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    Thank you for input and prayers

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    Bonnie

    Bonnie, I wish there was some way that you could get away from the stress for awhile to see how much of the reason you are feeling so poorly is stress related. I know just having that decision in front of you, alone, is probably causing you stress. I sure am keeping you in my thoughts.

    I am glad your husband is home and hope he continues to heal.

    love and fortitude

    elaine

    Breathing test

    in GENERAL

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    Breathing Volume & Oxygen Uptake Efficiency

    Lie, sit or stand. If you stand, then bend your knees very slightly. Take as large an in-breath as possible and then as quietly and quickly as you can count and still be heard -- like a fast talking auctioneer whispering -- count up to as high a number as you can reach on this one full exhale. Note the number down and try it again. Try it a third time if you think the number will be much different.

    Do not:

    Inhale during counting

    Skip any numbers

    Hold your breath

    Breathe IN and count at the same time

    Do:

    Start again at 1 if you reach 100.

    Make sure you include the beginnings of each number such as the thirty in thirty-three.

    Repeat the tests in the same position you were in for the previous tests.

    OK, try it now.

    How high a number did you reach in that ONE long exhaled breath?

    Answer:

    A Poem for TBone

    in GENERAL

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    Anna,

    Thank you for sharing your poem. I know it hurts sometimes right now to be missing your daddy, but you are very wise to realize his pain is gone. Your daddy loved you so very much.

    elaine

    Lost my Birth Father

    in GRIEF

    Posted

    Thank you to those of you who took the time to reply to something not lc related and I admit an unusual situation. I appreciate you kindness. There are many kinds of losses. And they all hurt.

    Thank you

    elaine

    Another CT-PET Fusion

    in MEMBER UPDATES

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    Fay

    I'm not the huggie type, but I want you to know I am praying you get good results. It must have really hurt! I'm sorry for all we have to go through and am sorry it's taking its toll on you. You are one strong woman and strong women DO cry.

    love and fortitude

    elaine

    MISSING MEMBERS!

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    THere are so many missing people. Joyce from Colorado comes to mind. There was also a woman with red hair, I think her Dad had LC. I think the woman was a social worker or worked at a hospital. MAKAWA. Cherbut. I was about to put a APB on GerbilRunner, but she is back. I have emailed back and forth with David S, but he hasn't written lately.

    elaine

    Asking for prayers

    in HOPE

    Posted

    I am sure he is trying to make sure things are in order. Cindy is right, maybe there is something else he can do now that the house is in order. Those of us who worked and enjoyed our work, find it hard not to be doing something useful and productive. (I know I do).

    I will keep him in my thoughts.

    elaine

    Lost my Birth Father

    in GRIEF

    Posted

    I have never met my birth father. Two years ago this fall, I tried to find him, mostly just to find out if he was alive and if not, to find out how he died, so that I would have that to add to my medical history. I also hoped that I could talk to him, hoping he was old enough and I was old enough that it would be possible.

    I could find no trace of him. I searched every census for him, and the names I knew of his parents. I had his birthdate and name. I seached for weeks. Today I looked again, and found out that he died within weeks after I had been searching for him. He was 72 and his death record is listed as being registered in Warren County North Carolina.

    I called to get a copy of his death record. I have to send them 25 cents and a SAE. Or 10.00 if I want an official copy.

    I don't know why, but I am really really sad about this. Sadder than I thought I would be.

    elaine

    Upcoming US DOJ Trial Against Tobacco Companies

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    Many a young healty person has succombed to lc. In fact, a large majority of the cancers in younger people are more agressive than the cancers that strike older people. In the past months, just on this board, we have lost 4 people in their 40s and one in her 30s. It's hard for me to believe they had unhealthy bodies.

    Bo you seem angry. I don't doubt you are angry--who isn't at some time or another who faces this disease. You quit smoking many years ago. And still got LC. Now you seem angry at yourself for not eating properly. You also post that others in your family have had cancer. The latest research shows a correlation between lc and genetics, with smokers with the gene to be at a much higher risk than smokers without the gene.

