Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Revisiting Leeta


Revisiting Leeta

After retaking the OSHA re-qualification test on the weekend of the 19th I got a call from E.Z.D.  I never figured to hear from him since he went to the Orient on business for the Energy Company he is a contractor with.

  E.Z.D was kind of excited, he was visiting his Aunt Zoey in Amagansett and he wanted me to talk to somebody, so he handed over the phone.  “RJ baby how you doin…”  “Leeta…is that you?” “Yeah RJ, its me baby, whats up!”

I didn’t dare tell her it was my penis since I heard her voice but I did keep the conversation civil.  “Not very much is going on Leeta, how are you doing…how is your health?”  “Real good RJ, I beat cancer, I can sing again and I’m doing good.  I’m living with Aunt Zoey now since I changed my life.”  “Changed your life how Leeta?”  “I can show you better than I can tell you.  Come see me…today if you can or Saturday, OK?”  I quickly agreed then she put E.Z.D back on the phone.

E.Z.D had to leave for Dubai but said he would see me sometime before Veterans Day.  Saturday morning I drove out to see Leeta.  She had lost weight, her hair was shorter but she was still a stone fox.  She looked younger and her face was smooth and glowing no wrinkles, crows feet or sign on her skin telling her age.  She hugged me and we went out on the deck and sat down to lunch prepared by Aunt Zoey.

After greetings, hugs and kisses Aunt Zoey left me and Leeta alone.  I was now a little nervous not knowing what to expect.  As we munched on Reuben sandwiches and pea soup Leeta told me about her year at Sloan-Kettering.   Leeta said “I did have something called HPV-16, one of about 150 different kinds of HPV virus but they caught it early and now I’m cancer free.” “Leeta was it all chemotherapy or did they have to operate.” 

“RJ, they used some kind of scope tool or knife to do a biopsy, but it was all chemotherapy with something called ‘gamma knife’ at first and then regular chemotherapy after that.  

I need to get more iron in my blood and I have about another year of outpatient therapy, that’s why I’m here with Aunt Zoey…she has enough red wine in her cellar to float a battleship.”

“So what are you doing with yourself Leeta?” “RJ, I went back to Church and got saved.  I work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, finally using the Ph.d, I got in Chemistry back in the late 90’s.”  I took my time with the pea soup steaming hot and loaded with ham and bacon.  When Leeta paused to take a bite I asked her, “exactly how did you change your life Leeta?” 

“RJ I have joined the New York Polyamorous Women's Group in New York City.  Since the group has expanded rapidly since I joined while I was going through chemotherapy I am part of a group that is starting in Riverhead.”  “Leeta, what exactly does this group focus on.”  “RJ, you know me, I love to love and make love whenever, wherever I can, but since going through cancer, I want to help women who want multiple partners and still enjoy sex with less risk for getting STD’s.”

“Since this group seems to focus on Women Leeta, are your new relationships going to be exclusively with women?”  Leeta’s eyes opened wide and her face got really annoyed, she said “RJ, I love anybody that gives me that passion vibe, man or woman, which reminds me…we never got close like that and you know I want to.” “Are you well enough to pursue sexual relationships Leeta?”
“Is that your sterile, medical way of asking am I toxic RJ?”

“No Leeta, I want to know if you have sex could it make you sick, not me.”  “I’m fine RJ and I’m alive, and I want to live life for all its worth.  I’m no longer hung up on what people think, I have moved past feeling humiliated or judged…I know what I want, I know how I want to live no matter who says or thinks whatever of me.  I want to live and love without guilt, fear or pain and those who love me will understand and share that.”

We finished eating when Leeta took me on a tour of Aunt Zoey’s house.  Zoey’s house is a six bedroom, deceptively spacious house that has a cellar and sub-cellar full of games and booze.  

When we got to the back of the sub-cellar Zoey revealed  a small table and a full size bed, a refrigerator and a spread of wine and cheese. “I’m ready to love again RJ…can you?”

No need to get into details any further regarding me and Leeta.  But I will address the subject of STD examinations and research.

In addressing how HPV (human Papillomavirus) goes undetected and becomes cancer is frighteningly common and increasing exponentially according to the CDC.  In an article from ‘Cure Magazine’ the following truths are revealed:
“Starting with a pivotal study published in 2000, researchers began honing in on the role of HPV. Of the 150-plus strains in the HPV family, more than 40 are believed to be transmitted through sexual contact, including anal, genital and oral, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The body’s immune system typically eradicates the viruses in a few years before any symptoms emerge (but, in some cases, the cells remain molecularly altered forever). Several of the HPV strains to date, most frequently HPV type 16, have been linked to oral malignancies.

Increasingly, HPV-16 has become a major player in those oral malignancies, according to last year’s Journal of Clinical Oncology study, which projected an explosion in cases in the decades to come.”   Also mentioned in the study is the outcome of treatment which essentially cures the patient by eradicating the cancer. 

According to the article; “To thwart oropharyngeal malignancies, cancer specialists may incorporate a mix of treatments, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, depending upon the location and the aggressiveness of the tumor involved.  
Ang estimates that only about one-third of patients will undergo surgery. If the tumor can be removed and there’s no evidence that it’s spread to lymph nodes, radiation may not be needed, he says.”

Leeta was saved by good Doctors who had a handle on the newest medicine, the newest research and the best treatment options available.   Cancer of any kind is no joke, cancer kills.  

Today, the survival rates of Cancer have gone up exponentially as the cases of cancer have due to advances in medicine worldwide.

Leeta also found a support group of her liking to help support her in her recovery and her lifestyle.  This kind of support is crucial to fighting off depression and other mental health issues that accompany a cancer fight.

If you are sexually active or suspect anything is wrong with you, see a doctor.  If you can’t afford it see one anyway.  

In the upcoming election the President you select could end up saving or taking a life.  

That life could be yours.  

Ask Leeta.

RJ

1 comment:

  1. did you really fuck a freak irradiated with like she was at fukijima? did you? RJ your a twisted self serving pervert if you did.

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