Can't we all just get along? This is my acute observation of everyone's behavior!-UPDATE

Ketz and Brenda, I agree

I didn't think about it but you are probably right about everybody being on edge. I am personally an emotional mess, don't even trust myself to get into too many discussions about anything because I am thoroughly pissed at the universe. So I hole up here at home and keep to myself for the most part. Anyway, I hear you and I agree.

Sandy

herdizziness said:

Actually

Pete just went too far this time, telling a long term loved member to get off his post, when John was only posting to Pete's comment and Pete went off the deep end.  

I don't believe it had been because anyone was on edge, it was because someone started an angry, uncalled for post.  And rightfully he was called on it.  Pete has been calling us sheep, downing our Nation, our doctors for far too long, and he just went way overboard this time.  Someone was brave enough to call him out on it and the rest of us agreed.  Pretty plain and simple.

Winter Marie

You can talk. Talk about

You can talk. Talk about double standards. Bahh.

manwithnoname said:

Agree

completley Ren.

As I have said before, no one

As I have said before, no one has the right to put down anyone's choice of treatment. We newcomers rely on the ones who have been here longer to keep this board going the way it is intended to go. As a newcomer I would not have the "guts" to say something about the treatment of others. As I become an "oldtimer" (hopefully) and others also, it will be our job to keep this going the way it should be. And the oldtimers will be on here, too, making sure we are keeping this board a board of support, treatments, etc., without putting anyone down...

Judy

I missed the drama

I haven't been around here much lately.... been back to work (too much) and haven't spent a lot of time here.

Which posts have the fight and drama in them?

would like to read this years drama!

I remember this happening a couple times last year too... remember, fights and arguments are usually the voice of two or three, and others jump in once they select who they think will win, or which is their better friend.

much like the little boys in the spring. (love that referance)

what i've seen here, is that people like to vent and get it out... but they'll all kiss and make up soon. Lifes too short not to.

but, appreciate your post.

 

joe

 

joemetz said:

I missed the drama

I haven't been around here much lately.... been back to work (too much) and haven't spent a lot of time here.

Which posts have the fight and drama in them?

would like to read this years drama!

I remember this happening a couple times last year too... remember, fights and arguments are usually the voice of two or three, and others jump in once they select who they think will win, or which is their better friend.

much like the little boys in the spring. (love that referance)

what i've seen here, is that people like to vent and get it out... but they'll all kiss and make up soon. Lifes too short not to.

but, appreciate your post.

 

joe

 

Are you a gentler soul?
Wow Ketziah.

I'm happy you've changed your attitude.

When I was a newbie, 2 years ago, I wanted to share hopeful information that Herman Cain was a Stage 4 cancer survivor....had 80% of his liver removed, and was still cancer-free 6 years later. I know that in the beginning, that was the first piece of information that gave me hope.

And boy, did you rail on me.....because you don't like Herman Cain. That wasn't my point. Cancer isn't a popularity contest.

I know you remember, because you brought it up again just before the last election.

I don't totally understand your posts, but I am thrilled that you are telling people to just "get along". That's a huge upgrade from what I first read.

janie1 said:

Are you a gentler soul?
Wow Ketziah.

I'm happy you've changed your attitude.

When I was a newbie, 2 years ago, I wanted to share hopeful information that Herman Cain was a Stage 4 cancer survivor....had 80% of his liver removed, and was still cancer-free 6 years later. I know that in the beginning, that was the first piece of information that gave me hope.

And boy, did you rail on me.....because you don't like Herman Cain. That wasn't my point. Cancer isn't a popularity contest.

I know you remember, because you brought it up again just before the last election.

I don't totally understand your posts, but I am thrilled that you are telling people to just "get along". That's a huge upgrade from what I first read.

Janie1

My goodness that's a long time to hold a grudge.  And sounded, well, a bit mean spirited especially since she didn't respond to that particular post you are complaining about, it was someone else.

By the way look up Herman Cain in the search and you'll find it was John23 that rained on your parade on that particular post not Ketziah35.

Winter Marie

Here, I made it easy to see:

janie1 Posts: 750 Joined: Apr 2011

Oct 21, 2011 - 12:48 pm From what i've read, he From what i've read, he first had 3 months of chemo, then surgery (90% of his colon removed, and 70% of his liver), then 3 more months of chemo. Pretty smooth treatment, i would say. Happy for him. reply flag this

John23 Posts: 1722 Joined: Jan 2007

Oct 21, 2011 - 6:25 pm Gee... Just do a Google for: Herman Cain +medicare or: Herman Cain +social security or: Herman Cain +medicaid and see all the wonderful stuff this wonderful person proposes! However, I am happy that he's doing well with his health. Best of health to all!

manwithnoname said:

Or not

"However the last of these groups to practice their traditional diet, the Inuit people of the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic regions, were luckily observed by modern scientists before their traditional dietary practices were substantially altered. The reports of these early scientists imply that the Inuit people were physically unhampered despite consuming a diet that was essentially free of identifiable carbohydrate."

