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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | Oh Jim, I read that quote in a book I was reading. I thought it was very interesting. Never thought of courage like that. No, you are not brain damaged.  You are too funny. By the way I did not call you brain damaged, it was Mr. Scott Peck who did. I was just repeating it.
Angelia
31 at Dx.
DX: 4/30/09, 10/21/09 SCC on floor of mouth,
T1NOMO, T2N1M0
TX: 39 IMRT, 8 cisplatin 11/30/09
PET/CT: 11/03/09: Lymph node involvement
PEG/PORT: 11/09
TX end: 02/01/10
PET Scan: 04/05/10 clear
PEG Out: 06/21/10
Biopsy: 12/23/10: fibrosis
HBO: 01/04/11 - ORN
Baby girl born 11-30-12
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | I actually had a class in college called: Mental Hygiene, which covered both old psychology books and modern novels. Dug up on Google the cite to one of my old notebook entries for today
[quote]The most drastic and usually the more effective remedy for fear is direct action.
~ William H. Burnham, The Normal Mind: An Introduction to Mental Hygiene and the Hygiene of School Instruction (1924).[/quote]
Charm
Last edited by Charm2017; 03-04-2010 01:01 PM. Reason: took cold shower
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | That was awesome charm, I love it.
"There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
Louis L'amour
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | In one of my courses in dental school (or was that mental school), they tried some mental hygiene on one of my classmates. They tried squirting water through his head from his right ear to his left. It didn't work so they just flunked him out of school.
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | No quote today...flu's knocked me out for a bit.
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Geez Eric,,If it's out there you seem to get it. Go easy man we need you here.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Eric
Hoping you feel better today. So you can take time to recuperate, here is a quote for today on fear:
[quote]With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. ... The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols (1888). The Four Great Errors[/quote]
It obliquely ties in with your signature. Feel better soon.
charm
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Okay, Third Sunday of Lent (unlike the 3rd Sunday of Advent no change of color in vestments until next Sunday) today so a "sermon" type quote on handling fear:
[quote]Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James, from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897). Is Life Worth Living?
[/quote]
Get better Soon Eric . BTW, other posters are welcome to add their favorite fear quotes. We only need one a day to fulfill Eric's title
Charm
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | How true this one is Charm.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,844 | Thanks Charm for picking up my slack, you are awesome my friend. This stuff just wants to hold on. While I'm waiting for my compazine to kick in I thought this was funny.
"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays" -Henry Youngman
laughter truly is the best way to conquer fear.
Young Frack, SCC T4N2M0, Cisplatin,35+ rads,ND, RT Mandiblectomy w fibular free flap, facial paralysis, "He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how"." -Nietzche "WARNING" PG-13 due to Sarcasm & WAY too much attitude, interact at your own risk.
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