Natisse said:

Awww, nat thanks hun, I need lab technicians to carry out the daily experiemnts for me so I can write grants and papers and stuff. If you wanna come and see the labs you are more than welcome, but it's a full time job and there is no money (Oh yea, I need a fecking Grant!!)

mdiver said:

Your salary will be one pint a day, with two on holidays

PREDOMINANT said:

ok I'm serious, though... if I can be a guinea pig and help eradicate this monster fucking thing in any way I will

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Natisse said:

I meant monkeys to do the work not to experiment on

too sweet nat

I would never subject you to my chemicals!!

Natisse said:

PREDOMINANT said:

GORGEOUS!!!

PREDOMINANT said:

Awwwww be still my heart... just look at him! Its only been what 10 months since I held him in my arms?

REDFEATHERS said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Don't be fooled by his exterior, beneath those big eyes lies a monster!!

He is 13 months now Karen - time has flown. He cuddles your blue bear and gives him kisses

he's grown so much since you sent me a pic!!!!



oh steve, i only just saw this thread. it must be frustrating at times, seem like you're fighting an uphill battle that keeps pushing you back down. but you've helped me personally, and others i know. thank you so much.

a customer just told me this morning that she's going for surgery on march 5th. she has pancreatic cancer and without the surgery they gave her 6 months to live. but she's doing the surgery, and will come back with chemo and radiation. it's gotta be tough, but what you're doing matters.

PREDOMINANT said:

Deal as long as i can play with the small person and Paola promises to make me the odd sarnie and use that wonderful accent when she shouts at me!

fantasyislander said:[quote]

he's grown so much since you sent me a pic!!!!

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They do that

Thanks for the other comments, hope everything continues well for you.

PREDOMINANT said:

If my Mum could handle it... then so can I

I'm serious Steve... please tell me if there's anything I can do

Natisse said:

I will,

PREDOMINANT said:

for you too friend.

I completely understand what your saying, Steve. It more or less defines my life.
Up to this point, thankfully almost only on a professional level, not personal.

But I surely feel that drive to do something about that horrible disease.
Keep on enjoying the good things in life though

you are both awesome for what you do
we have come so far on so many fronts...
but it is an ever evolving foe.

it will continue to affect lives
but for as many that loose the fight
there are fathers like TR that battle through
and mothers like mine who are 23 year survivors

all we can do is be vigilant
fight the good fight
and not tempt fate with cigs.

Okay so a hospice worker gave me this poem when my Dad was dying, and I think it really sums up the feeling you have when a loved one is slipping away.

I have it written in my journal, and I dug it out just to type it out for ya's.

[i]I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.
[Edited 2/21/07 10:38am]

I work closely with the Tumor Registry Dept. at Mayo Clinic, and every so often I'll assist them with updating their statistics on people with known histories of cancer. In the last batch of about 400 or so people, only 9 of them were still dealing with their cancer. All the others either had no evidence of disease, or their conditions were unknown, and the unknowns were most often people who were cured of their cancer long ago and their conditions no longer followed. This is typical of every batch I've worked on.

To sum it up, there is always hope, and there is a good chance of beating cancer if it is diagnosed and treated early on.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

same with my grandma and she turned 87 last jan

thanks for this thread Steve

it makes some of us think.

I just came back from a job interview at one of our nation's top 38 Comprehenive Cancer Centers -- seems they need a writer to help spread the good news (and beg for funding bucks ) on the wonderful things you research folks are doing.

I've worked with many physicians in my time...and I find the most humble (well, except for the rockstar ones ) are often the ones who are in the labs working every day to help stop a monster from ending or ruining people's lives...and that IS what you do...every minute of every day.

When you are looking at lab results, grant proposals and test tubes I'm sure the end result can get clouded...is there a local cancer ward you can go visit? Just walk through and see the patients and their families -- the faces of the people who can benefit from what you do. It might help.

Tuo bambino ha bello occhi!
He's gorgeous

Where's Julie?

Freespirit can tell you some stories that will just eat at your heart.

Predominant your son is precious!

Cancer has taken a lot of my loved ones, one of them being my mom.




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AlfofMelmak said:

Feels like such a drop in the ocean sometimes doesn't it. I often think about the film Lorenzo's Oil especially when it comes to those I love, if I worked every hour of every day, read all there was to read I could cure them. A bit pie-in-the-sky though eh?

I was thinking about your study again the other day, I re-read your paper. I will have to compose an e-mail to your boss to initate a colaboration. Another small idea, keep chipping away.

Stay busy and I truely hope you never meet your work away from the lab.

applekisses said:

They are his Mothers

Thanks for the words.

TMPletz said:

wow! this is a positive spin on such a gloomy topic
thanks for that

Cancer is an awful thing.2 of my relevants died bcuz of cancer and recently my grandma found out that she has breast cancer...It's so painfull 4 every1...