Time has passed him by

Back broken

Withered old

At Bandra Hill Road

Covering his shame

From the passers by

Once his belly full of

Xmas Cards New Year Cards

Diwali Cards ..

Soul stir fry

A post card to the

Sophers from Mount Sinai

A letter to Mr Adenwalla

From Brunei

But the Internet

Hot Mail

Yahoo

G mail

Email

Rediff

Choked him

Strangled him

The Final Good Bye..

The Red Post Box

Is dying

a cancerous tumor

Incurable..

Sabotaged

Do and Die

High and Dry

A vacant emptiness

No reply

Mumbai

Monsoonal flood becomes Venice

Disaster management turns blind eye

Municipal apathy

Choked gutters

Boats that ply

The political honchos

Want to make it Shanghai

The red post box utters

A silent cry..

Sheds a tear

Without a sigh

Buffalo is cancerous-

Dark Place, Bright Tower- Night Urbex

Tall reeds by a large pond in the spring wind.

Those endlessly overgrown thickets that might at some dim time in the past been lovingly called boxwoods, were now in a state of complete abandonment. Their foully twisted branches and withered mottled leaves, a living testament to the stunted mutations which everywhere abounded prolifically; from the flat, impossibly abhorrent crabgrass that leant a cancerous appearance to the brown lawn, to the fungal rotten and moss encrusted line of sickly maple that spread their eerily shaped silhouettes over the warped root and down the cracked and falling front of the elder structure

Love me cancerously

Like a salt-sore soaked in the sea.

'High-maintenance' means

You're a gluttonous queen

Narcissistic and mean.

Kill me romantically

Fill my soul with vomit

Then ask me for a piece of gum.

Bitter and dumb

You're my sugarplum.

You're awful, I love you!

Cancer Strike: le go

This game is so cancerous. Battlefield N, where N is any real number in the set of positive integers, is way better. My steam is PCG_Falka. Add me and let's get $3000-ultra-rare-skin cancer together

Presuming you are a poet

You read a poem you don’t like the poem

so you bludgeon the poet kick him hard

on the shin smash his face make him

bite the dust..

Presuming you are a poet

You read a poem of a lady poet you don’t like

The poem, so you rape her sodomize her

Rub her face to the ground..

Presuming you are a poet

You need to see a shrink get yourself

Institutionalized you are a danger to a

Dead Poets Society too..

Your upbringing questionable

Cancerous hate running through and through

Your body that as a comment you spew

You ignoramus son of a bitch

Even time and tide won’t forgive you

Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplanted the black leg of the Ethiopian man onto the white body of the verger with "cancerous" leg. Saints appeared to the patient in a dream, amputated his diseased leg and replaced it with the leg of a recently died man. This dramatic cure was attractive for many western artists. BUT... I don't think that miracel has anything to do with this painting.

Haven't really felt the need to build or buy LEGO lately. It's a combination of builders block and not having enough money to buy new bricks.

Live is rough after high school for anyone wondering. Bill's, Bill's, and more Bill's. I have been out for a while but was sick for 2 years. I want to continue LEGO but as it is a expensive hobby it might need to be put on hold once again. I have gotten this box guy named Danboard as a gift. One of the best. Right now, I'm just trying to survive. I didn't come from money. Everything I have I have earned. And let me tell you it's the best damn feeling in the world. To this day I would rather be poor then be rich. Money sadly runs the world and it is a greedy bastard. It's been the one thing I have been struggling to get. And even though I might not have a lot of it (maybe $20) but I will still remain happy. Woke up today, had both arms and legs, family that still supports me (and sometimes gets on my nerves) and food.

If you made it this far I just want to say to enjoy the time you have while your young. It flies by and I would sacrifice everything to go back and enjoy it all over again. Once you are an adult. The beginning part of that journey is a bitch. Just gotta keep pushing through one day at a time. Always have to remember. Your time will come.

I will continue to hang around till Flickr kicks us all out or the new generation fucks everything up. (Taking bets on the new generation screwing everything up) Instagram LEGO community is a bit cancerous. If you make the switch. only follow those who dont take part in it. Save yourself the brain cells.

