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Gosh. I must be getting old also. I remember 15 of those suckers.
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Thanks for everyones concern. That is one of the many reasons I am a member of this group. I got your PM Randy. Like Tina, I am in East Tennessee. We had some pretty nasty winds etc but no damage here.
On the other hand, I was considering driving to Nashville this past weekend. Someone was definalty looking out for me.
Hope the others check in shortly and are OK. Every one here knows what prayer can do as it has helped so many of us along this journey. Lets remember these people in our prayers. Wish I could go down and personaly help with the cleanup and I would too. Everybody take care.
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Congragulations Becky. Will be waiting to hear the word CURED from you. I am just a few months behind you and waiting on my oncoligist also.
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This is the exact treatment that I had in 2003. I had a 3 cm tumor. The only side effects I had was some minor aches. I had no hair loss or further weight loss. I went on to have my lung removed. After my surgerey I ask about my pathology report. My surgeon read it to me and said I had a microscopic trace of NSCLC. I ask him how we were going to get rid of it. He grinned and said he already had. What he meant was, the treatments shrunk it from 3 cm to a microscopic trace, which he removed. He said this combination was giving excellent results.
Hope this helps and your husband does OK. Keep us posted.
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A Blonde's Year in Review
January - Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight.
February - Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels..... Helllloooo!!!.....bottles won't fit in printer!
March - Got really excited.....finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months..... box said "2-4 years!"
April - Trapped on escalator for hours ....... power went out!!!
May - Tried to make Kool-Aid.....wrong instructions....8 cups of water won't fit into those little packets!!!
June - Tried to go water skiing.....couldn't find a lake with a slope.
July - Lost breast stroke swimming competition.....learned later, the other swimmers cheated, they used their arms!!!
August - Got locked out of my car in rain storm..... car swamped because soft-top was open.
September - The capital of California is "C".....isn't it???
October - Hate M & M's.....they are so hard to peel .
November - Baked turkey for 4 1/2 days .. instructions said 1 hour per pound and I weigh 108!!
December - Couldn't call 911 ......... there's no "eleven" button on the stupid phone!!!
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Frank would have loved this one
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Right back atcha....MERRY CHRISTMAS everone.
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Thanks for every ones imput here. I am seeing my doctor this week and will discuss it with him. I hope it is somithing simple to fix. Thanks again and hope everybody has a safe and Merry Christmas.
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Here you can find all kind of goodies. I played the games over and over. My grand-daughter just loved the storybook and coloring pages not to mention the disco santa. Hope everyone enjoys it as much as we did. You can even print a personal story book free. Nice gift if your little one believes in Santa.
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I have been NED for the last 4 1/2 years. As we all know, with the first sign of trouble, we get the feeling that something is not right. For about 6 or 8 months now I have noticed a difference in myself. This is hard to explain but I will try. If the least little thing seems to go wrong I get terribly upset. If I am washing the dishes, I get emotional for fear that I am about to drop a plate. Thanksgiving dinner I got so tense cutting the turkey I had to just quit. My wife had to fix my plate because I was shaking so bad. This is totaly out of the ordinary for me. Yesterday, I could not find the cordless phone and I lost it. I got so upset that my wife had to walk me to the sofa. Am I making any sense at all. Am I borrowing trouble or is there a real problem? Hope I don't sound like a loon-a-tic here. Thanks for listening to me.
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I like all the old carols. I guess my favorite would be Silver Bells. Altho not a song, my next favorite is Grandpa Jones doing his recitation of A Christmas Guest. Anybody ever heard that one?
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I thought this might be worth posting.
Study: CT Scans Raise Cancer Risk
2007-11-28 20:14:42
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Medical Writer
Millions of Americans, especially children, are needlessly getting dangerous radiation from "super X-rays" that raise the risk of cancer and are increasingly used to diagnose medical problems, a new report warns.
In a few decades, as many as 2 percent of all cancers in the United States might be due to radiation from CT scans given now, according to the authors of the report.
