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Cancer and You

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size. 2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. 3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours. 4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. 5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system. 6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bo

ZOLNOX

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After my OBGYNE proclaimed that she will not put me on the table, she started writing my prescriptions. Being the doctor that she is, we expected the barely legible handwriting. She gave at least six prescription papers to my husband and told him to go and buy them at the hospital or to go to other pharmacies if the hospital apothecary does not have them. Bong and my younger bro went out to do just that. After a while my husband rang me up asking me to inquire about a particular prescription because the pharmacy peoples never sold nor heard of any med called Zolnox as written in the prescription. I sent my younger sister to ask the doctor and she came back saying that the doctor wrote Zolrox, not Zolnox. After half an hour of searching, my husband & my brother came back and reported that they've been to all the pharmacies in town but was not able to find any Zolrox. They went back to the doctor and reported the same. She said, "I'm sure they have plenty of it at

ZOLROX OR ZOLNOX???

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After my OBGYNE proclaimed that she will not put me on the table, she started writing my prescriptions.  Being the doctor that she is, we expected the barely legible handwriting.  She gave at least six prescription papers to my husband and told him to go and buy them at the hospital or to go to other pharmacies if the hospital apothecary does not have them. Bong and my younger bro went out to do just that.  After a while my husband rang me up asking me to inquire about a particular prescription because the pharmacy peoples never sold nor heard of any med called Zolnox as written in the prescription. I sent my younger sister to ask the doctor and she came back saying that the doctor wrote Zolrox, not Zolnox.  After half an hour of searching, my husband & my brother came back and reported that they've been to all the pharmacies in town but was not able to find any Zolrox.  They went back to the doctor and reported the same.  She said, "I'm sure they have plenty of it

HOME AGAIN

Dear All,   Some of you knew that I was admitted in the hospital yesterday  (Apr 12th) for the purpose of resuturing my incision and to excise the lumps that are growing near my wounds.  Before I was admitted, three more doctors (2 OB-Gynes and a surgeon) conferred about my case and they decided that with my high blood sugar, cutting me again will defeat the purpose of enhancing healing by refreshing the wound since the excess sugar in my blood will surely make any new wound difficult to heal again.  The surgeon then made the decision not to do surgery on my lumps instead he took a 5cc syringe with a needle, stick it into the biggest lump and aspirated whatever content the lump has.  (Aaaarrrrgh!!!! That was unimaginably painful!) He was able to fill up the syringe with a condensed-milk like pus.  Still they prepared me for surgery the next morning.  My second OBGyne then arrived and conferred again with the other docs and everybody must have agreed that opening me u

BACK INTO THE GIVING-SHOTS-BUSINESS

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11:45  I just gave a barely two-year old baby an intramuscular antirabies shot (she got bit by a bat) and I trembled like crazy from the time I was reconstituting the vaccine to the actual injecting of it and am still trembling until now.  I didn't know that being out of practice for 11 years would feel like that.  ;-)   Well, I was never a good nurse in terms of application anyway.  In fact as a student, I used to always have a partner who does most of the tasks for both of us.  My job was to remember the right procedures, and so I would tell her what the book or teacher says and she'll execute it.  BUT... I was told that when it comes to injections, my hands are the lightest among the lot... hehehe......  meaning you only feel like you were bitten by an itty bitty ant. On another health issue, I just got my lab results and my blood sugar is 136 when it should be 70-105.  So according to the doc, I have a full-blown Type II diabetes.  I was told I have to give up white

NAG-UWI NG TRABAHO

MISIS: Bakit dinala mo pa sa bahay ang trabaho mo? MISTER: Sorry, rush 'to, kaya dito ko tatapusin! MISIS: HAYY! BUWISET! IKAW LANG ANG EMBALSAMADOR NA NAG-UUWI NG TRABAHO!

APRIL WISE

Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.  Psalm 4:1 REFLECTION: At first, this cry for help seems very demanding. However, closer inspection shows that this is really the cry of desperation. Have you been there? I surely have and I regularly hear from folks who are there now. But, read how this Psalm ends! What is the secret to surviving a long agony? I believe three things are important: 1) honesty in our prayer life with God, 2) confidence that God hears and cares even when our prayers sizzle with pain and frustration, and 3) genuine praise for God included in our prayers even when things seem bleak. It's not a magical formula, but it is a Spirit-inspired one -- check it out in Psalm 4! .............. PRAYER O God, please hear my cry for relief, as well as the relief of those I love, from agony, burdens, and suffering. Please answer in amazing and miraculous ways so that we may not only b

APRIL FOOL THAT I AM

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  (WARNING:  This entry is not meant to be understood...) Last April 1st, I attempted to pull one on my Best but as always, the joke was on me.  This week's been a blur to me.  I alternated from being ok to being unenthusiastic, then back again... until Best found me crying in bed this morning before I was even awake.  For what reason, I don't know.  I just feel sad about many things.  Some are product of my touchy-feeliness this time in my life and some are my paranoid reactions to questions and assumptions (at least as interpreted by my glum mood and temperamentality right now) thrown my way and some are just general things (like the price of a kilo of rice has increased! or that the peso is getting stronger but we little people don't see nor feel it! HAHAHA)  All these bottled up questions, uncertainties and uncleared air are taking their toll on my peace of mind.  Well, who knows, maybe I only need a little bit more of sleep! or "maybe to be back wi

EPISODE OF LUNACY

                Mala'y alidong to, kamampannangih di awidan                 Awidan ni nemnem ni to nan-aayaman                 Lowa toy ag onhaldeng, andi to kaliwatan                 Apoy di dila yo, ampet yo kono hebheban.                 Mala'y alidong to, intibew kon nawidag la                 Kamakika-kaahi ay no mabelbelin koma                 No lowa to kayman i kan yoy yo kolokolen                 Ikdag yo et ni-ngangoy ala, aliwan yo ikolikolit la.                 Naligat dadan hota kolikolit, ma-no et  kaondateng                 Kamaabkal alin amin anggan lamot ni leleteng                 Nakol ni iiggot diman ay an et la on-anateng                 Kagabol et ni piyan niyan alidong ni olleteng.                 Kan ko ngo ay alidong et andi od ngoy an malekna                 Hapa gayam ngo ay nahama, kan kod nemnem ko ayya                 Kedkedaw ko anhan dama, ag koma ngo mapidpidwa                 Tep no kaak-akmona, amon bang-agen tokita.                 Bang-ag