Well, Hey BBA, do you think we`d forget you ? Actually feel like I`m in a big void most of the time!!! But, we won`t forget ya...........Love and Hugs, BA

Oh Dee....... How I wish I had a ceramic bull dog today!

Jeepster
play frisbie with plates... that's good.. take it you are having a bad day?
love and hugs
Helen

Yes I am! Since we're all family here, I'll go ahead and post the problem. No where can you get straighter answers than right here. I'm dealing with insensitive, negligent medical personel that aren't looking at the big picture. My OWN team... I SPECIFICALLY asked for a peticular screening at my annual physical. I read on this board about it. Well for the first time EVER I turn up with "atypical cells" and I should come back in 3 MONTHS??? WHAT??? Oooops.. and they forgot to run the screening I asked for and they wont do it now for another 3 months. I'm so scared this could be related to Don's cancer. Did I do this to him??? We've both been completely monogamus(sp?) for over 5 years. Please send all ugly ceramic things to me.
Karen

Karen
STOP... you are doing what we all do here.. actually we all do it well... YOU are looking for a situation or a person to blame.. you know it doesn't work like that.. If there was one easy answer none of us would be in this sh#t...
try to go over it all.. if they were worried about you.. you would not have to wait 3 months.. and Don's cancer no-way are you to blame... better to blame aliens than yourself...
love hugs and box of plates
Helen

Thanks Helen, Perspective. That's what I need. There's not much I can do about it now. 'Cept maybe throw plates. I think sometimes I read too much but I'm talking about real studies at John Hopkins. They say 80% of us have HPV, and #16 & #18 are the ones related to oral cancer. (It does come with a slightly better prognosis.)I have to get my mind off this for a while... Hey all, Check your e-mails I sent everyone I could on this thread a little stress relief I forgot I had. Turn up the sound. I hope you enjoy.

Hi Karen
Thanks for mail.. just what I needed.. glass red wine and a laugh.. great... Try not to play the number game.. if 80% have HPV why haven't 79% that's 80% if you include me.. got oral cancer.. who gave it to me CAN I SUE... expect eventualy a connection with a lot of things will be found.. but I will not give up two things.. red wine and ( ok that's the other one) when I'm nil by mouth can I have IV red wine.. hope so.. :rolleyes:
love and hugs.. sorry threw the plates
Helen..

Just got a chance to check out this thread, Hmm, sounds like we might have an organized activity for the Vegas GetTogether--automatic weapons fire. Will have to get the entertainment director to look into this.

Driving.. Folks complaining about Boston etc should try here in S. China. Traffic signals are only a "guideline" as well as lane markers. First thing taught in driver's ed is to fold the rear view mirror UP so it's out of the way, you don't really need it anyway (I'm not kidding). Very common to see traffic going wrong way on divided boulevards. 4 people on a 150cc motorcycle, one an infant usually riding on the handlebars. Traffic flow is not usually all one direction, about 1/3 of the traffic on a street is traveling at a 90 degree angle from the other 2/3, and this isn't at intersections. Since my company's policy is to not let non-local's drive, I just hide in the back seat of my car behind a book or magazine. But a taxi ride is quite an adventure, ala "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disneyland.

Dumb question, but after having had this "brush with mortality" and surviving, has anyone else hand a penchant for doing things slightly more risky than they would have before hand. Like ok, I've got a 50/50 chance of not being here 5 years from now because of the cancer. But if I jump out of a perfectly good airplane (wearing the "chute" of course) it's statistically safer than living with this disease. So I'm more likely to go ahead and do something silly like skydiving than I would have if I had not gotten cancer. Still not going to jump out of an airplane, but might try driving in Dongguan traffic.
Bob

Hi Bob
Yep I drove in Malta.. whole hotel of men.. and me I hired a car.. the guy delivering it bent it on the way.. me no problem.. I don't have problems anymore.. they are what other people have..so yep lead me to a machine gun.. in the UK every thing is banned.. so if I get to the USA guns are 1st on the list.. can I stand my husband as target... (JOKE).. he's blind and wouldn't duck...
cheers
Helen..