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  Health Advise Needed.

  by RottenRiley in

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  if your sister and brother died of cancer and now your body is starting to show all the effects of the disease, would you want to know even if it might mean a death-sentence?.

  my dad, sister, brother and now mom will die from this ugly disease, all of them had aggressive forms of stomach cancer, my mother's battliing it has me putting my health on the back burner because i am very obstinate and hate doctors, why should i go see a doctor if the last four people i loved all died of cancer once they got their dx?.

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  Hamster -- I'm glad you got this diagnosis so early -- you might have a tough road ahead of you, but you will get better! So glad.
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  Health Advise Needed.

  by RottenRiley in

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  if your sister and brother died of cancer and now your body is starting to show all the effects of the disease, would you want to know even if it might mean a death-sentence?.

  my dad, sister, brother and now mom will die from this ugly disease, all of them had aggressive forms of stomach cancer, my mother's battliing it has me putting my health on the back burner because i am very obstinate and hate doctors, why should i go see a doctor if the last four people i loved all died of cancer once they got their dx?.

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  Hortensia

  Go to the doctor, lay out the facts. Your parents and two siblings have been diagnosed with stomach cancer and you are starting to feel the symptoms. You need the right tests to let you know whether or not you have cancer and you need them now. If you're straight with the doctor, lay out the facts, and still get blown off, well, go right down the road to another doctor and don't pay that first one.
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  Are You Comfortable With Who You Now Are?

  by minimus in

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  many jws are misfits and many that were raised as jws find it difficult to be "normal".

  are you comfortable with yourself at this point in time?.

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  Hortensia

  Quite comfortable with myself. And with all of you!
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  Health Advise Needed.

  by RottenRiley in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  if your sister and brother died of cancer and now your body is starting to show all the effects of the disease, would you want to know even if it might mean a death-sentence?.

  my dad, sister, brother and now mom will die from this ugly disease, all of them had aggressive forms of stomach cancer, my mother's battliing it has me putting my health on the back burner because i am very obstinate and hate doctors, why should i go see a doctor if the last four people i loved all died of cancer once they got their dx?.

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  I'm so sorry to hear this! I can see how it would make you feel that way. The diagnosis isn't what kills, it's the cancer. I guess everyone is different. I think personally I'd want to know, and I'd want to be aggressive about getting treatment.

  How awful that your entire family has suffered from cancer -- you must feel upset and angry and very sad. I can hardly imagine how awful it must be.
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  does it even matter?

  by losingit in

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  i am thinking of sending a simple fb message to all of the jws i know.. "jwfacts.com" with the tag line, "you're in a cult.".

  my motivation?

  i am disturbed about the fact that these people that pretended to be friends look at me with a negative eye and have no clue as to how they abandoned my girls and i in a desperate time of need over the course of this past year.

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  No, it doesn't really matter, so go ahead if you want to do it. If I had JW friends on facebook, I would love to poke them in the eyes with the truth! I have been out so long I don't have any JW contacts any longer.
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  Evolution Humor

  by metatron in

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  http://cheezburger.com/8038222336.

  no darwin awards here, apparently.

  metatron.

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  Hortensia

  Cute!
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  So what are you up to?

  by Xanthippe in

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  anyone else bored with religion versus atheism or is it just me?.

  i'm planning to go to greece in may.. i'm thinking about planting rocket and beetroot in my garden this year because they are getting rather expensive to buy.. this week i want to make chocolate refridgerator cakes.

  some for my daughter who is coming home from uni this weekend and some to take in to work to give away with free tea and coffee because it's national libraries day on saturday.. i just finished reading the humans by matt haig which was brilliant.

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  I like gardening, it helps keep me outside a lot in the summer and it's fun.

  Myofascial release isn't the same as lymph drainage massage -- it focuses on the connective tissue rather than on lymph circulation. However, it does have some effect on lymph circulation, because most of your lymph vessels are located in the superficial layer of connective tissue right under the skin. Stretching connective tissue moves the lymph vessels and they respond to gentle movement by contracting.
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  This may be the year California burns down

  by Hortensia in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25996522.

  there's a photo of shasta lake near where i live -- it's very sad now to see how low the lake is.

  and governor brown is being really wimpy about it, suggesting we not flush our toilets as often as usual.

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  Hey RottenRiley, I'm not that far from Alturas but haven driven out that way yet. I might make it in May -- taking a drive from Montana to Mt. Shasta, and that is one of the ways we could go.
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  This may be the year California burns down

  by Hortensia in

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  2. current

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25996522.

  there's a photo of shasta lake near where i live -- it's very sad now to see how low the lake is.

  and governor brown is being really wimpy about it, suggesting we not flush our toilets as often as usual.

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  Hortensia

  Modoc county is pretty remote and has the smallest population of any county in California. I don't think there is much industry up there, or much tourism. Not enough water for farming, either, I think.

  Too many people in California, too much deforestation, too much waste of water. A lot of the waste comes from industry -- All including individuals and corporations have to cut back on water usage.

  Well, we'll see. We had about a half inch of snow today. It was pretty but nowhere near enough.
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  So what are you up to?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone else bored with religion versus atheism or is it just me?.

  i'm planning to go to greece in may.. i'm thinking about planting rocket and beetroot in my garden this year because they are getting rather expensive to buy.. this week i want to make chocolate refridgerator cakes.

  some for my daughter who is coming home from uni this weekend and some to take in to work to give away with free tea and coffee because it's national libraries day on saturday.. i just finished reading the humans by matt haig which was brilliant.

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  Hortensia

  Gardening -- looking forward to it. I only have a plot in a community garden, so don't have a lot of scope for planting. But the garden is a great place to be, I like sitting out there in the evenings, watching the dragonflies and birds and looking at all the different garden plots.