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Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I've had a couple of Ball Pythons in my life. Gentle. beautiful and wonderful snakes. In the wild they curl up into a ball so tight when they are scared that it's rumored you can actually roll it on the ground. Never been bit by a Ball Python. I got nailed by a 10 ft Boa Constrictor though and it was months dealing with broken off teeth and infections in my right hand.
Now we have 2 Bichons Frises, a Maltese, a Canary and a bunch of fish. My Bichons were my therapy dogs going through treatment and they were the best. Adjunctive therapy at it's finest.
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Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Okay: the Lighthearted award of the year goes to Ray. That apa joke about the snake and apple really tickled me. Not as much as Gary's python would. Okay, now instead of a link, here is a cut and paste from today's Washington Post about the dangers of Python therapy  VIRGINIA BEACH Woman Is Found Strangled, Perhaps by Her Pet Python Police believe a 25-year-old Virginia Beach woman was strangled by her pet python. Amanda Ruth Black's husband came home about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and found her lying in a bedroom, police said. The snake's cage was open. Black was pronounced dead at the scene. A preliminary medical examiner's report indicates she died of asphyxiation. Police say Black was trying to give medicine to the 13-foot tiger python when the incident happened. Animal control officers found the snake in the bedroom and are holding it at their office.
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: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Ray,
You need to adjust your meds. You may be taking to much. JM2C's
Listen my wife does not need ANY more ideas of new pets. Everytime she see's an attractive animal she says "I Want One" !!
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | My paternal grandmother and my mother-in-law were supposed to be expert with "bahnkes" (cups). These are thick glass cups about the size of an egg. A piece of cloth soaked in alcohol and wrapped around a stick is heated by fire, inserted into the cup to heat it and the hot cups are placed on the back. The skin is sucked up into the cup like a vaccuumm. The number and pattern of placement was according to the symptoms. They were used for respiratory aliments.
My mother-in-law's bahnkes were left behind when the family came to the States. I wonder if my husband who was then midteens and a frequent recipeint of this treatment was involved in this??
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 | Malka,
Hi. What nationality are you and your family?
7-16-08 age 37@Dx, T3N0M0 SCC 4.778cm tumor, left side of oral tongue, non smoker, casual drinker, I am the 4th in my family to have H&N cancer
8-13-08 left neck dissection and 40% of tongue removed, submandibular salivary gland & 14 nodes clean, no chemo, IMRTx35
11-4-08 Recovering & feeling better
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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Ray,
Those cups were popular in Europe for centuries
FYI both families are Polish Jews. My father's family came over in the early 20th century. My in-laws left Europe in 1939, went to Argentina and came to the States in 1950. My m-i-l also used a lot of "Viva Peru" better known as Vicks Vapor Rub.
My magic cure all is chicken soup.
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | [quote=darkeyedlady0]I have a pet some think I am excentric... that would really love one of those rats....[/quote]
My best rats were the ones I chose from "feeder" tanks, rather than from Fancy Rat breeders, including the late, great Rattatouille who traveled from Florida to Newfoundland, back to Florida, then to Calif and up to Alaska where he's buried in a state park...
Interesting side note -- Reportedly, one can't keep snakes as pets in Australia, so all the rats there are sold as pets, not food. My local Petsmart carries frozen rats (not sure if they are supposed to be nuked in the microwave first, or not...).
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | My snakes name is buddy and I don't know about the frozen rats I don't think they would make good pets even if you warmed them up...lol...anyway my buddy catches the rats it is kinda like discovery channel live...some think its cruel but it really is nature...which I have had many a debates about cruel not cruel...all I know is when we got him he was live fed and tried to change it and he almost died didn't know what to do all he knew was the chase...so I wanted to keep him...it takes real team work my husband doesn't like getting him out of the tank and I can't feed him I can't watch bang bang shoot em up movies either.so we work together...
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Speaking of snakes....local news article today:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_1snakes.6642652oct24,0,6150019.story
We have had an iguana for a few years. Sons pet which I got stuck caring for. Finally found a good home, now have a Sulcada Tortoise which is a really nice dry land pet. Very cute and easy to care for. Will get pretty big, but my son can take him right along with him when he moves out. Then 2 dogs a little chihuahua mix and also a rottweiler. Took over a year but they are pals which is pretty funny to see. We also have 2 cats....its a ZOO! Love the pets, just not so fond of the wild ones who roam around at night here like skunks, possums, racoons and bears.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | | | | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 | I suppose it wouldn't be a good day for all the rat and snake people get together and introduce their pets. Cats and dogs can tolerate each other but snakes, rats and big iguanas?...Somehow I think somebody would just be leaving full. My childhood dog, Chester, killed my sister's pet guinea pig. Boy did she cry!
7-16-08 age 37@Dx, T3N0M0 SCC 4.778cm tumor, left side of oral tongue, non smoker, casual drinker, I am the 4th in my family to have H&N cancer
8-13-08 left neck dissection and 40% of tongue removed, submandibular salivary gland & 14 nodes clean, no chemo, IMRTx35
11-4-08 Recovering & feeling better
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