Lastly, thanks for reading this. I appreciate you guys for sticking around reading and supporting my account over the last 10 years. It's been a long ride. It's been nice to have a place where I can enjoy LEGOs with people I have never met. The internet is a strage place.

☮ Peace ☮ out my dudes

(I'm not leaving I'm going to bed)

Photo taken at the The Bergianska trädgården (the Bergian Garden), a botanical garden located on the outskirts of Stockholm.

Dipsacus fullonum (Teasel)

Traditionally Teasel has been used to treat conditions such as warts, fistulae (abnormal passages opening through the skin) and cancerous sores. The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and stomachic. An infusion is said to strengthen the stomach, create an appetite, remove obstructions of the liver and treat jaundice. An infusion of the leaves has been used as a wash to treat acne.

The plant has a folk history of use in the treatment of cancer, an ointment made from the roots is used to treat warts, wens and whitlows. A homeopathic remedy is made from the flowering plant. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases.

www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/d/dipsacus-fullonum=t...

Ray has been having issues with his mouth recently so we took him to the vet today. He has a massive ulcer under his tongue which the vet said maybe treatable with antibiotics. Sadly there is a chance that it may be cancerous.. She has also given him pain relief. None of this has stopped Ray eating, probably because he has thyroid issues as well (he also has a heart murmur). We will see how he gets on and have a follow up appointment with the vet in a couple of weeks time, unless he deteriorates, Ray is 17 years old so age is not on his side. Fingers crossed that the meds work.

Star Ferry Central Pier before its final demolition...

As if the pier were something cancerous, the removal of it has commenced. Bamboo scaffolding was built along and around the perimeters of the pier, and pieces of canvas, incidentally the same green as the pier's, were tied to this organic structure to cover the ghaslty details of the operation. A small part of the pier has already been torn down. Sooner than later, it will completely vanish from physical form.

Jeffrey the chameleon is only two years old (the boys live until they are 8-9; girls to 7-8). However, sadly, his beautiful markings are being invaded by grey skin lesions, most very small at present but a larger one has just developed behind his head, which are cancerous according to the Royal Veterinary College.

You could have had two brand new chameleons for the price of that op and biopsy but I apparently miss the point about a pet and that it is not a simple cost benefit analysis (unless you are paying). Jeffrey will be looked after with great care and will not be allowed to suffer. For the moment we can continue to enjoy his photogenic colourful cold-blooded company.

March 14, 2021, Attica, Greece. Taken during the continuation of the National lockdown. Stay safe and sound everyone!

My first bike ride with my wife Theresa Jane Brown since last October when I had surgery for PROSTATE CANCER.

My adventure continues with Hormone Therapy and Radiotherapy scheduled for later this month and into April, as post op tests show that there is still residue of cancerous cells.

Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανάσης Φουρναράκος

Professional Photographer, Athens, Greece

(retired in 2011, born in 1946).

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None of my images may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, manipulated or used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. THANK YOU!

Here goes - into the bin

the fire still burn on the coast of california

it gives us this beautiful light as it burns and destroys.

**I had the rest of my cancerous mole removed today. basically 2 hours in one position. home with a huge bandage, and directions not to turn my head either way unless accompanied by my body.

tell that to Boo.

and no showers for 48 hours.

all this along with a non-working right side.

hmmmpppttttt....

Chaffinches do seem to suffer from afflictions to the legs and feet and this is a particularly badly afflicted individual. There are two main causes of leg growths in Chaffinches in Britain. Perhaps most common is Chaffinch Papilloma virus (CPV) but its effects are similar to those of a tiny burrowing mite called Knemidocoptes mutans (Scaly Leg Mite). The mite burrows between the leg scales causing them to loosen and rise. But CPV produces similar symptoms as it causes a cancerous growth known as a papilloma. Some tested birds were found to be suffering from both conditions and some birds suffer from an additional bacterial infection getting into the wounds. But on the positive side many Chaffinches with diseased legs appear to be otherwise healthy and feed normally. There have also been cases where ringed birds with affected legs had normal legs when they were subsequently caught showing that they can get better. Both the mites and the virus can be passed between birds although CPV probably needs to get into an open wound on the feet, so is not especially contagious. But good hygiene at feeding stations can help reduce the incidence of these conditions. Because this one has relatively unaffected feet compared with the legs, I'm thinking this one is more likely to be affected by Scaly Leg Mites.

