Trace, aka mergrl, has joined our fight against cancer as our latest mate. Welcome aboard my dear friend, we are so happy to have you onboard in the search for a cure against such a terrible disease(s).Trace, after serving for 10 years as an RN is back in grad school studying to teach high school science. From Team Andrax, (I know, you already have one of these), please accept this apple as a small token of our appreciation in joining our team. May it bring you good luck and many happy moments educating the future scientists of our great country. You're going to make a great teacher.
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Welcome, Tracey!
congratulations, Trace!
Tree, i dont understand what crunching molecules means, with spare cpu cycles, or how that is assisting in this "fight" against cancer...it sounds like a language i have never heard of...could i request a simple explanation when you have a moment? thanks!
also, perhaps you might consider calling it a quest to understand the reasons why cancer shows up in the body, instead of a "fight against" cancer...aren't there interesting techniques in martial arts that one uses to overcome their opponents, where it almost appears that you invite them in to your territory in an almost gentle way, and then, take them down? i mean, i dont do martial arts myself, but i see this stuff in the movies and all...what happens when you fight something? it usually fights back. perhaps there needs to be friendlier languaging in this regard...just a thought...
Lisa, scientists at Oxford are using computers to look for possible proteins that could assist in developing drugs to treat various cancers. The project is so large they need millions of personal computers, each working on a very small part of the project, in order to do their research. What our team does, is run a small device on our computers that works in the background doing the calculations on a particular molecule. Once our computer finishes that workunit, we upload the results and then download another workunit. The computer does everything by itself once the device is downloaded and installed. On my sidebar are several previous posts you can read if you would like more detailed info.
I like your idea about changing the terminology. I've used the metaphor of "fighting" simply because so many who have encountered this disease felt that they were literally in a fight for their life. I'm openminded to calling the "fight" by another name, because in the end, the name we give it is just that, a name. What are your thoughts?
Lisa, how bout that. I've already changed the post to say "search for a cure" versus, "fight against."
See, I'm a very open minded person who takes feedback seriously and into consideration.
:-)
Now, I need to change my profile to reflect the same.
Thanks sweetie, and you know I love the apple, it was my first :0) I had been thinking about joining since I first wandered in here and to be honest just never got around to it, yesterdays turn of events gave me the push I needed.
May it bring you good luck and many happy moments educating the future scientists of our great country. You're going to make a great teacher.
and now,,,, I'm crying again, you are such a sweetheart
Hi Autumn (waves from under blankets LOL)
Lisa,
as far as finding a cure it is a quest thats for sure, but just from my own personal experience (my dad died from cancer 2 years ago, my stepdad 6 months later) it is a fight... you fight against time, you fight against the cancer and you hope that the treatments they currently have are enough of an edge to help you win. I don't necessarily think in this regards it is a negative thing, you fight and yes the cancer fights back and in the end, only one can win. Hopefully it is you.
thats just my personal take on the matter.....and of course I could just be delerious from the fever LOL so I am just going to crawl back under my blankets :0)
well i imagine it really must feel like a battle, a fight, a tremendous war to be won. thank you for sharing your feelings and thoughts about your own experience Trace. i must say there was an air of surrealism in that home i visited yesterday, and i could sense the darkness and the fears flying everywhere, when there were so many things for this family to have to think about and feel all in a condensed period of time...emotions run off the charts, there is so much to be comprehended at once....i guess you do whatever you have to do to have it make any kind of sense or to absorb the upsets....
ahh, life...
hope you're feeling better yourself...lots of colds and stuff going around...even up here in the North Pole...
Tree thank you for kindly sending that information. thats a pretty extensive involved project, sounds like, kind of interesting that even Joe Blow's computer can help in this crunching stuff...surprising the drug companies dont have so much spare cash to buy some more computers...i've heard rumours that they have all the money...in the Universe...or maybe this university based research program has little to do with the multi gazillion dollar drug companies...
and please never change anything just because i brought up a thought...i have lots of them, as you have seen...i love open mindedness, but obviously each person must follow their own hearts and instincts...i was just wondering if changing the languaging might help in making it more approachable somehow, less menacing...dunno...
ahh, life...
