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Lina knows her place... sometimes!! If there's a chance she can sit on a chair, she'll try and get there! She's even sat on one of my Mum's dining chairs in the past, not for long though - she's too big! Usually, Tim has her on the floor next to him. I don't know what she was looking at here - she just wouldn't turn round for my photo!
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(Tim update: just back from the hospital after Tim's follow up. Interestingly, the centimetre they thought was cancerous wasn't, but at the time they took it out, they also removed a milimetre that had cancer in it, but didn't find that out till after! The consultant made the appointment more dramatic by asking if we wanted the bad news or the good news first!! The main thing is the cancer should have been removed. Tim had a blood test on the way out though, as they need to know whether the thyroid is enough to do its job without medication.)
162/366,
Visit to a plastic surgeon today for day surgery on my back to remove a cancerous growth
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
Tia's grandfather was a thirty-two ton mech sporting two pairs of linked autocannons and what might be best described as a laser-guided lightning cannon. This was unusual- most ancestor machines, having died once already, elected support fire or logistical roles. Grandpa was a scrapper.
The miracle of the ancestor's creation was a closely guarded secret in the Techgnostic priesthood, but everyone among The People participated in the rituals that fueled it. Families would attend the temple and tell the developing neural network stories of their shared past, read to them from old journals, or even play recordings to ensure the spirit remembered who they were when the officiating thaumaturge fused them to the substrate.
Tia was overjoyed when her grandfather was reborn with his rich, melodic voice freed from the cancerous rasp that had ended his first life. After a year and a half of duty, she vaguely wished he was dead again.
"All I am saying, little one, is that your contract is almost complete. You should get out. Find a nice boy. Make me some great grandchildren."
Tia pretended to focus on scanning the horizon. The plateau offered a perfect view of the island, the sole obstructions being its twin peak to the North and a tenacious tree that was home to a cau-cawo bird.
"The airspace is clear for five miles beyond the horizon," Her grandfather said. "Speak with me, little Tia. This is important- the future is important."
Across the way, Tia's cousin Ekko made a show of inspecting his kit. His communication bead suddenly switched to a different channel. No help there.
"I told you, papa, we all have a duty to protect our lands; and besides, you have plenty of descendents already."
There was a crackle of dead air as her grandfather considered saying more. Instead, he rolled his turrets. A shrug, maybe. Probably a sigh.
Tia smirked behind her faceplate. "Besides," she continued, "I can always get a maternity discharge if I catch some good dick."
Her grandfather lurched as if stricken. The air filled with the hum of his gyro as it frantically struggled to keep him upright.
"Cau-cawo," the cau-cawo bird trilled with indignation at the commotion. It flapped its glossy black wings officiously before nestling back into the leaves.
"Papa! Get a grip! It's bad luck to bother a cau-cawo bird!"
Her grandfather became still, legs akimbo, and stared at her with every sensor array he possessed. Tia could feel the microwave energy warming her skin.
Then he laughed. Deep and booming and hearty. The moment moved on.
The sun was warm against the languid sea breeze as the trio lingered in silence. It was a good day.
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Built for the lego group, The Future is Bright.
(Ok maybe not really.)
I always thought
we could expand
into Space.
I always thought
it would somehow
expand us.
Now I'm afraid
we'll make new suburban
sprawl
Strip Malls.
Rip apart old worlds
for our Brave New World
leaving strip mines
for cancerous Corporate
bottom lines...
Tiva makes the most of her river time as she knows she will be on nursing duties next week.. TIva nursed me through Ovarian cancer 4 years ago and now I am having surgery tomorrow to move a small cancerous growth in my breast. It is hopefully day surgery and she will be ready to start duties when I come home. and whilst I wait for a treatment plan The good news it is a primary breast cancer and not the ovarian cancer returning..
Jewel with a "baby" in her mouth:).
My Jewel had surgery yesterday to remove two small masses...She has about 8-10 stitches at each incision. One is in her groin area & the other is on her left thigh area. The test results will be back in 4-5 days...Neither the vet nor I think they are cancerous, but please keep her in your thoughts & prayers...She just turned 10 in late November & we've walked hundreds of miles together since I adopted her when she was 11 months old.
She's feeling good today & wants to wish you all a Happy Furry Friday!!
This was taken about a month after we had to put her brother to sleep.
1/2/2024--We had to put Pretty Girl to sleep today because she had a cancerous tumor in her mouth. She'd been going downhill very quickly & we decided it was time. I'm rather sad about it even though she wasn't my cat, but my Mom's.
At the end of November, Rose had a scan, and the result from that scan came back as a growth on one her kidneys.
Today we found out that the growth is cancerous.
Because the hospital do not know if the growth is benign or malignant, Rose will have to loose her affected kidney.
We believe the keyhole surgery will take place at the end of January, so hopefully, she will ok for the rest of the New Year.
Suffering from a self diagnosed, cancerous illness. Others’ words like tree branches enclosing around her fragile honesty. Lost in a jungle of the imaginary hospital inside her head. All are symptoms gone unseen. All are symbols of reddened privacy. She’s become only skin and bones but still she’s something beautiful. If only her skeleton didn’t cage her heart into complete solitude.