 

If you actually want to read about it try here;http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/2  and westerners eating the same diet.

Sometimes the truth is found in strange places.

Look up who has the highest rate of cancer per capita race wise.  And it's the ALAKAN NATIVE that has the HIGHEST rate.  Since my grandmother is FULL Aleut/Athabascan, my mother half and I a mere quarter.  And our diet back home still remains pretty much the same.  My diet was the Alaska Native diet, eating what we caught, hunted and raised, canned and froze.  Bread, carbs were a rarity, no soda pop, lots of moose meat and caribou sausage though, and don't get me started on Reindeer Sausage (tame caribou technically) because everytime I go back home, I can't help myself, it's Reindeer sausage for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which by the way is processed all naturally.  My mom would plug in the humongous meat grinder and start grinding away, adding natural seasonings, encasing and oh wow, yum, yum!!! (Ours was caribou sausage, but nowadays because I have to buy, I buy Reindeer sausage when I go home) The sausage too, was not eaten a lot growing up, the moose meat, oh yes, first day was the heart, second day was the liver, then when the meat cured, and mom and I had our skinning contests, then the hamburger, roast, steak, etc.,, was packaged and frozen and canned, salmon all the time, halibut all the time, (halibut tastes crappy canned, don't do it) crab all the time, shrimp all the time, telling you I got SICK of the stuff.  Yet, here I sit with colon cancer and a bad ticker.

When my oncologist mentioned a chemo that doesn't work as well with the carb diets that we love in the U.S. as he put it, my husband spoke right up and said, my wife doesn't do bread, when I buy even hamburgers at any restaurant, the bread goes away, not eaten, when I make hamburgers at home, on my plate there's a hamburger patty, next to it cut up tomatoe, then next to that lettuce, next to that pickle and finally a dab of mustard on the plate, then one by one it enters my mouth to be chewed with the flavors combined but not through a bun.

And observed by "Modern Scientist", uh how modern if it were "before diet" was altered, when was it altered, by how much because when I was growing up, again carbs a rarity.  We didn't even get to drink milk from a cow, too expensive.  I only speak for the Alaskan Natives, not sure what the Canadian ones were doing.  Although I'm pretty sure the same thing. 

If it's a diet thing for us, then it's because we were/are unknowningly (still have relatives eating the same old Alaskan Native way) on the darn diet and it hasn't done a thing for us, except make us the highest colon cancer getters.

Go figure.

Winter Marie

manwithnoname said:

Well the evidence says otherwise

but why let facts get in the way?

Seems black people have the highest per capita race wise cancer deaths, and also Innuit haven't really had a 'traditional' diet since the early 1900s.

And of course your missing the obvious 'we are all unique' side of the argument.

 

Inuits My apologies

Still have their traditional diets, we didn't even become a state until 1959 and we sure didn't have the money to purchase the white man's food, and many still don't, you apparently have no idea the cost of transporting food there, and especially to the Artic (3 of my brothers lived there for some time in the far North Artic, not I).  And even I and most other natives in the south ate traditional foods for our livesliving there and many of my relatives still are.

And I meant to point out that ALASKAN NATIVES have the highest COLORECTAL rate per capita.  You are claiming African Americans have the highest per capita race of ALL cancer deaths.  Not the same thing.  Colorectal cancer is lumped into one cancer for that statistic, and ALL cancers, means just that ALL cancers.  Like calling Apples Oranges, not the same thing.  My mistake in typing in the colorectal forum board, thinking colorectal but not specifying it.  My bad.  I have now specified it.

Winter Marie

manwithnoname said:

Well.

You said the highest rate of cancer, I proved otherwise, now you say colorectal cancer, now the proof burden is on you, I can't be bothered with you or your argument, get the data and post it.

My, my

My goodness, I'm just not a big data poster like you.  It's easy, google it, you're more then welcome to, it takes a minute or two and pops right up. 

And if you look at the BOTTOM of my above post, I state at the bottom:

"on the darn diet and it hasn't done a thing for us, except make us the highest colon cancer getters."

Which should then have been obvious of which I spoke, but since it wasn't, my apology was made.

Winter Marie