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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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a forced perspective....
Today is the 4th day of the 27th week, the 5th day of the 7th month, the 186th day of 2017, and:
- Bikini Day -- the bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France in 1946
- Independence Day: Algeria from France in 1962, Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975 and Venezuela from Spain in 1811
- National Apple Turnover Day
- National Graham Cracker Day
- National Workaholics Day
- Work Without Your Hands Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)
ON THIS DAY: In 328 the official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. In 1610 John Guy set sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. In 1687 Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. In 1841 Thomas Cook organised the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough. 1865 William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London. In 1915 the Liberty Bell left Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition on the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit. In 1937 Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. Also in 1937 the temperature at Yellow Grass and Middle Saskatchewan reaches 45C (113 °F), the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada In 1954 the BBC broadcast its first television news bulletin. Also in 1954 Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right," at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1996 Dolly the sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. In 2000 conservationists in South Africa are carried out the biggest ever airlift of wild birds -- over 18,000 Jackass penguins were moved to safety as an oil slick threatens their breeding ground on Dassen Island, 50 miles north of Cape Town. In 2009 the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items, was found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. In 2012 the Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
Amongst the other pearls of wisdom, there are two “Mom” sayings regarding life span that both of my children grew up with: “We all live until we die” and “Tomorrow is promised to no one.” The latter was something that Grandmom Hughes used to say all the time, but the former was mine.
Many years ago I was hit with a devastating diagnosis – an MRI showed there is an aneurism on my left carotid artery. I had gone for the testing after my father was diagnosed with a cerebellum aneurism found after he unexpected blacked out while doing bush pilot training. The test that revealed that nearly killed my father as he went into convulsions on the table from the type of iodine dye that was used for the test. Dad called me because his doctor strongly recommended that I see a doctor immediately, and the resulting scan had me checking into Mercy Hospital for the same neurological test my father had to see what could be done. The doctor came into my room the night before the test and sat down to talk with me. What he had to say was pretty grim. The results of the test would give me a 50/50 chance that the aneurism would be operable. IF it was operable, I only had a 50/50 chance of surviving that operation. AND because of my father’s extreme reaction to the dye, I had a 20% chance of stroke and death just from the test. I repeated back those figures to the doctor and asked if I had heard him correctly – he confirmed thems were the odds. At that point I declared that I saw no reason to take the test, and I would simply live until I died. He agreed that the chances of this aneurism bursting was no greater than it was before I knew about it and I checked out of the hospital.
And for the past 38 years, life has gone on. Of course, for years I would be terrified of every headache, but eventually I came to terms with it. Dad died not from that problem, but from lung cancer brought about by smoking. An ablation was performed to help regulate my heart, but further MRIs and x-rays showed no ballooning on the carotid artery. When I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I had a few qualms but I continued to weather family crisis and deaths as well as the usual day-to-day angst. Life is a journey that we all are on and "Death is just another path, one that we all must take."
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