A nameless town that wasn’t printed on our maps. It sings the echoes of its singular population. Nobody dares to wander into that unknown. Nobody dares to stumble off the map. So with no doctors, no gardeners, and no care takers that cage swallows her whole.
It was a sickness she couldn’t beat. Truly deadly to a heart missing contact. A made-up disease that careless oblivion turned into reality. Perhaps if one dared to fight through her jungle’s vines. Maybe if someone had beat the flat line to that hospital bed inside her broken mind. Possibly, if someone tried her addiction would have lost…
Wonder is all we have as our hearts trace her lonely eyes. Those lonely eyes that suffered from a self diagnosed sickness. Those lonely eyes who just could not beat it.
Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944, in Toulouse – 22 January 2004, in Paris), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
With Delicatessen (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado saw his acting talent acknowledged. Gérard Jugnot wrote for him the character of the beggar who meets the frame in the unemployment becoming NFA (played by Jugnot) in Une époque formidable (1990).
He received the Caesar of the best male bit part in 1992 for Une époque formidable and in 1996 for Gazon maudit.
In September 2003, Holgado announced the remission of his lung cancer, which had considerably rarefied his appearances on the screen since 2000. On 5 January 2004, he had just begun work on a new film with Lelouch, but he succumbed to cancer on 22 January 2004. He left a posthumous message, in the form of a document which appeared on his hospital bed after taking him to surgery to remove his 4th cancerous tumor. Holgado declared there: "It is necessary to tell to people that it's absolutely necessary to stop smoking".
Ticky Holgado was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (45th division).
I rushed Nina to the emergency hospital that is open 24/7... it was almost midnight.
It seems like Nina was neglected all her life... her whole body was in such poor condition, she was paralyzed, had cancerous tumors everywhere, fluids in her abdomen, and she wasn't there neurologically... she was anemic because of a horrible flea and tick infestation, she had a really bad eye infection, and the list goes on and on.
We got her comfortable for the night on pain meds, and the vet and I decided to wait until the morning for a specialist to examine her.
In the morning I got the call I feared so much... the doctor said there is nothing we can do for her - she is just too far gone and that the nicest thing to do is to let her go because there is just no way to recover from this. We agreed that we should let her go to heaven, and the doctor put her to sleep.
Dealing with this is so hard for me emotionally... I just don't understand why she had to suffer all her life and why no one cared.
I always ask you to share our rescue videos because I feel like we need to wake everybody up in this world and make them see how animals struggle and how they should be treated.
We really need to reach more people so when they see something, they do something.
How is that even possible that hundreds if not thousands of people walked by her, and no one thought to take her to a vet, or maybe even just call someone... a rescue group, animal control, or maybe a friend who loves animals and would know what to do.
In memory of Nina, I will ask that today you will share one of our videos on Facebook & Twitter.
Please click here, and then click on any of the videos, and below it you'll see a SHARE button... it's time to wake everybody up:
www.youtube.com/user/eldad75/videos?view=0&sort=p&...
Thanks,
Eldad
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i had to take an extended absence from flickr from january or february this year until today....i've really missed being here and probably shot fewer images this year than any year since 1975....
in april 2016 i checked myself in at the hospital because i was feeling tired and short of breath all the time...i was diagnosed with congestive heart failure....i started thinking...
"c'mon doc!...i'm only 29 years old!"....so i made some lifestyle changes and returned home after being released from the hospital....one week later i had a stroke while in bed watching tv!....geez i thought only old people had strokes!
anyway the fantastic doctors at little company of mary hospital in torrance armed with the marvels of modern medicine fixed me up and sent me home with no permanent issues from the stroke...thank god!
so i was feeling a bit out of sorts after that and checked meself in at marina del rey hospital again in august....and was diagnosed with colon cancer this time....geez....i thought i was too young to get cancer!....again these incredible wizards of medicine did their magic on me and removed the cancerous tumor...said it was all gone and i needed no chemo or radiation or nothing....and sent me home again....
wow it's nice to back among the living on flickr!
just thought i'd explain my first extended absence from here in over ten years and i must apologize for bending your ear!...hope you are all in good health and taking oodles of awesome images!
cheers
brian
Cloudy is a 30 year old Mustang quarter horse gelding.
At an equivalent age in human terms to a 90+ year old man.
This old man as of October 4th 2013 suffered from chronic sand colic, advanced arthritis int his knees and joints and 6 large cancerous growths.
I commissioned the cares of Dr Philip Savage, to deploy his advanced technology DSNB (A most controversial Bio- Science that provokes homeostasis in any living organism - Free public tests available world - wide on burns and shingles www.fireburndoctor.com ).
By 8th of November, a physical examination by professional vet Arlena Pipkin DVM report found no such conditions present and officially aged him between 25-30 as no Galvayne groove was present.
(Note: The owner and previous vets over the last 10 years had also noted the Galvayne groove to be gone).
Press "L". Men collecting pure sulfur chunks in active crater. Dangerous, but their only income. Most don't even use masks working there every day.
Most of the sulfur goes into cream industry, to produce whitening cream for south Asian and African market where women highly desire it. While the European & North American women desire a browning cream. See the irony? Also those creams tend to be cancerous.
