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She had a good vet visit, calm with the vet and tech. She got an A+ today on her report card. Thyroid level is down & in normal range so this dose of methimazole is working. Kidney tests are also good. Oh, and she gained back some of her weight, weighs 9.5 lbs now. So proud of my girl!
~ Victor Hugo. Of course, he was talking about giving away your money, not organizing your handbag. :-)
Not by some foreign entity, but by our own government leaders, who are in bed (or should I say their pockets are lined with MonsantoMoney) with the giant Monsanto Corporation. We are one of the few developed countries that have refused to ban RoundUp weedkiller, but also refused to allow any labeling of any kind of GMO foods - which comprise of 92% of the American food supply. WAKE UP AMERICANS!
Glyphosate, the main ingredient in RoundUp weed killer and in all GMO foods causes cancer.
Among the many cancers and diseases associated with glyphosate are:
Adenoma cancer in the pituitary gland
Glioma tumors in the brain
Reticular cell sarcomas in the heart
Malignant tumors in the lungs
Salivary mandibular reticular cell carcinoma
Metastatic sarcomas of the lymph gland
Prostate carcinoma
Cancer of the bladder
Thyroid carcinoma
Adrenal reticulum cell sarcomas
Cortical adenomas
Basal cell squamous skin tumors
PLEASE CALL, EMAIL, WRITE YOUR POLITICIANS AND TELL THEM TO STOP KILLING US!
Rhyan, bitch, I'm sorry if almost beheaded you on this one. I was just trying out awkward crops, nothing personal, booyah.
Any suggestions for a better awkward crop y'all?
this one was super difficult to photograph. those front legs might actually work as shields because they keep you from seeing the rest of the body! more angles here.
once again the leg joints are from mondaynoodle. it's a very sturdy design, and in combination with a couple old-school technic friction pins, it keeps the legs from flopping around =)
Meagain625's (aka Debbie King a member of our Flickr Family) brought it to my attention that there are color codes for all cancers. She said while everyone is familiar with the pink ribbon and its association with breat cancer, she is suffering from Lymphoma, which is coded lime green. Like Debbie said Let's all remember "ALL" colors in our prayers.
Lime Green - Lymphoma, Muscular Distrophy, Lyme Disease
Purple - Thyroid Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis
Pink - Breast Cancer
Blue - Arthritis, Colon Cancer
Red - Aids/Hiv, Heart Disease
Yellow - Bladder Cancer, Sarcoma, Liver Cancer
These are just a few colors from the "Awareness Ribbon Colors" website.
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ZLATIBOR is a mountain of exquisite beauty. It has pleasant and mild climate, large clearings, exuberant pastures intersected with mountains with mountain streams and pine trees - which this mountain is named for.
The average hight is about 1000m above sea level.
Mountain and sea gulfs encounter here which speed up the curing and the recovering from large number of lung and heart illnesses, especially from illnesses of thyroid gland and anemia.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
She is happy and adorable and loves getting attention. She pesters me a lot for attention. Despite her diagnosis of cardiomyopathy in July 2016, she is doing very well. The vet is pleased with her on her recent visit. She gets a blood test in December to check her thyroid is still normal. She underwent radioactive thyroid treatment in July 2016 for hyperthyroidism. It has cured her thyroid so far.
sorry for being so vain, normally I am not showing an excessively high opinion of my appearance, abilities, or worth.
a year ago I was very ill and had been hospitalized for a some time. I had lost around 10kg, my thyroids had played up to the hilt where my heart thought that's it Wal..make your bucket list. well I didn't. pulled through, giving up smoking and some other things, like sweets, booze..never been a boozer but all counts. I'm still not smoking, have a glass of wine in the evening and have a bit more sweets then I should. now, first I put the 10kg's on and 6 on top of it..smoking keeps your weight in check. my thyroids are normal again. I like what I see in those panels, my mirror is very harsh, unkind on moi..wishing you ALL a great weekend, rain is falling here
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Taken on the slopes of Midsummer Hill in Malvern. I feared and loved this place as a kid. In spring the woods are beautiful, carpeted with bluebells but in autumn and winter they're dark, mysterious. Didn't help that I heard all sorts of stories about this hill - iron age hill forts, burial mounds (both found on the hill), battles, druids, oh and "big black cats" supposedly spied out here. All stories were told by my father, usually as the light dropped on winter afternoons and told over his shoulder as he and his plucky terrier, Bede strode ahead, leaving me panting in their wake, fully expecting to see a ghost or be eaten by a panther any second.