A Rattlesnake Saved my Life

In early April of this year I was bitten by a rattlesnake on my left calf and hospitalized for many days. During my recovery in the hospital a CT scan was performed due to complications I had from swelling. The CT scan showed something that was unexpected. I had a cancerous cyst in my left kidney. Two months later, I had my left kidney removed. Had I not been bitten by the rattlesnake, the cancer likely would not have been found until after it had grown and spread to other organs.

I got this tattoo of a rattlesnake on my left calf to honor the snake that saved my life. This was my first (and so far only) tattoo. The tattoo artist was Danial Gagliardi (DGInkTattoo on Instagram).

Interesting ice on reeds in a fast moving stream.

I'm going to take a break from Flickr for a few weeks. I had a major medical emergency which resulted in the removal of a cancerous kidney on my birthday this week. I'm home from the hospital but I can tell recovery is going to be slow. So I won't be posting daily, maybe I'll try for weekly until I feel better. Thanks.

Taken 17 November 2022 at Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, Alaska.

Research is looking into the potential use of wasp venom as a cancer therapy. An active peptide found in the venom of tropical social wasps selectively destroys cancerous cells by causing their membranes to leak. Wasps may have the potential to save human lives.

So next time your picnic is disturbed by black and yellow insects, take a moment to think about their extraordinary world and the contributions they make to our lives before you reach for the swatter.

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Dear fellow photographers,

Photography is one of my real passions, another one being my work: running a research lab. Indeed, I am heading a research lab at the University of Montreal, where I am also associate professor. We are part of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), and we are studying how cancerous cells move (‘migrate’) to colonize new tissues and form metastases. The image here is a confocal microscope image of fruitflies ovaries, one of our favorite model.

I am posting this as I will participate in a fund raising event for my institute. For this I engaged myself to run 5 km and to raise money. If each of you, friends, followers or fellow photographers would participate, I would certainly reach easily my objective. I understand that not everyone can afford helping, but I still hope that the magic of social networks will operate and that we will raise a significant amount. Indeed, this is of high importance as the funding situation is getting really difficult in Canada. Our institute is focusing on cancer research, from fundamental research to direct applications for patients. All the donations are used for research and only for research.

Please visit the page here for more informations and if you wish to support us:

LINK

or here if you want to know more about my research:

www.iric.ca/en/research/principal-investigators/gregory-e...

Thanks in advance !

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Chers amis photographes,

La photographie est une de mes passions, une autre étant mon travail: diriger une équipe de recherche. Effectviement, je suis le directeur d’un laboratoire de recherche à l’Université de Montréal, ainsi que professeur. Notre équipe fait partie de l’Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et Cancer (IRIC), et nous étudions comment les cellules cancéreuses se déplacent pour former des métastases. L’image ici est tirée de notre recherche, il s’agit d’ovaire de mouche à fruit, un de nos sujets d’études.

Si je poste ce message c’est parce que je vais participer à un événement de levée de fonds pour notre institut. Je me suis engagé à courir 5 km et à récolter de l’argent. Si chacun de vous, amis, followers ou camarades de photographie participeraient, j’atteindrais mon objectif facilement. Je comprends bien que pour certains cela n’est pas possible, mais j’espère que la magie des réseaux sociaux opérera et que je collecterai une somme significative. En effet c’est important car la situation du financement de la recherche au Canada est devenue difficile. Notre institut ce concentre sur la recherche sur le cancer, en partant de la science fondamentale jusqu’aux applications directes pour les patients. Toutes les sommes récoltées serviront à la recherche et rien qu’à la recherche.

SVP visitez cette page pour plus d’informations et pour nous soutenir :

LIEN

Ou ici pour plus d’information sur ma recherche :

www.iric.ca/recherche/chercheurs-principaux/gregory-emery/

Merci d'avance pour votre support !

