Good News, We Hope: OT, Probably Long, Boring and all the other warnings

"Marina" wrote in message
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"JBHajos" wrote

We learned this past weekend that my brother's cancer has definitely
returned. He went through radiation treatment the first time and
everything seemed A-OK. Now that it's back, the doctor says his body
can't take radiation any more and he'll have chemo this time instead.

I'm very sorry to hear this, Jeanne. Many purrs for your brother, his
treatment, and all of your family.

Adding purrs to the chorus.

Yowie


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"Tanada" wrote in message
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Yowie wrote:
Yay! Glad its good news.

Stress and steroids are *not* a good combination. Steroids can make
people
very aggresive and short tempered whilst at the same time leaving htem
feeling very empowered (after a long time of feeling like crap, you
suddenly
feel *great*).

Occasionally Ihave to take prednisone because of my asthma, and its like
I've got permanant PMS in mood, but feel like I could take on the world
(which of course makes it worse)



Poor Rob didn't get the empowered feeling. He got aggressive and short
tempered and felt as though his mind and body were being taken over. He
also says that he wasn't getting one bit paranoid, thank you very much.

Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....

Yowie


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"Tanada" wrote in message
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Yowie wrote:
Yay! Glad its good news.

Stress and steroids are *not* a good combination. Steroids can make
people
very aggresive and short tempered whilst at the same time leaving htem
feeling very empowered (after a long time of feeling like crap, you
suddenly
feel *great*).

Occasionally Ihave to take prednisone because of my asthma, and its like
I've got permanant PMS in mood, but feel like I could take on the world
(which of course makes it worse)



Poor Rob didn't get the empowered feeling. He got aggressive and short
tempered and felt as though his mind and body were being taken over. He
also says that he wasn't getting one bit paranoid, thank you very much.

Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....

Yowie


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Yowie wrote:
Yay! Glad its good news.

Stress and steroids are *not* a good combination. Steroids can make
people
very aggresive and short tempered whilst at the same time leaving htem
feeling very empowered (after a long time of feeling like crap, you
suddenly
feel *great*).

Occasionally Ihave to take prednisone because of my asthma, and its like
I've got permanant PMS in mood, but feel like I could take on the world
(which of course makes it worse)



Poor Rob didn't get the empowered feeling. He got aggressive and short
tempered and felt as though his mind and body were being taken over. He
also says that he wasn't getting one bit paranoid, thank you very much.

Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....

Yowie


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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "CatNipped"
wrote:

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...
Well, let me put it this way -- I'm not a physician, but I simulate
them
on computers. I manage to be underemployed both in network engineering
and clinical computing! I'm more published in network engineering,
but
medicine has been a lifelong interest. Some of my projects include
expert systems that try to put the "doc into the box," so I have to
get
into the fundamental medical science, not just this pill does that.

That's awesome - and totally fascinating. What a great way to make a
living! From your notes to the group I can tell you're very good at it,
I
would have sworn you were an MD (in fact you seemed to know more about
some
of the medications I was taking than my doctor did!).

One of my wiser physicians, a highly regarded cardiologist, suggests
that I know more about the combination of the dozen or so drugs that I
take than almost any physician -- because I've had more incentive to
study their interactions, read obscure papers, etc., than any regular
practitioner would have for that specific combination. We also agree
that when someone is taking ten or more drugs, nobody really knows what
they are doing to each other.

In some respects, understanding drugs has become easier in the last
15-20 years, as long as people -- doctors or educated laymen -- will do
the homework to understand how they work at a molecular basis. Prior to
some of the more recent theory, doctors had to memorize huge texts about
drugs, but still really didn't know WHY things behaved the way they do.
I have the greatest of respect for physicians that didn't learn this
background in medical school, but have made the effort to master it.
Some specialties get more into drugs than others -- it's a running joke
that orthopedists are very highly paid plasterers and carpenters.

Us lowly chemists (industrial, a paint technologist to be exact) can only
grovel at the feet of someone who understands the interaction of such
complex molecular chemistry on physiology. It makes my brain hurt just
thinking about it (and organic chemsitry was my strongest subject!)

Kudos to you, Howard!

(and purrs of course)

Yowie


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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...
In article , "CatNipped"
wrote:

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...
Well, let me put it this way -- I'm not a physician, but I simulate
them
on computers. I manage to be underemployed both in network engineering
and clinical computing! I'm more published in network engineering,
but
medicine has been a lifelong interest. Some of my projects include
expert systems that try to put the "doc into the box," so I have to
get
into the fundamental medical science, not just this pill does that.