Clearly, I didn't get eaten by a marauding panther but I still find these woods magical, like the setting for a dark fairytale... enchanting but kind of spooky!! At least I have my knight in shining armour fur now! I'm sure Barney would protect me from whatever lurks in the wood ;-) He certainly showed no fear of the looming trees and kindly cleared the area of all rabbits, squirrels and pheasants for me during our walk yesterday! Kept disappearing into the fog and I'd just hear the odd crash, or distant alarm call from a panicked bird as Barney explored. As it was so foggy and there were so many hunting opportunities, I didn't get a chance to take many photos of Barn but when he climbed a fallen tree, I saw an opportunity and really liked this shot.
Thanks for all the kind words last week about my being (very nearly) a yr cancer free! I had my hospital appointment on Wed and it went well :) I saw one of the consultants who operated on me last yr but hasn't seen me much since and he was really happy with my progress with speaking and recovery etc. He was slightly concerned I'm still so tired but thyroid problems are common after radiotherapy on the neck, so we're going to look into that... Hope everyone has a good weekend. Oh, and for Dilly fans out there, I should be uploading a few soon ;-)
Where the hell did September go? I am pretty sure I am not the only one who blinked and missed it. In my opinion September absolutely flew by.
Here we have another autumn themed leaf shot. The colours are so vibrant here right now so I am going to milk it for all its worth...look away if you can't stand it but I bet you won't. :D I brought my camera along with me into town today. I always see photo ops when I don't have my camera with me and so today I thought I'd bring it along. I had to get some blood work done...again! This thyroid of mine and trying to get the meds for it accurate are beginning to drive me bonkers. The meds I am on right now are making me nauseous. Hopefully something will work. Patience Michelle....patience...
Anyways, I took this one just down the road from my house as a last ditch attempt at trying to find something to shoot for today while on my way home. There is a section of maple trees that just screams "Look at us!!!"...the colours are so vibrant. Here it is and I absolutely LOVE it!! I am glad I stopped. :)
october is national breast cancer awareness month. i've seen some of my contacts doing great shots for this, and wanted to do one as well... none of my family has been affected by breast cancer, but i did have thyroid cancer when i was 24. they had to take my whole thyroid out and i went through a radiation treatment. (if you look close you can see my scar - oh, and i have another one from a car accident i was in). anyway, i have to take synthroid for the rest of my life now. i have had one friend that has been affected by breast cancer. she had a double mastectomy last year. i had my first mammogram this year. please, please, please get yours if you haven't...
(18/365, a year of portraits)
Bday 57 SP .. in a shaky stance... PTSD and thyroid meds...
In other words, my hands shake.... the thyroid meds make it worse and although I LOVE coffee >> half decaf now,
When doing photography, crocheting, drawing etc the shakiness stops...