I am sorry if this is a disturbing shot. I don't mean it to be. It's actually hopeful.

This past week, the vet found that the swelling of Bluelberry's left hind paw was cancerous. The only thing they could do was to amputate the leg. We have been pretty distressed, but though it looks grim, he has had NO swelling at all, and from the first day of recovery, he has been able to stand! He is eating well, and is already bored with his 2 weeks of confinement. He sits with us when we are on the couch, but he is NOT a fan of being in the big Great Dane size cage! Imagine that. He will get his staples out in two weeks as well.

Thank you ALL for your kind thoughts sent his way!

after a recent snowstorm here in salt lake! more than the magic hour, i love the light and clouds while a storm is finishing up and moving on.

just off to the left is this cancerous mcmansion growth of houses heading up the canyon. this place is typically awesome to scout for northern lights, watch meteor showers and enjoy open space close to the city. thankfully, they all feel the need to leave their huge array of yard & house lighting on. sweet!

So this is what the surgeon pulled out of my neck last month. Parathyroid resection is only supposed to work on a gland the size of a pea (maybe), but this was the thing that he found at the end of the laparoscope, and being overactive, it had to go. Now my calcium levels are returning to normal and my mood is improving bit by bit. Even better, that's all of it and none of it was cancerous.

It's gross, I know, but they gave me the picture, and I had to put it somewhere.

Hey guys!

So, as everyone knows it is now the off-season for The Walking Dead, and I'm at a standstill with customs for a few reasons, other than the fact there's no new TWD.

Now, before you get too worried, I do have a pretty big back stock of pics that I have yet to upload here, so I'll still be posting regularly.

So, first off, I have my final exams this upcoming week and then I'll be done with freshman year of college (still so much to go, the end goal is an orthopedic surgeon). So last week and this week I put away all my paints and lego and took it home so that's less to move out of the dorm on Friday.

Also, when I get back home I'm going to be moving. I'm not going very far and the move should only take a few days in total and hopefully I'll be able to get back to making customs.

And of course, it's the off-season so I'm kinda out of ideas other than what I have on the table right now, which is this.

Iron Man Mk. 46 (Sander's sculpt)

Mythos Obi-Wan

"Old Wounds" Darth Maul

MOC Mandolorian

Civil War Cap?

Steven Ogg Savior

Tobin

Heath

Gregory

Spencer

Enid

Other than that I really don't have any ideas. If there's something you'd like to see me make other than what's on the list that fits into the themes I enjoy, put it down in the comments! Thank you all for over 300 followers, it really means a lot to know that many people enjoy my work. I know I haven't been in the community for as long as other people have, but everyone here has welcomed me openly and I've made some great friendships. I know I may seem like an ass sometimes in my videos and on that cancerous group account, but it's all in fun and I do not intend to offend anyone.

Thank you all again for the support and friendships, it really really means a lot to me.

~ Shane

This is my best bunny friend that I gave the name Bunny. He/she is a very friendly little thing and I am only about two feet away for this shot. It's evening and just starting to rain. I am hoping to have him/her eating out of my hand before summer ends. I don't know what the lump is on it's side and that worries me. Hematoma perhaps? Or a cancerous growth? Sad. I used to have two bunnies, but now just this one comes. Well... it's a wild and dangerous world out there for bunnies. Just after this photo shoot, I surprised a Mama bear and cubs in the yard.... got my heart pumping good I can tell you since I was half way between barn and house and pretty sure I can't outrun an angry Mama bear even on the best of days! But no camera with me and it was getting on to being dark anyway. Another day perhaps! Have a happy Sunday everyone! :)

This picture is for the group Happy Caturday and this week the theme is "Wild Cats".

Elijah was laying in the doorway watching the birds and soaking up some sun. I think you can see his 'tiger' stripes and his Tabby "M" fairly well in this picture. He's always ready for a photo shoot!

