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Skriven 2009-04-01 01:14:00 av PETER COGGON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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Hello Ruth.,

 -=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Peter Coggon <=-

 RH> That's not a problem; I'm running behind thanks to my husband's Army
 RH> retirement plans.  He will be attending seminary in North Carolina so
 RH> we've had to run up to get housing, etc.  That and all associated with
 RH> retirement/moving have put me behind as well.

   When I retired, it was due to really wanting to, but the extreme
problems of pills, 3 or 4 specialists, and a long way back after
a major cancer operation, which loss me a kidney.

 RH> No, it doesn't let you out. We can all learn from you, maybe changing
 RH> our diet for  the better.  Steve and I are the ones here into whole
 RH> grains (brown rice, whole wheat bread & pasta, etc)--sort of
 RH> throwbacks to the hippie movement in some ways.
 
   When I cook here, it is usually done hospital style whenever
so as steamed egg in a fry pan with only water, so it looks good
to me.  Silly but true.
 
   My first trip into Brasil, was done with , as suggested, open
eyes, ears and mind ....worked wonderfully as I wandered through
the none tourist areas and met real people.   Also less banditos.

 RH> I've seen that in just about every place we've lived to some extent.
 RH> It's more obvious in places like Hawaii where most tourists don't get
 RH> past Waikiki in Oahu.  Just a street or two in back of the main beach
 RH> front one it's a totally different picture of Honolulu.
 
   Yes, you have experienced it then, so nothing to shatter your image
and Jamacia is the same.
 
 RH> You will have to post some of your wife's recipies (or get her
 RH> involved).  I understand on the medical tests; it seems like every
 RH> doctor wants to "verify" and has the same tests done that the last
 RH> doctor did.

   OK, they need translated, but I will let her know on my next
communications pass and we have a chance to chat.   As mentioned
before, and all my meds, when the 4 specialists get me, it is usually
hey what happened ...go back to where you were.

Not all the tests are the same, as each has his field or interest
and office visits, are sometimes examinations, which verify by the
score I am thinking of moving to south America.


 RH> Some break thrus will be made but I don't think there will ever be a
 RH> complete eradication of cancer.  It's too easily mutated into various
 RH> forms to ever guarantee a full cure.  

Yes, I still go out for the Cancer events even donning skates and attempting
to play hockey as in days of yor, but while the game plan kicks in
I lack the offensive power, and all I have left is the playmaking sense
to slow a game down to organize, but I have lost 90% of the game, and
I pull myself...and now no more, even if it was only done to show
my wife what she read about me, and she could say she saw me play
and skate.    Banned from skates by the medical folks.

I know it will be never beaten, and I know next time, I am going to
feel worse then how I feel now, and that to me, has meant life
not worth living.

 RH> As for chocolate, your wife is
 RH> pretty well like most women.  It seems women like it more than (most)
 RH> men.  Does she like the dark better than milk or vice versa? I like it
 RH> really dark, sometimes with a touch of mint. The "white chocolate"
 RH> isn't really chocolate IMO and milk chocolate is on the edge of being
 RH> considered "real" chocolate. (G)

My wife likes to collect and make her own choclate, as also the forms
to make the easter eggs.  unfortunately, and I wish not to offend her
I accept them ..but let her finish them off.   Dark chocolate is her
thing. 
 
 RH> He's a sweet guy; we met in January, 1972 & got married in September,
 RH> 1975 without really seeing much of each other and not really dating
 RH> between. He proposed just before taking me for a seafood meal in
 RH> North Carolina. (G)  We have 2 grown daughters and 2 grand children.
 
I think this way about Maria. 
 
 RH> I've not had problems with that, cancer related. I've had enough
 RH> broken bones (some quite severely) that tend to keep me awake.  During
 RH> the day I try to keep busy enough so I don't notice the pain; at night,
 RH> when I'm trying to relax & sleep, it hits me.

My first pains were hockey related, and the number of games played
and then the finals and on to upper levels and into Internationals.
Now they are all coming back to haunt me, but I don't complain as
those who inflicted those injurys were taken care of.
 
 RH> The lack of humidity in the Middle East or the sand baking your bones?


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