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| Aug 31st, 2004 01:24 AM | ||
| Matt Harty | I don't even know what I meant by it anymore. I was just trying to put everything I felt and everything that was going through my head in a post but I'm bad at things like that. | |
| Aug 30th, 2004 11:26 PM | ||
| ScruU2wice | I don't even know what I meant by it anymore. I was just trying to put everything I felt and everything that was going through my head in a post but I'm bad at things like that. | |
| Aug 30th, 2004 01:11 PM | ||
| AChimp |
I'm not. 
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| Aug 29th, 2004 09:53 PM | ||
| MLE |
i admit thinking your father has cancer is just as stressful as him actually having it until you figure it out. afterwards, it's still really hard because you're getting over the shock, and now you don't trust the diagnoses of doctors. i don't see how 'In our culture pray for us doesn't have a hollow meaning.' could be taken as anything but a shot at another culture; i'm not offended because i don't practice religion, but if i ruined your thread, i'm sorry. |
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| Aug 29th, 2004 01:11 AM | ||
| Matt Harty |
I had a dream there were white blister type things on my hands. When I pushed down on half of it a small spider would sprout out, like half of one. So I was pulling spiders with long legs out of my hands. Sometimes 10 out of one hole, from like... under my skin. Kinda weird. |
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| Aug 28th, 2004 11:36 PM | ||
| Anonymous | BOO | |
| Aug 28th, 2004 11:21 PM | ||
| ScruU2wice |
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My dad is in complete denial that there is anything wrong with him though so he's making it hard to try to take care of him. like friday after school my dad went to the store for like 3 hours to work. He told me he needed to do something to keep his mind off smoking. so now I'm sleeping downstairs because I'm scared that he's gonna get sick again, It's really scary. 
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| Aug 28th, 2004 10:27 PM | ||
| Anonymous | PRAISE JESUS | |
| Aug 28th, 2004 07:59 AM | ||
| FS |
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| Aug 28th, 2004 05:22 AM | ||
| Sethomas |
Only the super-smart can read in dreams. At least Batman says so. Edit: That's something I heard a long time ago, and I did research to see if it's true and I haven't found science to back it up. Every once in a while I'll read something in a dream, but it's usually something where the words are more like icons, like you recognize by the shape of the words rather than the phonetics. I dunno. |
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| Aug 28th, 2004 05:09 AM | ||
| Dole | I had a dream the other night that I was watching a Jerry Springer type show, and the title of the show at the bottom of the screen was: 'I bit a dolphin - does it matter?' | |
| Aug 28th, 2004 03:51 AM | ||
| Zomboid | See? That's why I use chewing tobacco and don't smoke anything more than cigars every now and then (unless you count weed). Yeah, I could get gum cancer, but I can still run and shit without hacking up phlegm. | |
| Aug 28th, 2004 01:15 AM | ||
| The Retro Kat | I love you Saad. Big kisses and hugs when i see you again. | |
| Aug 28th, 2004 01:06 AM | ||
| ScruU2wice |
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:25 AM | ||
| AChimp |
This thread is so much better now. 
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:23 AM | ||
| Sethomas |
And it is manifest that you meant 
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:22 AM | ||
| kahljorn |
"Talk to me about respectable smoking.  "I do believe you meant 
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:16 AM | ||
| AChimp |
Bah! I come from a country where this is what's considered respectable: Our forefathers could roll a cigar with the toes on one foot. The other foot had no toes because of frostbite.
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:10 AM | ||
| Sethomas |
Bah. I buy my tobacco from large cookie jars, and I keep it in a special pouch. Then I smoke it out of MY PIPE, which is made of WOOD. Talk to me about respectable smoking.
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:07 AM | ||
| AChimp |
When I refer to smoking a tin, I am referring to loose tobacco coming in one of these: It's the ONLY way to buy the stuff and at least look respectable, IMO. |
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| Aug 28th, 2004 12:03 AM | ||
| Sethomas |
If you refer to cigarettes as coming in "tins", you deserve cancer. USA!!!USA!!!USA!!! |
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| Aug 27th, 2004 11:59 PM | ||
| AChimp |
I've had a couple uncles die of lung cancer, and my neighbour died of it a few years ago. Long, painful slow process of sitting around and waiting to die and wishing that you hadn't smoked an entire tin every two days. Actually, one of those uncles technically died of a stroke BEFORE the cancer got him (good ol' genetics kicked in first). My point is that it's highly irresponsible of the doctor to play the cancer card with 100% certainty in the amount of time it takes to buy a donut, especially when there are a host of OTHER things that come first in the diagnosis hierarchy. How about running a few simple cultures on the sputum? D'oh! Instead it's, "Hullo! Highly impressionable religious family at twelve o'clock! What sounds really gross and fatal?" |
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| Aug 27th, 2004 11:43 PM | ||
| Sethomas |
I understand your logic, but it's not flawless. My grandfather was lung cancer waiting to happen; smoked cigarettes since age twelve, inhaled cigars for the past thirty years. Around age 65 he never ever missed a day of work, then one day he was in perfect health through the day then hit by a strong case of pneumonia-like symptoms at night, including attacks of asphyxiation. Dead within three months. So no, unless you first develop emphysema or however it's spelled, lung cancer is seldom predicated. |
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| Aug 27th, 2004 11:36 PM | ||
| AChimp |
Eh, that doctor sounds like a moron. You don't look at a patient for a little while in the ER, conclude that they must have lung cancer based on the handful of tests you've done, ask the family if the guy was a smoker, and upon having your suspicions confirmed, saying "Yup. He has teh cancar." Guess what. You don't suddenly "have trouble breathing" when lung cancer has "spread through both your lungs." It's a slow, debilitating process and your father would have been flat on his back weeks earlier. Nobody has woken up one day to suddenly discover that they have developed terminal cancer overnight throughout a major organ without experiencing some painful symptoms beforehand. Pneumonia shows up as giant cloudy spots in x-rays, and it can appear literally within hours. I saw my x-rays last year when I had pneumonia. What a coincidence that lung cancer appears similar.  Hooray to God for crappy doctors that jump the gun! 
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| Aug 27th, 2004 10:04 PM | ||
| Anonymous | Ditto. My dad was having the beginning stages of a heart attack over a year ago and I was really worried :< He got a balloon angioplasty. ;< | |
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