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Learn Salsa Is Good for Build Friendships It will Keep You Fit and Healthy
"Attention Men"
Salsa will Help You to Loose Your Extra Weight and forget all your Problems at Work or at Home!
Not Matter If you Never Dance in Your Life!
You be able to Make Friends for Life !, By interacting with them in a Game of UNO after salsa Lessons!
Where ?"Mounties Club " In Mount Pritchard With Fussion Dancing Accademmy!
Salsa will Help You to Loose Your Extra Weight and forget all your Problems at Work or at Home!
Not Matter If you Never Dance in Your Life!
You be able to Make Friends for Life !, By interacting with them in a Game of UNO after salsa Lessons!
Where ?"Mounties Club " In Mount Pritchard With Fussion Dancing Accademmy!
LIFE HAS CHANGED UPDATE
Hi everyone want to thank you for the comments and prayers and thoughts and the powerful energy you have sent.
I just finished 3 treatments of Radiation and will be having follow ups.
Something else I want to share but didn't feel up to it in my last post, I have a spot on a lung about the size of a marble and which I will start Treatment of it in 2 weeks. I will be having 5 days for 6 weeks of Radiation and kemotherary.
Again thank you for all the positive energy.
Wen
I just finished 3 treatments of Radiation and will be having follow ups.
Something else I want to share but didn't feel up to it in my last post, I have a spot on a lung about the size of a marble and which I will start Treatment of it in 2 weeks. I will be having 5 days for 6 weeks of Radiation and kemotherary.
Again thank you for all the positive energy.
Wen
Visiting the Doctor
I used to hate going to see the doctor when I was a kid. There were two doctors; they were a married Irish couple and their surgery was a big red brick house, which they lived in. The entrance led into a dingy corridor with a door at the end of it that had a small hatch just big enough for the receptionist’s whole face to be visible. Off to the right was a small waiting room with a dozen or so bright red chairs placed around the wall, in a square.
Above the waiting room door were two red lights, one for each doctor. A button on each of the doctors' desks would activate their individual light and also sound a very loud buzzer, thus summoning in the next patient. You would have to try to memorise all the people who were there before you in order to know when it was your turn. They did upgrade to a system based on numbered lollipop sticks but it was no better as you had no idea what number anyone else had. The waiting room would be completely silent except for an occasional muffled cough from someone desperately trying to suppress it. If people absolutely had to communicate they would do it in a whisper, one decibel higher than miming. I don’t know what it was about waiting rooms in those days that made people terrified of making noise.
Both doctors smoked like chimneys and there was always a smouldering fag in an overflowing ashtray on the desk when you finally got into the consulting room. No matter what ailment you went in with, its diagnosis always required a stethoscope being placed on your chest and back, followed by a brief jotting down of notes. The remedy always seemed to be a bottle of thick, pink, syrupy medicine, which, although very sweet, left a very bitter taste in the mouth.
Going to the doctors is a much more pleasant experience these days, with bright, airy waiting rooms and patients happily chatting away to one another while waiting for their names to be called out. You do have to make an appointment to see a doctor now though, rather than just turn up as and when you feel ill; contrary to what one would expect, that practice only seems to considerably increase the waiting time. I suppose that’s the price of progress; having people just turning up unexpectedly is a very old fashioned way of doing things and, after all, it’s no more than common courtesy to let them know two weeks in advance of when you intend to be sick.
Above the waiting room door were two red lights, one for each doctor. A button on each of the doctors' desks would activate their individual light and also sound a very loud buzzer, thus summoning in the next patient. You would have to try to memorise all the people who were there before you in order to know when it was your turn. They did upgrade to a system based on numbered lollipop sticks but it was no better as you had no idea what number anyone else had. The waiting room would be completely silent except for an occasional muffled cough from someone desperately trying to suppress it. If people absolutely had to communicate they would do it in a whisper, one decibel higher than miming. I don’t know what it was about waiting rooms in those days that made people terrified of making noise.
