X-Message-Number: 19743 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:46:55 +0100 From: J Corbally <> Subject: Re: Re:TLC documentary alert >Message #19704 >Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:45:04 -0700 >From: James Swayze <> >Subject: Re: Re:TLC documentary alert >References: <> > > > > > > Message #19694 > > Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:46:58 +0100 > > From: J Corbally <> > > Subject: Re:TLC documentary alert > > > > > > > > Actually, James, if this is the same series of programmes that was shown > > here last year, then immortality gets a reasonable treatment, as do > most of > > the genetic technologies. I believe a Professor Sulston is the narrator. > > >James, >I think this might be a different show. The credits said it was narrated >by Jim Soriero. That said I wish to >say I didn't mean to give the impression it was chalk full of naysayers. >In fact the actual program was much >more positive than the preview they implied. Looks like they tried to give >the impression of controversy to >get the dumbed down public to watch. Going on that I could only give an >impression the one example as that >was all that was emphasized by the previews. In fact they took it out of >context and the actual line, "It's a >road we shouldn't go down", was meant for people's use of Human Growth >Hormone, and not anti aging research >in general. In all the show was very positive but I didn't see a Prof. >Sulston. Yup, sounds different alright :) The one I'm thinking of was a 3 or four parter, one of them being about somone undergoing the hormones used before gender reassignment. You never know, you might still see that in the U.S. sometime. I'll look out for the Jim Soriero one here. > > > > On another note, how've you been lately? Well, I hope. >Well, hmmm, I tend not to volunteer such info but since you asked, and >thanks for the concern, I have some >things going on that worry me a little and I'll be seeing my doctor as >soon as I can get fit in. Three days >ago I suffered sharp chest pains all day and night and into the next. It >doesn't seem too be angina because >out of several symptoms mentioned online only the sharpness applied. It >was not a crushing pain nor referred >to my neck or arms an other things mentioned. >I suspect maybe indigestion or pleurisy. Getting a chest xray is overdue >anyway and could alleviate angst if >it proves negative for pleurisy. I have had more expectoration than usual >of late and that in conjunction >with the pain led me to the pleurisy suspicion. Some of the pains were in >conjunction to taking a breath too. >I am susceptible to lung disease because I suffered double pneumonia with >my injury and quads have depressed >breathing abilities anyway although I've been rare in having a high lung >capacity for a quad and unusually >high for a quad diaphragm control. >I'm also having similar plumbing problems again (sigh) that led this same >time last year to an 8 day hospital >stay. I try to minimize hospital visits because that's where you really >get sick! Lastly, I'm having to give >in and finally see my doctor about problems I'm having healing skin wounds >on my lower limbs. They last way >too long, get near to healed then suffer setbacks for no apparent reason >other than in general circulation >problems and possibly occasional blood sugar spikes that I sometimes fail >to catch. The skin is so fragile >and thin that the slightest assault causes a wound. >What I fear is that soon they will get even more insistent that I allow >amputation but I see even worse >problems with that and I know that will be a detrimental milestone. Just >one issue I see is if the current >wounds resist healing, won't creating a huge one from amputation be worse? >I don't know I hope there's a >different answer but I even see the same problem with plastic surgery or >skin grafting that is sometimes >used. I won't let it get me down though. Life is still one helluva ride! >James Sorry to hear of your troubles, hope things are looking brighter by now. Pain like that can be pretty scary, for sure. Moreso when the cause is unknown. My wife had a scare a few weeks back with severe stomach pains. We had to get a friend to take her to the A&E (Like yourself, I'm not a great fan of hospitals, esp. A&E wards. My worry is more the people than the germs, however. You find the most unsavoury types, from drunkards to druggies). It disappeared by the time she got there. Go figure:) Seems strange that they'd recommend such a drastic course of action, is that more to prevent the problem rather than treat it? Like you said, I can imagine an amputation would be a much bigger ordeal, esp. with long term convalescence thrown in. Keep on the ride, my friend, keep on the ride.... James.... "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." -Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who' Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19743