Various countries are finding ways to bypass and abandon the US dollar. Ryan McMaken – "World Looks to Abandon Dollar as US Sanctions Tighten Their Grip" (Right-click title to see original story) (Image

W Doctors And nurses at my Kuala Lumpur government hospital Also many of theee doctors travel and hang out together. At night. So sweet. My breathing is better. Trying to win m e off oxegen. Start me on

oc I am still in the hospital and trying my best to heal edema symptoms and fluid in my lungs. I have my laptop but cannot use it well. Still using my phone. Here is a picture of tonight's Dinner. I wish

Here is my hospital status now. They are still not letting me drink much, and keeping me dehydrated. Here is my tiny little knee! This is as small as I have ever seen it before I also have still have water

I am still in the hospital and need to stay longer. My heart, lungs, weakness, edema, and open sore injuries are all bad but getting better. $1500 usd is still the total I need, and thank you for the help

I am in the hospital now in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia since a few days. I currently need $1500 usd to get out of here in 2 days when they think I will be well enough to leave. I'm having very good care but

I am on a liquid diet now. The reasons are many and all related to my current sickness and injuries I hope this diet will: help heal edema reduce bloat lessen the need to poop while standing up, since

I am on a liquid diet now. The reasons are many and all related to my current sickness and injuries I hope this diet will: help heal edema reduce bloat lessen the need to poop while standing up, since

I spent the early evening on the bathroom floor today. Maybe it was about 3 hours I was lying there. And then midnight to 6:30 am I was stuck on the toilet unable to get off of it. I was too weak to even

My new edema strategy might be working. I am still at it with this edema nightmare, but there might be light at the end of the tunnel. I am still not walking and now it's been about 10 days. I am a bit

My freewrite yesterday took over one hour to post with this mobile phone. Let's see if I can do better than that today. "Keeping it straight" is our prompt from @mariannewest. I will try. I am

We do not have much hot water in SE Asia. It is not like in the west. Here most kitchens do not have hot water. You mostly see only a water heater in the bathroom shower and not at the sink in the bathroom

My edema symptoms are still with me and I am trying to heal. These are some of today's details of what is happening and what I am doing about it. This would have been posted yesterday, but working on this

Bats chirp at dawn and dusk here as they come and go from the parking garage near my Kuala Lumpur condo balcony. Birds of many varieties then chirp outside all day. At night I have lizards chirping inside

Today is a bit of a hard one, sprinkled with hope and optimism. You can read about how I got injured in my recent post here: Recovering from my voyage in to Bangkok, and soon to leave. Today was the day

Here I sit at Gate L10 at klai2 waiting to get on the flight to Bangkok. I'm a bit early thanks to my new and never to be seen again friend from the UK, Ben. Ben stepped up to help me get my stuff up on

Teaching little kids to ski was the most rewarding job I have ever had. I already wrote a post for freewrite about it. That post summarizes how I got that cool job and the perks and great money that came

Yesterday, I realized I needed to get out for food and water at about 6 pm. So I went to sleep until 8 pm to rest up. Then It took from 8-11 pm to change out of my drenched clothes from edema, get a shower

I looked up how to stop the fluid leaking out of my legs to see if I could do anything myself. There are a lot of ideas. I tried. I failed. One part did seem to work a bit. I found the advice to scrape

In 1850's small town Ireland there was a man with a long white beard who was mean and feared by all. He got into fights with all the townsfolk, children ran from him, and everyone wished he did not live