Both doctors smoked like chimneys and there was always a smouldering fag in an overflowing ashtray on the desk when you finally got into the consulting room. No matter what ailment you went in with, its diagnosis always required a stethoscope being placed on your chest and back, followed by a brief jotting down of notes. The remedy always seemed to be a bottle of thick, pink, syrupy medicine, which, although very sweet, left a very bitter taste in the mouth.
Going to the doctors is a much more pleasant experience these days, with bright, airy waiting rooms and patients happily chatting away to one another while waiting for their names to be called out. You do have to make an appointment to see a doctor now though, rather than just turn up as and when you feel ill; contrary to what one would expect, that practice only seems to considerably increase the waiting time. I suppose that’s the price of progress; having people just turning up unexpectedly is a very old fashioned way of doing things and, after all, it’s no more than common courtesy to let them know two weeks in advance of when you intend to be sick.
LIFE HAS CHANGED
Just wanted to inform why I have not been here lately. I discovered at the end of November I have Brain Cancer.
I will be starting treatments next week, just asking if you can to say a little prayer for me
Thanks
I will be starting treatments next week, just asking if you can to say a little prayer for me
Thanks
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Imaginary friends....
If an adult, and actively have and interact with them, there may be issues. But many healthy children have them all the time. They usually are gone well before early teen years. Great pals, while they last.
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Exercise is 2019's top New Year Resolution
According to Fox News today, the poll has topped exercise as the top of 2019 New Years Resolution.
I have made this as my resolution 40 years ago and still going. Never faltered at my commitment to stay healthy and physically fit.
I hardly ever eat processed foods.
What about you?
Thanks for reading and or commenting if any,
May we all have a very Happy New Year. 
I have made this as my resolution 40 years ago and still going. Never faltered at my commitment to stay healthy and physically fit.
I hardly ever eat processed foods.
What about you?
Thanks for reading and or commenting if any,
May we all have a very Happy New Year.
PLEASE PRAY FOR VIKINGFAN58 I HAVE COLON CANCER!
PLEASE PRAY FOR ME WITH MY COLON CANCER MY NAME IS JIM AND IM 58 YEARS IM FROM NORTH DAKOTA I GOT DIAGNOSED LAST WEEK WITH STAGE 4 AND I FEEL LIKE GIVING UP MY SHIP HERE, MY DOCTORS GAVE ME A YEAR IF I THAT LEFT IN ME THAT IS I START THAT DREEDED CHEMO TOMORROW WITCH IM NOT LOOKING FORWAD TO DOING, IAM ALSO SUFFERING FROM STAGE 4 KIDNEY FAILURE ALSO! IAM AT MY WITS END HERE AND SAYING MYSELF HERE WHY ME! IF U ALL U MAY SEND ME EMAIL ON THIS SITE THAT IS IF FAVORITE ME ON MY PROFILE PAGE UNDER vikingFan58 on here !
J&J Knew for decades that asbestos lurked in baby powder, but kept it a secret from the public
Recently 3 court findings have shed light on this situation resulting in potentially many thousands of people getting either ovarian cancer or mesothelioma. Below is the start of a report from Reuters.
I also included a link, for those who would like to read more.
I also included a link, for those who would like to read more.
In response to:
Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public.
By LISA GIRION in Los Angeles
Filed Dec. 14, 2018, 2 p.m. GMT
Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why.
She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a signature of exposure to asbestos. And she knew it afflicted mostly men who inhaled asbestos dust in mines and industries such as shipbuilding that used the carcinogen before its risks were understood.
Coker, 52 years old, had raised two daughters and was running a massage school in Lumberton, a small town in eastern Texas. How had she been exposed to asbestos? “She wanted answers,” her daughter Cady Evans said.
Fighting for every breath and in crippling pain, Coker hired Herschel Hobson, a personal-injury lawyer. He homed in on a suspect: the Johnson’s Baby Powder that Coker had used on her infant children and sprinkled on herself all her life. Hobson knew that talc and asbestos often occurred together in the earth, and that mined talc could be contaminated with the carcinogen. Coker sued Johnson & Johnson, alleging that “poisonous talc” in the company’s beloved product was her killer.
