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My Pet Demon
Dem Nodes, Dem Nodes
- By theGardener · Posted September 7, 2007
- 10 replies
- Dem Nodes, Dem Nodes (In my best Lawrence Welk voice) "A wunnerful wunnerful! Tank you too much, the beautiful Bubblecleavage Sisters as dey singa fur us now. Let us alla join in this great old American ...
The Good, The Bad, and The Silly
- By theGardener · Posted September 6, 2007
- 2 replies
- The Good, The Bad, and The Silly Silly. It’s a fun word that even sounds a bit twee phonetically. It’s a little girl in a frilly white dress that blows you a raspberry until she turns purple, and collapses ...
Green Eggs and Sarc
- By theGardener · Posted September 5, 2007
- 1 reply
- Green Eggs and Sarc So I’m feeling kind of bloated and there’s a stitchin’ in my belly up yonder on the left, kinda-sorta under my rib, Holy Nelly! We better get to the emergency room what side is the ...
In Praise of Doctors and other Space Aliens
- By theGardener · Posted September 4, 2007
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- In Praise of Doctors and other Space Aliens On whether theGardener's characterization of physicians is a little…rough: “They’ll get over it." How’s that for bedside manner? I know I have been slapdash ...
Disjointed Thoughts IV
- By theGardener · Posted August 31, 2007
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- Disjointed Thoughts IV For the fourth time now, I have found myself muttering among the leaf-litter of my mental post-it notes and soggy detritus of dog-eared ponderings, only to realize that these random ...
THEY Walk Among Us!
- By theGardener · Posted August 30, 2007
- 12 replies
- THEY Walk Among Us! Hey kids! I just stumbled across this old black and white 1954 science fiction horror film about Sarcoidosis while I was at a garage sale. It was in a musty cardboard box under some ...
Spicy Hot Sarcoidosis
- By theGardener · Posted August 29, 2007
- 1 reply
- Spicy Hot Sarcoidosis Sometimes when I would find myself in the throes of my Sarcoidosis misery; the malaise; the sleepy depression; the times when I would not be surprised at all to find that I was something ...
A Beer with the Almighty
- By theGardener · Posted August 28, 2007
- 32 replies
- A Beer with the Almighty So last Saturday I’m out back in the orchid shack, trimming old growth and spent flower stalks from my little plants, and around noon I decide to take a break at my lavish Wal-Mart ...
Quietly Deleted
- By theGardener · Posted August 27, 2007
- 1 reply
- Quietly Deleted I had a column all ready for today. It was called “The Gardener’s Theory”; my serious attempt to put forth my ideas on Sarcoidois. But after reading it over several times, I quietly deleted ...
A Shortlist of Obnoxious Wanton Sarcoidosis AttentionGetters
- By theGardener · Posted August 24, 2007
- 47 replies
- !!! With all the interest as of late in getting more public attention for Sarc, I thought it might be fun and productive to try and revive this thread and let some of the NEW kids have a whack at it ...
Being Suggestive and other Fetishes
- By theGardener · Posted August 23, 2007
- 3 replies
- Being Suggestive and other Fetishes Anyone who knows me, knows I have a fetish. A word fetish…you there snickering in the back row. Having a fetish is not so unusual, as a matter of fact; my cat has a ...
John Wayne is Dead and Oprah is Busy
- By theGardener · Posted August 22, 2007
- 58 replies
- John Wayne is Dead and Oprah is Busy Just a forewarning, I’m feeling really cynical today. I would like to say that I’m one of those folks that flutter around with gossamer wings; ever positive; ever ...
Fun with Lymph Nodes and Other Home Crafting Ideas.
- By theGardener · Posted August 21, 2007
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- Fun with Lymph Nodes and Other Home Crafting Ideas. Yeah so, It seems I’m writing on this forum again...how’s that for compulsive? I may be feeling chipper again but I am still someone with the Sarcoidosis ...
Damp Pillows, Lemonade, and Fireflies
- By theGardener · Posted August 16, 2007
- 3 replies
- Damp Pillows, Lemonade, and Fireflies Hello all! I thought it might be a good time to check back in with you new and old friends and fill you all in on what I’ve seen since I went over the mountain to ...
And for my next trick…
- By theGardener · Posted February 27, 2007
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- And for my next trick… Well, well... my 50th post. This looks like as good a time as ever to take a sabbatical. After fifty blog entries on the subject of Sarcoidosis one wonders what more can be said ...
How To Get Well: Write it Down
- By theGardener · Posted February 26, 2007
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- How To Get Well: Write it Down I read somewhere that the function of dreaming while asleep is to sort and file all the loose thoughts, feelings, and information that rattles around loose in the mind ...
Vibrator Joy – A Quickie
- By theGardener · Posted February 23, 2007
- 1 reply
- Vibrator Joy – A Quickie Over the past week, my wife and I have discovered the joy of owning a vibrator. Okay, I’ll wait… When you are done snickering, you will let me explain that this is pure over-40-sore-old-bones-and-oh-my-aching ...
Flirting with Remission
- By theGardener · Posted February 21, 2007
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- Flirting with Remission Good news as of late, I seem to be feeling better and better. For one golden day last week, I felt positively Capital! I was taken aback at how alien the feeling of “no symptoms ...
B*tch Moan, B*tch Moan, Cha Cha Cha!
- By theGardener · Posted February 19, 2007
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- B*tch Moan, B*tch Moan, Cha Cha Cha! Anyone tuning into my blog for the first time must take into consideration that this entry might probably be considered “Advanced theGardenerism: proceed with caution ...
Hollywood Sarcoidosis
- By theGardener · Posted February 16, 2007
- 3 replies
- Hollywood Sarcoidosis What better way to increase awareness about our prosaic cause than to inject it with a good dose of the thermonuclear tinsel of Hollywoodism! Thus, submitted for your regalement ...