Pentax 67ii, SMC 45mm f4, Heliopan sh-pmc CPL, Lee GND 0.6 SE, Fujifilm Velvia 50 (RVP50), self-developed in Fuji Hunt Chrome 6X, IT8-calibrated & wet-mounted drumscan (scanned through PhotoMultiplier Tubes - PMTs - no CCD nor CMOS used in the light detection & digitizing process), no cropping.
Hunstanton Norfolk
methylxanthine and charred mammal corpse.............
Though science and religion rarely share a similar perspective, there are many scientifically valid reasons for this religious condemnation of pork. Pigs really are dirty, unclean animals that eat almost anything, including rotten food, urine, faeces, maggot-infested carcasses and even cancerous growths. That is the nature of the scavenger, and being raised on an organic, sustainable farm will not change that nature.
This unpleasant diet wouldn't necessarily be a problem for humans if pigs had a digestive system that effectively removed the toxins from their bodies, but therein lies the problem: They don't. Unlike ruminant animals such as cows, sheep and goats, which can take up to 24 hours to digest their vegetarian food, pigs digest their foul food within a mere four hours. This is not nearly long enough to remove excess toxins, so those toxins are stored within the fat cells and organs of the pig itself. Worse still, pigs do not have sweat glands (which are important agents for detoxification), further compounding their toxic load.
Consequently, pigs are walking vessels of parasites, viruses and other destructive organisms.
In the wee small hours, I saw some images in one of the groups on Facebook. They said they had taken them in the last 20 mins and were going back out to shoot some more. There was only one thing for it I had to get out and try to shoot it for myself, however, I had a problem, my tripod is broken. Not to be deterred I went out anyway with a solution in mind all I needed was a good site for both the Aurora and my idea to work. There are several sites in the North East where I would like to shoot the Aurora, but none of them is close enough to try my plan out, so what to do? One key criterion is to get the elevation or go to the coast to get a nice big sky, well from my house there is no shortage of hills. Having found my location I set up with my camera on a strainer post (Gate post) and shutter release cable attached.
The camera set up was ISO 1600 f.4 Shutter speed 30 sec.
I was treated to a good display of both Aurora and the Taurid meteor shower sadly I didn't manage to capture the latter, but still, I was able to witness some very bright fireballs so bright they cast shadows. Hopefully, I will have a chance to capture the Aurora and a meteor shower again soon.
Last night we visited my wife (Sylvia) in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary finally she is tube free following her surgery last Friday. She is a fighter and I would say that she has won round one, the four-hour surgery to remove some cancerous tissue and fit a cage.
Last night we visited my wife (Sylvia) in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary finally she is tube free following her surgery last Friday. She is a fighter and I would say that she has won round one, the four-hour surgery to remove some cancerous tissue and fit a cage.
Come see the sinking side of SEARS!
Here's one of three remaining SEARS locations in Florida -- and a total of 12 left in chainwide in the U.S.
Sears, Roebuck & Co, once a commander and icon of American retail is now cancerous and on its last few locations, clinging to scraps of real estate at even the illustrious Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens. Relevance in the retail landscape is also reaching critical levels of scarsity as shoppers forget the dwindling locations counted on two hands, clinging to dear life whereever they can be found.
Will this be SEARS last Christmas?
Jasmine's upset tummy & vomiting is gone. We don't know what caused it. Thanks for your concern and well wishes.
This morning she is back to being herself as you can see.
Tomorrow she spends the day at the vet for the removal of the cancerous spindle cell tumor they found. Keep her in your thoughts.
I've found myself listening to this beautiful piece quite a lot the past few weeks. youtu.be/3siJmfze9jY
Suddenly, the words to express how this song makes me feel came to me. The music is so pretty I had to share it with you. The poem/lyrics and the image are mine.
I've been busy sprucing the farm house for a spring wedding. I will tell you more about that later. Also, I've been tweaking a poetry calendar to give out as a Christmas present this year. My family has always valued home-made presents the most whatever they be.
Other than that ... I've just been enjoying watching my chicken, Nugget, enjoy life! And I've been noticing how well my old, old dog and I communicate. Is it just me or are dogs more in-tune with humans lately? Alas, she has a giant tumor on her belly and is too old to undergo surgery so I treasure every day with her. It is not cancerous or she'd be in pain or dead, most likely, as long as she's had it. It just looks so uncomfortable:(
Enjoy the passing the season, my friends, and please do listen to this amazing piece of music. See you later! I'm feeling a zombie coming on! Lol!
...until I am at a "healthy" BMI.
Today is the day I start my 365, and I'm pretty damn excited about it! This is a little different for me. Originally I had an entirely different idea for my first day but this will do. I can't wait for the next 364... :D
On Black
Explore #34
wow, for the first one!! Thank you so much!
Watercolour done on Arches 140LB rough with M Graham Watercolours ,15" X 22" This is a little reminder to myself to forever be optimistic in life . Today i have a hospital apointment to remove a small lump on the corner of my mouth which they fear might be cancerous.i have had it for seven weeks and it is slighly painful,however,i am quite upbeat about it and it hasnt stopped me painting !