When doing something or things you feel confident about and know what you're doing.. no matter how bad the PTSD it allows you the ability to relax and do something that you love...~
they sent the wrong tripod,. Looks better with the camera covering my face lol ;)
poowow was ill in this winter time..she got the problem of cancer and thyroid since three years ago.. doctor was advised to injection her to sleep ~ but I can not accept this concept to my pet~ I love her so much and did not see any things wrong on her ill ~ I am understanding that sick is sick ~ every one can sick ~ and I understand that every one love there life ...the animal they love there life same as us~ I cannot let my little friend go which is I still see her enjoyable her life ~ still good activity~ and the happiness still brightening in her beautiful eyes...I have to keep my little friend beside me.. she was vomited sometimes when she was not feeling well~ but not so often..she was on steroid tablets for her cancer~ continuous three years already~ and she still have her good life with me~ any time I was taken her photo ~ she was so beautiful ~ every one always happy when they saw her pictures ,,but every winter I have to spend my time to look after my little friend a bit more cos she quite weak in the cold season~ sorry to on and off in this moment~ still miss all of you guys~ Rose ,,,
www.facebook.com/rose.dugganpoowow this is the link of poowow face book well come you guys xo.
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this is the link of her album when she was sick three years ago xxx.
leon the husband has been tired. really really tired. so the dr. is running all kinds of tests for his arrhythmia and his fluctuating blood pressure. sonogram for carotid artery and for the bit of thyroid that the surgeon left in after his thyroid cancer surgery. he has a stress test left to do. he was told that he can do nothing physical for the time being.
so while he sits in the living room watching all kinds of sports: golf and tennis and baseball, I attack the bog.
the foliage at the bottom of the picture is a wheelbarrow full of weeds. today was a two heaping wheelbarrow day, plus the parts of trees I hauled out to the trash pile in the field. they were too big to fit in the wheelbarrow.
the entry to the bog, shirt on limb, coffee cup on tree. it was hot today.
Polaroid, two cameras.
Josie has hyperthyroidism.
Her kidneys are fine, in fact her Urea was a touch low.
Also her potassium was a touch low.
Everything else was fine.
It is caused by a tumour on the thyroid.
That's why she steals food and breaks into the oven.
But the mystery is she is overweight...she should be very thin with hyperthyroidism. (She did drop suddenly a bit of weight a few weeks ago)
Her TT4 measured 87. It should be betweem 10-60.
This is the reason she drinks so much.
My poor little girl. The local vet recommends a treatment called "RADIOACTIVE IODINE THERAPY". One treatment cures 95% of cases.
It is very expensive. I have to ring tomorrow to find out how much it costs.
Another option is surgery but it is very close to the parathyroid gland, and if he damages that, she will die, so he is reluctant to remove the tumour. And this operation would be expensive too.
And the final option of treatment is tablets, for life. It does not cure the problem and you will always be giving her blood tests to get the levels right and she will be on medication for life. Her blood pressure will always have to be watched monthly.
I'm not in a position to easily give her what she needs. And I have to make a decision soon.
The month of September has been a month of hospital visits. It all started when mum noticed a lump on my neck in late Aug. She asked me to get it checked, so I went to the nearby hospital.
Wasn't sure so I went to an ENT doctor, who was a bit afraid when he saw my lump possibly thought it was covid. Upon further inspection, he said it was my thyroid and sent me for ultrasound and blood test. Turns out to be a thyroid cyst. He went and drained the fluid, he poked twice and the second time he sort of pulled a chunk of skin out I think. It was so painful.
He told me to come back next week and I proceed downstairs to pay the bill. Had a shock when it cost me RM1k. Omg. And few days after that the fluid came back so quickly. I was coughing as my throat was dry and felt really uncomfortable. I wasn't looking forward to head back there the following week, and paying another 1k just for him to drain the fluid again!
Told dad about it and he said I should go and see my old doctor, which is in KL town. It was quite troublesome to get an appointment because he has so many patients. Thankfully managed to get an appointment, and waiting for that day was the longest week of my life...
Upon meeting my old doctor, I told him I have a lump on my neck. Straight away he said it is my thyroid. I was surprised that he knew right away even. He sent me for an ultrasound (yes repeat procedure because it is a different hospital) and blood test. He finally referred me to a general surgeon.
It was a Friday so I had to come back on Saturday morning to meet the surgeon at the A&E. The doctor saw me and told me to leave it for now, asked me to come to his clinic the following week. He gave me some throat spray and it did help with my coughing and I was able to go back to work.
