Text 16699, 57 rader
Skriven 2011-10-17 23:20:14 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 16418 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: health issues 03
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 08 Oct 11  00:55:00 <=-

 ML>> Yep. Turns out, though, that the cancer was inoperable, a great
 ML>> disappointment, although at last report Annie thinks he knew
 ML>> something was wrong all along.
 NB>> Sigh.  Not just wrapped around but starting to penetrate?

 ML> Lots of little metastases through the peritoneum. In the
 ML> situation you describe, the same resectioning technique
 ML> might provide relief if not cure. This way, there's just
 ML> more chemotherapy to keep the things from taking over
 ML> altogether; surgery won't apparently improve either quality
 ML> or quantity of life.

Yes.  That's worse.  And chemo isn't known for improving one's quality
of life, either... nor necessarily the quantity, for that matter...
prayers continue for them...

 ML>> vegetable fat, which is much frowned upon in chocophile
 ML>> circles (though cocoa butter itself is a vegetable fat,
 ML>> is it not?).
 NB>> (I guess it isn't animal or mineral fat... [G])  Must be shorthand for
 NB>> "vegetable fat other than the naturally occuring cocoa butter"...

 ML> Turns out that the literature (probably written by chocoholics
 ML> and thus dubious) claims that most cocoa butter is either
 ML> monounsaturated or converted into monounsaturated, thus
 ML> healthy, whereas lesser tropical fats are more saturated and
 ML> supposedly unhealthy. And obviously artificially solidified
 ML> vegetable oils are bad for you.

Of course, not all other vegetable fat is tropical or artificially
solidified, either...  But I'd expect that cocoa butter would probably
taste better than the alternatives...  :)
 
 NB>> I'm with you on that.  Along with that, a nurse in a doctor's office
 NB>> was just making the same observation, about the medical records all
 NB>> having to be computerized...  She said that so far, they are still
 NB>> keeping a paper backup but she didn't know how long they'd be allowed
 NB>> to.  She worries about the day the 'puter crashes, and everything gets
 NB>> lost... 

 ML> I am notably scared of that. Of course, offsite backup can
 ML> be helpful, until that day when the cloud goes down or warlike
 ML> EMP such as that posited by Dirty Dave happens. Every day is
 ML> like a lottery - a nonzero but tiny possibility something
 ML> will happen.

Nothing is secure forever... fire and floods destroy paper, too...  But
I think I'll be keeping at least some of my own medical records on
paper... just in case...  ;)

ttyl       neb

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