SS, I took a similar test for work quite awhile ago, but for the life of me I can't remember what type I was.
One thing I do know, however, is that you can alter your basic profile to some extent. I used to be painfully shy. I'm not going to say that I have switched over to being a party animal, but I have been able to modify things quite a bit.
I'll get back to you after I take the test.
i thought this was an interesting read.
7.
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It works. I guess it doesn't like you
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7, yes, I'm still taking vitamins. I've tried doing without them, but I very quickly start to feel rotten, so I figure it's a small price to pay.
While I was in the hospital, a sister gave me Adelle Davis's book "Let's Get Well". I hadn't been into vitamins at all before that time, but I figured I had nothing to lose.
My medical prognosis wasn't good, and I couldn't picture myself taking Prednisone for the rest of my life with all of its multitudinous side effects. The only other option was surgery, but even that wasn't a guarantee.
I don't know if you have this book, but I'm sure it's still in print, and it gives some very good information on various diseases and the appropriate vitamins to take.
The only caveat I have with vitamins is that I never get sick anymore. Every day...get up, go to work....never get a chance to lay around in bed. (sigh)
I hope that you'll find the right combination to help your immune system recover. Have you seen a naturopath? There are so many good vitamin and herbal therapies out there now that I'm sure you could get some definite help.
E-mail me and let me know if there's any additional information I can give you.
Nope. Didn't marry the guy from Skowhegan. Every time he kissed me I literally wanted to throw up. I went out with him because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
He invited my parents and I up to Maine to visit with him and his parents. What a bizaare adventure!
They lived out in the middle of nowhere....literally. The upstairs bedrooms had no central heat, and the floors were covered with dead flies. Then there was the outhouse (gack).
The best part of the trip was having this brother (yes, he was a brother) teach me how to shoot a shotgun. I bagged me a cardboard box!!!
His sister caused quite a stir in the local congregation, as well as the town of Skowhegan itself. I don't think that Maine is particularly integrated even today, and back in the 70's I don't think there could have been more than 10 black people in the whole state.
This family was of English extraction, and the sister was very fair....light blond hair, blue eyes. She met a black brother at an assembly in New Jersey and fell in love. He was a really nice guy and I think that they were very happy.
However, the wedding was planned to take place in Skowhegan. Now, as much as the JW's in Maine would talk about racial equality and all that, a busload of black wedding guests from New Jersey coming to attend an interracial marriage got QUITE a bit of shock value.
Needless to say, the happy couple relocated to New Jersey.
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7, I can relate to the blood issue and medical crises at a young age. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when I was 22. The diagnosis had been very elusive for a year, and I was finally hospitalized with severe rheumatoid arthritis (imagine soccer balls for ankles), and the inability to eat....anything.
My blood count had dropped to 3. I don't know what normal is supposed to be, but I do know that the woman in the bed next to me had double my blood count and they were rushing to transfuse her.
Of course, I refused a transfusion, and the doctors had some pretty dire predictions for me. Not only did I pray to Jehovah for strength, however, but I got angry and refused to let the disease run my life.
Needless to say, I recovered, and due to extensive vitamin therapy, my disease has been in remission for almost 30 years.
Jehovah has been with me and given me comfort many times. I can understand why you don't want to abandon God. I don't either. I can't accept the JW concept of God totally any longer....I now feel that a spiritual relationship with God is a much more personal thing and is totally unrelated to meeting attendance or service time.
Keep asking, 7, I know you'll get the answers you need. ***HUGS****
Edited by - RedhorseWoman on 17 July 2000 11:6:47
7, I could probably add a couple of chapters myself. Especially about the guy from Skowhegan, Maine who drove down to take me to a movie, then showed up two weeks later with all his worldly possessions in the back of his car. He blithely informed me that he was moving to MA so he could be close to me......eeewwwwww!!!
you were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
1 cor 7.23, neb .
xandit you said:.
Gee SS, could you be a little more specific in your opinions?
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waiting, did anyone in your congregation get really paranoid about pet foods possibly containing blood, or the juice in rare meats? How about being yelled at as a kid if you got a scratch and put your finger to your mouth?
I well remember the warnings about using any sort of fertilizer for your plants that might contain blood meal, which when you think of it is really ridiculous. What do they think happens to the blood of an animal when it is killed? Or, for that matter when you bury the family pet? They never said anything about the practice some elderly gardeners had about using rotted fish as fertilizer....I guess they forgot that fish have blood, too.
jehovah's witnesses/wts have reached "critical mass" - says ex-circuit overseer.
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posted by xelder [seeker4] on july 13, 2000 at 12:00:52 {rn3hpwrs1eubi2tgjvegd9bhhxgwag}:.
Frenchy,
I felt as you do for quite some time. After awhile, however, the preponderance of experience was negative. At that point I became inactive.
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Friend, thank you for your thoughts on this matter. The points you expressed about the blood issue were very thought provoking.
My Dad faced a situation where he needed blood. He was a JW, but only to please my Mom. (He had been an opposer for many years, but in his 70's he finally relented).
He was taking Coumadin (a blood thinner) for heart problems. Because of a stressful situation, a fissure opened up in his intestines, and because of the Coumadin, his blood would not clot.
Dad was a stoic. He said nothing about this for several days. My Mom finally noticed the blood in the toilet bowl and got him to the hospital. They tried Vitamin K to encourage clotting, but it didn't work.
Mom called me to come to the hospital. She was in a panic. The doctors told us that Dad needed a transfusion....100 percent survival with it, 100 percent death without it. Since Dad was an adult and conscious, all we could do was urge him to decline the transfusion and put his hope in Jehovah.
I must admit that while I said the words, my mind was screaming "take the transfusion, Dad, I don't want to lose you!!!" He did decide to take the transfusion because of a near-death experience that he related to me. His recovery was rapid and complete. For some reason, no action was taken against him. Possibly, Mom never told the elders and they didn't know.
Your point about life as it pertains to blood made perfect sense....especially in the context of my Dad's experience.
