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Chet Lemon...Baseball...Blood...JW

by MadApostate in

jw
friends

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/highschool/lake/orl-lkllemon16011602jan16.story?coll=orl%2dnews%2dprint%2dasec.

coach won't let surgery stop him.

by josh robbins.

Scully

drahcir:

I took the liberty to look up the condition online, in case you're interested in finding out more.

http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/1709.html

polycythemia vera
By James Broomfield, MD
Polycythemia vera is a blood cancer that causes red blood cells to multiply. White blood cells and platelets may also multiply.
What is going on in the body?
Polycythemia vera causes the red blood cells to multiply. Red blood cells are the oxygen-carrying cells of the body. Other cells of the blood can also multiply. White blood cells, the infection fighting cells in the body, and platelets, which help blood to clot, are also usually affected.
What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?
Symptoms of polycythemia vera are often related to the abnormally high number of blood cells. Symptoms usually come on gradually, and may include: · headache · weakness and fatigue · light-headedness or dizziness · itching, especially after a hot shower or bath · visual impairments · shortness of breath or trouble breathing · a red color to the skin, especially in the face · abnormal bleeding · bone pain · an enlarged spleen or liver · a blood clot in a vein, also called deep venous thrombosis
Some people have no symptoms at all, and the diagnosis is made accidentally when a routine blood test is done.
What are the causes and risks of the disease?
The cause of polycythemia vera is unknown. It is slightly more common in those who are Jewish. Men are more commonly affected than women. More than 95% of cases occur in people older than 40 years of age.
What can be done to prevent the disease?
There is no known prevention for polycythemia vera.
How is the disease diagnosed?
The diagnosis of polycythemia vera may be suspected after a history and physical exam. A blood test called a complete blood count (CBC) is the first step in making the diagnosis. This test counts the number of each of the kinds of blood cells. A person with polycythemia vera has an elevated red blood cell count, and usually has elevated white blood cell and platelet counts as well. Other blood tests, such as a vitamin B12 level or an erythropoietin level, may also be done.
Often, a procedure called a bone marrow biopsy is done to help confirm the diagnosis. This involves inserting a special needle through the skin of the upper buttock area and into the pelvic bone. The needle is used to take a sample of bone marrow, the soft material found inside certain bones where blood cells are made. The sample of marrow can be sent to the lab for examination and special testing.
What are the long-term effects of the disease?
After diagnosis, most people with polycythemia vera live no more than 15 years with treatment. Without treatment, a person may only live a few years. This cancer increases the risk of life-threatening blood clots and bleeding. In some cases, polycythemia vera may transform into the more aggressive blood cancer leukemia.
What are the risks to others?
Polycythemia vera is not contagious, and poses no risk to others.
What are the treatments for the disease?
Treatment does not cure polycythemia vera. The goal of treatment is to thin the blood enough to decrease the risk of clots and abnormal bleeding. One of the main treatments is to remove some of the person's blood, in a procedure called phlebotomy. The person has blood removed regularly to keep it from getting too thick. A needle is inserted through the skin and into a vein, usually in the hand or forearm. Blood is then removed with the needle.
Chemotherapy is also used in some cases to improve survival. Aspirin can be given to help decrease the risk of blood clots.
What are the side effects of the treatments?
Aspirin can cause allergic reactions, stomach upset, and kidney damage. Chemotherapy can cause many different side effects, including nausea and damage to the kidney or liver. Removing blood can be painful and may result in an infection. If too much blood is removed, a person may feel weak and tired.
What happens after treatment for the disease?
Most people die from polycythemia vera or its complications, with or without treatment. Treatment can allow a person to live longer in most cases, but cannot cure the cancer.
How is the disease monitored?
A CBC is done regularly to monitor blood cells counts and to guide further therapy. Other monitoring is related to any complications that occur, such as blood clots. Any new or worsening symptoms should be reported to the healthcare provider.
Copyright © 2001 HealthAnswers, Inc. Last Updated: 07/05/01

FYI.