J&J didn’t tell the FDA that at least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had found asbestos in its talc – in one case at levels reported as “rather high.”
J&J denied the claim. Baby Powder was asbestos-free, it said. As the case proceeded, J&J was able to avoid handing over talc test results and other internal company records Hobson had requested to make the case against Baby Powder.
Coker had no choice but to drop her lawsuit, Hobson said. “When you are the plaintiff, you have the burden of proof,” he said. “We didn’t have it.”
That was in 1999. Two decades later, the material Coker and her lawyer sought is emerging as J&J has been compelled to share thousands of pages of company memos, internal reports and other confidential documents with lawyers for some of the 11,700 plaintiffs now claiming that the company’s talc caused their cancers — including thousands of women with ovarian cancer.
A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.
The documents also depict successful efforts to influence U.S. regulators’ plans to limit asbestos in cosmetic talc products and scientific research on the health effects of talc.
A small portion of the documents have been produced at trial and cited in media reports. Many were shielded from public view by court orders that allowed J&J to turn over thousands of documents it designated as confidential. Much of their contents is reported here for the first time.
Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public.
By LISA GIRION in Los Angeles
Filed Dec. 14, 2018, 2 p.m. GMT
Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why.
She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a signature of exposure to asbestos. And she knew it afflicted mostly men who inhaled asbestos dust in mines and industries such as shipbuilding that used the carcinogen before its risks were understood.
Coker, 52 years old, had raised two daughters and was running a massage school in Lumberton, a small town in eastern Texas. How had she been exposed to asbestos? “She wanted answers,” her daughter Cady Evans said.
Fighting for every breath and in crippling pain, Coker hired Herschel Hobson, a personal-injury lawyer. He homed in on a suspect: the Johnson’s Baby Powder that Coker had used on her infant children and sprinkled on herself all her life. Hobson knew that talc and asbestos often occurred together in the earth, and that mined talc could be contaminated with the carcinogen. Coker sued Johnson & Johnson, alleging that “poisonous talc” in the company’s beloved product was her killer.
J&J didn’t tell the FDA that at least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had found asbestos in its talc – in one case at levels reported as “rather high.”
J&J denied the claim. Baby Powder was asbestos-free, it said. As the case proceeded, J&J was able to avoid handing over talc test results and other internal company records Hobson had requested to make the case against Baby Powder.
Coker had no choice but to drop her lawsuit, Hobson said. “When you are the plaintiff, you have the burden of proof,” he said. “We didn’t have it.”
That was in 1999. Two decades later, the material Coker and her lawyer sought is emerging as J&J has been compelled to share thousands of pages of company memos, internal reports and other confidential documents with lawyers for some of the 11,700 plaintiffs now claiming that the company’s talc caused their cancers — including thousands of women with ovarian cancer.
A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.
The documents also depict successful efforts to influence U.S. regulators’ plans to limit asbestos in cosmetic talc products and scientific research on the health effects of talc.
A small portion of the documents have been produced at trial and cited in media reports. Many were shielded from public view by court orders that allowed J&J to turn over thousands of documents it designated as confidential. Much of their contents is reported here for the first time.
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All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth...
There's a song about that I'm sure.
End of the year I still had some insurance money on a dental plan, so I got a chipped tooth repaired this morning!
End of the year I still had some insurance money on a dental plan, so I got a chipped tooth repaired this morning!
STILL In the Race to be THIN
Getting older hasn’t been kind to me. I had to mark “large” on my profile otherwise I’d be lying. The problem lies in my caloric intake...I end up with the same or more than I intended to eat in a given day. It’s been robbing me of my confidence and self-esteem. Still trying to win this race. I’m always going to keep running because if I don’t, it’s inevitable weight gain. My exercise is fine. I can’t get my diet under control for one reason or another. I know I’m risking being ridiculed here but this is something I’ve struggled with for years and I really want to conquer it once and for all. I’ve been keeping a food journal but I still eat too many calories. The food journal is just another humiliating and frustrating source. 
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