This may not be applicable, but I've had similar problems in my life. Now, as an adult, I have finally been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder....that is where I actually have an overactive immune system and my body doesn't always differentiate between my own cells and foreign cells, so it sometimes fights itself. When it flares up, I run low-grade fevers, that sometimes go higher, in the evenings, have joint pain and swelling, and just feel rotten. I sometimes seem to have one viral thing after another. One year I have strep throat for 6-months in a row and had to have heavy duty antibiotic shots to finally get through that....and I have been tested and have many allergies and had asthma as a kid. I had all those wonderful allergy tests and was also allergic to most things grown up here in IL. It was frustrating growing up, as I was sick alot and they'd give me antibiotics or just say it was viral and would work it's way out. They also then treated me for rheumatoid arthritis, because of the joint problems. I'm somewhat better as an adult, and thankful that at least they found a reason why, in my case, even if they still say it is 'ill-defined' or non-specific autoimmune disorder. Like I said, it may not be applicable in your case, but if it goes on and on, perhaps they could run an ANA test, to see if there is any autoimmunity problem. Wish you all the best!
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15Medical question re: immune system, viruses, etc.
by cruzanheart inalright, all you smart people out there, help me out with this one: jackson (our 7-year-old) has tons of allergies, eczema, and occasional asthma.
in the past year or two it appears that he has become very susceptible to viruses.
a year and a half ago he got what the doctor diagnosed as a sinus infection and he was put on antibiotics.
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My father passed away....
by Alana ini know that i don't post often, but i read this board daily.
anyway, i just wanted to pass on the information that my father passed away last week.
he was 81 and in semi-poor health.
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Alana
Thank you all very much for your kind responses. It really means alot to me.
Someone wondered if I read the posts here daily, and yes, I do. I know that you all are a compassionate (and quite entertaining at times!) bunch. Even though I'm a quiet one here, there have been other times when posted items have been very helpful to me, and sometimes even to know that there are others out there who have felt as I have or gone through similar experiences....it really does help people. I am so thankful to all your condolences and, in general, for just being here each day!
Thank you very much, my cyber-friends!
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My father passed away....
by Alana ini know that i don't post often, but i read this board daily.
anyway, i just wanted to pass on the information that my father passed away last week.
he was 81 and in semi-poor health.
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Alana
I know that I don't post often, but I read this board daily. Anyway, I just wanted to pass on the information that my father passed away last week. He was 81 and in semi-poor health. He has fallen several times, had to be admitted and then be in the nursing home for therapy. He had just been out of the nursing home this time less than 1 week when he fell again. Only this time he hit his head and got an internal bleed. He went into a coma and there was nothing they could do for him. It was very sad to just sit there for hours, periodically talking with him while he was in the coma, and wait for him to die.
I am just so very glad that just a couple of weeks before this my fiance and I announced our engagement to him. He was so happy. Even though I am no longer a JW and my fiance never has been, he truly liked him and I think that in his mind he felt more at ease knowing I'd found such a nice man.
Anyway, I was dreading the Memorial Service (he was cremated and there was no funeral home thing) at the KH that I grew up in. My dad was PO was many years and also the Circuit Assembly Overseer for many years, so everyone seemed to know him in this and surrounding Circuits. The main thing I dreaded was expecting the usual 'JW Propaganda Talk' and all those people wondering where I have been the past 8 years....but, I was pleasantly surprised. Unlike the normal talks, which hardly spoke about the deceased and just preached to people, the brother who did the talk did an excellent job. He spoke alot about my dad, his likes, events in his life, and the talk was not too "JW-like". That meant alot to me, as well as to my worldly relatives.
People were not snotty to me, as I expected. I am not DF'd or DA'd, but some in the past have chosen to shun me or cut me off from communications. But even those spoke to me and were kind.
However, my fiance and I have recently moved to a new area, so, now that that was stated in the obituary, I'm just waiting to see if I get a sheparding call or something. Oh well....if they do, they do. I just wanted to relate an actual good experience at the service, rather than what I had expected.
Thanks for listening......
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What's the most hypocritical thing(s) you've ever seen a JW do?
by Steve Lowry inup high on my list has to be when a jw co-worker named john fitzgerald tore into me one morning (when i was coming in late for work) for grabbing a quick piece of cake from the lunch room.
turns out, someone in this small little office had brought in the remainder of their birthday cake for folks at work to finish up eating.
john was older than i and a ministerial servant (ooh) and felt it his responsibility to keep me on the straight and narrow.
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Alana
I don't know if this would necessarily be the MOST hypocritical, as I'm sure there are other acts to choose from, but I know that one year I got really tweaked at a local MS. You see, we were going to celebrate my ex's parent's anniversary with a picnic out on the farm we lived on at the time (his dad was not a JW)....it happened to be July 3rd. We had some bring some cool fireworks to shoot off....just because we could in the country. Well, the MS heard about this and called to say that he didn't feel this was appropriate, because it could give the impression to 'neighbors' that we were celebrating the 4th of July....even if it was just the 3rd. He even said that we still planned to do this, that he and his wife would not be able to attend the picnic, as it would bother their consciences. I just said that we'd miss them.
