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RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:54 am
by DivePac88
Hi Guys hope everyone is well, and there turns are treating them well. I am still in Hospital, but should be out in another two weeks maybe. Well the bad news is I have been diagnosed with an Endocrine tumour, and it is inoperable. But the good news is that it is that there are several treatments to arrest and retard this growth.
So I've started on the first treatment, which involves me learning to, and injecting myself twice a day with a drug. This drug call Octreotide will arrest the growth, and stop the tumour doing some other nasty things. Then all I have to do is put some body weight back on, and I can go home.
I’ll start posting regularly again on the Thread/Forum when I get home. So you guys all have a nice day, and I’ll be back as my annoying self soon.
Des.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:55 am
by DivePac88
New page tithe [:D].
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:20 am
by PaxMondo
Hey DivePac,
Sorry to hear your news, but great to see your attitude. Hang in there and keep fighting.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:27 am
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: PaxMondo
Hey DivePac,
Sorry to hear your news, but great to see your attitude. Hang in there and keep fighting.
+1
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:34 am
by Chickenboy
Hi DivePac,
Glad to hear you'll be able to go home soon and also "grace us with your presence" [8D] once more. Here's hoping for a successful treatment for your tumor, mate.
FWIW, I think you should start by spelling your "tumour" as "tumor"-the American version. See? You've already shrunk the size of it! [;)]
Get well soon, dude.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:48 am
by USSAmerica
Good morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:48 am
by USSAmerica
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: PaxMondo
Hey DivePac,
Sorry to hear your news, but great to see your attitude. Hang in there and keep fighting.
+1
+2 [:)]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:54 am
by Apollo11
Hi all,
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
Hi Guys hope everyone is well, and there turns are treating them well. I am still in Hospital, but should be out in another two weeks maybe. Well the bad news is I have been diagnosed with an Endocrine tumour, and it is inoperable. But the good news is that it is that there are several treatments to arrest and retard this growth.
So I've started on the first treatment, which involves me learning to, and injecting myself twice a day with a drug. This drug call Octreotide will arrest the growth, and stop the tumour doing some other nasty things. Then all I have to do is put some body weight back on, and I can go home.
I’ll start posting regularly again on the Thread/Forum when I get home. So you guys all have a nice day, and I’ll be back as my annoying self soon.
Des.
Best of luck and best wishes Des!
Leo "Apolo11"
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:55 am
by sprior
ORIGINAL: USS America
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: PaxMondo
Hey DivePac,
Sorry to hear your news, but great to see your attitude. Hang in there and keep fighting.
+1
What they said.
+2 [:)]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:56 am
by sprior
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Hi DivePac,
Glad to hear you'll be able to go home soon and also "grace us with your presence" [8D] once more. Here's hoping for a successful treatment for your tumor, mate.
FWIW, I think you should start by spelling your "tumour" as "tumor"-the American version. See? You've already shrunk the size of it! [;)]
Get well soon, dude.
But then his sense of humour would be diminished too.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:48 am
by Onime No Kyo
Morning tithe.
I'd like to join your cheering section, Des. We may not have the short skirts or shapely legs but we have boundless enthusiasm.
(I'd post a picture but that might cause the world to end).
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:33 am
by Mynok
Might?
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:47 am
by Apollo11
Hi all,
Time to go home from work tithe...
Leo "Apollo11"
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:11 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Mynok
Might?
Well yes. Unless you subscribe to that unified theory of everything. [:'(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:20 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: Mynok
Love to see the source of that claim. Cats are desert creatures. Turkey has nothing similar.
Cats are desert creatures?? i've never heard that before... and while i've seen lots of feral cats, they generally are not associated with the desert... i suppose you could argue what constitutes a desert (i.e. savanna might be called a desert by some.)
Remember: when the cat cults of Egypt came around, Egypt wasn't a desert (pretty much happened in the past couple of thousand years, i think).
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:36 pm
by rtrapasso
Looking into this cat business some more: there are a number of species/subspecies thought to be possible progenitors to the current Felis catus, only one is associated with the desert. Most are associated in the wild with woods, jungles, mountains.
This from Wiki:
"As The New York Times wrote in 2007, "Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal", but a study that year revealed that the lines of descent of all house cats probably run through as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) c. 8000 BC, in the Near East. The earliest direct evidence of cat domestication is a kitten that was buried alongside a human 9,500 years ago in Cyprus."
Again, 10+ K years ago, the most of the middle east was not the desert it is now (or so 'tis thought).
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:59 pm
by rtrapasso
Between Chickens and Grapes:
The number of genes that humans have was estimated at 6.7 million in 1984... current estimate is around 22000... chickens have ~16736 protein encoding genes, and grapes 30,434...
Shoot... we are arguably less advanced than grapes... [X(] [8|] [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:07 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
Hi Guys hope everyone is well, and there turns are treating them well. I am still in Hospital, but should be out in another two weeks maybe. Well the bad news is I have been diagnosed with an Endocrine tumour, and it is inoperable. But the good news is that it is that there are several treatments to arrest and retard this growth.
So I've started on the first treatment, which involves me learning to, and injecting myself twice a day with a drug. This drug call Octreotide will arrest the growth, and stop the tumour doing some other nasty things. Then all I have to do is put some body weight back on, and I can go home.
I’ll start posting regularly again on the Thread/Forum when I get home. So you guys all have a nice day, and I’ll be back as my annoying self soon.
Des.
Good news! We'll hold you to that promise on posting more, too. [:'(] [:D]
And do listen to Chickenboy's advice - he claims to have a blood alcohol content of 9.9%! [X(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:13 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Looking into this cat business some more: there are a number of species/subspecies thought to be possible progenitors to the current Felis catus, only one is associated with the desert. Most are associated in the wild with woods, jungles, mountains.
This from Wiki:
"As The New York Times wrote in 2007, "Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal", but a study that year revealed that the lines of descent of all house cats probably run through as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) c. 8000 BC, in the Near East. The earliest direct evidence of cat domestication is a kitten that was buried alongside a human 9,500 years ago in Cyprus."
Again, 10+ K years ago, the most of the middle east was not the desert it is now (or so 'tis thought).
It's quite well established it was not a desert, just as you say. In what is now a vast region of desert there is a Roman city in the middle of what was an agricultural center. Lots of other evidence: animals like the hippopotamus used to be native to places currently desert, and so on.
"
self-domesticating African Wildcats" - well that just
must be them! "Pardon me. I'm here now, so I own the house but don't worry - I will permit you to be my domestic servants." [X(] [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:15 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Between Chickens and Grapes:
The number of genes that humans have was estimated at 6.7 million in 1984... current estimate is around 22000... chickens have ~16736 protein encoding genes, and grapes 30,434...
Shoot... we are arguably less advanced than grapes... [X(] [8|] [:D]
I forget the number of genes, but IIRC plants like wheat (a grass) have at least 2 or 3 times the number of chromosomes as humans. Now, cows eat grass, so in relation to us... [:'(]