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My St. Jude turned 15 today. My congratulations to all whose milestones I have missed. To all my old friends here I want to explain why I havn't been around. The reason and only reason is that early this year I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Needless to say it has kept me VERY busy. I...

After 14 years I'm still ticking, and because of this my dear wife and I will celebrate 50yrs together tommorow. So this week is a really big deal for me with two very important anniversaries. I hope all the great friends I have been lucky enough to meet here over all these years will see this. Rich

I am asking this due to some ongoing discussion on another thread regarding valve choice. There has been talk about long term potential problems especially with the elderly. I would like to hear some of these. I have been on Coumadin for almost 14 yrs and am now approaching age 72. That's not a...

An article appeared in today's edition of Parade magazine. Go to www.Parade.com/blood and read the same old stupid things written by some doctor. Will they ever wake up and get it? Rich

with the vast experience of our membership, I hope some can comment on this one. I have been diagnosed with a rare skin condition called dermatographism. It is a condition that is triggered by pressure on the body from simply sitting or laying. It causes very severe itching, something like...

Received this article today, and don't like where this may go. Rich http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHoYSI84VdL0

I havn't been around much for quite a long time. Just a whole lot going on especially with our current economy. I am a GM salaried retiree which pretty much explains most of it. But today is my 13th anniversary of my AVR and I wanted to share my good fortune with all. I turned 71 earlier this...

Hi all, I wanted to share this with all of our animal lovers. In Dearborn Michigan which is a city right next to Detroit, an animal contol officer was called to a house to rescue a few kittens, which she did. But then she heard a lot of strange noises coming from a house at her location. So an...

I heard today that not only are you folks getting George W. for a neighbor, but also may well get the recently ousted Mayor of Detroit. Our local news tonight said he is being let out of jail this evening, and is headed for Dallas tommorow. You people are so lucky.:eek: Rich

http://www.theradio.com/ Got this yesterday, kind of fun.

We have been so overwhelmed with trying to get our health care for next year sorted out, that I just havn't had much time for anything else. I hope this finds our members doing well. As some of you know we are some of the GM salaried retirees dumped out in the cold. It has been a nightmare to...

I received this e-mail a few days ago and it sounded serious enough to share. I checked with Truth or Fiction and its the truth. The companies are taking that ingredient out. The Fiction part is they are not re-funding like the e-mail says. Rose Davis Hi Everyone I am passing this email...

Come January 1st,2009 there are big changes in store for General Motors salaried retirees. Those of us 65 and older who are on Medicare, will lose all of our company paid benefits. This includes health care, dental care, vision, prescriptions and extended care as well. Many of us our researching...

I know this has been discussed many times over the years, but I havn't had a cold for a very long time. It's some kind of bug going around here. Family has it, nieghbor's have it, seems like it is everywhere. It's a simple head cold so far, no bronchitus or anything like that. I'm using the...

Cort called this morning to let me know he was in town, but it was already too late for me to get there with everything going on around here. Same for JimL who I spoke with this morning as well. I'm about forty-five minutes from where Cort was going to be, and Jim is a whole lot farther away...

Today July 29th marks the 12th anniversary of my AVR, and my St. Jude is still ticking. I still remember everything like it was yesterday. Sites like this didn't exist back then, I hope those facing surgery understand how lucky they are having this info available to them. Thank you Hank ...

This guy followed us into our garage last night. Never heard of such an insect before. This is a picture of one, the little guy we had was much larger, a wingspan of about seven inches. It's called a hummingbird moth. Rich

Some may remember my posts several months ago regarding a bad digestive problem I had. I'm happy to report things are going a lot better. The only answer I came up with was that Nexium was the root cause of my problem. This was kind of confirmed by a forum I came across, which is a place to...

I havn't posted for a while, because I'm still trying to get to the bottom(no pun intended) of the little internal problem I have been suffering with that I talked about some weeks back. Trying to get to the source of this I stopped taking Nexium on April 9th. Because Nexium had a very strong...

it is affecting my heart. About six weeks ago I woke up one morning feeling very bloated with a tremendous amount of gas. I still have it today, it goes on 24/7. I don't profess to understand my heart when it comes to digestive issues, but it is working very hard apparently to accomodate this...