Right now (Friday, July 8th at 1:25pm) I am sitting in the hospital getting my last chemo treatment. I've been here since 10:00 and still have over an hour to go. I still have another week of radiation treatments. About a month after that I will start the immunotherapy and that will be every 2 weeks and then spaced out to one a month for the next year. It's given through I.V like the chemo.

So I have been rushing to do surgeries, chemo, radiation and doctor appointments since they found the tumor in April and I'm wondering "What am I going to do with all my 'free' time"?! I'm so used to going someplace every day now. Suppose I will get better and gain some weight back... look out ice cream.. I'm not done with you yet!

In about 4 -5 weeks I will have another PET scan and I pray that it doesn't show any more cancer. The doctors are a bit worried since so many lymph nodes are cancerous. So that makes me a lot worried. 😳 I believe miracles do happen... so were hoping for one of those!! 😀

Thank you all so very much for all of the support and the gracious comments each week. Even though I've yet to respond I smile and my heart warms with each comment that I read. I greatly appreciate them! Thank You. ❤

(Wild World - Cat Stevens)

youtu.be/Jta56wBl7SM

I was worried Will wouldn't be here for Flashes 10 month photo. He had a huge lump removed recently, which turned out to be cancerous. He's happier it's gone though and enjoying being with his friends.

Not feeling up to commenting much tonight sorry but I'll be back on track & catch up tomorrow.

This photo was taken in the fields opposite our house back in June when Candy (in the foreground) had recovered from a major operation to remove a cancerous Mast cell tumour the size of a grapefruit from her chest. Sadly as we feared might happen it has recurred & she has lumps springing up all over her body :(

She's developed kidney failure quite dramatically too in the past couple of weeks so we have to be at home much of the day now as she needs to pee every hour as she's drinking so much water. If we forget to let her out there is an enormous puddle on the floor.

She's 10 years old now. I am glad we had the op done despite the trauma of pressure bandages (which she always managed to dislodge overnight lol) & daily visits to the vet to put new bandages on. This is how she looked back then www.flickr.com/photos/juliek1967/16382775660/in/album-721...

She's had 9 extra months of good quality life with Meg & Poppy. I always hoped we'd move house this year & be walking all 3 of them on a beach in Co. Wexford. Sadly that isn't going to happen in time. We just have to take each day as it comes.

Pre-pour / Post-cancer

This is the core of our planet's cancerous tumor; it needs to be crushed.

calling Dr. Desantis

I was pleased to see my Flickr friends respond personally to yesterday's post: www.flickr.com/photos/writing/22397438563/in/photostream/ . Your comments have caused me to ponder even more than I usually do the nature and source of and reason for evil. That was a question for which my father could never find the answer. I want to point out that I am a realist about what is called the "real world". However, I believe we confuse 'real' and 'true'. I believe the destruction of evil is the 'easy' path. I believe a world of peace and healing is a far more difficult undertaking and that people believe it will never happen. And so it doesn't. And, really, for some reason... it can't. However, we can make personal choices to visit the 'real world' and live in a deep understanding of the Platonic principles of truth, beauty and goodness.

Thank you for your important responses. Thank you to Julius for "seeing" that in this hat image, I had placed a child in the centre. I will never give up my vocation to protect children. My career was built around that.

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Ellyn, the word peace seems increasingly distant and so precious and so the word hope. I tried to understand something about this.I tried to figure out where is the beginning, but it's so messy and complicated. We are all involved, we are part of a mechanism that is further and further away from peace ....and unfortunately from healing.

I wish it was that easy Ellyn but we are dealing with a form of totalitarianism dressed up in religious garbs. History suggests regimes and ideologies like this are not enable to reason so some form of force will very sadly be required. Hitlers regime was not ended by pacifism.

Nice sentiments Ellyn but in the real world certain elements would see such words as weakness I'm afraid and would just be scornful.

they say that "history does not repeat itself" - "historians do"

this is not a war for religious reasons or ideologies. it's pure barbarism, cancerous, and without a clear end in sight. thank you for your dedication to the innocent victims Ellyn.

This is an important wish. It can not and must not give rise to a war between religions and ethnicities. ciao

Noble sentiments Ellyn

too many tragedies...

Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - May Day, 2015 royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100/

In an old abandoned tunnel under the mountain, a man had buried himself there. Only. All that was left to him was his wandering mind in his past and his old heart eaten away by the cancer of his wickedness.

(Limestone formation)

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Dans un vieux tunnel abandonné sous la montagne, un homme s'y était enfoui. Seul. Il ne lui restait plus que son esprit vagabondant dans son passé et son vieux cœur rongé par le cancer de sa méchanceté.

(Formation calcaire)

CE QU' ON MA ENLEVÉ LE 4 -10 -2017 N'EST PAS UNE TUMEUR CANCÉREUSE !C' EST UNE PANNICULITE NÉCROSANTE ,SÉVÈRE ! CHRIS EST HEUREUSE ET MOI PITCHOUNET AUSSI !

WHAT WE MY REMOVED(KIDNAPPED) ARE NOT 4 10 2017 A CANCEROUS TUMOR! C ' A NECROTIZING, SEVERE PANNICULITE IS! CHRIS EST HEUREUSE ET MOI PITCHOUNET AUSSI!

Make sure you self check for any abnormality, though it may not be cancerous.

Radio talk today reminded that dogs often know abnormalities (growing cancer) on their significant other. So listen to your animal if she/he starts to act abnormal consistently about a part of your body.

"Those that discover them in the vicinity quickly enough seem to only suffer minor illnesses, with cellular degradation of organs and cancerous clusters being the best results. As for those exposed for longer periods... well lets just say there isn't much of them left for us to recover."

Carl Kelman, Xenobiologist

Alien creature that emits a strange frequency from it's body. The signal slowly degrades and corrupts organic matter into it's basic building blocks, which the species then feeds upon before moving on to a new field to harvest.

Bricksafe Gallery

Brickshelf Gallery

I do not like Rahkshi parts. I really do not like Kraata Holders. So I forced myself to build something with them. Was kind of fun, happy with the textures I got out of them in the end, though I still don't care for the part. Inspired by a Sci-Fi podcast I listened to.

A Tri-colored Heron perched on an old tree lodged in the mud in a shallow flat just off of Horsepen Bayou. Feel free to read the update if you are interested in what has been going on.

Just wanted to update everyone about what has gone on and how Georgia and I are getting along. Georgia is making good progress but faces more days in therapy to recover her strength and confidence from the fall. Even though the broken ribs are a problem, she suffered other injuries in the fall and a few muscle strains along with very painful knee. She was able to make it home to her own bed last night and is so happy to be home. She asked me to thank everyone for the kind thoughts and prayers. Hopefully, she can recover her balance and strength very quickly.

Now for the second part to the puzzle and one which was thought to be very minor at the time. I noticed a small spot on my nose that didn’t seem normal and it seemed to be growing quite rapidly. A visit to a dermatologist confirmed that it was a basal cell carcinoma and needed to be taken care of. We had scheduled the surgery prior to Georgia’s fall, and I was urged to have the surgery even though Georgia was in rehab. My granddaughter was kind enough to drive me to the surgery and we proceeded with what should have been routine surgery on a spot about the size of a pencil eraser on the tip of my nose. They remove the mass and then take samples to make sure that they have removed all of the cancerous cells. No problem and quite routine….EXCEPT….in my case. After two additional trips to the chair, they finally determined that they had removed all of the cancerous tissue. When the surgeon handed me the mirror, she must have noticed the shocked look on my face when I saw the gaping hole left in my nose. The hole was roughly 18mm in diameter and about 2 to 3 mm deep. Really shocking!!!!! Some major reconstructive surgery would be required on the nose and she proceeded to make the necessary repairs. Not sure why anyone would go through that much pain just to change the shape of their face. OUCH!!!!! Too many needles involved for me.

I wanted to look more like Tom Cruise afterward but have to admit that I look more like the chipmunk Dale from the Disney cartoon with cheeks filled full of nuts. The swelling is going away and the bruising should disappear as well. It will just take time and am not sure when I’ll be able to press the camera up to a very sensitive nose.

