I beat Cancer ... I hope :)
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wow! I just finished watching the 6 hour ken burns PBS thing on cancer....cancer: the emperor of all maladies....very emotional.
I never gave a whole lot of thought to cancer research...I always thought it was just a never ending cycle...it could well be...but this show made me think it's NOT never ending...I think they're getting somewhere!
THANK YOU to the scientists, doctors and nurses who are devoting their lives to understanding this awful disease...I'm still down on the money grubbing drug companies but, wow, these researchers are amazing....I gotta think 99.9% of them are in this for the right reasons (as opposed to say, breast augmenters and liposuckers). I feel like if any of your kids get cancer, things will be much better for them and it won't be the horrible diagnosis that it is now.
one more thing that struck me?...how do we live in a world of wonderful people in one extreme and fucking assholes like ISIS on the other?? may all those mother fuckers GET cancer and have not not a single member among them with the brains or compassion to do anything about it.
I hope some of you got a chance to see this show. if not, you can find it at http://www.pbs.org/If I had known then what I know now...
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hahahahahahahaha......___hole.Halifax2TheMax said:
They ran out of expired yogurt.northerndragon said:You ate tuna in a hospital???
You are a brave, brave man!
If I had known then what I know now...
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I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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Amen.Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
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thanks, buddy. yeah it's all good.Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
I was fucking bawling at many points of that show...it really is an insidious disease...I "got off easy"...let's pray for the day it's gone, like polio.
polio is gone, isn't it?
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I will look for the Ken burns thing...you sure it wasn't a 2 hour show with 4 hours of 'pledging breaks'?
Very curious to know why some people can beat certain cancers, and others cannot beat it. Like every person that I know who was diagnosed with stomach cancer lost their battle. Some people like my aunt (who got breast cancer, beat it, was clear for 3 years, but then it came back), decided to stop fighting, and let it take over them.The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
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I will check it out. If you haven't seen the show Vice on HBO they just did a great episode on cancer you would probably like.imalive said:wow! I just finished watching the 6 hour ken burns PBS thing on cancer....cancer: the emperor of all maladies....very emotional.
I never gave a whole lot of thought to cancer research...I always thought it was just a never ending cycle...it could well be...but this show made me think it's NOT never ending...I think they're getting somewhere!
THANK YOU to the scientists, doctors and nurses who are devoting their lives to understanding this awful disease...I'm still down on the money grubbing drug companies but, wow, these researchers are amazing....I gotta think 99.9% of them are in this for the right reasons (as opposed to say, breast augmenters and liposuckers). I feel like if any of your kids get cancer, things will be much better for them and it won't be the horrible diagnosis that it is now.
one more thing that struck me?...how do we live in a world of wonderful people in one extreme and fucking assholes like ISIS on the other?? may all those mother fuckers GET cancer and have not not a single member among them with the brains or compassion to do anything about it.
I hope some of you got a chance to see this show. if not, you can find it at http://www.pbs.org/
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Oh I missed the documentary but I am sure it will be on again. Thanks for the reminder AND the link Rob. I saw Ken and the dr that wrote the book it is based on being interviewed by Katie Couric.
and DAYUM.. you had surgery in November??? Glad it went well.. i should have checked in here sooner.. geez.. took this old lady a while to accept the changes in here..
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+1 for every person here!!Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
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Yeah by all rights and standards of Pancreatic Cancers.. My dad should be dead.. Six years ago.. But he and his one kidney, 1/3 of intestines, and half a liver, are just trucking along..RKCNDY said:I will look for the Ken burns thing...you sure it wasn't a 2 hour show with 4 hours of 'pledging breaks'?
Very curious to know why some people can beat certain cancers, and others cannot beat it. Like every person that I know who was diagnosed with stomach cancer lost their battle. Some people like my aunt (who got breast cancer, beat it, was clear for 3 years, but then it came back), decided to stop fighting, and let it take over them.
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haha! no, six uninterrupted hours....pledge month is over.RKCNDY said:I will look for the Ken burns thing...you sure it wasn't a 2 hour show with 4 hours of 'pledging breaks'?
the show delved into all of that. they also talked about the seemingly endless cycle of "promising" drugs that the Big C later builds a resistance to. but, damn, those people in the white lab coats are smart...and dedicated.RKCNDY said:Very curious to know why some people can beat certain cancers, and others cannot beat it. Like every person that I know who was diagnosed with stomach cancer lost their battle. Some people like my aunt (who got breast cancer, beat it, was clear for 3 years, but then it came back), decided to stop fighting, and let it take over them.
If I had known then what I know now...
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I got to watch parts of it, especially the first night. I've been teaching a class on Wednesday nights so I didn't see any of part 3.imalive said:wow! I just finished watching the 6 hour ken burns PBS thing on cancer....cancer: the emperor of all maladies....very emotional.
I never gave a whole lot of thought to cancer research...I always thought it was just a never ending cycle...it could well be...but this show made me think it's NOT never ending...I think they're getting somewhere!
THANK YOU to the scientists, doctors and nurses who are devoting their lives to understanding this awful disease...I'm still down on the money grubbing drug companies but, wow, these researchers are amazing....I gotta think 99.9% of them are in this for the right reasons (as opposed to say, breast augmenters and liposuckers). I feel like if any of your kids get cancer, things will be much better for them and it won't be the horrible diagnosis that it is now.
one more thing that struck me?...how do we live in a world of wonderful people in one extreme and fucking assholes like ISIS on the other?? may all those mother fuckers GET cancer and have not not a single member among them with the brains or compassion to do anything about it.
I hope some of you got a chance to see this show. if not, you can find it at http://www.pbs.org/
I was very struck by the progress that's been made in the last hundred years or so. How leukemia used to be considered an automatic death sentence and now most forms of it are survivable. The changes in treating breast cancer--wow! I can remember when women had radical mastectomies. I never realized how disfiguring that was until seeing this program. Also, the stigma that used to be associated with cancer. People hid the fact that they had it and many people kept their children away from someone with cancer. It gives me hope that we'll keep getting past the stigma of HIV and other diseases.
I agree, the researchers are genuine Good Guys. I think of how I used to hear cynical people say that it was all a racket and doctors wouldn't find a cure for cancer because it would put them out of business. Seriously? As if doctors don't get cancer or lose loved ones to it? The gynecologist that I saw for more than 20 years, a wonderful caring man with a great sense of humor, had to retire in his 50s because of cancer and died less than a year later.
I think there's a lot of things to be hopeful about and we'll keep seeing improvements in treatments. People who do research don't get big promotions or CEO salaries but the work they do deserves it.
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Double amen, as they say in AA.whispering hands said:
+1 for every person here!!Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
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Yep!Who Princess said:
Double amen, as they say in AA.whispering hands said:
+1 for every person here!!Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
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Amen.Halifax2TheMax said:I think it's awesome that this thread is almost 4 years old and 73 pages long and that you're still around, being the croc wearing elitist, expired yogurt eating, house cleaning, degenerate that you are. Save the Pooper indeed.
and i just don't know if i can watch the cancer doc...your review is all i need
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Rob, that is so cool you did this thread. It gives me hope should I ever have to go through something like this.Tom Brady & Donald Trump, BFF's
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