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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Hallelujah

Tonight as I do most nights I make the rounds of the Parkinson's sites and I saw the words to a Leonard Cohen song that many fans of "House" tv series heard many times. The song was "Hallelujah". The words were slightly modified, but brought me to tears. The song itself is powerful, these words added to it were.......overwhelming to say the least. It will make this post a rather long one, but you must hear Leonard Cohen's song first and the read the words with the melody still in your head.
http://www.youtube.com/v/YrLk4vdY28Q?version=3&list=AL94UKMTqg-9D0EnTkiR5PRGsnOVCQTI-i&feature=share&showinfo=1&autohide=1&attribution_tag=RZ-9zScpkkVT2eJNO06HnQ&autoplay=1

The song is so powerful, but now try to remember the music with these words which came from  my internet friend and a very wise man when it comes to living with Parkinson's. Thank you Al.

I'm sorry it didn't copy quit right, but bear with the fact it isn't written out as.lyrics normally are. It is worth it.

 By LOHENGR1N On 2013.11.05 01:11You may want to skip this post if you're looking for a picker upper. Just a Leonard Cohen song (Hallelujah) With an introverted look from my parkinsonion perspective. (added between verses) "Hallelujah"I've heard there was a secret chordThat David played, and it pleased the LordBut you don't really care for music, do you?It goes like thisThe fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe battle king composing Hallelujah("You have Parkinson's Disease." Diagnosis, go home thinking they're wrong maybe it is a mistake? Maybe there is something anything I can do and God will take it away! Okay I'm in for a battle but God will cure me I've just got to praise Him more)Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahYour faith was strong but you needed proofYou saw her bathing on the roofHer beauty in the moonlight overthrew youShe tied you to a kitchen chairShe broke your throne, and she cut your hairAnd from your lips she drew the Hallelujah(I know God won't let this be...life is too beautiful, too much to do to much to enjoy this wasn't in my/our plans! I am in the prime of my life or I'm just ready to retire and enjoy everything! I'll soon be feeble my illusions of being in control are harshly falling away. But God will save me.)Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahBaby I have been here beforeI know this room, I've walked this floorI used to live alone before I knew you.I've seen your flag on the marble archLove is not a victory marchIt's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah(Parkinson's, I've been here before you moved into my body. You've bent me, twisted me made me slower and trembling, my foot steps are halting and shuffling, I wear you like a flag draped over my shoulders for all to see. The future imagined for love is gone, we've got no stroll into the sunset just a shuffle into the darkness looming ahead and whatever it holds. What praise I've got left sounds hollow and cold truly broken)Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahThere was a time when you let me knowWhat's really going on belowBut now you never show it to me, do you?And remember when I moved in youThe holy dove was moving tooAnd every breath we drew was Hallelujah(Seems my questions don't get answers, We use to talk God, now it is more of a one way conversation and I feel I'm talking to myself....remember when We did talk and do things I could feel You with Me! Those were such happier times)Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahMaybe there’s a God aboveBut all I’ve ever learned from loveWas how to shoot at someone who outdrew youIt’s not a cry you can hear at nightIt’s not somebody who has seen the lightIt’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah( I don't know I'm not as sure as I used to be, love at the best of times is hard now it is easier to retort than hug it seems. Now if you hear it, it's not a praise be! No it's more like a Wolf howling, a long drawn out lonely forlorn wail) Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahYou say I took the name in vainI don't even know the nameBut if I did, well, really, what's it to you?There's a blaze of light in every wordIt doesn't matter which you heardThe holy or the broken Hallelujah(Sometime We think what did we do wrong to be punished like this, but really it's just the cards we're deal in life. How're you doing? We hear that and see friends not listen they don't want to really know doesn't matter most hear what they want to hear)Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahI did my best, it wasn't muchI couldn't feel, so I tried to touchI've told the truth, I didn't come to fool youAnd even though it all went wrongI'll stand before the Lord of SongWith nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah(We do what we can, never seems enough, we reach out and try to make contact. I've not whitewashed or fibbed about it. I don't mislead or trick anyone. I've tried to live right and do good and not harm or hurt. To be a good role model even as life fell to pieces around me and in me. So in the end if there is a judgement seat I'll stand and make no excuses, I'll utter what ever it is that's left of my cold and broken Hallelujah) Hallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah By jcoff012 On 2013.11.05 09:19I love this song, Al...when it was part of "House", it may be cry every time they used it. Still does. The first time I heard it was years ago, and it made me cry then, too.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

At least it's not Cancer


At least its not cancer,



How often have you heard someone say that to you, and you agree. I've seen people with it and their doing great after all these years. MJF has it, look at him, he's hes had it for years, he just shakes some, no big deal hell he's even back to work. Besides they got pills for that, can't be all that bad, ya d ya da yada.



Lets say it was cancer, there are several types so first pick you r cancer. Now what are the survival rates for your cancer? Each one has a survival rate,, do you know what it is, we can look some up. Let me say now my cutting and pasting skills need s bit of work. But with a little patience you will get the idea.




