Meet Collusion, announced today onstage at TED U
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This morning onstage, Gary Kovacs of Mozilla announced a fascinating
browser add-on for Mozilla: Collusion. It allows you to track who’s
tracking you onlin...
4 Valuable Tips to Losing Weight Once and For All
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Discover the four important lessons I learned while losing weight. They can
also help you on your journey to your goal weight. 4 Valuable Tips to
Losing We...
Time For A Change
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Greetings, dear friends. If you've found your way to this blog, you'll see
it has not been updated in quite some time. I've continued the journey at :
http...
Thrilled beyond belief...and then some
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I am home from my treatment and after changing into comfortable clothes and
making mothers lunch, i couldn't wait to sit down at my computer to
write...how...
Blog Moving To A New Home
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As of writing the blog is being moved to a new home agemoreslowly.com/blog.
I am working on one combined site that is going to contain lots of
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No matter what age group the moms on your Mother's Day list fall into, the gifts of health, fitness, and well-being are always the best ways to appreciate ... | @ltaSEARCH
February 12 : DEMA was created by incorporating and providing leading-edge technology and service solutions in the healthcare benefits consulting industry for small and medium sized groups as well as individual and family clients. DEMA continues to address and deliver healthcare benefit solutions and has successfully assisted, facilitated and communicated to this segment of Americas’ Business and Consumer-based demographic for more than 28 years! || http://demaconnect.com
January 2 : The (MFL) Mediocre Football League (aka NFL) : According to the final regular season standings for the (MFL) this morning, 21 of 32 teams finished with .500 records or worse and one of those teams, the Denver Broncos (8-8) actually won their division and advanced to the playoffs. How faint is the memory of Denver's two Super Bowl years at the end of John Elway's career (1989-90)? With two thirds of NFL teams having worse or no-better records than the Broncos, mediocrity thrives! | http://bit.ly/tAKMtO
December 30, In a few days, Iowa separates contenders from pretenders :
Finally, politics comes down to real people, not just politicos.
After more than a year of polls and posturing, the large GOP field of candidates go to voters for approval in next week's Iowa Caucus.
These are some of the mobile news sites that I like to consult to follow the political scene and unseen : http://bit.ly/ufVBW1
Today is special for a number of reasons: 1) We will gather with our daughters, Suzanne and Andrea, and their families at our new home in Corona for the first time for a holiday meal. It is also Suzanne's 38th birthday and, hopefully, she will forgive me for blogging that revelation.
Speaking of blogs, my primary platform for my various blog creations has returned to BLOGGER after awhile of experimenting with Apple's iWeb which is due to shut down next year.
What's more, I was happy to discover the Google's Blogger has developed an automatic interface that seamlessly converts all blogs to a mobile format when viewed on a mobile device. WordPress also offers that feature, but I still prefer the way that Blogger is managing that feature.
Today, I posted content to my journal blog : myj on iWeb about the Chilean miner survivors and the dramatic rescue of a year ago. Interesting that, like me, many social media bloggers are still posting content about that story. Entering this post reminded me that survival takes many forms and prompts many responses.
Every year about this time, millions in the USA take stock of where they were and what they were doing on 9/11. That is, on September 11, 2001.
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the tragic events on that date a decade ago, the media and social networks of today are offering many memorials and remembrances of the people and events that served to shape millions of lives, if not the entire world, since that fateful day. || alt@link : http://bit.ly/qILyc5
11 July 11 : This weekend, Dee Dee and I enjoyed an evening out with friends in Pasadena (see photo) as we attended a benefit event for the American Cancer Society, a cause that has more significance in our life today, because:
In March 2006, I contracted one of the most aggressive forms of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
We never obtained lasting remission from some 16 different chemo treatments while waiting for a unrelated donor stem cell transplant (MUD SCT), the only medical procedure that offers hope of a cure for MCL. The SCT was completed on August 22, 2007. On the 44th day post transplant results of a PET scan were negative (cancer gone!) and we also received the DNA test results — the SCT was successful. Meanwhile, until Nov. 30, 2007, I was restricted to home confinement for the first 100 days of recovery.
That public isolation proved to be the best time to take this blogging stuff seriously. It was also the best way to stay in touch with many family members and friends who wanted to know about my progress.
When I was well into my second year cancer-free, we observed that recovery was steady but slow with some skin rash (GVH), still on Feb. 25, 2008, I returned to work on a part-time basis. Then, in late-July 2008, I returned to work on a full-time basis. But the MCL returned in July 2009 and a month later I started TomoTherapy (radiation) that was successful and returned to medical leave status until March 2010 and officially retired because my former work was largely dealing with grateful, but sick hospital patients, making the risk of contact a serious threat to my health.
Now, nearing the fourth year post-transplant (August) and into my fifth year of survival, I have these observations:
While cancer-free at this time, the immune system is showing more strength at fending off germs, so our public contact is a little more relaxed and free for normal activity. To help boost the immune system, I have been getting regular infusions of immunoglobulin and a miracle drug called Rituxan, a unique therapy that works by selectively depleting CD20+ B-cells. B-cells, and their role in cancer and autoimmune diseases. My doctors say that these infusions may continue indefinitely, but these may one day no longer be needed.
Finally, here in July 2011, I have had close to six months of prolonged general wellness, virtually free of any of the former respiratory distress and other complications of the treatment. Seeing my oncologist on Friday, July 8, we were told that we extend our next visit until three months from now (rather than the previous two-month interval. All of my blood and other tests were in normal ranges or near-normal ranges.
Indeed, the stem-cell transplant worked a miracle to save and prolong my life, a reality for which I am eternally grateful to the unseen Hand, as well as the unrelated German donor who provided the cells, and to the marvelous care team at City of Hope!