What makes this hypocritical is that this same MS and all his family would always be sure to go to this one smorgasbord restaurant every year on their birthdays, to get a free meal! They would all go together and the 'birthday person' would get a free meal. I told him that the supposed impression we might make to neighbors miles away, wasn't as bad as the impression they would give to all in the restaurant, especially the cashier, that they were celebrating their birthdays. He got quiet....didn't say much, but that it wasn't the same, they knew they weren't celebrating, it was just a free meal. Yeah, right......well, we weren't celebrating either...it was just free fireworks. That shut him up, but it still was a "thing" in the congregation for a while......and how we were just so 'rebellious'. ha ha
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I AM MAD AS HELL ... I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE !!!
by Amazing inthis has to stop !
... it took 15 minutes just to log on ... yes, the pop-up ads are getting so numberous i can't function, or make posts easily ...there are several pop-ups for a bigger penis - add 3" or more ... yeah, right, size matters.get bigger breasts ... like i need that at age 52 ... male ... mmmm use viagra ... right ... and with a 17" penis, it will go places that no man has gone before.buy insurance ... sure ... for what?
i am uninsurable.
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Alana
I truly have felt your PAIN and AGGRAVATION!!!!
I was getting pop-ups everywhere here on my work PC, but my coworker wasn't. Found out that it was because of some 'spyware' that got on my PC....it would even 'hijack' my homepage every so often. I tried one thing that was already mentioned, Spybot, and it's been wonderful since.......little to no pop-ups at all. It removed the spyware that was already on the computer and now blocks new spyware from being installed.
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Meet Lucy
by chachasmum in.
wanted you to meet lucy, she is the latest addition in my doggy family.
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Alana
What an adorable fluffball!!!! I just LOVE dogs....especially puppies! I just wish I could pick her up and give her a puppy hug.
~"Alana"
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This happened 2 days ago near me.
by Yizuman inhe lives at 3 houses down from the men's shelter where i am staying.
this guy has a history of violence and a rap sheet with the cops.
he was last arrested 3 weeks ago in the same house for some other charge which i don't know what.. the whole block area was cut off and the back area of the shelter was shut down, so no one was allowed to get outside until the whole thing was over.. talk about scary!.
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Alana
Do you live in Indy? I used to live on the Eastside of Indy....in the Irvington Area....on Ritter just off of Washington. I went to the Irvington Congregation (which is no longer there, as they redid all the congregation territories before I moved).
~Alana
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WT Books Going Missing
by ignored_one ini recently visited my local library looking for books on jws.
checking the computer system i found that pretty much all the 'anti' books had been marked as 'lost'.
lost?
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Well, as a teenage dub, I felt that it was my solemn and sacred responsibililty to hide any anti-JW books at our local small town library. I would never steal any, as I knew that woul be wrong, but I would relocate them to other parts of the library and/or hide them behind other books on the shelves. I felt that then people who may be inclined to read them would give up looking when they couldn't find them. Of course, I always made sure that the JW literature that had been donated to the library was prominently seen and available on the shelves. (I was such a dork!)
But, one day, I just thought I would take a quick peek inside one of those books, I believe it was "Visions of Glory" by Barbara Grizutti Harrison. I had always had my doubts, but just felt I was spiritually weak. Taking that peek really sparked my curiousity and as soon as I moved to a much larger community, I would then hide in some corner of the library and read these books. I didn't end up leaving altogether until years later, when I decided to intensely study and research only the Society's literature....and I found out that my doubts were real and had founded reasons. It wasn't until just a couple of years ago that I actually got my own copy of CoC, and it's all made so much sense to me now.
So, in a way, trying to hide that 'evil' literature actually helped me on the road to freedom....
~Alana
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Anyone from far NW subs of Chicago?
by alias inwondering if some old friends might be lurking around these parts.
jws to get a meetup together?
i've tried voting for the "official" meetup, but they always get cancelled.. if yer out there, give a shout!
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Alana
I'm from central IL area, but my ex-husband, who is also an XJW just moved to Crystal Lake (from Round Lake Beach area). I can always see if he'd mind getting to know another XJW, if you'd like. (my first ex is also an XJW, and lives in Wheaton area, but he's told me before he wants to erase all memory of JWs and doesn't ever want to rehash it all, but my last ex sometimes likes to talk about it and how it has affected his life, etc. He is an ex-Bethelite)
~Alana
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Israelite tabernacle and temples....of pagan origin?
by Alana ini believe that it was the history channel that i was watching this weekend....it was about egypt--land of the gods.
in it is talked about the ancient gods of egypt and the elaborate egyptian temples.
then, it spoke of how when the israelites left egypt how they at first had their movable tabernacle and then their temples and how the set-up of them with the courtyards and the holy and most holy places were based upon the pharoahic worship and temples of the egyptians.
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I believe that it was the History Channel that I was watching this weekend....it was about Egypt--Land of the gods. In it is talked about the ancient gods of Egypt and the elaborate Egyptian temples. Then, it spoke of how when the Israelites left Egypt how they at first had their movable tabernacle and then their temples and how the set-up of them with the courtyards and the Holy and Most Holy places were based upon the pharoahic worship and temples of the Egyptians.
That certainly caught my attention.....of course, my boyfriend didn't understand why I was so interested in what was said and then I explained how JW's are to abhor things with pagan origins (or at least those which the WTS have hand-picked to have JW's abhor)....and to think that the ancient Jewish temple was based upon pagan religion would be hard to some JW's to handle. Remember, even the NWT had the drawing of the temple in it and I remember talks about how "Holy" the temple was....straight from Jehovah. Well, sounds like it wasn't straight from heaven after all.......Anyone else see this or hear of this before?
~"Alana"