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Article date: November 25, 2008
The cancer death rate in the United States continues to go down, a new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations says. What's more, cancer incidence -- the rate at which new cancers are diagnosed -- also appears to be dropping.
The findings come from the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use and Tobacco Control.
According to the report, cancer death rates for both sexes combined declined about 1.8% per year from 2002 through 2005, almost double the 1.1% per year decrease seen from 1993 through 2002. And for the first time in the 10-year history of the report, incidence rates for all cancers combined decreased, falling by 0.8% per year from 1999 to 2005.
"The drop in incidence seen in this year's Annual Report is something we've been waiting to see for a long time," said Otis W. Brawley, MD, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS). "However, we have to be somewhat cautious about how we interpret it, because changes in incidence can be caused not only by reductions in risk factors for cancer, but also by changes in screening practices. Regardless, the continuing drop in mortality is evidence once again of real progress made against cancer, reflecting real gains in prevention, early detection, and treatment."

RESOURCES:
The Annual Report to the Nation is a joint report of the American Cancer Society, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACR). It will be published online today and is slated to appear in the December 3, 2008 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This year's report includes a special section on lung cancer rates and tobacco control.

Good News, Bad News

Cancer death rates declined for 10 of the 15 most common causes of cancer death among both men and women, but increased for a few individual cancers, such as esophageal and bladder cancers among men, pancreatic cancers in women, and for cancers of the liver in both.
The decline in cancer incidence was largely due to declines in the most common cancers: lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer for men and breast and colorectal cancer for women.
Lung cancer death rates in women leveled off from 2003 through 2005, but incidence rates are still rising, though more slowly than they have risen in the past. Lung cancer death rates have been decreasing in men since the 1990s.
The report shows significant differences in lung cancer deaths in different parts of the United States. In California, for instance, the lung cancer death rate dropped by about 2.8% per year among men between 1996 and 2005. That decline is more than double that seen in some Midwestern and Southern states, and may be due in part to California's strong tobacco control policies.
"We can see that, in areas of the country where smoking and tobacco use are entrenched in daily life, men and women continue to pay a price with higher incidence and death rates from many types of cancer. This type of geographic variation in smoking-related cancers is due to smoking behaviors, not regional environmental factors," said Betsy A. Kohler, MPH, executive director of the NAACCR.
CDC Director Julie Gerberding, MD, said, "We must recommit ourselves to implementing tobacco control programs that we know work if we are truly going to impact the staggering toll of tobacco on our society."

Opportunities to Save More Lives

Although the news from the new report is encouraging, more could be done to reduce cancer deaths even further, the study authors point out.
The medical community needs to apply what it knows about prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer much more broadly, they say, so that all segments of the US population benefit from it. Right now, there are still differences among ethnic and racial groups. Cutting tobacco use is another important avenue for reducing cancer deaths. And, there needs to be more research into better methods of prevention, early detection and treatment, they write.
Citation: Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use and Tobacco Control. Published in the December 3, 2008 Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Vol. 100, No. 23: 1672-1694). First author, Ahmedin Jemal, PhD, American Cancer Society.

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Me again, I then went looking for the survival rates for people with Parkinson;s disease.












Rates of survival in Parkinson’s disease




Total Health | January 4th, 2012



Parkinson’s disease is a very common neurodegenerative condition amongst older people but until now, information on survival rates and risk factors has been inconclusive. A new cohort study of 138,000 patients with Parkinson’s disease has established links between the disease and demographic causes.
It has been found by researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in the USA that survival rates in Parkinson’s were “significantly predicted” through sex and race with women, Hispanics and Asians having an improved prognosis reduced risk of mortality. Black patients had the highest death rate of just over 66% whilst almost 65% of white patients died after contracting the disease. Another risk factor was the development of dementia which approximately 70% of patients were diagnosed with. The mortality risk for patients with both Parkinson’s disease and dementia is greater than for patients only suffering from Parkinson’s.
Treatments to ease the effects of Parkinson’s disease include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy as well as medication and drug therapy. None of these treatments can cure the disease however. An innovative form of neurosurgery, known as neuromodulation or deep brain stimulation, can be used to electrically stimulate the brain in order to improve movement problems but up to 70% and can be highly effective at improving the quality of life for patients.

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My reason for all this information is basically this,with cancer there is treatment there are frequently remissions.

For those with Parkinson's there is nothing to look forward to continues deterioration until you are overcome by another disease that will cause death. In addition many develop dementia somewhat similar to alzhiemers. Basically cancer can be cured, Parkinson's will just continue to eat away at the person, brain and body. For us there is no hope of a cure or remission as with cancer So my suggestion is more appropriate to say to a cancer patient,At least it's not Parkinson's.....





































































































At least its not cancer,

How often have you heard someone say that to you, and you agree. I've seen people with it and their doing great after all these years. MJF has it, look at him, he's hes had it for years, he just shakes some, no big deal hell he's even back to work. Besides they git pills for that, can't be all that bad, ya d ya da yada.

Lets say it was cancer, there are several types so first pick you r cancer. Now what are the survival rates for your cancer? Each one has a survival rate,, do you know what it is, we can look some up.

