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In reply to a woman’s inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, “A Republic, ma’am, if you can keep it.”

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Entries Tagged as 'Health'

MRSA in Gulf Coast Schools Is Being Ignored

October 26th, 2007 2 Comments

If you are a parent and have not heard of the drug-resistant form of staph known as MRSA running through the school systems of America, then you have been hiding under a rock! The story really got going when a student from the school district The Bull himself graduated from, (Bedford County, VA.), died as [...]

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A Bull out on a Limb

May 1st, 2007 6 Comments

Well, here is something you don’t see every day. A Bull out on a limb - a very thin limb!

As you know, if you’ve read this blog long enough, The Bull suffers from my health related problems. Most of these problems involve the spine and the spinal cord. The short version is limited physical strength [...]

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More on the Foot

December 11th, 2006 1 Comment

Do you ever get the feeling that somehow you just can’t get things right?

That’s the way I feel about surgeries. I seem to pull through each one - even the really dangerous ones - just fine. I follow every request of my doctors to the letter. Yet somehow during the healing process something always goes [...]

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Where The Bull Has Been Lately

October 26th, 2006 6 Comments

Over the last number of days the weather here in Mobile, Alabama has been remarkable. the sky, for the most part, has been a beautiful ‘Carolina Blue’. Rain has fallen in proper measure leaving everything smelling clean. Cool days and very cool nights, though nothing what I’d call ‘cold’. Still enough ‘Mountain Man’ within me [...]

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Ol’ Floppy-Toe

August 24th, 2006 No Comments

As some of you know I have been fighting with an open wound in my one remaining big toe, (lost the left one several years ago), for two years. Today a doctor finally made a decision on what is causing this thing to refuse to heal.

It is the way my foot moves - or rather [...]

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