Love, Scully

74

Why can't we own Canadians?

by closer2fine in

jw
friends

laura schlessinger is a us radio personality who dispenses advice to.

i have tried asking, but most women take offense.. d) lev.

he violates lev.

Scully

Saint Satan writes:

Anyone know where i could buy a jew? I hear they are 10% off.

Pssst. Only the boys. When they're 8 days old.

Love, Scully

14

Chet Lemon...Baseball...Blood...JW

by MadApostate in

jw
friends

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/highschool/lake/orl-lkllemon16011602jan16.story?coll=orl%2dnews%2dprint%2dasec.

coach won't let surgery stop him.

by josh robbins.

Scully

The article wrote:

The surgery took 6½ hours and was complicated by several factors. Lemon declined to receive blood, in accordance with his beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. He had to stop taking anti-clotting medicines before the surgery to prevent excessive bleeding during and after the procedure

That highlighted portion is a gratuitous advertisement for the WTS, by someone who has made a name for themselves.

Polycythemia patients rarely require blood transfusion during surgery. The hyperabundance of red blood cells is what defines the disease in the first place. Why on earth would someone who already TOO MANY red blood cells be given MORE during surgery?? A physician who would even suggest doing that would be guilty of malpractice.

The only reason I can surmise for Mr. Lemon's bringing his refusal of blood transfusions to the attention of the press was to gain publicity for the JWs. He was likely in no real danger of excessive blood loss due to his medical condition. The article plainly states that in an unmedicated condition (he had been taking blood thinners, probably something like Coumadin) his blood coagulated TOO EASILY, which is rarely a problem during surgery. What you don't want during surgery is someone whose blood does NOT clot quickly enough, which is why he had to stop taking anticoagulants preoperatively.

By the way, it thoroughly irritates me when people do things like that, and I think if more people were aware of things of this nature, they'd realize what kind of misleading, attention-seeking nonsense JWs are willing to pull to advertise for the WTS.

Love, Scully

It is not persecution for an informed person
to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63

A religion that teaches lies cannot be true. -WT 12/1/91

44

PUBLISHERS

by Frenchy in

jw
friends

jehovahs witnesses are under a grand and multi-faceted illusion that has been fabricated and is being maintained by the society.

one such facet of that great illusion is that jws are actually proclaiming gods kingdom and teaching people the truth about god and jesus.

it was only a few years ago (hey, im not the brightest candle on the cake!

Scully

Frenchy:

Thank you for so eloquently putting into words what we've all known in our heart of hearts and suspected for a long time.

Your description of how the thought reform (i.e., 'brainwashing') occurs within the JWs - and any other cultic organization for that matter - as so subtle, so insidious, and so easy to fall prey to, and how it manipulates our sense of right and wrong, and the values we place on family ties and friendship, is so astonishingly obvious... in retrospect.

It's a shame that JWs and groups like JWs don't have to come with warning labels the way cigarettes and alcohol do in some countries!!

WARNING: Reading this material may cause you to lose your mind!

Love, Scully

It is not persecution for an informed person
to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63

A religion that teaches lies cannot be true. -WT 12/1/91

74

Why can't we own Canadians?

by closer2fine in

jw
friends

laura schlessinger is a us radio personality who dispenses advice to.

i have tried asking, but most women take offense.. d) lev.

he violates lev.

Scully

Sorry to disappoint you guys but even Canadians have standards

Love, Scully

7

A new Use fo the Wt and Awake....

by lydia in

jw
friends

yes - i have found a new way to use them.. .

i let the kids tear them up, dump the peices into a blender - add water - and presto pulp - that we then screen and make scrap paper out of!!

- the dyes they use are great - and the colors you can get are fabulous - .

Scully

For the longest time, we had a special place in our closet for Watchtowers and Awakes. It helped me curb my materialistic tendencies because there was so little room for anything else.

We ended up doing similar to Mulan, and our magazines found a new home at the dump. Now they only bother the bears and skunks that live nearby.

