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A Bad Week For My Face

August 23rd 2007 06:47

Last week I was not looking great.

It was a bad week for my face.

Usually, you see I'm not only not bad looking, but really really ridiculously good looking. However, one morning I wake up, and my eyelid hurts a little. I go to work, and cruise through the day. I ask a few or my work mates and they tell me they can't see a thing. I get home and the story has changed to, it's a little red.

I got to bed, and in the morning, I find out that this has happened;

No, I had not been sleep boxing. I had got an infected... something. It's the bit of your eye the excretes oil.

THEN after that was all healed I managed to beat myself deep in the ear with a chopstick (don't ask). After this, every time I blew my nose, I could feel air shoot out my ear. It was like my head was deflating.

Turned out I'd perforated my eardrum. Which isn't so bad, because they grow back.

Two doctor visits, pills three times a day, and two drops in my ear, also three times a day.

So yeah.

This week is better.

So far.

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Cancer - A Not So Memorable Event

August 20th 2007 13:33

I had Cancer.

It all sounds very dramatic doesn't it. And it was, for most involved. Just not quite SO much for me. Not that I can remember. I was young. 2-ish. So my recollections of the time aren't the most clear.

It was Neuro-Blastoma BTW. Not Leukemia. Only little kids develop it I think.

My first memory ever actually, is Cancer related. I was sitting down. I pulled up my shirt and looked at the tubes. I didn't quite 'get it' I recall. I looked down at them, Mum said something and I kind of went mm.

After that... I think thats my only Cancer memory. After that the next I can think of is... Lego? Gosh. Hungry Hippos. Captain Planet. Climbing Trees. Preschool. Kindy. Kindy was a 1994 memory, because I read the year off a piece of paper with handprints. Sticking a tack in my mouth. The mean girl and her sad friend whose only real friends were ladybugs. Jurrassic Park. Star Was Figurines. Monster in my Pocket. People at a meeting, witha sign saying 'Leading Schools, BLEEDING Schools. Etc. Ect. Meeting the Japanese girl next door. Being babysat.

Distracted.

Apparently I went through craving. Rice Bubbles. Um, Bacon. All sorts of stuff. I lost my hair, and I'd pull off my Beanie to surprise people. Heh.

I now know two allergies. Thia-TEPA and Flufloxxacillan.

My Mum would joke when she spoke to us about drugs, telling me I'd had enough drugs for one lifetime already and I didn't need any more.

I don't talk about it a lot as it feels disrespectful to people who have serious forms of Cancer. If I discuss it it's quite candid. I'm not uncomfortable about it. It's just like, I don't want to be whining about something that I survived and don't recall a lot. Fact is, I got off lightly. Could have been a dozen things worse.

Having had Cancer hasn't really impacted on my daily life. I guess I think about death more than many, but I just think a lot. My scar hurts sometimes (when Voldemort's around ) because it still has stitches, as dissolvable ones would have dissolved too fast. I go to the hospital yearly, but more for their sake than mine. I need to have something double checked before I can give blood.

I tell people my scar is a shark bite. Then they don't believe me when I say it was really Cancer.

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Why I believe in Global Warming

August 10th 2007 07:04

I know that I could be like every other blogger on Earth and act as though I were an expert on the matter, a never ending source of scientific fact. But the truth is, most Climate Change 'experts', or 'GLO-BULL-Warming Conspiracy Warriors' just make it up, quoting big complicated studies they don't really understand.

Um... Hello? Hellllooooo?

So this is why I believe in Climate Change.

1. People I speak to around the world report things getting unusual with the Weather. People I know visiting Torres Strait Islands report the water rising. People who have gone to Alaska report the Ice disappearing.

2. My understanding of scientific opinion, and the understanding that has been expressed by the scientifically inclined folk I know is that Climate Change is a reality, and is being caused or accelerated by Human action.

3. It is accepted as reality by most major Governments. It is accepted that Humans are causing or accelerating Climate Change by most Governments.

4. I have no evidence that Corporations have intentionally attempted to hide the truth. My knowledge of human nature through, and incidents such as a James Hardie's Corporate scandal along with many other Corporate scandals suggest to me it is likely.

5. Much of the anti-Global warming 'evidence' can be attributed to the fact that if you tell people to do anything in order to improve a situation, they're more inclined to whine, whinge and moan about it than do something about it.

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Moral Duty of Bloggers

August 1st 2007 01:08

Bloggers need to consider the potential consequences of their actions

Do Bloggers Have an ethical obligation? If so to whom?

Many of us presume, with little hesitation, that ethical obligation is simply part of existence. If we see an injured man, we help. If we see our dog attacking a neighbour, we call it off. If we hit a politician in our car, we make sure we back over them (Joke! Joke! We don’t really. We call an ambulance, don’t we?).

So it can be taken for granted, without going into greater ethics, that we all have basic moral duties, as members of the human race.

So what duty do our words have? Do we have a duty to spreading truth? To spreading positive messages? To not defaming the innocent, or inciting violence?

The complexity comes with the way in which different people react to different things. I doubt the Beatles could have expected the atrocities to which ‘Helter Skelter’ was attributed. However, when Alan Jones refers to teaching the Middle Eastern thugs on the beach a lesson just before the Cronulla Riots then we can see the true potential impact of words.

From a personal perspective, I try to put good into the world. I try to educate people in areas that they may not be aware of. I try to encourage good feelings, and avoid inciting anger where it is unproductive. I feel as though I have a duty to put good into the world, through whatever I do.

What are your personal bloggy views on the subject?


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