Sunset at lake behind our house. It's so nice thing to have such a beautiful sight when you step outside your door.
I recently had heart bypass surgery (from which I've recovered nicely). In the process of dealing with that cancerous masses were found in my chest. I'm now enduring chemotherapy treatments to shrink these. I should be back to more posting soon.
Perched upon the most precarious of the ridges of Black Mountain, and straddled across its abysmal chasm, sits the Dark Temple.
Legend whispers tales of the crypts that lie beneath the Dark Temple and of the gates that open upon the reeking darkness of the chasm, and of the monstrous demons that slumber far below, awaiting the call of the Dark Monks.
On moonless nights, when the breeze shifts West from the peaks of Black Mountain, travelers have caught the strains of a noisome chanting, and have fled in terror of some unknown presence; and, thereafter, some have been driven insane by unspeakable visions that persist with cancerous regularity in their dreams.
Composite images assembled and edited in GIMP.
This old boy is Dexter; 18 months ago the vets said he would have a couple of months to live (he has some cancerous tumours the size of tennis balls on his back legs), but he's still going strong - can't wait to go out for his walks every day, just as he was as a puppy.
Dexter's owner was a good friend of mine, who sadly passed away from cancer himself just before xmas. His children asked if I'd come out and get a picture of their dog, as they'd like to remember him as he still is - it was a bit of a challenge as despite his age and condition, he doesn't keep still for more than a couple of seconds!
for all the loved women in your life, for who've lost the fight and those who wont quit fighting
grab the attention to support the cuse, be involved and be empowering
BREAST CANCER FACTS 2010
What is breast cancer?
Breast cancer is a type of cancer where cells in the breast tissue divide and grow without normal control. Like other cancers, breast cancer can spread throughout the body. Only a small fraction of breast cancer cases can be linked to genetics.
Breast cancer knows few boundaries. It is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers today. All women are at risk; and, although rare, men can also develop the deadly disease. Breast cancer is complex and unpredictable. We arenât sure what causes breast cancer, so, we canât say for sure how to prevent. We do know that early detection saves lives.
⢠An estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in 2009. An estimated 40,170 women will die. In addition to invasive breast cancer, 62,280
new cases of in situ breast cancer are expected to occur among women in 2009.
⢠An estimated 1,910 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and an estimated 440 will die in 2009.
⢠Breast cancer is the leading cancer among American women and second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths.
⢠More than two million women currently living in the U.S. have been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer.
Who gets breast cancer?
Anyone can get breast cancerâwomen and men. But, the exact causes of breast cancer are not fully
understood. Scientists have identified a number of risk factors that increase a person's chance of
getting breast cancer.
⢠All women are at risk for breast cancer. The two most important risk factors for breast cancer are
being female and getting older. The risk of getting breast cancer increases as you age. Most breast
cancers and breast cancer deaths occur in women aged 50 and older. Until more is known about
preventing breast cancer, early detection and effective treatment offer the best defense against
breast cancer mortality.
⢠younger women can also get breast cancer. Just five percent of all breast cancers
occur in women under age 40
⢠Race is not considered a factor for increased risk of breast cancer. However, rates of developing
and dying from the disease differ among ethnic groups.
⢠Breast cancer is the most common cancer among African American women. It is also the second
leading cause of cancer death among African American women, exceeded only by lung cancer.
⢠Breast and ovarian cancer are somewhat more common among women of Ashkenazi Jewish
descent (ancestors who came from Central or Eastern Europe).
⢠Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Hispanic/Latina women.
⢠About 85 percent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer DO NOT have a family history.
What to do ??
Screening increases the chances of detecting most types of breast cancer at earlier stages. when breast cancer is found early, cure rates exceed 90%.
Taking a few minutes to do a breast self-exam a minimum of once a month can make a lifetime of difference. Nearly 70% of all breast cancers are found through self-exams and with early detection the 5-year survival rate is 98%. If you find a lump, schedule an appointment with your doctor, but don't panicâ8 out of 10 lumps are not cancerous. For additional peace of mind, call your doctor whenever you have concerns.
at the age of 20 and above:
monthly self-breast exam
visit the doctor every 3 years
at the age of 30 and above:
monthly self-breast exam
visit the doctor every 1 year
at the age of 40 and above:
monthly self-breast exam
visit the doctor every 1 year
get mammogram every two years
at the age of 50 and above:
monthly self-breast exam
visit the doctor every 1 year
get mammogram every year
risk increases with age
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تذكري عزيزتي أن سرطان الثدي هو أكثر الأورام السرطانية شيوعاً عند النساء فنسبة حدوثه المتوقعة إمرأة واحدة من بين 8-10 نساء
- كل ثلاث دقائق يتم تشخيص إمرأة بأن لديها سرطان ثدي.
- يعتبر المسبب الثاني للوفاة من السرطان عند النساء.
- كل إمرأة معرضة للإصابة وخاصة مع تقدم العمر.
- 73% من الحالات في المملكة العربية السعودية تصل إلى الطبيب في مراحل متقدمة جداً لامجال لشفائها مقارنة بـ 30% من الحالات في البلاد المتقدمة لاهتمام بنظام الكشف الدوري للثدي.
