Displaying 18,151 To 18,180 Of 18,974 Comments Faux News Demagoguery Now Politicizing Women’s Health I have no place to say good night so decided to come back to the first post I commented on this morning to wish you all a good day and a good night from Tokyo. I hope that soon there will be a morning place to meet. AdLib and I are working on a place for you as we speak, just give us a little more time please. Take care. Have a good day and good night from Tokyo again. » Posted By Kalima On November 19, 2009 @ 7:00 am Yes nellie I have tried everything but my doctor and I agree it is a Northern European thing and more than likely hereditary, I think that they are correct and it is prevalent on my mother’s side, I no longer question their wisdom because it was correct. This stage will pass, please don’t worry yourself and thank you. » Posted By Kalima On November 19, 2009 @ 6:52 am Good morning javaz. It’s 10:52 at night here, not so late but late for me the last few weeks. You have hit the nail on the head, they have healthcare, they don’t have to count their pennies to make ends meet or worry about a sick child or how they will pay the rent next month, they don’t live in the real world. A few with hearts and genuine compassion and understanding exist, but they tend to be overlooked or overwhelmed by a majority of “me first” interests. The Repug teabaggers chant of “I want to take my country back” should really belong to the people who really care, middle class Americans who have had their heads pushed into the quicksand too many times while the already stinking rich just got richer by the hour under Bush’s tax cuts. Enough voices, with enough determination can bring about the change that Sen. Obama asked for when he said, “I can’t do this alone. I need your help. Yes we can!! » Posted By Kalima On November 19, 2009 @ 5:52 am Thanks for the article javaz. When I read things like “but apparently not enough deaths to recommend that all women 40 to 49 should be screened.” it makes my blood boil. How many women would have to die unnecessarily to make it worth their while to recommend earlier screening? With 122 people dying each day because they have no health insurance, I would like to ask these people, how many women dying would raise your concerns to recommend the necessary screening, give us an estimate if you can of when you would change your recommendation, we need to know, we are not cattle. We have families, we have children, we have friends and we have a life to live. We are not a dip or rise on your endless graphs, we deserve much better from all of you. One life lost because of false information or the lack of the possible life saving tests because the hospitals are restricted or insurance companies don’t want to foot the bill, is one life too many for one family in America. As with the HCR bill, I think that women need to get their personal stories or the stories of relatives who died because of inadequate testing or care to the President’s official site. Real people with real stories to tell often can help to change the course of history. Your politicians are so far removed from the pulse of the real America, they need a defibrillator to start their brains functioning again. You all have voice, please use it. » Posted By Kalima On November 19, 2009 @ 5:22 am Chronic RA for almost 23 years, with almost if not all joints involved for the last 8 years. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 6:00 pm It is so hard for me to get my head around this fact. America used to be one of the leaders in research and your current health care system has been left to rot and decay over so many years. I find it hard to fathom. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:48 pm Yes you are right, so if they can use them on pregnant women, they can also use them to save the lives of women too. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:41 pm That is good news javaz and I’m glad for the results with your husband but some illnesses won’t react so well to homeopathy, I know because in the last 22 years, I must have tried just about everything with the same results, no results. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:25 pm No an echo scan is done with your clothes off and they apply a gel, it’s very much like a sonogram used on pregnant women to check the growth of the fetus and is much more accurate. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:20 pm That is appalling, it is part of the examination in most countries. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:17 pm I encouraged my hubby to start taking his prostate blood tests when he turned 50 after a friend of ours was diagnosed with cancer that year. Japanese tend to develop many polyps during their lifetime, usually in the stomach and colon. Now he has a camera test for both ends, when they find small polyps they are removed and tested. It’s uncomfortable but reassuring and I’m glad that I’m not the one going through it. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:14 pm Your cartoon was even funnier. 😆 » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:03 pm I didn’t mind the gel, I usually ended up having these test at the height of our humid summers. I once asked the technician to spread it all over me, she laughed. Echo scans pick up what a mammogram often misses when a woman’s breast tissue is denser than other women. It should be standard procedure everywhere. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 5:01 pm It was fine javez, it means that we almost become virgins again, almost. 🙂 » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:55 pm KQ, that is what it feels like for the rest of the day. As if they would fit in a slot machine in Vegas 🙂 » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:50 pm Mammograms alone are sometimes not enough, demand an echo scan, it is your right. Yes bitohistory, cancer sucks big time. My mother died in the same hospital she last worked in, with the same nurses taking care of her that she had worked with during her time on the cancer ward, they treated her well, I’m so very grateful to all of them. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:48 pm nellie, I doubt that he is even aware of this latest nonsense and remembering that he lost his own mother to cancer, would approve of these irresponsible findings. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:40 pm The only thing that steroids ever did to me in the 18 years I endured them, was to make me gain weight. The supposed 1 month relief from pain lasted for about 3 days with me. I should have stopped them sooner but my doctor really believed they would help, I didn’t want to disappoint him, silly I know but he’s a sweetheart. 🙂 I admire your strength and your upbeat take on your situation, I’m usually the same but it’s been a rough 3 weeks. