OT Diet coke vs vitamins/prescriptions

Hopefully this thread has people at least thinking about what they are injesting. Doing reseach on important info floating around the net not a bad idea either. Taria

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Taria
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I only drink Dr. Pepper....seems to make the worms that much yummier. No kidding.

Donna in WA

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Donna

Doc, Please, please don't apologise for giving us dependable, accurate information when you have it! Especially when it is correcting some mis-information. We all need help to get things straight sometimes. You were right to protect us from the possibility of disastrous results. Continue to brave the slings and arrows of possible throat- jumpers to save us from the dire infection of international-instant- unkillable-wrong information pandemics. ;>)

As for tone of writing - I consider direct, terse statements the most effective communication and least open to ambiguity. Too bad I can't seem to do it. Why use one adjective when three will do, I always say. Turtle Turtle

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turtle

Hi Turtle,

Thank you.

Odd you should put it that way. I have noticed more than anyone what the ravages of age, disease, and medication are doing to both my vocabulary and writing style (not to mention personality). I'm finding it increasingly difficult to choose the right word resulting in my posts being inundated with slashes (word/word/word). I also seem to be gravitating toward run-on sentences.

As for tone, one thing I've learned along my journey is that if someone's writing(s) suddenly seem uncharacteristic, there is usually an explanation.

Doc

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Dr. Zachary Smith

I've noticed that my word memory runs about 90 minutes behind. When we were talking about naming quilts earlier, my memory would not bring up the word 'pretentious'. Sometimes the namer of the quilt gets an illusion (delusion?) of grandeur when something else would be so much nicer. I understand. Polly

"Dr. Zachary Smith" wrote, in part> Odd you should put it that way. I have noticed more than anyone what the ravages of age, disease, and medication are doing to both my vocabulary and writing style (not to mention personality). I'm finding it increasingly difficult to choose the right word resulting in my posts being inundated with slashes (word/word/word). I also seem to be gravitating toward run-on sentences.

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Polly Esther

wow, only 90 minute delay? i'm totally impressed, Polly. takes me days sometimes. i've given up and try to explain to dh what i'm wanting to figure out the word. sometimes he gets it, sometimes now, my fault for not being able to describe the word effectively. oh well. dealing with 'c.r.a.f.t.' in the south pacific, j.

"Polly Esther" wrote... I've noticed that my word memory runs about 90 minutes behind. When we were talking about naming quilts earlier, my memory would not bring up the word 'pretentious'. Sometimes the namer of the quilt gets an illusion (delusion?) of grandeur when something else would be so much nicer. I understand. Polly

"Dr. Zachary Smith" wrote, in part> Odd you should put it that way. I have noticed more than anyone what the ravages of age, disease, and medication are doing to both my vocabulary and writing style (not to mention personality). I'm finding it increasingly difficult to choose the right word resulting in my posts being inundated with slashes (word/word/word). I also seem to be gravitating toward run-on sentences.

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J*

Actually, it's not bad. I have chronic, not acute, so with any luck, I'll die with it, not from it.

My counts have been stable at 35 for two years now [knock wood!]. Normal is 4-11, but they don't even consider treatment til you are at

100, so I have hopefully years to go even just to treatment.

I get my flu shots, and don't hug toddlers! [g!].

With childhood leukemia, they talk of CURE, not remission. May it be that way for him!

Martha

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Martha

Yes. CLL for short.

Just in case someone has it, or knows someone who does:

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helped me calm down, and figure out what to ask the doctor.

I bullied him into ordering me a genetic scan, where I found out that the mutation I have [13q] is the least dangerous. [whew!]

I also present a personal example. A member of my church was diagnosed with CLL when he was 50. He died last spring, from lung cancer.

He was 90. [g!]

Martha

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Martha

Hi Folks,

My memory glitches aren't limited to words, and there *is* a funnier side... We (and I don't mean just DW & self - it happens with friends & family over as well...) may be sitting on the couch or at the kitchen table playing a game or eating a meal when suddenly I'll come to attention, raise an index finger high into the air and exclaim, "PUSILLANIMOUS!" (or whatever it is I've been beating myself up to remember for anywhere from minutes to days...) The rest goes pretty much as J* describes.

They say, "Always leave 'em laughing." I say, "Always leave 'em laughing or completely astonished and/or confused."

Doc

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Dr. Zachary Smith

My meds affect the way I write. Use to have 'near-perfect' sentence structure. Now I use a lot of dashes, forget the commas, use colons where it should have been a comma and only AFTER I hit send do I realize 'I did it again'. I gave up fighting it. To me, it's MORE important to be able to even type and not have to use my talkie machine(didn't even put it ON this compie YAY!). I use the spell check when I remember to.

Butterfly (I'm crocheting again (short times but I'm doing it) and I never ever thought I'd ever ever do that again so I'm happy : )

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Butterflywings

Leslie (and others who may be reading here!) Whenever you have concern about ANY medicine, whether Prescribed (Rx) or Over the Counter (OTC), the best one to ask is your Pharmacist. People think of the Pharmacists only for Rx but they are experts on OTC as well. BTW: I just use plain, cool water for all meds. Works for me! Pat in VA/USA

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Pat in Virginia

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