Even though I am completely covered when I go out now on sunny days, the dermatologist stated that the cancer comes from when I was young and got burned to a crisp on the farm as a youngster. I want to urge everyone to see a dermatologist if you see any type of anomaly on your skin and get it take care of quickly. The cancer was very involved under the skin and was the reason that so much tissue had to be removed.

I’ll not be making any comments for a while but want to get back here a soon as possible, but we have to wait and see what Georgia’s schedule will look like. I am in very little pain and will just need time to heal properly. Want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that it is a prosperous one. Have a wonderful week.

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Life is a mystery to us all. My oncologist is puzzled by the conflicting test result between the blood and the PET scan. The PET scan specialist gave me an excellent diagnosis - NO CANCEROUS MASSES. But, my blood says something IS going on in my blody. I am told that sometimes the blood tests can predict cancer even six months in advance. So, I will be having blood test once every three weeks for the next six months. If the tumor markers continue to climb, I will be given the option to take chemotherapy to prevent future cancer. But, as I said, "Life is a Mystery." And, I will take one day at a time and enjoy!

Thank you for all the prayers. I do believe God heard my Flickr friends around the world and pushed the cancer back. I have to believe!!!

www.flickr.com/photos/_kimmg_/3778222160/

Explore Photo on 8/09/09 #481

6 hours ago:481

46 minutes ago:396

Highest position: 396 on Sunday, August 9, 2009

Some breast cells have a greater potential to turn cancerous. An analysis by this surgeon at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago Illinois, Dr. Seema Khan, has pinpointed three types of them, which could aid efforts in detecting this disease early.

I Have Nothing

(125/365) Candy is all healed now after major surgery back in February to remove a cancerous Mast cell tumour (bigger than a grapefruit) from her chest wall, right between her front legs. Her fur has grown back now & there is no sign of the tumour or 6 inch scar. Removing it wasn't a total cure sadly & at some stage in the future it might recur but she's 10 nearly & has as much energy now as when she was a puppy which is great.

UPDATE: Sadly Candy's cancer returned & we had to have her put to sleep just after Christmas 2015. Peace after pain.

The main “given” in my romantic life is my sensuous husband. Confident of the outcome of an evening date, I truly appreciate our continued shared intimacy…dinner at a romantic restaurant followed by stopping for more mood setting drinks and jazz at a club on the way home. And finally our arrival at home, our sanctuary…just the two of us!

My husband’s passion for me has always ignited a burning flame between the two of us. This night was no different but soon it took a dark turn. Something happened that I never imagined would happen to me. As my husband opened the front door to the house, he reached out and passionately grabbed me. Pulling me closer to his face, he began to kiss me deeply. One thing led to another and we were off and running…so I thought.

As my husband began his artful undressing of me, he suddenly stopped cold. I could see his facial expression morphing in the dim light of our bedroom. His hand was on the side of my right breast. Slowly he kept moving his fingers left to right, right to left until he took my fingers and placed them in one spot. “I felt something” he said, “I’m positive I did.” That moment would change my life. What he had felt was a fibrous nodule that was positioned to the back quadrant of my breast. What we would come to learn was that the nodule had encapsulated and become cancerous.

The following morning, we contacted my doctor. Tests were run but no cancer had shown up. I was beginning to think we were overreacting as I felt fine. Add to that I am in fantastic shape for my age and for that matter…almost any age! However, I decided to arrange for an exam and testing not recognized or welcomed in the medical profession. My Naturopath scheduled a two hundred dollar Thermography exam. When the results came back, I could see this growth area where none had shown up before. I was in shock and at the same time feeling scared that no previous exam found what this inexpensive simple test discovered. In short, I was now facing a battle I did not see coming and for which I was totally unprepared.

I didn’t call my husband with the results right away as he was returning from a long trip. However, he was there when I got home and it was as if he already knew something was wrong. Several years ago, we had lost our aunt, who was seven years older than my husband, after a five year fight with cancer. In the end, she called us in Paris to let us know she was done fighting and it was time to go. In my life, I had never met anyone so brave who simply “called her final shots” on her own terms. She went out of this world as she had come in…head held high, dignity intact. Never once did she cry or ask “why me?” All she said was, “it’s time for me to leave you all and know this makes me sad but one day we will be together again. I love you all forever.”