Tilly is very sick at the moment. She has suffered from an over active thyroid gland for which she is on medication for. Now she is losing weight and her coat is looking very scruffy. I am taking her to the vet on Monday so she can have some blood tests to determine if she needs a higher dose of the thyroid medication. One of the blood tests will determine if she has kidney disease.
We have now owned her for about ten years but do not know her true age as her owner left her behind when he closed his business and we rescued her and took her home. 9:27pm, Saturday the 11th of August, 2018.
You think this looks bad? You should have seen the other guy.........calls himself Doctor something or other
we all have to let go to love and be loved
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1 i'm going to europe for two weeks in august!
2 i have a cyst on my thyroid therefore i've been getting blood and ultrasounds done
3 i sleep / function / feel better when my room is clean
4 hp7p2 is almost here and i'll be watching the midnight showing!
5 my number one girl crush is zooey deschanel (i love she&him as well)
6 lately i've been thinking that i need to make a website for my photos and links and such
7 the friendship bracelet in the top left was made by and given to me by a boy i had a crush on in 8th grade
8 the negative in the bottom left was taken, printed, and given to me by cynthia
9 i was gifted the cattail grass in the bottom right
10 this film photo was taken months ago back in the winter when amanda fell asleep on my couch (she had mono - i gave it to her). she was curled up in a cocoon.
11 if you didn't know by now, i collect fortunes in fortune cookies.
ps i'm so behind on responding to flickr mail. i'm so sorry everyone who is waiting for a reply!
I admitted Josie into hospital today. They ran tests and said she is in very good health.
They will administer the radioactive iodine tablet on Friday morning.
The dose they choose depends on her TT4 level and also when they feel her thyroid, how large the goiter is.
They rang me today and said she is eating well, so she is not distressed. But it's Friday morning they give her the tablet, and the night before they give her an injection to stop her vomiting the tablet.
There are two risks, one is she still may vomit the tablet (the tablet costs $650), and the other risk is her thyroid might go too low and stay too low, i.e. she might end up with HYPO thyroidism which would require medication for the rest of her life. Only about 1% suffer that. I asked the vet is it because they got the dose wrong, and he said yes. Josie's TT4 level will go too low in the beginning and then it normalises after about a month. The radioactive Iodine kills the abnormal cells in the thyroid.
For the last week I put an old sheet on my pillow and slept on it every night. Then I cut it up into 7 pieces and placed them in a bag for them to put in a piece every day while she's in isolation.
The vet said he'll make sure they put a piece in every day.
Josie was 10 years old on the 3rd of June. It's a guess of her birthday.
UPDATE 30TH JUNE 2016. There is an update on Josie. She is back home with me. There are problems with glucose in her urine, we need to rule out pre-diabetes. I will be testing her urine at home for the next 4 days. I posted a video on her facebook page.
In the Pink=In Good Health
In honor of World Thyroid Day and of course all my fellow thyroid cancer survivors:)
Kim Klassen texture
My vet just called to say that Keiko's blood work indicated that her kidneys are ok [ the thyroid meds she's on can potentially affect the kidneys adversely] and that her thyroid level is now a bit too low. So, when Keiko is feeling better we will try with the meds again but will drop the dose to 1 pill per day instead of twice daily.
My vet is adamant about Keiko being on the pills--and if down the road we discover that she really can't tolerate them, we will consider something different--but the other choices are not as good.
It's rare to get a pix with all three of my cats together. I took this last evening when Emory said to bring my camera quick......You can see who's the *Queen*.
My Poowow.... this picture taken from the ending of July this year... she seem to be ok~~ I never seen my cat she suffer from her ill of cancer..Just only she's always asking for food so often !! ( let say after two hours from last fed.. she will make another time of meow meow for her next plate.. because from her Thyroid !! ) but I have to handle the vet advised not over feeding otherwise she will vomiting ... she still lose weight .. looks more skinny but as we can see her face still happy life and I think poowow will extended her life this will be her year five extending after the vet suggested me to shot her to go !!! awwww thanks heaven that I'm not agree to let her go.... LOVE YOU SO MUCH POOWOW !!!
please pray for her mon. she goes for surgery to remove her thyroid,her body is resisting the medication,shes not eating to much either.
