Thunder Road – Doctor, My Eyes

Thunder Road – Doctor, My Eyes was Originally Posted on November 4, 2011 by lavarock

We have had a lot of rain recently, which also means mud crossing the road to my driveway. County trucks were out scraping mud and rocks off the highway in Captain Cook.

I can sympathize with those people in the northern part of the 48 having to deal with snow. Why we had snow again last night. Without even looking, I knew. You see, living neearer to the equator than 49 other states, we rarely get thunder. When we do, we know that the cold air up on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa is creeping down and mixing with our normally warm air, causing thunder. Add t othat the rain and there you go, snow.

It is a light dusting and not enough to be able to bring lots to the beach and make snowmen, but snow none-the-less.

We start the Kona Coffee Festival tonight and I hope to participate this year in the parade at least. I hear that we do not have a lantern parade, but may be wrong.

I am still picking and processing coffee. This first year of crop from the new trees will be light, but one of my customers is already taking all of the first picking. In a blind test, he liked it better than another award-winning coffee. Of course each persons taste is different, yet it is still quite a nice feeling and my tasting of the crop was a joy also. Of course, I’m partial :-).

Recently I had my female Labradors hips checked and they passed. Today I will take her to the canine Opthama… Optomitr.. err canine eye doctor who specializes in canine eye issues and will submit her report to the CERF, the Canine Eye Registration people. This is the last step before I can breed her. She just came out of season and will be 2 years old in July, so on about her birthday she will be in season and I think I have her suitor all picked out.

Those of you who followed the link I posted recently to the PSA with the puppies in it, the father of those puppies is the one I’m considering for Olena. The video won first place in the contest, by the way.

Finally, I have been following the Conrad Murray trial and the jury starts it deliberations today. I thought the prosecution did a good job and the defense was lacking. I feel sorry for the doctor because I think he is a deer in the headlights. I think he was sorely lacking as a doctor, even before the trial when I heard he was giving a hypnotic used for operations in a residence. You see movies and TV shows where there is a hospital inside the home of some billionare and there is an operating room with oxygen tanks and iron lungs and so on. You nod that that scenerio, though odd, would at least be kinda safe, but you imagine a nurse or second doctor would be helpful also. Then you hear about this case and what was done and not done and shiver. I may well have had Propofol when I was on Oahu a few months ago and would nevr want that given me outside of a hospital setting, and I feel it is very safe. Yet many people have troubles with a general even at hospitals. There are always multiple people there just in case.

In any event, I expect they will find him guilty. Even so, he will spend less than the maximum 4 years in jail and could get as little as home detention with monitoring.

I am not a Michael Jackson fan although I played the records when I was DJing. It appeaars he had an addiction problem and was not getting the help he needed. Regardless of whether Michael was a star or not, the trial should have happened. I think the doctor was wrong and should be punished.