That's awesome - and totally fascinating. What a great way to make a
living! From your notes to the group I can tell you're very good at it,
I
would have sworn you were an MD (in fact you seemed to know more about
some
of the medications I was taking than my doctor did!).

One of my wiser physicians, a highly regarded cardiologist, suggests
that I know more about the combination of the dozen or so drugs that I
take than almost any physician -- because I've had more incentive to
study their interactions, read obscure papers, etc., than any regular
practitioner would have for that specific combination. We also agree
that when someone is taking ten or more drugs, nobody really knows what
they are doing to each other.

In some respects, understanding drugs has become easier in the last
15-20 years, as long as people -- doctors or educated laymen -- will do
the homework to understand how they work at a molecular basis. Prior to
some of the more recent theory, doctors had to memorize huge texts about
drugs, but still really didn't know WHY things behaved the way they do.
I have the greatest of respect for physicians that didn't learn this
background in medical school, but have made the effort to master it.
Some specialties get more into drugs than others -- it's a running joke
that orthopedists are very highly paid plasterers and carpenters.

Us lowly chemists (industrial, a paint technologist to be exact) can only
grovel at the feet of someone who understands the interaction of such
complex molecular chemistry on physiology. It makes my brain hurt just
thinking about it (and organic chemsitry was my strongest subject!)

Kudos to you, Howard!

(and purrs of course)

Yowie


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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...
In article , "CatNipped"
wrote:

"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
...
Well, let me put it this way -- I'm not a physician, but I simulate
them
on computers. I manage to be underemployed both in network engineering
and clinical computing! I'm more published in network engineering,
but
medicine has been a lifelong interest. Some of my projects include
expert systems that try to put the "doc into the box," so I have to
get
into the fundamental medical science, not just this pill does that.

That's awesome - and totally fascinating. What a great way to make a
living! From your notes to the group I can tell you're very good at it,
I
would have sworn you were an MD (in fact you seemed to know more about
some
of the medications I was taking than my doctor did!).

One of my wiser physicians, a highly regarded cardiologist, suggests
that I know more about the combination of the dozen or so drugs that I
take than almost any physician -- because I've had more incentive to
study their interactions, read obscure papers, etc., than any regular
practitioner would have for that specific combination. We also agree
that when someone is taking ten or more drugs, nobody really knows what
they are doing to each other.

In some respects, understanding drugs has become easier in the last
15-20 years, as long as people -- doctors or educated laymen -- will do
the homework to understand how they work at a molecular basis. Prior to
some of the more recent theory, doctors had to memorize huge texts about
drugs, but still really didn't know WHY things behaved the way they do.
I have the greatest of respect for physicians that didn't learn this
background in medical school, but have made the effort to master it.
Some specialties get more into drugs than others -- it's a running joke
that orthopedists are very highly paid plasterers and carpenters.

Us lowly chemists (industrial, a paint technologist to be exact) can only
grovel at the feet of someone who understands the interaction of such
complex molecular chemistry on physiology. It makes my brain hurt just
thinking about it (and organic chemsitry was my strongest subject!)

Kudos to you, Howard!

(and purrs of course)

Yowie


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Yowie wrote:


Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....



HAHAHAHAHA, boy are you going to have your hands full. WTG my honorary
grandson. I wouldn't worry about Smogg, he'll train Cary how to behave
towards a superior species, and then have Cary teaching you. Thanks, I
need a good laugh on a regular basis, and that post provided one.

Pam S. still laughing

Yowie wrote:


Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....



HAHAHAHAHA, boy are you going to have your hands full. WTG my honorary
grandson. I wouldn't worry about Smogg, he'll train Cary how to behave
towards a superior species, and then have Cary teaching you. Thanks, I
need a good laugh on a regular basis, and that post provided one.

Pam S. still laughing

Yowie wrote:


Guess it effects different peeps in different ways, but the agressiveness /
short temperedness is not unusual when on steroids.

Purrs to Rob, and more purrs again to the long suffering one.

Can I cheer you up and say that Cary can now hawl himself to standing
position all by himself (and boy isn't he so proud of himself when he
does!). He doesn't have the balance to stand (or even sit) yet unsupported,
but I am quite sure I'm going to have a marauding toddler on my hands by
Christmas. Poor, Poor Shmogg....



HAHAHAHAHA, boy are you going to have your hands full. WTG my honorary
grandson. I wouldn't worry about Smogg, he'll train Cary how to behave
towards a superior species, and then have Cary teaching you. Thanks, I
need a good laugh on a regular basis, and that post provided one.

Pam S. still laughing