Lisa, that pretty much sums it up doesn't it.
I have also experienced some of what you were talking about with your friend...I worked hospice for 5 years, an unbelievable experience. You see so many different aspects of life and death, surreal is definitely one way to describe it. When the work of life is done, you live from one moment to the next, taking it all in until the last. Someday I would love to sit and pick your brain :0) about alternative healing, something I have always felt was wayyyy overlooked, the human spirit is an amazing thing, and we can do so much more than the medical community can even begin to imagine
ok, more delerious ramblings :0) and thanks for asking, I'm feeling.....ok well I guess that sums it up, today I am just feeling :0)
It's a lovely apple!
Welcome Trace. Best of luck in your endeavors. And from the bottom of my heart "thanks!"...in case no one else says it. I hate this fight - no, I hate that it is necessary and I hope it one day will not be.
Trée - do not get me started on drug companies.
Remember the jar that I have to write the name of someone I hate on? I don't know who it is yet but he/she is at the top of that particular entity. Ugh...I shudder at the very thought.
Aggie, you will never hear me utter the "D" word on this blog. That's all I'm going to say about that.
How was your day dear? What's for dinner? Are you ready for some football? LOL
I hate this fight - no, I hate that it is necessary and I hope it one day will not be.
I do too Agnes, I do too.
(((hug)))
LOL Football? Pshaw! HOCKEY!!!!!!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
I love hockey. GO STARS!
My day was insane and my evening is peaceful...finally.
Dinner...pizza and beer. What else on a Monday night?
Trace, there are days I wonder why we are still so deep in the dark ages with this illness. Then I remember that it is not AN illness, it is several hundred types of illness. I hope some of them are actually CURED in my lifetime.
Congratulations Trace! love the red apple Tree!
Aggie, pizza and beer. Mmm, okay, I'll be there by halftime. Save me some sweetie.
Thanks Kathy. The apple was fun to do.
Congratulations Trace!
thanks :0)
Ummm...there's no halftime in hockey silly.
Cold pizza for breakfast. Wanna join me for that?
G'nighty all.
No wonder I haven't left yet. Dang, I must really learn the rules to this game. Nitey nite Aggie. :-)
Trace, i have come to learn very much in the past 10 years or 50 about how the parts of us are all connected and how this connects to our physical bodies, and perhaps these alternative health courses i have dabbled in over the years may have been the vehicle for studying some of these issues, the real learning came from studying myself, as it is coming to you, to Agnes, to Tree, to Brian, the man i treated the other day...disease is usually a knock on our spiritual door, whether its happening to someone near and dear to us or to ourselves, its here to help us learn about the truth here on earth, the truth about ourselves...i think you may have inspired me to try to tackle this subject and actually write something on my blog...and in terms of the drug companies? hooo boy, dont get ME started on that one! apparently there are stories to be told about the power and corruption and agenda of these big multi billion dollar corporations, and what they are actually doing to control our health. i might just stay away from that subject entirely, not sure i want to feel my blood boil so early in the morning...apparently the outspoken and not often appreciated Michael Moore's next project is going to be in exposing some of these unknown truths...his delivery and presentation may not be the most tasteful or tactful, but i secretly cant wait to see how he handles this one...that is if someone doesnt try to snuff him out in the process...apparently there is lots of money and power there, to put it mildly...
its here to help us learn about the truth here on earth, the truth about ourselves...i think you may have inspired me to try to tackle this subject and actually write something on my blog
Lisa,
can't wait to read what you have to say (hug)
shit, now i have to come up with something...oh boy, pressure pressure...okay, i'm over it. i think i have caught whatever was sending you under the blankies yesterday, tho this killer Oil of Oregano appears to be chasing some symptoms away pronto..i hear its the new non-magic magic bullet, also incredible for gastrointestinal stuff too...tastes like...i dont know, an Extreme Italian, whatever they taste like! spicy too!
