From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #295 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, November 10 2001 Volume 06 : Number 295 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Robin is NOT a Scientologist [kathryn ] Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! [kathryn ] Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" ] Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! ["David Abbitt" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: kathryn Subject: Re: Alloy: Robin is NOT a Scientologist sorry i'm so late in reading this stuff... - --- Keith Stansell wrote: > > The Church of Thomas Dolby and the Latter Day Synths > - members known as the > "Alloys". > > May the cube be with you - and your father. Amen. > > -Keith LOL i love it!! ===== - -kathryn "...honey, Rome wasn't built in a day, but now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin..." -thomas dolby robertson - ----------------------------------------- Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:47:13 -0800 (PST) From: kathryn Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! ouch!! i'm sorry to hear that. i've had slight experience with osteoarthritis.. my best friend Erin has it in both knees and is developing it in her elbows and wrists. That makes it very hard to play piano, which is her life's passion. And she's only 19... friggin medical conditions. i hope whatever medicine you find works well! :) - -kathryn - --- Chris & Beena Cracknell wrote: > Well yesterday I get the results of my tests back > and my little pessimistic > scheme has once again not let me down. I don't have > bone cancer. I do, > however, have osteoarthritis and I have it pretty > damn bad. So the pluses > are, I'm not going to die and finally all the crap > that is wrong with me is > finally explained away. The negatives are if I don't > get this thing under > control it could end up affecting my ability to make > a living as a musician > not to mention my ability to enjoy my favorite > sport, Judo (which I haven't > been participating in for a few months because I've > felt so crummy), and my > ability to move without feeling intense pain. The > other negative is, due to > digestive problems I can't take the normally > prescribed arthritis > medications. So I'm left with either painful > injections into the affected > joints, which in my case is every fricken joint in > my body, or trying some > herbal stuff. > > Now I'm not that big on all this touchy-feely "sit > under a pyramid wearing a > galvanic belt chanting to the goddess" new age crap > that passes itself off > as medicine. I'm very sceptical of herbals > especially since some of them > contain dangerous chemicals and hippy guru > granola-heads '"prescribe" them > with no real qualifications other than they could > procure a bank loan to > open up a sissy-assed healthfood store. None the > less my doctor tells me > this herbal treatment he wants me to try actually > does seem to work in many > cases. > > So I'm going to give that a go and I suppose I'll be > making some "lifestyle" > changes which I really don't want to because I've > always rather enjoyed my > "lifestyle". In anycase if anyone else out there has > any experience with > osteoarthritis I'm all ears. > > I was really quite shocked to discover someone as > young as me can be > stricken with it so dramatically. I had always > assumed that arthritis was > either something you were born with, or something > you got when you were in > your 60s. > > The strangest thing too is my big toe on my right > foot is appearently the > worst hit joint in my body, almost completely > deprived of cartlidge... yet > it's the only joint in my body I can think of that > doesn't hurt. Then again, > how often do you flex your big toe? Bizarre. > > Oh well... at least I don't have bone cancer, eh? > > Crackers > (Owie owie owie from hell!!!!!) > > Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:09:15 -0500 From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! Well the stuff I'm taking for it is called Glucosamine Sulfate. You can get it at most healthfood stores and herbal medacine shops. So far it's the only treatment which actually appears to reverse some of the cartlidge damage. Up until now when the cartlidge was gone that was it, she wasn't coming back. All they could do was treat the pain and swelling. The bad part of this is, it will take up to 6 months before I even start to feel the effects which means 6 more months of pain and 6 more months out of judo. I've done some family research and it turns out this nasty condition runs on both sides of my family and my mother was stricken, but to a much lesser degree, with it in her 30s as well. Crackers (Double son of a diddly from hell!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:37:56 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Aurora pictures (OT) Elaine Linstruth wrote: > I happened to run across these and thought some of you might enjoy seeing > them: > > http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_06nov01.html Elaine, I loved these photos. Really distinct aurora count among the things I would love to see one day (along with a seven-tailed comet... I saw a woodcut of one of these once from the 1800s!) We get aurora here in NY sometimes, but 99.9% of the time they're just brief flashes or dimly glowing lights. I want to see the 'trail of the ancestors' type like in the Finland photo. When I was in high school I saw one of the 'flash' types... the entire town lit up like daytime, except in a ruby-red light, for about three seconds. I thought a nuclear bomb had gone off somewhere... xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:21:30 -0800 From: "David Abbitt" Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! Crackers, I'm really sorry to hear about what's going on with you, and thoroughly understand your frustration, myself having had to give up a favorite sport (basketball) due to chronic joint problems. On the bright side, what you have is treatable and hopefully your condition will improve, be it six days, weeks, or months from now. Till then, try to keep a positive mental outlook as I think that has as much an effect on the body as anything else, and know you have our thoughts and prayers on your side as well. - -Dabbitt >From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" >Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org >To: >Subject: Re: Alloy: Son of a diddly! >Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:09:15 -0500 > > >Well the stuff I'm taking for it is called Glucosamine Sulfate. You can get >it at most healthfood stores and herbal medacine shops. So far it's the >only >treatment which actually appears to reverse some of the cartlidge damage. >Up >until now when the cartlidge was gone that was it, she wasn't coming back. >All they could do was treat the pain and swelling. > >The bad part of this is, it will take up to 6 months before I even start to >feel the effects which means 6 more months of pain and 6 more months out of >judo. > >I've done some family research and it turns out this nasty condition runs >on >both sides of my family and my mother was stricken, but to a much lesser >degree, with it in her 30s as well. > >Crackers >(Double son of a diddly from hell!!) > >Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #295 ***************************