While I Was Out

As you likely know by now, I'm battling lung cancer. The first part of the battle had me being poked, prodded and scanned. The second is finding the surgeon who'll cut the tumor(s) out of me! That's what we're doing now. Yesterday, we were in Tampa, having a consultation with a great surgeon there, Dr. Lary Robinson. Today, we were closer to home, at the UM/Sylvester Cancer Center to meet with Dr. Dao Nguyen. Also truly impressive. While I was out, we ran abbreviated one-hour programs... The podcasts are posted below. I'll be back tomorrow, and will let you know [...]

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8-10-16 Surgical Consult – Moffitt Cancer Center

It’s been 35 years since I’ve been on the USF campus, but that’s where the world renowned Moffitt Cancer Center is based.   Moffitt didn’t exist when I was studying broadcasting at the University of South Florida and working at my first radio job at WUSF. And the campus was virtually unrecognizable from the nascent commuter school that any Florida high school graduate could attend. More about my visit to my alma mater  at another time, but now the reason for the trip. The Moffitt Cancer Center is ranked in the Top 10 cancer centers nationally, and is the highest [...]

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8-9-16 Nicole Sandler Show – Life Isn’t Fair

  If life were fair, we wouldn't be looking at a presidential election with the two worst possible candidates as the major party nominees. Sometimes you just get handed a shit sandwich. That's how I'm feeling right now. I'm off for a couple of days to meet with doctors and find the surgeon to remove the cancerous tumor that's growing in my left lung. Shit sandwich it is. Today, I spoke with two wonderful women who both had me laughing. Singer/songwriter and political animal Jill Sobule joined in. She's been promising for a few years now to record a new [...]

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8-9-16 Morning News Roundup

Victoria Jones created and edits Quick Morning News. She is chief White House correspondent with Washington DC-based Talk Media News, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. Morning Jumpstart Sen Susan Collins: No to Trump 50 GOP officials warn: No to Trump Trump: "Americanism" not "Globalism" Clinton slams Trump's economic proposals Taliban claim Pakistan hospital bombing Delta computers crash: Why? Rio: US v Russia drama - women's breaststroke Sen Susan Collins: No to Trump (WaPo, Hill, NYT, TMN, me) • Senior Republican Sen Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in an [...]

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8-8-16 Nicole Sandler Show – Cannabis Cures

  As you probably know by now, I'm fighting cancer. I'm nothing if not thorough, and the search for the right surgeon to cut this cancer out of me is frustrating at best. I've long known of the medicinal and healing properties of cannabis. A few years ago, I even narrated the TV program, Should Grandma Smoke Pot? My research brought me to PhoenixTears.ca, the official website of cannabis as a cure pioneer Rick Simpson, who famously began giving his home made "hemp oil" to friends and neighbors in Canada, with astounding results. Today, Rick is living in Croatia, still [...]

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Need a laugh? Time for Another Stand-Up Political Comedy Blog

Yes, it’s time to steal a few more jokes from my father-in-law (F.I.L.). His blog posts range from political comedy to humorous commentary on pop culture. For those of you who might be new here, he used to write for Alan King, Milton Berle and Jonathan Winters, just to name a few. And all those Dean Martin Roasts,  too: Don Rickles, Red Buttons, Phyllis Diller, Sammy Davis, Jr., etc. A tiny respite from all the frustrating events of the day: The 2016 Olympics in RIO de JANEIRO began Friday night stirringly with an opening parade of athletes. What a thrill [...]

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8-8-16 Morning News Roundup

Victoria Jones created and edits Quick Morning News. She is chief White House correspondent with Washington DC-based Talk Media News, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. Morning Jumpstart Trump: Economic speech today Did Sec Clinton bring jobs to New York? Wellll... Trump: Clinton "totally unhinged" ISIS in Afghanistan: We have US military kit Congress: 5 things to watch Rio roundup: Phelps wins 19th gold Russia paralympics tam banned from Rio   Trump: Economic Speech Today (Reuters, me) • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will propose allowing parents to [...]

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Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard! GOP 5, Dems 2 #LibrulMediaMyAss

Tomorrow is Media Bias Sunday! Or as I like to call it, Librul Media My Ass Sunday. Previously I kept a running tally of all things unfair, unbalanced for years via the infamous TPC Media Bias Sunday Talk scoreboard. Now the series is a regular feature at Radio Or Not. No matter who’s in the White House or runs Congress, the corporate media nearly always has more GOP guests appearing on Sunday talk shows than Democratic guests, many of them to the right of right. Tea party right. Carl Paladino “Obama is a Muslim” right. This week there was plenty of news centered around both presidential candidates. [...]

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8-6-16 Good News, Relatively Speaking

After four weeks (but a veritable lifetime of waiting), we finally met with the oncologist yesterday to go over all of my test results. After finding out I had a mass on my lung by mistake through an x-ray of my chest after a suspected heart attack (that thankfully wasn't one), followed by weeks of poking, prodding, CT scan, PET scan, brain MRI, biopsies and other procedures, we got the best news we could have gotten, under the circumstances... with a couple of caveats. At this point, my cancer appears to be Stage 1 adenocarcinoma, localized in the lower lobe of [...]

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8-3-16 Time for EBUS

This was as horrible as it sounds. After a horrendous experience with the front desk women at the outpatient services desk at Holy Cross Hospital (detailed in this Yelp review -- the only recourse I had at 6:30 in the morning), I was taken into the prep room. The nurses there were wonderful, and I was soon over the stress of my first encounter of the day. They went over what this test involves, and I knew it wouldn't be pleasant. The first thing they had to do was numb my bronchial tubes. So, a syringe filled with a lidocaine [...]

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