Some experts say that estimate is overly alarming. But they agree with the need to curb these tests particularly in children, who are more susceptible to radiation and more likely to develop cancer from it.
"There are some serious concerns about the methodology used," but the authors "have brought to attention some real serious potential public health issues," said Dr. Arl Van Moore, head of the American College of Radiology's board of chancellors.
The risk from a single CT, or computed tomography, scan to an individual is small. But "we are very concerned about the built-up public health risk over a long period of time," said Eric J. Hall, who wrote the report with fellow Columbia University medical physicist David J. Brenner.
It was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine and paid for by federal grants.
The average American's total radiation exposure has nearly doubled since 1980, largely because of CT scans. Medical radiation now accounts for more than half of the population's total exposure; it used to be just one-sixth, and the top source was the normal background rate in the environment, from things like radon in soil and cosmic energy from the sun.
A previous study by the same scientists in 2001 led the federal Food and Drug Administration to recommend ways to limit scans and risks in children.
But CT use continued to soar. About 62 million scans were done in the U.S. last year, up from 3 million in 1980. More than 4 million were in children.
Since previous studies suggest that a third of all diagnostic tests are unnecessary, that means that 20 million adults and more than 1 million children getting CT scans are needlessly being put at risk, Brenner and Hall write.
Ultrasound and MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, scans often are safer options that do not expose people to radiation, they contend.
CT scans became popular because they offer a quick, relatively cheap and painless way to get 3D pictures so detailed they give an almost surgical view into the body. Doctors use them to evaluate trauma, belly pain, seizures, chronic headaches, kidney stones and other woes, especially in busy emergency rooms. In kids, they are used to diagnose or rule out appendicitis.
But they put out a lot of radiation. A CT scan of the chest involves 10 to 15 millisieverts (a measure of dose) versus 0.01 to 0.15 for a regular chest X-ray, 3 for a mammogram and a mere 0.005 for a dental X-ray.
The dose depends on the type of machine and the person — obese people require more radiation than slim ones — and the risk accumulates over a lifetime.
"Medical care in this country is naturally so fragmented. Any one doctor is not going to be aware of the fact that a particular patient has had three or four CT scans at some point in the past," said Dr. Michael Lauer, prevention chief at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
People with chronic problems like kidney stones are likely to get too many scans, said Dr. Fred Mettler, radiology chief in the New Mexico Veterans Administration health care system.
"I've seen people who are 30 years old who have had at least 18 scans done," he said.
That puts them at risk of developing radiation-induced cancer, Brenner and Hall said. They base this on studies of thousands of Japanese atomic bomb survivors who had excess cancer risk after exposures of 50 to 150 millisieverts — the equivalent of several big CT scans.
"That's very controversial. There's a large portion of the medical physics community that would disagree with that" comparison, said Richard Morin, a medical physicist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. However, others defended the data, which has been widely cited in other radiation studies.
"It's the best evidence we've got" on cancer risks, Lauer said.
Dr. Robert Smith, the American Cancer Society's director of screening, said the authors' estimate that 2 percent of future cancers may be due to CT scans "seems high." But since cancers take 10 to 20 years to develop, "the ability to even observe that kind of an increase is going to be very difficult," he said.
The authors stressed that they were not trying to scare people who need CT scans away from having them. In most cases, the benefits exceed the risks, especially for diagnostic scans.
However, using the scans to screen people with no symptoms of illness — like screening smokers for signs of lung cancer — has not been shown to save lives and is not currently recommended.
Many groups also condemn whole-body scans, often peddled by private practitioners in shopping centers as peace of mind to the worried well. Many of these centers are not accredited by the College of Radiology; only a third of all places that do CT scans in the U.S. are, although insurers are starting to require it for reimbursement, Moore said.
Many CT centers also are set up for adults and rarely image children, who need adjustments to limit dose and radiation risk, said Dr. Alan Brody, a radiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center who wrote a report on the topic. He said parents should seek a center that often handles children.
Both doctors and patients need to be more aware of radiation risks and discuss them openly, Brenner and Hall said.