Keiko: Still vomiting. Not everyday but often enough I'm still very worried about her. She coughed up her lunch and thyroid pill today. Not good. She goes in on Friday for blood work to see how the thyroid pills are doing.
Jasmine: She's been given a death sentence. Her cancer is a ticking time bomb.
June: Our youngest. She's healthy. The only one.
Rusty: He's feline FIV positive but has no symptoms. He also has an peritoneal-pericardial diaphragmatic hernia. {Hard to explain--it has to do with his heart}.
Emory and I are so stressed by all. The kitchen counter is covered with meds to give Jasmine everyday now. Cancer pills and Prilosec is given in the morning. Benadryl must be given morning/ noon and night. Prednisone has to be given at night. Whew.
Keiko has to be pilled mid day--and offered wet food thru out the day because she's losing weight...she's looking thin and frail.
Emory and I are so worn out from worry for our sick furkids. It makes us cranky with each other --which just adds to all the stress of our "new normal".
Pics in collage were previously posted on Flickr.
Another week went by and I was at the surgeon doctor's clinic now. I was not expecting anything but then he suddenly said he was going to drain the fluid. Omg.
He drained the fluid and it was mainly blood. He said the initial fluid is the one which should have been sent to the lab for testing in case it might be cancerous. Sigh.
He didn't charge me 1k thankfully, it was RM400. But still I spent a lot of money this past month just to get this cyst fixed but until now it is still there.
Doctor didn't recommend surgery as it is still considered small. And he said I have a multinodular goitre, which means that I have more than one cyst on my thyroid. From the second time ultrasound I saw another ball on the other side of my neck... Sigh.
The one causing me discomfort now is the one right in front of my trachea, which is making me cough a lot. He sent me home for another month.
So here I am, still with the cyst (cysts, since I have two) feeling really depressed that it is not fixed and not knowing what is going to happen.
I bought some Lego to cheer myself up it is not really helping since my health is not doing good. Sigh. That's my update for now, not sure what else to say but just hope everyone is doing well.
Elsevier now offers a series of derivative works based on the acclaimed Meylers Side Effect of Drugs, 15th Edition. These individual volumes are grouped by specialty to benefit the practicing physician or health care clinician.
Endocrine and metabolic diseases are common, includes diseases such as diabetes, thyroid disease, and obesity. Endocrinologists, including diabetes professionals, internal medicine and primary care practitioners, obstetricians and gynecologists, and others will find this book useful when treating endocrine or metabolic diseases.
The material is drawn from the 15th edition of the internationally renowned encyclopedia, Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs, and the latest volumes in the companion series, Side Effects of Drugs Annuals. Drug names have usually been designated by their recommended or proposed International Non-proprietary Names (rINN or pINN); when those are not available, clinical names have been used. In some cases, brand names have been used.
This volume is critical for any health professional involved in the administration of endocrine and metabolics mediations.
Dr Jeffrey K. Aronson is a consultant clinical pharmacologist and physician in the Department of Primary Health Care in the University of Oxford and a consultant physician in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust. He has been associated with the Meyler series since 1977 and has published many research papers on adverse drug reactions. He is also the editor of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs and the Side Effects of Drugs Annual series. He is President of the British Pharmacological Society and serves on many committees concerned with drug therapy, including the Technology Appraisal Committee of the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Joint Formulary Committees of the British National Formulary and the British National Formulary for Children.
Volcano Pois Katiki - is an extinct thyroid volcano on Easter Island. Its height is only 370 meters above sea level. This is one of the three volcanoes of this island and is located in its eastern part. The volcano of Pois Katiki is the lowest of them. All three extinct volcanoes of the island form a triangle when viewed from a bird's eye view. From the north, east and south, the Pois Katiki volcano is surrounded by the ocean, and from the southwest side is the Rano Raraku volcano.
