I have slept all night for the first time since surgery Dec. 20

I have slept all night two of the last three nights.  Last night I slept eight hours
 and two nights ago I slept 11 hours.

Prior to that I have been getting up at least once to eat something and take
pain medication, and put a heating pad on my knee and or use the water
circulation machine they gave me in the hospital.

Sadly the days were miserable.  I woke up feeling relief that I was better
only to be in lots of pain all day, despite taking pain stuff.

I am still taking Ibupropin, Tylenol and Oxycodone.

Patellofemeral knee replacement December 20, 2019

I had a Patellofemeral knee replacement on December 20 with Dr. Blake Gillette MD
at the Canyon View Orthopedics in Spanish Fork.

Dr. Gillette was recommended by the gynecologist Dr. Dewey I had been seeing.

My Knee cap- the front of my knee has not been working for probably years.
In 2019 it reached peak pain levels and my ability to walk was almost gone.

I saw several doctors including Dr. Mortensen who has operated on several
of my siblings and there was no concrete consensus on the solution.
Dr. Mortensen said he wasn't sure surgery would help.

Dr. Gillette's PA knew at once that they could replace the knee cap and make
it better.

I waited weeks to get an appointment with Dr. Gillette and the surgery was
scheduled Nov. 11.  Dec. 20 was his next opening for surgery and also his
last surgery date in 2019.

You know there is something wrong when:

The Oct. 1 story in the Daily Herald lists the top FIVE
football teams in Utah Valley.

Salem Hills is the ONLY Undefeated team and Timpview
is not even in the top 5 AND PROVO HIGH IS.

Oct. 1, 2019 Daily Herald Salem Hills only undefeated team

Now on October 5 after the Friday night Oct. 4 Football games,
Provo beat Salem Hills.  Salem Hills is no longer undefeated.

Sidenote:  Timpview lost again to Orem High who is now
the region champion.

The Utah High School Athletic Association's classifications
for 2019 have two different rankings.  One for all sports except
football and one for football.

I think Provo's Region may explain why they were in the top five.
Provo is in the same region with Maple Mountain, Payson, Salem Hills,
Spanish Fork, Springville and Wasatch.  Typically these schools are smaller
and not generally in the playoffs.  Now it appears both Provo and Salem
Hills will be in the playoffs from their region.  Payson has not lost all
their games,  Spanish Fork has lost quite a few as has Wasatch.

Provo BARELY held off Salem Hills 30-26.

A point of this post, is that schools DO NOT STAY THE SAME.
Check principals, and teachers of the school every year, because
the education and environment at each school fluctuates.

I won the Utah Policy Contest AGAIN!

Trivia time

Utah Sen. Arthur V. Watkins headed up a bi-partisan committee to consider censure of Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the height of his anti-communist purges. The Senate ultimately voted to "condemn" McCarthy on two counts.

Many people believe Watkins' role in the McCarthy affair contributed to his re-election defeat in 1958 when Democrat Frank Moss won the seat. 

The first three readers with the correct answer were:

·       Matt Howell

·       Peggy Burdett

·       Donald Jarvis

Thanks to everyone who sent in guesses.

If you'd like to submit a question for our Friday trivia, email them to me at bschott@utahpolicy.com. If we use your question, I'll send you one of our UtahPolicy.com stickers.

This time I know more.  Utah Policy posts a trivia question on FRIDAY.

Evidently, you need to find it right after they post it to be first.  This
week I am second and it was early in the day when I found the question.

The last question took several searches.  Numerous news stories
about famous people buried in Utah left off the California Governor,
the answer to last week's trivia question.  I finally found the answer in a
Family History burial site, but I was still first.

This week I found the answer and didn't know I had the answer
until I found it in an additional site.

Utah Policy Trivia Winners September 16

I won a contest at Utah Policy!

Utah Policy is an online news source in Utah that really pushes their agenda.
They have a weekly trivia contest that I have never entered before.
It took me quite a while to find the answer.  There are at least
two media stories of famous people buried in Utah that don't list
the answer to this trivia question.

I am not sure where I found it.

Then Scott Howell who is a famous democrat in Utah sent me
this email.  I had not seen the post at Utah Policy.  Still can't find that.

Good thing Scott sent me this email.  I was first!

Scott Howell	8:44 AM (3 hours ago)
to me

FYI

Wow impressed your knowledge is amazing. Hope all is well.

Best Regards,

Scott N. Howell

“If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader, sell ice cream”

-Steve Jobs

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Jeff Ivie was taken from American Fork Hospital to the Nursing Home Across the street from Utah Valley Hospital today

This is really upsetting for me.  Jeff has been in the American Fork Hospital for
at least 17 consecutive days.

Janice is extremely upset and yells at me whenever I talk to her.  I assume she saw
this coming.

Jeff's problems still the same stomach pain, esophagus pain, no appetite, etc.
I think he has a port like Anthony had, a feeding tube, and I don't know what else.

I thought Jeff had too many tubes to be moved to a care center.  I have not been to see
him so I don't know anything.

I am posting this so I have a record of this date.

UVU professor using AI Neural Network to recognize cancer cells sooner

This may not be the FIRST significant cancer research at UVU, but it is the first time
I have seen something in the news.  It is interesting to note that this work done
with microscopes and cells was done in the Physics Department at UVU, not the
biology department.

We can watch for his publication and further research.

A Utah Valley University professor hopes his research will help catch cancer years before patients begin showing symptoms.

“The holy grail of cancer treatment going forward isn’t the problem of treating the cancer, but how do we find the cancer sooner,” said Vern Hart, an assistant professor of physics at UVU.

For the last four years, Hart and a group of about 60 students have been shining infrared lasers through both healthy and cancerous cells in order to create a database for an artificial intelligence program to learn how to identify different types of cancerous cells.

Cancerous cells and healthy cells diffract light differently, and those differences may allow cancer to be caught when there’s still trace amounts of it in the bloodstream.

Hart, who is pursuing publication of his research, previously worked in the radiation department at a Milwaukee cancer center. He said most cancer cases aren’t diagnosed until someone complains of symptoms, and there isn’t a common technique to find cancer before there’s a tumor.

“Detecting cancer at the cellular level isn’t a common practice right now,” Hart said.

His team used the AI neural network to find patterns in the images of seven different types of cancer, and found it was more than 90% accurate at identifying cancer cells during its first tests.

Hart said he was shocked at how accurate it was so early in the research process.

“It usually doesn’t work the first time, or the fifth time, or the sixth time,” he said.

Cancer cells look different from healthy cells. Hart said the nucleus is typically larger and elongated, which changes how the cell scatters light when hit by a laser. The AI program reads the light pattern that emerges on the other side of the cell and can identify which type of cancer cell it is.

Braley Dodson, Herald Extra.com August 9, 2019