as a nurse, you may have possibly encountered the first wave of alternative healing in the form of something called Therapeutic Touch? apparently it was one of the first modalities that was "allowed" to accompany patients into the hospitals, and eventually nurses were given training in this oh so gracefully beautiful and simple technique of smoothing over our energy field....they were finding that people were healing extraordinarily fast from surgical operations etc, or that they simply calmed the patients nervous system down to a point where more healing was allowed in. the body has infinite wisdom you see...it knows what to do, if we would stop invading it with all these fast food drugs and oh boy, i'd better stop...i dont always know the whole story and so i shall mind my business...well, i cant seem to do that either so...
now of course there were these overzealous debunkers who wanted to prove that Therapeutic Touch and other forms of energy medicine and healing were pure and utter horsie poo, but, debunkers wouldnt have a job if there was nothing to debunk...so, on with the show, and on with our learning....
Lisa, theraputic touch is a wonderful thing, something I practiced quite a bit in hospice, and yes the body is amazing, what it can do when it is able to.....now you will get me started LOL
sorry you are feeling punky, I am doing good today so it shouldn't last too long
wow, thats cool Trace!
yes, well said, "the body is amazing,
what it can do when it is able to..."
thats why i debunk the debunkers...
to have experienced the special magic
sometimes, of this extraordinary
(what an odd word!!) healing tool
or other similar healing modalities
well, thats the proof, really.
and sometimes the body is not able to,
because the mind or the soul is not willing
or able to either...for example, i somehow
got a kind of message from my friend Brian's
body or soul the other day, that even though
Brian truly wanted to stay here and "fight" as
you call it, to get better, his soul had already
made a decision that it was his time to go...
how do i know this? i dont know...hopefully
he'll surprise us and order himself up a miracle!
but it can also be a kind of chicken/egg situation,
where, when we give someone a hand, a little boost
over that hump, it helps their bodies to help them.
other times, regardless of what we do or intend,
the soul and the Universe simply have other plans...
thats when we start using words like surrender, or let it be, go with it, listen...
body work is almost a form of prayer, and i assure you i am not a religious person...its simply paying attention to something and focusing our energies on to it and trying to help shift it, with a kind hearted intention i suppose, if it was meant to be....tonight i am attending a dowsers meeting...i've never been particulary keen on being part of a group, club, society, etc, and usually go to one or 2 meetings per year... i am somewhat of a reluctant healer, in that i am not sure i am meant to have a hand in helping? and yet as we have seen, a little love and care can sometimes bring about the greatest shifts on this planet...its surprising how little can do so much...and so i am going to ask about 100 people tonight, who are coming to listen to another speaker talk of some very cool healing methods, to kindly take 5 minutes out of this night, and all focus their energies on Brian at the same time, and see if we cant all move a tiny mountain just a wee bit for this man...hey, you never know unless you try....
thanks for your well health wishes, Tracey, it doesnt feel too bad now...and dont hold your breath on the lisa post (as if i was actually gonna write something!) see? i've written the post, its just kind of exploded out into different places on different blogs, thats all, like some kind of insane fireworks...oh well, figures i couldnt do it the normal way anyway...
i'm still getting over this wild javajazzfractal of Tree's...sheesh!
He is amazing :0) and so are you
(hug)
Reaching for the valve on the back of my head, the big head that is. :-)
ROFL can ya still get through the door Trée? :0)
she who is oh so bored at school can only speak the truth :0)
it is what it is :0)
Little warning bells keep me in place. No worries there. :-)
LOL(no laughing, I just a got a dirty look from the librarian)
you are too funny :0)
the big head that is. :-)
LOL nope not gonna do it, must...refrain....from......
commenting on this LOL
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