The last volcanic eruption occurred more than 230 thousand years ago.
The soil in this area is reddish in color. Due to erosion, the rocks are very high, it is dangerous to walk along their edges. There is less vegetation and there is no way to carry out archaeological excavations.
There is a statement that if you connect all three volcanoes with straight lines on the map of the island, you get an ideal isosceles triangle. I have the spirit of adventure, then exploring this fabulous island, I conquered this small peak of the island - the volcano of Pois Katiki.
On my way I met the majestic statues of Moai. And in the crater of the Pois Katiki volcano you can see wild horses who just walk there and drink water on the shore of a small lake formed in the crater of the volcano. This is an indescribable sight!
I walked or drove along a dirt road from Hanga Roa and end my journey to Hanga Pico, a seaport on the island’s north coast.
the dogs and i had a wonderful hike on thursday, my birthday. i couldn't have asked for a better way to spend part of my special day!!
on tuesday, alice had another seizure... her worst so far. this makes six episodes total and it has been exactly one year since the first. what made this one worse was that it lasted several minutes with no signs of it stopping, and she lost some control of her bladder (which has never happened before, and she was quite mortified about when she finally came to. it was really sad). thankfully it happened while we were at work, and we were able to intervene with valium to get the seizure to stop. i could deal with one episode every other month, but can not deal with the fact that she's not coming out of these seizures without valium. if she were to have one while i wasn't with her, she could quite likely seizure to the point of brain damage or death... so now it's time to make a decision about anti-seizure medication. there are so many pros and cons that would take too long for me to post here. i know that she needs to be on something, but i am not really happy with any of the options.
we have exhausted all of the diagnostics available except for the mri and spinal tap, except for an extensive thyroid test. next week we will do that, on the off chance that it's a low thyroid hormone level causing her seizures. it's rare, but it happens. if that comes back clear, then it's on to the meds that she will have to take for the rest of her life... why do bad things always happen to good dogs?
A goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland that causes the neck to swell.
It is one of the most common thyroid disorders.
Goiters are often harmless but symptoms can occur, and treatment may be required depending on the size and type of goiter.
Rough sleepers and those in emergency or temporary accommodation do not typically die of exposure or other direct effects of homelessness, according to international research by the US-based National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Instead, they mainly die as a result of treatable conditions such as liver and gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory problems and the consequences of drug and alcohol addiction. But accessing treatment at an early stage in the UK can be very difficult for homeless people, who face bureaucratic barriers including needing a proof of address to register at a GP surgery when they are also often in personal crisis.
Although a lot of guidance on commissioning primary healthcare for homeless people has been issued since the 1990s, access varies greatly from region to region. A recent King’s College London study found that only 43% of homelessness projects were linked to a specialist healthcare service like Arch, with particular gaps in small towns and rural areas.
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i think i look pretty nifty as a nuclear medicine operating room nurse. =)
and i also think that this lead apron should have shoulder straps, it's so heavy it keeps slipping off my shoulders... oh, and i'd like a thyroid collar too, please. :P
the patient in general anesthesia who can be seen behind me had 16 needles inserted into his prostate and was covered with sterile equipment and all, so i am wearing full protective gear.
we were just getting the "c-shaped x-ray device" ready to check on the correct positioning of the needles one last time before irradiating his prostate with ~10 Gray... oh yeah, and i measured about 200 uSv/h flying accross the room when the "C-bow" was doing its radiographs. that's quite a bit, considering i was about 1.5 meters away from a vertically (!) firing source... but it's nothing compared to the radiation in that room when the actual radiation treatment is in progress! and yes, i also recorded a video of that... of course, i had to leave the room, but there's still a video of the gamma scout in that room. =)
this video will be up on my youtube on the weekend, likely tomorrow, so, stay tuned!
edit: see the full video here! :)
One or two have asked how Willy is doing after being diagnosed with an overactive thyroid. He has been on tablets for about 2 months now, has put some weight on, his heart rate has slowed & he is fluffy again!