"We were astonished to find, when we were researching materials for this paper, how many doctors, particularly emergency room physicians, really had no idea of the magnitude of the doses or the potential risks that were involved," Hall said.
Other studies found the opposite problem: Three out of 10 parents in one study insisted on CT scans instead of observing the child's condition for awhile even after they were told of the radiation risk, Brody said.
"This is what our patients want," and they expect fast answers from doctors, he said.
The pressure is greatest for ER doctors who "are in a bind ... they have all these patients stacked up" and need to make quick decisions, Mettler said.
Future generations of devices using less radiation should help alleviate the concern, but these mostly are directed at the emerging field of heart scans, Lauer said.
"When we order a CT scan it just doesn't seem like such a big deal" but it should be, he said. "The threshold for ordering these tests is low and it's getting lower and lower over time, which means that the risks become potentially all that more important."
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I am here reading. I check in at least twice a day. I don't post much anymore. I had my lung removed 4 1/2 years ago. I have been NED ever since. I have met a lot of people and made lots of new friends on this journey. I am thankful for all my friends here. Altho I don't post I am opem for PM if someone needs to talk.
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Thanks for the links. I never knew there was a difference. Guess I should have paid better attention in my school days.
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I Googled HR335 and found a bill to rename a post office
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I have been happily maried for 16 years now so I am not a bachelor. I love the mountains and as many of you know, Dollywood is my favorite place in the summer. I worked for ESPN on the NASCAR circuit and did have the privelage of eating with Benny Parsons when he was announcer for NASCAR.
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You may or may not have heard of him, but country star Hank Thompson has died of LC. Perhaps some of you have heard of him. Here is a link to the story.
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1 - I love the mountains.
2 - I am a bachelor.
3 - I once worked for ESPN and had lunch with the late Benny Parsons.
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Porter has been moved to Hospice. Here is the story.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... 7710270358
Wagoner moves to hospice care
Country Music Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner, 80, was released to hospice care on Friday, a Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman announced.
Porter had been in an undisclosed Nashville-area hospital since Oct. 15, and it was announced on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. He has been visited by numerous Opry members and musical friends during the past week.
"On this day, when we are welcoming our newest member, Josh Turner, into the Opry family, our thoughts turn to our friend and Opry legend and Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner," says Opry chief Pete Fisher.
"He and his family are in our prayers," Pete said. "We wish them all much comfort during this difficult time."
Porter's last appearance on the Opry, which he joined in 1957, was Sept. 29.
I hope you'll say a prayer for Porter tonight at 8, which is when the big red curtain would be raised to signal the launch of his regular Opry segment.
If you would like to write some kind words to Porter, address it to him c/o Grand Ole Opry, 2804 Opryland Drive, Nashville, TN 37214.
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If I understand SSDI correctly, they start your disability from the LAST day you worked. I see that he last worked in April. That is only 6 months but that is 6 months sooner to get his medical benifits from SS. This is the way mine was handled. Check with SS and get the claim in the works. Good Luck.
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Unless I missed a post, I have not saw a post on our friends in California? If you are out there and have internet access, give us an update please. Hope everyone is ok and out of harms way.
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Here is a link to the article in the Nashville newspaper.
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Really loved that Math. Had a final average of 99 in Algerba 2. Did well with math in college and still like it today.
Hated that English. I loved the diagrams etc but could not stand those book reports or spelling. Often wished they were seperate fron English.
You better not ask grandma...
in JUST FOR FUN
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Lawyers should never ask a Mississippi grandma a question if
they aren't prepared for the answer.
In a trial, a Southern small-town
prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to
the stand. He approached her and asked, ' Mrs. Jones , do you know me?' She
responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams . I've known you since you
were a boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you
cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their
backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you'll
never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.'
The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across
the room and asked, ' Mrs. Jones , do you know the defense attorney?'
She again replied, 'Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a
youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't
build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the
worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three
different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him.'
The
defense attorney nearly died.
The judge asked both counselors to
approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said, 'If either of you idiots
asks her if she knows me, I'll send you both to the electric chair.'