    I applaud your commitment to improving your health. I also pray you be knider to yourself and let go of the past--you are not to blame. There are many factors at work, which is what Becky was saying. I happen to think that two of the factors are tobacco companies and the US Government policies in regards to tobacco companies and tobacco farmers.

    Upcoming US DOJ Trial Against Tobacco Companies

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    .S. Charges Tobacco Companies Misled Public on Smoking Risk

    July 6, 2004

    The U.S. Justice Department accuses tobacco companies of "using fraudulent means to recruit new smokers, misleading the public on the health dangers of secondhand smoke and violating the industry's landmark legal settlement in 1998."

    In a 2,500-page giling, DOJ set forth the arguments it will present when its lawsuit against the tobacco companies goes to trial Sept. 13 in Washington, D.C.

    The lawsuit seeks $289 billion from Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard Tobacco and the Liggett Group. Of the total, $280 billion represents revenue and interest from sales between 1971 and 2000 to smokers younger than age 21, as well as interest.

    DOJ charges that the tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels, misled consumers about the health risks of smoking and directed multibillion-dollar promotional campaigns at children. The lawsuit is an outgrowth of an action originally filed by the Clinton administration in 1999. The Clinton suit accuses the tobacco industry of conspiracy to mislead consumers about the dangers of smoking.

    The government also charges that the companies' marketing of light and ultralight cigarettes provided "a false sense of reassurance to smokers," lessening "their resolve to quit smoking" and drawing "ex-smokers back into the market."

    In its filing, DOJ said that cigarette companies worked to "financially reward scientists in every world market" with the "overarching goal" of downplaying the dangers of secondhand smoke in an effort to forestall smoking bans.

    The filing said that the tobacco companies' conduct thus far indicates a "reasonable likelihood" of future violations.

    The tobacco companies have denied the allegations

    WHO would like to be on OPRAH?

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    Bo

    You need to read my posts about tobacco companies more closely. No one is saying people should continue to smoke (not on this thread) and no one is giving up total blame to tobacco companies. Read the post and research on your own how these companies made sure you were addicted.

    elaine

    The Afterlife a poem by Billy Collins

    in HOPE

    Posted

    A recent post by TeaTea reminded me of this hopeful and maybe bittersweet poem. Students used to like to talk about it, so maybe you all will enjoy it, too.

    The Afterlife

    While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth,

    or riffling through a magazine in bed,

    the dead of the day are setting out on their journey.

    They're moving off in all imaginable directions,

    each according to his own private belief,

    and this is the secret that silent Lazarus would not reveal:

    that everyone is right, as it turns out.

    you go to the place you always thought you would go,

    The place you kept lit in an alcove in your head.

    Some are being shot into a funnel of flashing colors

    into a zone of light, white as a January sun.

    Others are standing naked before a forbidding judge who sits

    with a golden ladder on one side, a coal chute on the other.

    Some have already joined the celestial choir

    and are singing as if they have been doing this forever,

    while the less inventive find themselves stuck

    in a big air conditioned room full of food and chorus girls.

    Some are approaching the apartment of the female God,

    a woman in her forties with short wiry hair

    and glasses hanging from her neck by a string.

    With one eye she regards the dead through a hole in her door.

    There are those who are squeezing into the bodies

    of animals--eagles and leopards--and one trying on

    the skin of a monkey like a tight suit,

    ready to begin another life in a more simple key,

    while others float off into some benign vagueness,

    little units of energy heading for the ultimate elsewhere.

    There are even a few classicists being led to an underworld

    by a mythological creature with a beard and hooves.

    He will bring them to the mouth of the furious cave

    guarded over by Edith Hamilton and her three-headed dog.

    The rest just lie on their backs in their coffins

    wishing they could return so they could learn Italian

    or see the pyramids, or play some golf in a light rain.

    They wish they could wake in the morning like you

    and stand at a window examining the winter trees,

    every branch traced with the ghost writing of snow.

    Billy Collins

    Reprinted without permission but with no intent to profit

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