Photo taken yesterday 8th Aug.
He's still an old cat, but it's great to see him enjoying whatever is left of his life & not just enduring it :)
Hello FlickrWorld! Hello FlickrWorld! I glanced at this image and thought it was a peacock feather, but it's another great story about space-related cancer research has appeared on the International Space Station Research site: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/tackling... Happy and hopeful Friday to all!
Caption:Thyroid cancer cell line FTC-133 after four hours of exposure to simulated microgravity. Nuclei are stained blue, components of the cytoskeleton stained green and red. (Image credit: Team Daniela Grimm)
In space, things don’t always behave the way we expect them to. In the case of cancer, researchers have found that this is a good thing: some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in the microgravity environment of space compared to their behavior on Earth. This observation, reported in research published in February by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal, could help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumors that don’t respond to current treatments. This work is the latest in a large body of evidence on how space exploration benefits those of us on Earth.
Research in the weightlessness of space offers unique insight into genetic and cellular processes that simply can’t be duplicated on Earth, even in simulated microgravity. “Microgravity can be approximated on Earth, but we know from the literature that simulated microgravity isn’t the same as the real thing,” says Daniela Gabriele Grimm, M.D., a researcher with the Department of Biomedicine, Pharmacology at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and an author of the FASEB paper.
True weightlessness affects human cells in a number of ways. For one thing, cells grown in space arrange themselves into three-dimensional groupings, or aggregates, that more closely resemble what happens in the body. “Without gravitational pull, cells form three-dimensional aggregates, or spheroids,” Grimm explains. “Spheroids from cancer cells share many similarities with metastases, the cancer cells which spread throughout the body.” Determining the molecular mechanisms behind spheroid formation might therefore improve our understanding of how cancer spreads.
The FASEB paper resulted from an investigation in the Science in Microgravity Box (SIMBOX) facility aboard Shenzhou-8, launched in 2011. Cells grown in space and in simulated microgravity on the ground were analyzed for changes in gene expression and secretion profiles, with the results suggesting decreased expression of genes that indicate high malignancy in cancer cells.
The work was funded by a grant from the German Space Life Sciences program, managed by the German space agency, DLR, in collaboration with Chinese partners.
Grimm and her colleagues are following up with additional research, a Nanoracks Cellbox investigation called “Effect of microgravity on human thyroid carcinoma cells,” scheduled to launch in March on SpaceX's third commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Another follow-up investigation, “Spheroids,” is planned in 2015. The overall goal is to find as many genes and proteins as possible that are affected by microgravity and to identify the cellular activities they influence. Researchers can then use this information to develop new strategies for cancer research.
In a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Cancer, Jeanne Becker, Ph.D., a cell biologist at Nano3D Biosciences in Houston and principal investigator for the Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System (CBOSS) 1-Ovarian study, examined nearly 200 papers on cell biology research in microgravity during four decades. This body of work shows that not only does the architecture of cells change in microgravity, but the immune system also is suppressed. Other studies in addition to Grimm’s have shown microgravity-induced changes in gene expression. The key variable, Becker concluded, is gravity. And the only way to really mitigate gravity is to go into space.
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a self-shot taken of my mirror reflection in my bedroom
One tengsten lamp covered with a piece of paper to diffuse the light.
Adjustments of shadows and tones done in Photoshop
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Lighting: tengsten lamp.
Exploracilious!!
1. i was born and raised in the baltimore metropolitan area, the oldest of three, one brother, one sister.
2. i am a member of the first graduating class from randallstown high school in 19???
3. my nickname in high school was Big I, never quite liked it, but when you're last name is tucker, it could have been a lot worse.
4. i ran cross country and track in high school, didn't care much for cross country, but the track coach said if you're going to run track son, you're running cross country. thanks coach. i was a highly ranked quarter miler in my senior year at 51 seconds.