- لم يعرف حتى الآن أسباب مؤكدة للسرطان وبالتالي الوفاة منهI.
من رحمة الله علينا أنه بالإمكان اكتشافه مبكراً جداً وبالتالي معالجته بحيث قدرت نسبة الشفاء 92-96%
كل ما عليك فعله عزيزتي هو :
1- الفحص الذاتي للثديين كل شهر بين اليوم السابع – العاشر من الدورة الشهرية وذلك عندما يكون الثدي أقل احتقاناً أو في نفس اليوم من كل شهر في حال انقظاع الطمث.
تأكدي عزيزتي أنه لن يأخذ من وقتك أكثر من عشرة دقائق .
هذا الفحص يكشف 25 % من الحالات
2- أشعة الثدي كل سنة إلى سنتين عند بلوغك الأربعين يكشف 90 % من الحالات
3- فحص دوري للثديين عند طبيبة أخصائية ، هذا الفحص يكشف 40 % من الحالات.
مراقبتك لحالتك الصحية ليست علامة قلق زائد أو مفرط بل خطوة ذكية للعمل .
ومثل زيارة طبيب الأسنان ، وضع واقي الشمي ، الأكل الصحي .. فمتابعة الخطوات السليمة لصحة الثدي هي الخطوة التي لا بد العمل بها .
كل شهر .. بعد انتهاء الدورة الشهرية مباشرة أو نفس اليوم من كل شهر في حالة انقطاع الطمث . افحصي ثدييك بالنظر والملمس ، متبعة خطوات الفحص كما ذكر في هذا الموقع
تذكري .. أن تحاولين النظر في الشكل والاحساس لثدييك ، لتتمكني من اكتشاف أي تغيرات مبكراً .
حقائق فليلة يجب أن تذكر :
- 80% من أورام الثدي حميدة وليست سرطانية
- الإكتشاف المبكر من أهم العوامل للحياة ومعدل الشفاء من سرطان الثدي يصل إلى 90% في حالة الاكتشاف المبكر
- السرطان في المراحل المبكرة يمكن استئصاله مع المحافظة على الثدي
خطوات لصحة الثدي :
عديد من النساء تعتقد أن نسبة الإصابة بسرطان الثدي تقل مع التقدم في العمر . بل العكس صحيح ، نسبة الإصابة تزيد مع التقدم في العمر ولا يعني هذا أن النساء الصغيرات تهمل صحة ثديها بل لابد أن تحرص على مراقبة نفسها وتبدأ بذلك مبكراً .
إذا كان عمرك 50 سنة وما فوق :
- الفحص الذاتي للثدي شهرياً .
- فحص الثدي سنوياً من خلال طبيب العائلة أو طبيب مختص
- عمل أشعة الثدي (ماموغرام) مرة كل سنة.
إذا كان عمرك 40 سنة وما فوق :
- الفحص الذاتي للثدي شهرياً .
- فحص الثدي سنوياً من خلال طبيب العائلة أو طبيب مختص
- عمل أشعة الثدي (ماموغرام) مرة كل سنتين .
إذا كان عمرك 30 سنة وما فوق :
- الفحص الذاتي للثدي شهرياً .
- فحص الثدي سنوياً من خلال طبيب العائلة أو طبيب مختص
إذا كان عمرك 20 سنة وما فوق :
- الفحص الذاتي للثدي شهرياً .
- فحص الثدي خلال طبيب مختص مرة كل 3 سنوات .
check these wonderful sites ♥ :
a very creative and Interesting site ♥.. breast cancer signs on a lemon :D
HOW and WHEN to feel ur boobies :D ?
and WHAT to look for ?
www.feelyourboobies.com/how2.htm
breast cancer care
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/breast-cancer-breast-health/b...
national breast cancer awareness
National Breast Cancer Foundation
www.nationalbreastcancer.org/About-Breast-Cancer/What-Is-...
الحملة الوطنية للتوعية بسرطان الثدي
www.moh.gov.sa/breastcancer/stat.htm
موقع جمعية زهرة لسرطان الثدي ♥ .. غنية عن التعريف
www.zahra.org.sa/Pages/default.aspx
وهذه مطبوعات قيمة و جميلة تستحق القراءة ♥ :
كتيب .. أهمية الاكتشاف المبكر
With the dark clouds comes a glimmer of a new day. HWW!
My activity has been sporadic on Flickr. It was determined after a biopsy that my daughter in law did not have a bone infection in her leg, but a cancerous tumor (osteosarcoma). We are devastated and adjusting to a new life helping her and our son with the three children. Thank you for your continued prayers, it means a lot! My new profile shot shows their youngest 5 mos old son.
Mehndi - The Vital Ingredient in Any Indian Wedding
A traditional Sub Continental wedding is one that lasts for many days. We have perhaps the most flamboyant and colorful weddings, which in my opinion, are not matched by any other community or society in the world. We have an average of a whopping 300 card invites per family side wedding.
The application of Mehndi or Henna on the hands and feet, (and sometimes on many other place!) of all involved in the wedding is an ancient tradition. Mehndi is aledged to have been brought to India by the Mugals in 12 A.D. after it had been used for centuries in the Middle East and Africa. Some of the earliest documentation of Mehndi comes ancient Egypt, where it was used as a dye to stain the fingers and toes prior to mummification.
