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"used2be" |
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06 Jan 2007 09:36:17 PM |
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i just happened upon... |
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests. i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years, but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
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~u2b
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"Dream as if you'll live forever; Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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| User: "Bruce." |
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06 Jan 2007 10:33:25 PM |
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"used2be" <used2be@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:45a06aad$0$18151$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
I don't have anything to say other than to say I felt the sadness at the
story too.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
I never know whether to feel blessed, or red-faced angry at the universe for
being so malicious and cruel.
Bruce.
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| User: "buffalobill" |
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| Title: Re: i just happened upon... |
07 Jan 2007 05:14:02 AM |
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exercise induced asthma?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma%2C_exercise-induced
used2be wrote:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests. i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years, but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
--
~u2b
+*+*+*+*+*+*+
"Dream as if you'll live forever; Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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| User: "used2be" |
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| Title: Re: i just happened upon... |
07 Jan 2007 06:46:58 PM |
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"buffalobill" <wjohnston@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1168168441.958785.142630@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
exercise induced asthma?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma%2C_exercise-induced
sounds like a good reason to stop exercising to me!!!
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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07 Jan 2007 05:39:17 PM |
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then used2be wrote, On 1/6/2007 8:36 PM:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests. i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years, but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
....nice link Mrs. WWW
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| User: "used2be" |
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| Title: Re: i just happened upon... |
07 Jan 2007 06:50:21 PM |
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"Franz Bestuchev" <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:50del2F1f4nonU2@mid.individual.net...
then used2be wrote, On 1/6/2007 8:36 PM:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing
cough" on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks,
and now it's beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after
i ride my exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of
my search, i happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs
disease). his blog begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but
undergoing many tests. i could not stop reading it. i knew it would
lead to him finding out he had ALS because the page google first led me
to was todays blog. i quickly realized his blog originally began before
he knew his diagnosis, so i went back and started at the beginning. i
feel so sad for this man...he has a lovely wife and 2 very young
children, and in 2003 he was told he would be dead within 3 to 5 years.
he has greatly declined in the past 3 years, but he is still blogging
away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but yet, there is that
underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying soon. and
leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making videos for the
children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him, but it
just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they won't
really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
...nice link Mrs. WWW
did you wanna read it? sorry...here is where his story begins shortly over
4 years ago:
http://brainhell.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_brainhell_archive.html
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| User: "BoredToTears" |
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07 Jan 2007 07:10:44 PM |
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used2be wrote:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests. i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years, but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
That's what Stephen Hawking suffers from, although we call it motor
neuron disease.
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| User: "used2be" |
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07 Jan 2007 11:04:54 PM |
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"BoredToTears" <beejayceee1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1168218644.491909.322030@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
used2be wrote:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing
cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now
it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my
search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests.
i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he
had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i
went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would
be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years,
but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but
yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making
videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played
with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
That's what Stephen Hawking suffers from, although we call it motor
neuron disease.
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
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| User: "Bruce." |
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08 Jan 2007 08:21:13 AM |
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"used2be" <used2be@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:45a1d0f1$0$5236$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
He's as big in physics today as Einstein was in his day.
Bruce.
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| User: "slunky" |
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07 Jan 2007 11:08:46 PM |
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_/ used2be wrote \_
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
He's a physicist. He's also quadriplegic.
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| User: "used2be" |
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07 Jan 2007 11:33:09 PM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrneq3kjl.s7.slunky@latitude.zero...
_/ used2be wrote \_
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
He's a physicist. He's also quadriplegic.
ahhhh....
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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08 Jan 2007 03:15:26 AM |
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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:08:46 GMT, slunky <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote:
_/ used2be wrote \_
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
He's a physicist. He's also quadriplegic.
He isn't a quadriplegic, he has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's
disease.) Pretty long lived as far as that disease goes also.
I hope he lives long along to make a name for himself other than a best
selling book. His most important work has since been trashed, and he is
working furiously to show that he has in mind a better disproving of his
earlier incorrect theory (i.e. that information is lost in black holes)
than other physicists.
As it turns out, information is not irrevocably lost in a black hole. So if
you ever fall into one, just stay calm. You can still be resurrected once
God gets off his *****, or man develops the technology.
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| User: "BoredToTears" |
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08 Jan 2007 02:48:50 PM |
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used2be wrote:
"BoredToTears" <beejayceee1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1168218644.491909.322030@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
used2be wrote:
i sat down at the computer about 30 minutes ago to look up "wheezing
cough"
on google because i have had a cough for the last 7 to 8 weeks, and now
it's
beginning to have a wheezing quality to it, especially after i ride my
exercise bike. anyway, as i was looking through the results of my
search, i
happened upon a man's blog. he has ALS (lou gehrigs disease). his blog
begins with him not yet knowing his diagnosis, but undergoing many tests.
i
could not stop reading it. i knew it would lead to him finding out he
had
ALS because the page google first led me to was todays blog. i quickly
realized his blog originally began before he knew his diagnosis, so i
went
back and started at the beginning. i feel so sad for this man...he has a
lovely wife and 2 very young children, and in 2003 he was told he would
be
dead within 3 to 5 years. he has greatly declined in the past 3 years,
but
he is still blogging away. and he has such an awesome attitude. but
yet,
there is that underlying sadness there because he knows he will be dying
soon. and leaving his kids. he and his wife are constantly making
videos
for the children and such so that they'll always be able to remember him,
but it just seems so cruel that he is to be taken away from them. they
won't really ever remember him as someone who picked them up and played
with
them. they'll only really remember him as being terribly ill, and the
youngest one will barely have memories of him at all.
it broke my heart to read his story. to know it's real and not just a tv
movie. a real family and not just people acting.
sometimes we do not realize how very blessed we really are...
That's what Stephen Hawking suffers from, although we call it motor
neuron disease.
i'm not familiar with who stephen hawking is, sorry. :/
http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html
He's also been in at least one episode of The Simpsons. Now *THAT* is
recognition!
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