Author: rugby843

I am a widow since 2013 and live by myself in a small apartment. I use a wheelchair to get around, but I wouldn't consider myself disabled. I'm 11 years away from having bladder cancer resulting in a urostomy and I'm doing well. This cancer was a result of having radiation in 1995 because of uterine cancer. So have faith in yourself, a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. My first try at blogging was an attempt to help other people with my condition. I am a mother of three married children, and a grandmother to eight gorgeous kids, featuring them often here, and a great grandmother to two as of today, 6/7/25! I enjoy exploring my feelings and like to try the challenges. I like humor, music, movies, games, and some sports. I absolutely appreciate your reading and commenting on my blog. I am happy to read all of your blogs and learn more about you. Please comment however you like, ask whatever, and I'll answer honestly. Thanks for reading! Cheryl

Why is this being downplayed?

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
https://www.pressrundown.com/

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“US officials from the White House, state department and Pentagon have all warned Russia and North Korea against deploying North Korean troops in battle. If they did, Blinken said, they would become a “legitimate military target”.”

“Ukraine’s president had earlier warned that North Korean troops could join the fight against Ukraine “within days” and that the deployment was meant to be a test of the US’s and South Korea’s responses.”

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/roth-andrew

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🦇No Theme Thursday🕸️🕷️

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
🎃🎃🎃
It was of course, a dark and stormy night. All hallows eve and the weeds and trees were swaying fitfully in the cold wind. Even the moon shared only part of its light because it knew there was going to be trouble.
The city was still busy even as the lightning storm blew through the streets. A mysterious helicopter was searching for someone, or some thing…Hidden in the basement of one of these buildings, was an experiment gone wrong. Look away, I beg you!
The man lying there was desperate. He offered to be a guinea pig for an experimental operation. He was having unbearable headaches and his body was getting thin and his limbs bony. He could not seem to stop this deterioration and the headaches were driving him mad. He stumbled into the basement office, noticing the place was dimly lit and cold. He laid on the gurney as the doctor asked and received an injection to make him partially unaware. He barely felt the cuts into his skull, but when the doctor started putting screws into his neck is when he suddenly awoke. He leapt off the table and ran to the mirror. Even the helicopter pilot heard his screams.

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Thank you Kevin for the images!👻

No Theme Thursday: 10.31.24

Writing Prompts

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
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It might have been the usual

A few drinks, a bed, some fun

Admittedly sounds tawdry

But no harm done

We opened the door

After kisses not light

Then fireworks came

I tried to fight, because

This wasn’t right

I’m free, untethered

My modus operandi

No strings for me

Comes in handy

He surrounded me softly

I wasn’t used to that

And the fireworks

Might be costly

I was the love ‘em leave ‘em type

Now realizing all that hype

Wasn’t…

this.

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Writing Prompts