Comments on: Cancer n’ Me http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/ America's favorite blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24576 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:33:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24576 If it ever is a runaway melanoma, get your ass to Duke. Ain't nobody better on the issue of melanoma, although my sweetie's mother is a survivor of three bouts with melanoma because of a very competent local dermatologist and, when the third metasticized, an even more competent local oncologist. She was in denial over the first one for nearly a year, so she is beyond lucky. It is now nearly fifteen years since the first one. Assume Fred Thompson is telling the truth, and never make light of non-Hodgkin's. It may be slow, but it is still cancer, and it is no friend of your body's ability to maintain a properly equipped blood supply. And it does kill. And the advice to anyone with a fair complexion who lives in the skin-cancer belt (which ironically is also the Bible belt) is dead on. Kurt Vonnegut, Molly Ivins, and Ann Richards - yeah! If it ever is a runaway melanoma, get your ass to Duke. Ain’t nobody better on the issue of melanoma, although my sweetie’s mother is a survivor of three bouts with melanoma because of a very competent local dermatologist and, when the third metasticized, an even more competent local oncologist. She was in denial over the first one for nearly a year, so she is beyond lucky. It is now nearly fifteen years since the first one.

Assume Fred Thompson is telling the truth, and never make light of non-Hodgkin’s. It may be slow, but it is still cancer, and it is no friend of your body’s ability to maintain a properly equipped blood supply. And it does kill.

And the advice to anyone with a fair complexion who lives in the skin-cancer belt (which ironically is also the Bible belt) is dead on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Molly Ivins, and Ann Richards - yeah!

]]> by: Dale http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24555 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:39:57 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24555 My dog has a ¨Who´s the bitch now?¨ tattoo. Rub-on, of course. My dog has a ¨Who´s the bitch now?¨ tattoo. Rub-on, of course.

]]> by: Maximum Bob http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24554 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:51:45 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24554 You're right, cooper: the vet had to shave my cat for a sonogram, and that's how we found the "Death Before Distemper" tattoo. Adam, I'm sorry for your experience. I have a lot of respect for most of the health profession, but damn, there are some inept doctors out there. You’re right, cooper: the vet had to shave my cat for a sonogram, and that’s how we found the “Death Before Distemper” tattoo.

Adam, I’m sorry for your experience. I have a lot of respect for most of the health profession, but damn, there are some inept doctors out there.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24552 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:48:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24552 Harold, not to mention that the goddamn unbelted governor was in a goddamn POLICE CAR. That was the point the struck me... Harold, not to mention that the goddamn unbelted governor was in a goddamn POLICE CAR. That was the point the struck me…

]]> by: Ann´s cat http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24550 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:44:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24550 Ann, there was <a HREF="http://weirdpicturearchive.com/pics/tricks-drunksmokingcat.html" rel="nofollow">so much</a> you didn´t know... Ann, there was so much you didn´t know…

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24549 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:35:57 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24549 Ann, healthcare is so much simpler if they just CUT YOUR HEAD OFF! Plus it's a quick & easy weight loss system. siobhan, I am grimly left wondering lots of things about seat belt laws in New Jersey. At a time like this, it seems like saying something like "Why wasn't the goddamn Governor wearing his goddamn SEATBELT? So much for a goddamn SUV offering any degree of goddamn protection to unbelted goddamn passengers!" would be in poor taste. But we've had this conversation here once before, not so long ago. Ann, healthcare is so much simpler if they just CUT YOUR HEAD OFF! Plus it’s a quick & easy weight loss system.

siobhan, I am grimly left wondering lots of things about seat belt laws in New Jersey. At a time like this, it seems like saying something like “Why wasn’t the goddamn Governor wearing his goddamn SEATBELT? So much for a goddamn SUV offering any degree of goddamn protection to unbelted goddamn passengers!” would be in poor taste.

But we’ve had this conversation here once before, not so long ago.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24546 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:02:15 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24546 After Corzines's accident, I bet healthcare moves up in the queue in New Jersey, at least. After Corzines’s accident, I bet healthcare moves up in the queue in New Jersey, at least.

]]> by: Ann http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24545 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:03:45 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24545 Timothy, next you'll be suggesting we follow the health care plan of those crazy Canadians, who want to CUT YOUR HEAD OFF!! Timothy, next you’ll be suggesting we follow the health care plan of those crazy Canadians, who want to CUT YOUR HEAD OFF!!

]]> by: Timothy Moriarty http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24544 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:08:19 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24544 It cost you half of your annual deductible just to find out nothing was wrong? Isn't <i>that</i> nice. Then there's the 50 zillion Americans who can't even afford to go to Krazy Doktor Kostok to find out nothing is wrong... so instead, they go to the emergency room when the thing that <i>is</i> wrong is <i>so</i> wrong that they can never make it right. Healthcare in this country is <i>so</i> busted. Anyway, preaching to the choir, I am sure. Glad to hear you're okay. It cost you half of your annual deductible just to find out nothing was wrong? Isn’t that nice.

Then there’s the 50 zillion Americans who can’t even afford to go to Krazy Doktor Kostok to find out nothing is wrong… so instead, they go to the emergency room when the thing that is wrong is so wrong that they can never make it right. Healthcare in this country is so busted.

Anyway, preaching to the choir, I am sure. Glad to hear you’re okay.

]]> by: It's Pat! http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24543 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:24:54 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2007/04/11/cancer-n-me/#comment-24543 All this cancer talk reminds me that it is a beautiful day in Minne-so green-ta, we have a Senator named Norm ("I didn't leave the Democratic party, it left me") who is trying to act like a Democrat (soon to be called "I didn't leave the Republican party, it left me"), and we are in a ludicrous position on stem cell research. Bah. All this cancer talk reminds me that it is a beautiful day in Minne-so green-ta, we have a Senator named Norm (”I didn’t leave the Democratic party, it left me”) who is trying to act like a Democrat (soon to be called “I didn’t leave the Republican party, it left me”), and we are in a ludicrous position on stem cell research. Bah.

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