Mehndi is a short-term tattoo, and not something you are lumbered with for the rest of your life. This is a tattoo you can have as often as you like, wherever you like and it is totally safe, and only lasts for a few days. It is made of all natural ingredients so you can be sure of not getting any harmful or cancerous elements in your skin.
The application of Mehndi in our culture is a sign of a joyous occasion, it is almost always used on celebratory occasions, such as Diwali, Eid, wedding, engagement and so on and applied in different designs. I am sure we all seen or know Mehndi artists who are totally brilliant. Mehndi or henna comes in many different shades or colors, ranging from reddish orange to brown-black. Other colors available are usually artificially mixed and have dyes added to the natural henna, these usually do not last as long as natural Mehndi. Natural ones can last for anything between 1-2 weeks depending on the number of times the colored area is washed and on the body temperature.
Mehndi being applied at weddings can to be a small family affair with a handful of close family friends being invited to a small function at home a day or so before the wedding. As well as being a lavishly colorful cosmetic, Mehndi is also supposed to have many healing qualities, many herbal doctors still recommend the use of Mehndi for some ailments, such as dry skin and to hasten the healing of cuts and scratches. It also acts a hair conditioner when applied on the head and is also know said to stop hair loss by strengthening the roots of the hair.
This weeks picture is dedicated to little man name Gavin (4 year old) who is bettering cancer. He got some bad news lately but he is a superman and won’t give up until he beats the cancer.
Local people, friends & neighbours are getting together on the 26th of June to swing 75.000 kettelbell swings in two hours to raise money for this little fighter.
Gavin was diagnosed with a rare form cancer known as Rhabdomyosarcoma which is a cancerous (malignant) tumour of the muscles that are attached to the bones.
You can read his latest progress here: gavinsprotontherapyswitzerland.blogspot.ie/2014/05/more-b...
Never Giving Up!!!
Keep Fighting!!!
Whoosh ... Waah .... Whooosh ... Waaahh.
The respirator was starting to whine and squeal as I breathed in and out, and one of the filters popped off not long after this. But we were just about done shooting here, so no worries.
Nice asbestos, eh?
More images from this location are HERE.
For those of you who were interested, the vet called Tuesday morning with the test results. The mass on her thigh was a cyst-in an unusual area & that area needs to be watched for any further activity. The one in her groin area WAS cancerous...The vet took a large area of tissue around the mass for testing & thus the large incision. The tissue around the mass was NOT cancerous & so for now as far as we know she is cancer free:):). I will continue to watch both areas carefully...Meanwhile she hasn't missed a beat-active & eating & carry her "babies" around.
Cloudy is a 30 year old Mustang quarter horse gelding.
At an equivalent age in human terms to a 90+ year old man.
This old man as of October 4th 2013 suffered from chronic sand colic, advanced arthritis int his knees and joints and 6 large cancerous growths.
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By 8th of November, a physical examination by professional vet Arlena Pipkin DVM report found no such conditions present and officially aged him between 25-30 as no Galvayne groove was present.
(Note: The owner and previous vets over the last 10 years had also noted the Galvayne groove to be gone).
She had dental surgery & removal of possible cancerous growths. When they extubated her, her trachea & bronchial tube collapsed. She almost expired. After interventions she stabilized.
Something I rarely do but today I will ask for some prayers for my son in law Josh. Josh and Emily (my daughter) woke up to a scary situation last Saturday morning as Josh was having a seizure. After being taken to the ER it was found that Josh has a golf ball sized mass (tumor) in his brain (or noggin as Josh says :). It is still not known if it is benign or malignant but the neurosurgeon is optimistic. Josh is now recovering from his brain surgery in ICU with Emily by his side. The picture below was taken a few days ago.The neurosurgeon said the operation went well though not all of the tumor was removed which is typical in this situation. He also said Josh was cracking jokes during most of it. You must all realize you are rarely if ever put under during brain surgery. So now the road to recovery begins. It will be a week before we learn if the tumor is benign or cancerous. If the later is true there is treatment with chemotherapy. If it's benign then its just getting back to normal life which will take a bit of time which means in a week or so I will be able to pick him up in the afternoon after I am done working and we can do some fishing. Well, until he has to go back to work that is. Thank you all for your support, prayers and well wishes. It really all does mean a lot to us. So now lets let the story move on to brighter, happier days to come. And lastly, below is a link to a T-Shirt fund raiser that a friend of Emily and Josh started. You can purchase a shirt or just donate a bit to help my daughter and husband out. All proceeds go to help with their medical bills.
If you would like to lend a hand that would be cool. If not, also cool! Love you all and God bless.
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Wishing my dear Twin Sister Karin, in Montreal, a HEALTHY and SPEEDY RECOVERY from Oral Cancer. We were so shocked about this unexpected diagnosis, so I ask all my many Flickr Friends to please say a Prayer for her also. Thank you so much.
NB: The Berlin Banner is actually an old tablecloth that was sent to both my sister and myself from our Father who was living in Berlin. He died many years ago so it is also a souvernir for us in memory of him.