I have chosen to speak about my cancer for several reasons. First, I have beat it back and hope to never encounter it again. Secondly, especially for all the women, I urge you to explore Thermography for its early detection capabilities. Hippocrates, known as the ‘father of thermograpy’ said it best. “In whatever part of the body excess of heat or cold is felt, the disease is there to be discovered.” Thermography is an FDA approved adjunctive tool for breast screening that uses infra-red sensors, whereas mammograms use x-rays.

Thermography is not a replacement for mammograms. Both screenings are useful tools with targeted strengths and weaknesses. Lastly…simply put “Never Die Easy.” A long time ago in Las Vegas, Elvis said that to me and a few others. It was his motto and he did his best to live by it. If you have cancer, you need to pull out all the stops. You need to be involved in the search for your solution. I walked away losing a very small amount of tissue to the back of my breast. It is unnoticeable and yet, I will never forget its location. As I left the hospital a few days ago, I saw a quote. “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and the manner in which you live.” That hit home for me as I greet each new day.

Copyright Christina Saint Marché & Hong Kong Photographer John Chu.

Diamond Encrusted Stilettos by Christina Saint Marche Limited in Paris

“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and the manner in which you live.”

Our Dear Womenfolks,

Avoid Sun Bathing. However, Sun Worshipping Helps And Prevents.

The World Needs you, Without you , there will be no world.

Take care. Keep your skin as bright as this Sun, Body as pink as this image and life as young as this Lady with a Hat.

One of our relative was diagnosed as having 4th level cancer in the breast. Intensive and expensive care was given. Now she is normal, and the doctors says the cancerous cells have been totally eradicated. (Latest news is that, the Deadly Cells are active again and becoming lethal)

During our recent Pilgrimage to Varanasi, one of our fellow passenger had one Mastectomy and recovered completed due to timely care and decision made.

Treatment for Cancer is at a very advanced stage in India, and the hospital and health care industry is well used by peoples from East as well as West.

(This picture was shot during our morning walk in beach side with Nandithaa , our grand daughter. )

A new tribute painting of the Patron Saint of Cancer Sufferers, Saint Peregrine by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.

Saint Peregrine is also the Patron Saint of AIDS and other illnesses as well as Cancer - so may all those who meditate upon the image, created and infused with prayers, receive light, hope, protection and ultimate healing relief. Peace.

The artist - a Catholic convert since 2011 - often gets, through prayer, what he feels a 'Divine Push' to paint such Christian tributes and felt directed to paint Saint Peregrine, with prayers for healing, light and hope for those suffering cancer in his life - and worldwide.

He had a deep feeling the day of painting - 21 February - was a significant date; and later, after painting, realised it was the day in 1935 that Jesus had appeared to the Polish nun, Sister ( since 2000, Saint) Faustina, requesting she seek an artist and have a painting made depicting His Divine Mercy.

Stephen B. Whatley has painted several Divine Mercy images over the years; some of which were exhibited in his 2013 exhibition 'Paintings From Prayer' at London's Westminster Cathedral. There is a permanent walkway of his series of 30 paintings for the Tower of London, outside Tower Hill Station, London.

Peregrine Laziosi (Italy, c.1260-1345) experienced a miracle of healing in his own life, at 60, when a cancerous growth in his leg threatened amputation. The night before the amputation he spent praying before a fresco of The Crucifixion and later in a sleep state felt Jesus descend from The Cross to touch his leg. The next day the doctors found no trace of the cancer and he was pronounced cured; word spreading quickly of the power of Trust in the Lord.

The National Shrine of Saint Peregrine is at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago, Illinois, USA

This new painting took, alongside prayers, inspiration from a classic prayer card, acquired in New York in 2015.

stperegrine.org

Oil on canvas

30 x 24in/76 x 61cm

www.stephenbwhatley.com