that ol HIV test

Negative on HIV and HEP C.........whewww

well in the ongoing mystery bump saga, had to do some "blood work" which means an hiv /hep c test last week and had to wait a whole week to get results to schedule a surgery for my bumpie bump........

that was a long week, even doe i had an HIV test 3 years ago and i been with steady girlfriends ya just never know, so all good

had to stop the doc after i got the results to let out a week long "whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" then we could continue.......

i have been having some rather sharp ear pain, so since i was down there, i asked about it, a new doc did an ear exam and said it looked weird, another resident came in and said that the bump didnt feel right, like not a tumor even doe, the bioposy said it was that benign thingie labobbie........

so we tring some new shit...........augmentine........a super hard core peniclin derivitive and some steroids to see if it clears up in 2 weeks that would be the best scenerio...........after one pill doe iam starting to feel reduction.......thats good, this was my 10th trip to ucla harbor medical center.

i had looked this up, and what they think it might be is a super infection or possibly a partoid gland abcess......keep your fingers crossed and call jebus for me...........

peace
Dash

printed...........dec 6th........

handmade print show at crewest on Dec 6th, come thru and see what we do........

plans are to burn the show down.........

Dash and his mystery bump

yo..........

so i havnt been speaking on this much, but i have had a bit of a medical issue as of late..........

about a year and half ago, i started having pain in my right jaw....inability to open my mouth and talk shit all the way, headaches bla bla lifes tough get a helment......right

well, i went to a couple urgent cares, a couple denists and finally an oral surgeon, who hipped me that i should see an ENT.........

well sounds great, but i dont have fucking insurance thanks to this wonderful country and its ass healthcare system..........

but i called up the ENT that was refered to me at UCLA SM.......and they said just to see dude was 1400 bucks.........i cant and will not afford that........so i said to the lady "what would you do if you didnt have insurance".........

she said go to UCLA MEDICAL CENTER torrance...........

Now, i been to country facilities when i was shot and basically it wasnt the best experience ever, fucking graff in the elevators, handcuffed inmates in the next bed you get the picture.

but i was in pain so i went to the urgent care and they gave me a referal to the dudes at the ENT dept.......(this is key cause the oral surgeon that o.g went to would have taken 2 months), with the referal from urgent care i was in 1 week.........

now the interesting part.........

the area that was giving me pain was whats called the parotid gland.......a big fucking gland that produces saliva and does a bunch of other shit i guess, but it was acting the fuck up...........

possible causes for my symtopms sorta leaned to what they call a stone blocking the duct.........basically a calcified stone get stuck in the bowling alley to your mouth and all kinda bad shit happens

next visit they felt some hard mass at the edge of my jaw by the ear..........that aint so good.........any mass could be a grip of shit, and none of it good.........could be a abcess could be cancerous tumor could be just a tumor..........hahaha arnold pops into my head of course "its not a tumor"..........hahhhahah

anyways, UCLA ENT fucking rocks..........they kinda fucked up on giving me 3 CT scans in a row when they should have been doing the MRI's but whatever..........finally got the MRI..........in a big ass trailor btw

had to come back for results and sure enough...............4 cm tumor of the parotid gland...........thats not so hot..........but even doe iam having pain they wanted to see what it was, only way to do that.............FNA..........CT guided fine needle aspiration..........yep its gonna suck as bad as it sounds ladies.......

went in, iam on like week 6 by now............but whatever got the FNA and that shit hurt like a mother fucker..........even with the dope and extra dope and signing waivers for even more dope, i still felt it.........

basically what they do is put a grid on your face mark it with a pen, then do the CT scan, then they start puting this "FINE" needle into your face slowly stopping to reguide by doing more CT images........takes about 30 mintues.........in out pokie pokie and then yoru done..........

NOW this part sucks.........waiting for the results.........and yall know me, i do research, and there is a bunch of shit it can be........15 kinda tumors, abcesses, this that the other pathalogy bla bla bla.........its a brain fuck via wiki.........

But whatever the brain is a powerful thing and i kinda resigned myself to expect the worst, cause with the pain the prognosis, didnt look that hot, all the shit i read said you got pain you kind fucked...........and of course the life expendency is maybe 20 years out...........not really enough for the kid, i expect to live to 1000.........but hey thats life get a helment........right

well thursday i went in and its pleomorphic adenomas.........the most common form of benign tumor like 84 percent of em.........whooooooooo.......for now.........the FNA aint 100 percent and its a big ass tumor so ya know grabbing cells even from different levels is dicey..........they told me really there is no wayto know until they yank the lil fuck out, which is exactly what i been reading........fucking wiki

so now its oct 24, and i had to do some blood work to make shure i aint go the koodies and i go into get results of that and set a date for a the "excision"......another word for take the fucker out of there via surgery..........

so it is what it is....but i wanted to put this up cause , doing my reserach nobody was really putting it down to what the experinece was "really like".........

its a nail biting scary fuck fest that takes some balls to get thru, but thanks to Fran, my boy TOM and the super pro cats at UCLA medical center torance ENT.......iam gonna pull it.........

the surgery is go in, get put out, they have to take the whole fucking parotid gland out with the tumor and watch the facial nervers that run thru the shit and which have been getting stretched causing the kid some serious fuck you pain.........then spend the night and go home to probably some facial weaknesss and maybe some sly stallone type shit for a week or two.............

