July 26th, 2010

I had some health issues this past week which kept me from updating the site on Friday. A few tumors were found on my head that had to be removed. I left the doctor’s office in a bit of pain and with multiple stitches in my dome. During the procedure I thought about how primitive health care was in the Old West. Many people died of infection after an operation. Such was the case with George Hoy. In 1878, some drunken cowboys were whooping it up in Dodge City, Kansas when Wyatt Earp and Jim Masterson went to break up their fun a gunfight broke out and cowboy, George Hoy, was wounded in the arm. He died of infection 4 weeks later. I believe poor medical treatment is contributing to my brother’s end. In spite of how prisons are portrayed on television and film and how newscasts falsely claim that the care for the sick and infirmed in prisons are better than on the outside, it isn’t true. If a physician shows up at all they offer little assistance for the handicapped and beaten. I’ve been fighting for two years to replace the teeth that were beaten out of Rick’s head. I’ve been told that he doesn’t need teeth. This situation will never get any better. I remain infuriated while the real blackhearts go on. Oh, how I wish this was the Old West at times. Harvey Logan was able to correct a similar injustice in 1901. He finally got a clear shot at Jim Winters up in Montana and shot him dead. Several years earlier Winters had killed Harvey’s brother, Johnny Logan. I have to have faith. God has got this.