The good news is that it was not cancerous and the cyst went away on its own.
Obviously, I sometimes like to take macro shots. Sometimes, occasionally, once in a blue moon, maybe.
And, inevitably, I end up with shots like this.
By which I mean shots that have dog hair in them. You can see it here, wound around the stem--a dog hair, clinging to the dead flower for its dear life. We have dog hair everywhere. And because we have one Big Black Dog and one Little Yellow Dog, we have hair for all seasons, hair certain to show up on our carpet, clothes, or any dead bodies we hope CSI cannot track back to our murderous hands.
I do believe we probably have a small carpet of dog hair in our lungs.
I bet that's medical fact.
Here's hoping it's like, the opposite of asbestos or something. Maybe the hairs form a powerful mesh, some kind of fibrous armor bent against cancerous invasion. Yeah. Take that, science.
Bald is beautiful, and that is not just a slogan anymore. Many men are opting to throw away the hair spraypaint, creams, ointments, and procedures that help stimulate hair growth and just accept this natural phase of life. Baldness happens, and it can happen at any age. Enjoy your new carefree hair-free hairstyle, but don’t forget to take necessary precautions to protect your skin.
Hereditary factors and lifestyle can both attribute to balding. If you are prone to hereditary baldness there are very few things you can do to prevent it from happening. If you live a healthy lifestyle with minimal stress you may be able to prevent or delay lifestyle baldness from occurring. However, once baldness has started, your options are only to camouflage it, have plastic surgery (hair transplants), or simply accept your new look with a sexy, sleek head.
Having a bald head means having an easy hairstyle to care for. However, it doesn’t mean that your new look is completely carefree. You need to protect your head from the damaging effects of the sun. Hair can help protect your head from the sun’s rays, but once your scalp is exposed it is at the same risk as the rest of your skin.
Sun damage can cause actinic keratosis (pre-cancerous growth) and skin cancer, so it is important to use sun block and hats anytime your head will be exposed to the sun for any extended length of time. Ten minutes of fresh air and direct sunshine is good medicine for everyone, but if you are going to be sitting out at a ball game for a few hours then don’t forget to wear your baseball cap!
Actinic Keratosis is considered to be the very earliest stage of skin cancer and it can result from years of repeated exposure to the sun. The symptoms of actinic keratosis include dry, rough, and scaly patches on your scalp. While it is easy to prevent by simply wearing sun block and/or hats when it is appropriate, once you develop pre-cancer you will need close dermatologic supervision to monitor its progress. Actinic keratosis has the capability of turning into a fatal skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma.
Going bald can be a sexy change in your lifestyle. Protecting your scalp from the sun by avoiding repeated long term exposure, wearing sun block, and sporting hats can help keep your head looking sexy and keep you cancer free.
Due to the impossibility of being able to shout out directions to surgeons while under the spell of general anaesthetic, it is advisable to leave some notes. we thought so anyway.
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**UPDATE** it has now been one year since william's left nut went to testicle heaven, and i am happy to report he is still performing circus tricks and wrestling alligators while doing yardwork. the following is an important message from him that he would like you to hear and obey. since i don't have any sacks filled with jiggly sexual organs of my very own dangling from my crotch i thought i would at least help spread the word:
This day, April 25, shall be henceforth referred to as testicle appreciaton day, during which everyone is encouraged to examine their own set, or if you don't have any, a set belonging to a special friend. It is my hope that by next year, everyone you know will be taking the day off to look at, feel up, and generally spend some quality time with testicles. These examinations should be fun, they should be thorough and they should include whipped cream or something. Mostly though, they should be in search of lumps and masses commonly associated with cancer. If you do not know how to search your nuts for lumps and masses i will briefly explain:
* a lump feels like a very small lump.
* a mass feels like a very small lump.
* most men are equipped with a non-cancerous cyst housed at the bottom of the epydidimes. do not fret if you find one there, your nuts are still awesome.
In addition to lumps look for uncommon variation in size, shape and hardness. Get yourself examined if you notice anything out of the orinary. Testicular cancer tends to be painless and thus very sneaky. On this day you should test everything out a few times just to make sure all the plumbing is operational. Show them off to people on the streets if you like, testicle day can be a great way for children and law enforcement officials to be made aware of the beauty of your junk.
check his cancery set for what you can avoid by giving your bad boys the once-over today
*Working Towards a Better World
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. -
Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems
I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was. No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships—gone. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as her diary and calendar and notebook. I think of this every time I hear of the callow ambition to 'make a new start' or to be 'born again': Do those who talk this way truly wish for the slate to be wiped? Genocide means not just mass killing, to the level of extermination, but mass obliteration to the verge of extinction. You wish to have one more reflection on what it is to have been made the object of a 'clean' sweep? Try Vladimir Nabokov's microcosmic miniature story 'Signs and Symbols,' which is about angst and misery in general but also succeeds in placing it in what might be termed a starkly individual perspective. The album of the distraught family contains a faded study of Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. -
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. - Mike Norton
Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous. - Robert Higgs
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
Santa came early to a special family gathering tonight on his way to visit all the children throughout the world.