Bad things bout the surgery which aint so hot............doc told me there is a chance that the facial nerve can get clipped or strtched out bad enough to keep my right eye permantly open for a while, i was fucking with em and saying "yea whatever i'll just put some duct tape on that shit".......and to my surprise "yea acutally thats exactly what you'll do" fuckkkkkkkkkkkkhahahhah.........

crazy shit ............

anyway that was long as fuck...........but thats what it is..............
be glad it aint your ass.........but hey thats the point of this blog, somebody always got it worst than you and you always got it worst than the next cat right...........

anyway part 2..........peace
Dash.........

no fucking god fridays..........

and now a weekly installation of "natural history".........
understanding history and the natural world via youtube..........very interesting
enjoy
D

late entry.....sister bday

oct 9 was my sisters bday, and by request, i took one of the pics of us from the 80's and made it into a wood burn.  happy bday ang......

enjoy

Dash gives Obama Endorsement today

Los Angeles, October 21st, 2008: 12:20 pm PT 
Los Angeles Times LLC. 

Famed Graffiti Artist, Dash 2000 has thrown his sizable support behind the Obama campaign today, shoring up a long and impressive list of proponents this week. 

The move comes as a slight suprise as the artist is known for his anti religious views, but in quote this morning the graffiti veteran pioneer said this "bush fucked it up so bad i cant vote for another white man". 

In a move reminscent of the collaboration between the weatherman underground and the black panther party the artist sporting a black power comb in his clearly dischevled hair, made several controversial statements at his press conference, including "kill whitey in 08" and "power to the poor people, ohhh and kill whitey" 

Pundits are still out on whether the endorsement will help or hinder the obama campaign to which Mr 2000 said "kill the white media" over a gas powered bull horn on the corner of 5 th and Main street in downtown los angeles. 

energy tech.........

So i been saying this for quite some time, but i heard Tom Friedman echoing the sentiment this week.

The U.S needs to invest in Energy Tech, right now. the economics / environmental and political pitfalls of oil are a fucking disaster, we need to put our gross national brainpower in gear and be the world leader in this arena.

The fact is dash doesn't have any kids, but the rest of you keep on popping em out, increasing the demand for energy, and with the emerging "middle class" in up and coming countries like china, the demand will be even greater.

With the incredible brain power and large concentration of science here, we should be able to make this a booming industry, and by proxy save the fucking earth well save it for us, 1/4 of the mammals will be gone in 25 years, but i digress.

Wind, tidal, solar power are and have been the next big things, and once we make them economically feasible here as opposed to oil and coal, we can export the technology elsewhere.

We don't make anything else here worth a shit, well with the exception of pharmaceuticals, but i think if we all get off the zanax this could be the pivot point for the economy.

course what do i know, iam just some lowely graffiti writer.
Tom Friedman's link
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/

Enjoy

painting at venice

ahhhhhhh super nice day at the venice today......gotta love l.a sometimes, october and 84....ahhhhhh, had some fun with the new style i been tring out, and as always ran out of time via the shitty flick....

enjoy

dash in some trippie documentry

the Lover man found this one today.....totally random

fuck joe six pack

One of the most frustrating things about living in this country is the over all dumbness of the majority, ignorance and the acceptance of the being uniformed has crippled the evolution of the united states. In the latest vice presidential debates it was obvious that palin was playing to the class division of the average joe six pack and the coastal elites. I was quite amazed at how stupid this was, republicans have been notorious for panning to the richest percentage of society and now they are down they are going after the religious / unaware "average American. I dont blame the politicians i dont blame palin or john mccain, i blame the average American that can not see whats happening and are so stupid that they believe the hype and half assed propaganda without question or research.

Is that mean, am i being a snob or an elitist for questioning "joe six packs"intelligence, no iam being realistic. In other countries people strive to be intellectuals, strive to be informed, such is not the case here.

To be 100 iam fucking sick of it, iam sick of having to deal with ignorant uninformed wing nuts that regurgitated un original propaganda and get mad at me for proving them wrong, because i actually do my research.

Its not my fault you have 5 kids and you dont have time to research the issues, its not my fault you don't have the mental capability to fathom the complex issues of the American government. You didnt take civics, or sociology or American history in school, boo hooo, if your not informed get informed, if you don't have the time, do not engage me in a conversation, stay home on election day and stay quiet, because "smart" is in again, and we will no longer coddle ignorance.