2012 cancers in family, friends...and diseases , keep fighting!

Friend just diagnosed oct 2012 , primary bone cancer, foot amputated, 4 kids under 13

 Uncle diagnosed Jan. 2012 , took treatments.

 Fibromyalgia , mom has had for many years ..

Brother in law prostate cancer 2012, treatments.

Lupus, me started appearing 2012 ? Also Hashimoto's thyroiditis 

Mom, heart blockage sept 2012 , surgery.

Stroke dad, brain stem 2005 , doing great! 

 Parents neighbor diagnosed 2012 early

 Brother in law early 2012 , took treatment 

Parents neighbor diagnosed 2012 

Me, 2012 onset ? , also have Hashimoto's thyroiditis 

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A poem... Lupus, autoimmune disease , and just well..feeling crappy!

Its not my imagination by Liz R


My right eye’s always twitching.

My legs are filled with lead.

I am forever dropping things.

And they say it’s in my head.

I have six pairs of glasses

With no two quite the same.

And I wear each one on different days

‘Cuz my eyes keep playing games.

I have this buzzing feeling

Deep inside my head.

And a jolt of electricity

Just made my feet fly off the bed.

Sometimes my throat won’t swallow.

Sometimes I pee my pants.

When I ask the docs, “Is this MS?”

They just say “There’s a chance.”

When my tongue went into spasm

It did a u-turn in my throat

And blocked my life’s-breath airway.

The doc said, “Make a note.”

My legs went numb and swollen

And doctors shook their head.

But they won’t put a label on it

Until I’m good and dead.k

The vertigo is dreadful,

The burning skin’s a pain.

The doctor give me lots of pills

And says, “Come back again!”

It isn’t diabetes

Or syphilis, or a tumor.

But they won’t tell me what it is

And I’m almost out of humor.

One neuro just shook his head

And said, “See Dr. House.”

Another actually said, “Get laid.”

A third, “Redecorate your house.”

I am not a hypochondriac.

This whimsical thing is real

So please just give me a definite name

For the crappy way I feel!

Liz R.

Hidden cause of feeling sick , Hyperparathyroidism! Autoimmune disease

I would have to say I came across a speed bump this month of June being the worst, going back to Jan. Thinking it was a blood clot with such leg pain that also spread to the chest, tested and was not. Pains of sometimes fairly bad off and on in diffent places, and the energy of a sloth on tranquilizers.


I have autoimmune thyroiditis also called Hashimoto's disease and then came multi glandular thyroid that has kept one side of the thyroid lumpy, bumpy and out of whack. Then I was becoming sun sensitive as getting headaches different than migraines when being in the sun even with a hat on, debilitating fatigue, auras like before a migraine that I have not had for years,heart racing, pains again, and a blush of red that sits on my top of cheeks, so I forgo the blush these days. This was pointing to Lupus, and these have turned out negative, but the dr. Says you can still present the disease as the ANA and tests can go that way. So you don't get medicated for that disease, but monitor for changes. It is frustrating and I have read a lot of other sufferers stories.


for those suffering, please have your doctor check your calcium level in your blood, for years I have dragged back and forth with those lovely little things called parathyroid that are the size of a grain of rice that sit within that thyroid, yet again that THYROID has become enemy here, and can mimic such problems as the other autoimmune diseases. You can have many combined, and I have seen the sufferings of those that have the combo.



so I am coming back years later here again with high calcium levels, that can be dangerous itself, and waiting for the PTH to come back. That is the testing of the parathyroid gland. I am waiting in hope as this terrible feeling of barely making it is such a drag literally.

Prayers for all those suffering autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia, and the incapacitating disorders .


Here is where you can get more info on this overlooked condition:


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http://www.localhealth.com/article/hyperparathyroidism-1/symptoms




God bless!

70% Americans do not know CPR...