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:22 pm Good afternoon bitohistory. Sorry to hear about your mother. My mother was fobbed off by her doctor too. Every symptom she had was explained away as the start of the menopause, they didn’t do a single test. My mother was a SRN for most of her life and knew that something was wrong. By the time they decided to operate after draining 11 liters of water from her body, the cancer had spread to every organ in her body, they could do nothing but sew her back up, offer chemo, but it was far too late for her. That is why I would advocate the use of an echo scan, it is so much more reliable and can pinpoint the smallest nodule on the screen. I would imagine that it must be available in any hospital if people know in advance to ask for it. We need to be informed of our options, it is out right to want to live. The procedure was not exactly 100% and I will have to return next Tuesday when I will have to ask for a steroid injection, even though I stopped them more than 3 years ago, I think that there is no other choice this time. Thanks for asking. 🙂 How are you? » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 4:05 pm Personally I disagree with the premise that women should wait until their 50’s to get annual mammograms. For some women this could spell a death sentence as breast cancer usually is symptomless until a lump is found and and a biopsy can be arranged. The density of breast tissue also varies from woman to woman and from race to race. I was in my late 30’s when doctors discovered 5 small nodules in my right breast through an echo scan due to the fact that the mammogram had failed to detect them. They turned out to be benign cysts but I was advised to come every 6 months and then every years because the risk of the cysts becoming cancerous were higher than for most women. Of course women with a family history of any type of cancer should start much sooner, better to be safe than sorry. These statements from professional healthcare advisers are extremely misleading and irresponsible. If women are concerned they should consult with their doctors to arrange an echo scan, it is painless, only takes a few minutes and it could save lives. The first hospital I went to did a needle biopsy, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer, I went for a second opinion because the first doctor couldn’t advise me on a course of action and I left feeling confused. I was lucky, so many of us are not. I still continue my annual tests every year for my family not to have to experience what I did when losing my mother when she was just 49 and remembering the agony she endured during the last 6 months of her life. I also would advise on regular PAP smear test for women as early as their late 20’s, especially if they are sexually active. A dear Finnish friend of mine died of cervical cancer due to the chlamydia virus transmitted by her husband contracted during an affair with a younger woman, it still pains me to think about it. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 3:48 pm Is it only me, as I find this to be in bad taste considering the RW’s aimless kerfuffle over another U.S. President bowing to the Japanese Emperor and this one being just a child during WW11. It might be intended to be funny but just ends up looking like more RW propaganda fuel in the end. If this was to be fair, we need a doll depicting Georgie with a bright red face while choking on a pretzel. Sorry for my vent, I find this sort thing distasteful to say the least and if intended for kids, a waste of time because they will fail to see the intent whatever it was meant to be. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 7:37 pm I thought that the GOP have only ever been about gas and spit. Cute kitty, far too cute for depicting the Repugs. Cats are much more intelligent and usually quite brave too. EDIT: Sorry, I missed the last part about your cats, the phone rang. We too have 6 and 10 outside, a handful I can assure you, but I assume that you know that. » Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 12:44 am An now a word or two from our ultimate expert on the economy giving tips to Warren Buffet on how to improve it or rather tell this man, who did make money without her expert advise many years ago, how to answer questions in an interview that will satisfy her superior knowledge on this matter. Can heads grow so large that one can’t scratch their ears anymore? Can egos inflate to the size of the moon? It seems that they can and do. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/memo-to-warren-buffett-pu_b_359899.html » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 10:24 pm Moon is obviously sick in the head. How can he be the second coming when he’s not even a Christian. He sounds as nutty as our Aum Shirikyo here in Japan, who set off the sarin gas in the subways in Tokyo in 95. The leader mixed a mumbo jumbo of every religion known to man and called it his own religion. Moonies are a cult, enough said. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 9:37 pm Political correctness, sexism, and the assault on civility LOL, they would have been calling for their Mommies and promising never to be bad again. Her voice affects me as much as the drawing fingernails down the length of a chalkboard. Have goosebumps already. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 11:07 pm Considering the deceptions and lies over the years, I think that it is a good idea and wonder how many would be left standing once it was over. Not too many would be my guess. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 9:14 pm I’ll watch it later when ITunes downloads my Podcasts tonight, I’ve watched him on Rachel before and admire what he says. I should imagine that he grew a conscience, a heart and a soul to help him escape. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 9:11 pm I have a feeling that many more people are due to step forward to contradict “Fuzzy Sarah’s” so called truths and I can’t wait to see how she deals with this. Oh, have to remember to buy some popcorn soon. 🙂 » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 9:06 pm 😆 ” She is a communications major, after all.” No one should have to watch her except for the fools who follow her FaceBook Page or were insane enough to buy her book to look at the pictures. Sarah should have been used by Bush and Dicky as an interrogation alternative for torture with the terrorists, they would have spilled their guts for the chance of shutting her up I’m sure. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 8:56 pm You made me LOL with the “gun-slinging mama” image, I can’t get it out of my head now. It’s the low level subject matter that SP finds to become outraged about that shows more than anything else, her shallow train of thoughts and should her “fans” have any more gumption than she does, raise warning lights. The woman is as shallow as a waterless creek and if you notice, all of her complaints are personal. The people of Alaska must have joined in a collective sigh of relief to be rid of her nonsense there as their governor. P.S. Here’s another hoot. » Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 8:43 pmComments Posted By Kalima
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