid” by the moment. We are also so intolerably “un-cool” that we must duck ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 59-62

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted September 18, 2008
  • 15 replies
  • LINER NOTES: Sally visits family. READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click Here! Read More of TheGardener's Journal Here ...

9 . 11 . 2001

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted September 11, 2008
  • 11 replies
  • Our little online community here, the place where we congress at our leisure to gripe, complain, laugh, explore, learn, and make friends; is a fine example of one of our American Freedoms. The freedom ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 50-58

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted August 26, 2008
  • 13 replies
  • LINER NOTES: Sally finally gets the chance to see an actual opthalmologist to check her eyes for Sarc... well, she tries, anyway. READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click ...

Quackery Alert.

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted August 11, 2008
  • 16 replies
  • Heads up people. It is shameful and despicable; but on the coattails of Bernie Mac's death there have been, and will be, all manner of quacks and snake-oil salesmen trying to make a buck off the untimely ...

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