This is a bit awkward I realize, you have to hit the control key and then click on the item you are interested in. There is a tremendous amount of information,





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The cancer death rate in the United States continues to go down, a new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations says. What's more, cancer incidence -- the rate at which new cancers are diagnosed -- also appears to be dropping.
The findings come from the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use and Tobacco Control.
According to the report, cancer death rates for both sexes combined declined about 1.8% per year from 2002 through 2005, almost double the 1.1% per year decrease seen from 1993 through 2002. And for the first time in the 10-year history of the report, incidence rates for all cancers combined decreased, falling by 0.8% per year from 1999 to 2005.
"The drop in incidence seen in this year's Annual Report is something we've been waiting to see for a long time," said Otis W. Brawley, MD, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS). "However, we have to be somewhat cautious about how we interpret it, because changes in incidence can be caused not only by reductions in risk factors for cancer, but also by changes in screening practices. Regardless, the continuing drop in mortality is evidence once again of real progress made against cancer, reflecting real gains in prevention, early detection, and treatment."

RESOURCES:
The Annual Report to the Nation is a joint report of the American Cancer Society, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACR). It will be published online today and is slated to appear in the December 3, 2008 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This year's report includes a special section on lung cancer rates and tobacco control.

Good News, Bad News

Cancer death rates declined for 10 of the 15 most common causes of cancer death among both men and women, but increased for a few individual cancers, such as esophageal and bladder cancers among men, pancreatic cancers in women, and for cancers of the liver in both.
The decline in cancer incidence was largely due to declines in the most common cancers: lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer for men and breast and colorectal cancer for women.
Lung cancer death rates in women leveled off from 2003 through 2005, but incidence rates are still rising, though more slowly than they have risen in the past. Lung cancer death rates have been decreasing in men since the 1990s.
The report shows significant differences in lung cancer deaths in different parts of the United States. In California, for instance, the lung cancer death rate dropped by about 2.8% per year among men between 1996 and 2005. That decline is more than double that seen in some Midwestern and Southern states, and may be due in part to California's strong tobacco control policies.
"We can see that, in areas of the country where smoking and tobacco use are entrenched in daily life, men and women continue to pay a price with higher incidence and death rates from many types of cancer. This type of geographic variation in smoking-related cancers is due to smoking behaviors, not regional environmental factors," said Betsy A. Kohler, MPH, executive director of the NAACCR.
CDC Director Julie Gerberding, MD, said, "We must recommit ourselves to implementing tobacco control programs that we know work if we are truly going to impact the staggering toll of tobacco on our society."

Opportunities to Save More Lives

Although the news from the new report is encouraging, more could be done to reduce cancer deaths even further, the study authors point out.
The medical community needs to apply what it knows about prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer much more broadly, they say, so that all segments of the US population benefit from it. Right now, there are still differences among ethnic and racial groups. Cutting tobacco use is another important avenue for reducing cancer deaths. And, there needs to be more research into better methods of prevention, early detection and treatment, they write.
Citation: Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use and Tobacco Control. Published in the December 3, 2008 Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Vol. 100, No. 23: 1672-1694). First author, Ahmedin Jemal, PhD, American Cancer Society.

Reviewed by: Members of the ACS Medical Content Staff
ACS News Center stories are provided as a source of cancer-related news and are not intended to be used as press releases.
Related Searches: Statistics   Prevention   Early Detection  
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Me again, I then went looking for the survival rates for people with Parkinson;s disease.







Rates of survival in Parkinson’s disease




Total Health | January 4th, 2012



Parkinson’s disease is a very common neurodegenerative condition amongst older people but until now, information on survival rates and risk factors has been inconclusive. A new cohort study of 138,000 patients with Parkinson’s disease has established links between the disease and demographic causes.
It has been found by researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in the USA that survival rates in Parkinson’s were “significantly predicted” through sex and race with women, Hispanics and Asians having an improved prognosis reduced risk of mortality. Black patients had the highest death rate of just over 66% whilst almost 65% of white patients died after contracting the disease. Another risk factor was the development of dementia which approximately 70% of patients were diagnosed with. The mortality risk for patients with both Parkinson’s disease and dementia is greater than for patients only suffering from Parkinson’s.
Treatments to ease the effects of Parkinson’s disease include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy as well as medication and drug therapy. None of these treatments can cure the disease however. An innovative form of neurosurgery, known as neuromodulation or deep brain stimulation, can be used to electrically stimulate the brain in order to improve movement problems but up to 70% and can be highly effective at improving the quality of life for patients.

Filed under:


My reason for all this information is basically this,with cancer there is treatment there are frequently remissions.
For those with Parkinson's there is nothing to look forward to continues deterioration until you are overcome by another disease that will cause death. In addition many develop dementia somewhat similar to alzhiemers. Basically cancer can be cured, Parkinson's will just con continue to eat away at the person, brain and body. For us there is no hope of a cure or remission as with cancer So my suggestion is more appropriate to say to a cancer patient, al least it's not Parkinson's








































































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