Learn two-step method of CPR to save lives Marilynn Ann Yates, McClatchy Newspapers "Anyone can learn CPR -- and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the American Heart Association is encouraging everyone to learn Hands-Only CPR during the first week of June, National CPR and AED Awareness Week. We chatted with representatives from the AHA recently to find out more about what to do if we ever witnessed someone collapse and go into sudden cardiac arrest. Hands-Only CPR is performed with chest compressions but without the mouth-to-mouth breathing done in conventional CPR. In recent years, the American Heart Association has simplified the procedure to two steps. When you see an adult suddenly collapse who is not breathing normally: 1. Call 9-1-1 2. Push hard and fast in the center of the chest at the rate of 100 pumps per minute (like the beat of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" song) Begin CPR as soon as possible after the sudden cardiac arrest because the risk of permanent damage to the victim is greater after four minutes. Continue CPR until an automated external defibrillator (AED) or emergency worker arrives. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. And more than 1,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur every day in the U.S., says Dr. Sreenivas Gudimetla, president of the board of directors for the Tarrant County American Heart Association. More than 80 percent of those cardiac arrests happen at home, so the most likely person you will give CPR to is someone you love, says Gudimetla, who is also a cardiologist at Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. Most people worry that they might do something wrong helping an adult who has a sudden cardiac arrest, so only 32 percent of victims get CPR from a bystander, which leads to unnecessary deaths. Learning Hands-Only CPR gives people the confidence to act quickly to help a loved one or a stranger in an emergency and increase their survival rates, the AHA says. If more people learn CPR, the chance that someone can help an adult who suddenly collapses increases. Kathryn Bashaw, communications director for the American Heart Association in Tarrant County, Texas, says the AHA is asking Texas legislators to consider CPR training as a high school graduation requirement so our next generation will be prepared to save even more lives. Only 5.2 percent of people who have a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive, says the AHA. That number increases to 8 percent when mouth-to-mouth CPR is given. But when a person administers Hands-Only CPR, the victim's chance of survival doubles, Gudimetla says. Hands-Only CPR with just chest compressions is as effective as CPR with breaths in helping adult victims of cardiac arrest, says the American Heart Association. And the two-step method is easier to remember than the traditional method of chest compressions combined with breathing. People hesitant to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to strangers are more likely to administer just chest compressions. Gudimetla says our breaths contain carbon dioxide when we exhale, which is not as beneficial to the victim as chest compressions. When an adult in sudden cardiac arrest collapses, his lungs and blood still contain oxygen. Chest compressions help to pump this oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart. So the best thing a bystander can do for a cardiac arrest victim is to give high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions until medical services personnel arrive. If you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who don't know CPR, here are ways to learn: Watch a video: See a one-minute video on how to perform Hands-Only CPR at handsonlycpr.org. Studies show that people who watch this video are more willing to administer CPR during an emergency. Go to www.heart.org/cpr, then choose Community Training/National CPR and AED Awareness Week to see Hands-Only CPR in action to the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." Order a CPR kit: The CPR Anytime Kit uses the American Heart Association's "practice while watching" technique. Users watch an instructional DVD while practicing CPR on a mannequin. This 22-minute training kit can be used by individuals in their homes and shared with family and friends. Schools, community groups and workplaces can complete the training in large groups. Order the kit at cpranytime.org. Download an app: Go to http://handsonlycpr.org to download the American Heart Association's free app for your smartphone. Take a class: Find an instructor-led class by date or location at www.heart.org/cpr. Or call 1-877-AHA-4CPR (877-242-4277). Play interactive games: The American Heart Association has a Be the Beat interactive website with games, videos and a playlist of 100-beat-per-minute songs to help teens learn how to be a lifesaver. Check out http://bethebeat.heart.org. (c)2012 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Visit the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at www.star-telegram.com Distributed by MCT Information Services "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another." - Anatole France

Our coal town small America! and our town rural America!

memorial in our town, we have several family names here

so here is a tour of the coal mining area these towns were built on, my grandparents back worked in them thar mines, my cousin died in one as well as many others in the years past...God Bless our miners!!!

Somerset coal mining town since 1897

Somerset population not many!!!

my grandpa talked of this little coal house way on the hill..

Those coal trains always moving!

a little schoolhouse that was in a small town, Bowie not far from
Somerset

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Happy Birthday (March 4) for my dad--survivor, veteran, child of God!

68 and holding strong!

A veteran of the Vietnam era, fisherman, hobbyist, antique collector, survivor of rare brain stem stroke, recently baptized ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! (aged to perfection)

 

 IF God brings you to it, He WILL bring you through it

  When dad went through his stroke in 2001, I heard this slogan that day and have always remembered it!

He had God there helping him recover and you would never know that he even had a stroke.

God Bless you Dad! We love you ! We are proud of you!

 

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Always remember to get treatment ASAP if you have unusual symptoms! 

The most common symptoms include difficulty in speech, lack of body coordination, difficulty in general body movement, temporary or permanent paralysis on the left or right side of the brain which cause paralysis on the right and left side respectively, uncontrolled movement of the eyes and breathing difficulties that can trigger a coma. (My dad had uncontrolled vomiting also.)

• Numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg especially on one side of the body
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding language
• Sudden trouble seeing with one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden, severe headache with no known cause

 “It is important that the public and healthcare professionals know all of the symptoms of a stroke and are aware that some brain stem strokes heave distinct symptom,” Dr. Bernstein says. “Patients need to receive treatment as soon as possible to promote the best recovery.”

Like all strokes, brain stem strokes produce a wide spectrum of deficits and recovery. Whether a survivor has minor or severe deficits depends on the location of the stroke within the brain stem, the extent of injury and how quickly treatment is provided.
 Brain stem stroke is highly dangerous and can kill if left untreated immediately because the stroke interferes with the flow of oxygenated blood that is essential in the purification of the blood and in getting rid of harmful body toxins.
Risk factors for brain stem stroke are the same as for strokes in other areas of the brain: high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, atrial fibrillation and smoking. Like strokes in other areas of the brain, brain stem strokes can be caused by a clot or a hemorrhage. There are also rare causes, like injury to an artery due to sudden head or neck movements.  (Dad had a car accident a week before this stroke)

 

My Uncle has brain cancer terminal, Life is fragile at times

I guess you could say we are strong people in the many things that life throws at us and then you hear the fragility of life when you can not do anything to help someone that is told they have terminal brain cancer, stage 4 and it all came as a shock and you step back a little to see life at it's fragile, precious self. He is being at peace with the drs giving him weeks to live as they take a step on chemo and radiation at the nearest center we have 30 miles away.  He is young in the late 60's and my aunt and uncle have been supportive of me in helping when I needed it, and my dad is close to him.  We can pray for the peace of not being in pain and the support they need, and to be grateful for life--through the strength and the fragileness!

God Bless All!  Love to my dearest family and friends--you are always held so close in prayers and love! 

Info from cancer inst:
 
"There are two main types of brain cancer. Primary brain cancer starts in the brain. Metastatic brain cancer starts somewhere else in the body and moves to the brain. Brain tumors can be benign, with no cancer cells, or malignant, with cancer cells that grow quickly.
Brain tumors can cause many symptoms. Some of the most common are

• Headaches, usually worse in the morning
• Nausea and vomiting
• Changes in your ability to talk, hear or see
• Problems with balance or walking
• Problems with thinking or memory
• Muscle jerking or twitching
• Numbness or tingling in arms or legs

No one knows the exact causes of brain tumors. Doctors can seldom explain why one person develops a brain tumor and another does not."

 For friends and family info HERE