Love, Scully

15

I'm Leaving

by larc in

jw
friends

i'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when i'll be back again, oh babe i hate to go.. that song is going through my head, and i can't remember who sang it.. made ya look you dirty crook.

hee hee

Scully

I thought the Mamas and the Papas did it. Can't say for sure though.

18

Yay Im gonna be on TV

by bboyneko in

the producers saw a baltimore sun article me and my friends were in nd they want us to film a promo for the sequel to 'that 70's show' which is called 'that 80's show' .

we are filming the promo next wedesday, ill letcha guys know the details as i get em!.

-dan

Scully

congratulations!!

you'll do a great job!

Love, Scully

11

Service Year 2002 so far

by GermanXJW in

jw
friends

by means of km2/02 we already have the numbers for the first two months.

firstly, i looked at it because i was curious if there would be any effect of the events of sep 11th.

but when i went back down to 1993. i hope i did the format correctly.

Scully

What I'm REALLY curious about is not the impact of 9/11 on the preaching work (although I find it interesting - most JWs claim that meeting attendance and field service activity increased in its wake); but to see what the reports are for each month following the exposé of the UN/NGO association of the WTS.

We'll no doubt find that out in the next few months.

Love, Scully

It is not persecution for an informed person
to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63

A religion that teaches lies cannot be true. -WT 12/1/91

15

should mothers work?

by sleepy in

jw
friends

should mothers work?.

i was just reading how some tv personnality earns 250.000 a year and pays for someone to mind her children.. isn't this making her job more important than her children?would she pay this much herself for a child minder or is her job more important than being certain her children are recieving the best care?.

thats just thinking aloud ' i'm not sure where i stand on this.. maybe staying home with young children all day is to much for one human prehaps we need to do other things and children don't need their mother all the time and are ok with someone else.. i was looked after by my mother when young who gave up her job when pregnant with her first child.. my wife however was looked after by a child minder while her mum went to work .she feels she didn't miss out and would do the same.

Scully

There are so many factors to consider in coming up with an answer to this.

What I find interesting is that the United States, with its supposed claim for the highest family values, only allows a working mother six weeks of maternity leave without jeopardizing her job. However, in Canada, a woman can take a year of maternity leave. In some European countries, it's even longer than that. And yet, in some countries, women have no rights to make any decisions in this matter at all. They are expected to return to their job within days, or they don't even HAVE a job. Others have to hide their pregnancy in order to keep working. Once the pregnancy is discovered, they are terminated.

When governments give support to working mothers that provide job security and income support for a period of time to spend with their newborn/infant, more often than not, a woman will take the opportunity to stay at home with their child. Women know that they are generally the best ones to care for their own children, especially in the early formative years.

The World Health Organization holds the position that the best food for babies for the first six months of life is their mother's milk. They also state that breastfeeding for at least a year is ideal. It offers not just nutrition for the child, but immunological protection derived from the antibodies in mother's milk, and protection from ear infections as a result of the mechanics of jaw movement by the baby during breastfeeding. These are just two of the main benefits to breastfeeding.

However, none of these benefits can be realisitically achieved when a woman has to return to her job after only a few weeks. It takes about 6 weeks for the 'supply and demand' aspect of breastfeeding to be properly established, and then you have to throw the monkey wrench in the works by returning to your job. Some mothers diligently try to pump their milk so the caregiver can give it to the baby. But that isn't breastfeeding, and some of the benefits of breastfeeding are lost this way. Not only that, mothers end up finding that doing this is highly inconvenient at work, for lack of a private area in which to do this, and lack of storage areas for her milk. Not to mention the obvious interruptions that pumping is going to entail, which doesn't go over well with the boss.

Governments that value the health benefits that breastfeeding has to offer children, tend to support maternity leaves that give mothers the opportunity to breastfeed their children beyond just a few days or weeks of the child's life.

When there is more support for working mothers in this manner, then more women afford themselves of the opportunity to stay at home with their children.

Love, Scully