Craig's sister Dianne arranged for Santa to visit Ella and her cousins and friends tonight. He was a complete surprise and the children had a ball. We had a big storm and the lights went out and didn't come back on for around two hours, but luckily Santa had already left to visit all the children.
It was so sad that Ella's Daddy wasn't there to see Santa, but sadly he will be spending Christmas in the hospital. The doctors have found that Craig has a nodule on his lung which may or may not be cancerous and he will have to be monitored over the next 12 months and this may explain the problem he is having with his blood.. His bloods have still been very erratic which is a bit of a worry as well. Ella is going to visit him in hospital tomorrow and open some of her presents, so he won't feel like he is missing out on everything.
Here's one for you Clown enthusiasts.
It did not really begin this painting with anything in my mind having to do with Clowns. I was thinking of a dark slow moving sewer.
I was thinking of black water moving slow along in a drain pipe under a city. The water polluted with the waste of the dwellers above. The dank smell of urine, feces, rot and decay. Mildew and scum. The slimy walls of the inside of the pipe covered with fuzzy horrors, rats and cockroaches. Spiders and worms. Dead animals writhing with maggots as they flowed down stream with the current. Huge green and blue black flies feasting on sludge and goop.
Then, I visioned a man. A man swimming or wading through this gross morass. He has blisters and boils and cancerous growths covering his body. One of his eyes gone, replaced with an "eight ball"! (haHA!)
Then I realized, "This is a clown!" A SEWER CLOWN! Perhaps I should have titled this, "The Sewer Clowns" …
Then I saw he had a few cronies … One being eaten by a very large fish. Another waving "bye - bye" as he goes down for the third time. And the last thing … Not really sure what it is … Some kind of experiment gone terribly wrong tossed out into the garbage behind a hospital laboratory. A rat has made itself comfortable in his head.
In the end I was not comfortable with the blackness of the inner pipe. I changed it to a sky full of stars and moons.
Clowns have become a bit of a cliche'. When I was a kid clowns were supposed to be funny. Personally, I never found them funny. I didn't find them frightening either ... Just silly.
Whatever your feelings about clowns, I hope you will find this juxtaposition interesting.
American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, Personality no. #60/1980. Photo: Douglas Kirkland / Contact, 1980.
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as 'My Fair Lady' and 'Camelot'. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England, in 1935. Her mother, music hall performer Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. ‘Ted’ Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. Barbara remarried to Ted Andrews in 1939. Julie had lessons at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, and then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Lilian Stiles-Allen. She continued her academic education at the Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham. Julie performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. She got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je Suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof in 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. In 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance. Julie followed her parents into radio and television and reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime in 1949. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie (1950- 1952). In 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying Polly Browne in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend. To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor.
In 1956 Julie Andrews appeared in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Richard Rodgers was so impressed with her talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (Ralph Nelson, 1957). Cinderella was broadcast live and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers. She married set designer Tony Walton in 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple filed for a divorce in 1967. In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, with Richard Burton. However, movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop." Andrews played the title role in Disney's Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted. Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in 1962 for the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton. As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins, Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award. She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of ‘sweet revenge’, as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Next, she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964), which she has described as her favourite film.
Now, Julie Andrews was a real star, and it was her star power that helped make her third film, The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. For her role as Maria von Trapp, she won her second Golden Globe Award in 1966 and was nominated for the 1965 Academy Award. After completing The Sound Of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this with an Emmy Award-winning colour special, The Julie Andrews Show in 1965. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special Cinderella; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (George Roy Hill, 1966); the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) and Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1967); and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history The Sound of Music. Then Andrews appeared in Star! (Robert Wise, 1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili (Blake Edwards, 1970), co-starring Rock Hudson, but both bombed at the box office. The problem was that audiences identified her with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and could not accept her in dramatic roles. She married Blake Edwards in 1969. They adopted two children from Vietnam: Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. She continued working in television. In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–1973, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 and appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in 1978. Then, she made a comeback in the cinema with an appearance in 10 (1979), directed by her husband Blake Edwards. He helped to keep her on the rise by directing her to subsequent roles that were entirely different from anything she had been in before. There was the film star Sally Miles who bared her breasts on-screen in S.O.B. (1981), and the woman (Victoria Grant) playing a man (Count Victor Grezhinski) playing a woman in Victor Victoria (1982). On IMDb Tommy Peter writes: “The sheer novelty of seeing Julie Andrews in these roles, not to mention her brilliant performances in both of them, undoubtedly helped make them successes”. Her roles in Victor/Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. In 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in 1989.
In 1991 Julie Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons (John Erman, 1991), co-starring Ann-Margret. The following year she starred in her first television sitcom, Julie (1992), which co-starred James Farentino. In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria, her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. She was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night (Roger Young, 1999). In the 2000 New Year's Honours, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had a career revival when she appeared in The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall, 2001), her first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964). She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall, 2004). In The Princess Diaries 2, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut. In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She narrated Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins. In 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008), which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography. Home chronicles her early years in UK's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release, she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 2010, Andrews made her London come-back after a 21-year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly star and an icon for gays and lesbians. Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids."
Sources: Tommy Peter (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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