5. i attended the university of maryland at college park and the pennsylvania college of optometry in the city of brotherly love.
6. i have been practicing optometry for 30 years. "but dr tucker, you couldn't possibly have been practicing for 30 years". denial, as they say, ain't just a river in egypt.
7. i know you're jealous, but as a self-employed eye care practitioner, i get one whole week of unpaid vacation every year. so i try to pick someplace nice to go...where there's a meeting. hence, some of the recent landscape posts.
8.i believe in empowering my staff, but ultimately the buck stops with me. therefore, do you know how we achieve a consensus at my office??? when they agree with me :-)
9. i have what i believe is a pretty loyal patient base, and have initiated a 20 year hug policy for the women...guys get handshakes and water bottles.
10. what can i say, i'm a sexist pig, i get 2 or 3 new hugs a week, and quite a few more from patients who have already been coming more than 20 years.
11. i like what i do, am actually quite good at it, but one of these days i don't think i would mind doing it a little less.
12.i am color deficient, color blind for the layperson. it is a sex-linked recessive gene, so, in theory, i got it from my mother's father. who was a tailor. go figure
13. my office wardrobe therefore consists almost entirely of predominantly gray slacks and blue shirts. hey, i look good in blue :-) i have three pairs of shoes and three watches, a drawer full of black socks and a drawer full of white socks. i can mix and match them with the best of you :-)
14. speaking of my gene pool, it sucks. virtually every systemic disease known to man runs in my family, including hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, thyroid dysfunction and cancer. i have had elevated cholesterol virtually my entire life, nearly 300 prior to initiating treatment with diet (yeah sure), exercise and 3 different medications. my cholesterol is now down to 125. my physician said i had the cholesterol of a young woman. i said, i'd rather have the young woman. ba da bing
15. by the way, she said, you now have diabetes. diabetes is a tougher nut to crack, but other than being angry and depressed i'm handling it rather well. jk :-)
16. i hunt and peck, so this took like forever, so thanks for reading and letting me vent a little. happy new year!!
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ~Meister Eckhart
I need this reminder sometimes. Every day is new. It's ok to start everything over. It's a blessing to start over.
Skagit Valley, Washington
By the way, thank you for all the support regarding my thyroid, it is really touching. But please don't worry yourselves! My diagnosis at this point is "indeterminate" meaning tests couldn't confirm benign or cancer. So we wait and see if it grows in about 6 months. At my age there is really no risk in waiting, or even in a diagnosis of cancer. So for now, all goes relatively back to normal. :)
In fun news, I finally got to surprise Nick with his Christmas present. On top of his 30th birthday present, a trip to the Faroe Islands, I surprised him with a renewed national parks pass and tickets to Alaska! I got an amazing deal on them. We go early September.
And on top of it all, my family and friends combined Christmas funds and helped me purchase a Canon 6D! It's my first full-format and I'm very happy with it. I cannot wait for some decent weather now...
I took this capture two days ago but it sums up Cleo's mood today. This morning I took her to the vet for a big check-up because I have the feeling that something is wrong with her. She doesn't eat well but rather seems to gain weight instead of losing weight. On the back he has a huge bald spot where I removed a fur knot about two months ago and the fur doesn't grow back. She also has problems with her hip joint which is at least in parts due to her overweight. And she drinks more than usual. As a first step they took blood today and I can call them tomorrow for the first results. Taking blood from Cleo always requires at least 6 hands plus a collar to stop her from biting plus several towels to keep her feet and claws in check.
Update on Cleo April 23: I called the vet at noon. It seems that Cleo's blood values are normal, no signs of a feline diabetes or a renal or thyroid disease which could have explained her symptoms. Only the lymphocytes are slightly reduced. They now intend to check the cortisol level because it's possible that she has a Cushing's syndrome which is an excessive production of cortisol.
Women out there, Mothers, Future Mothers and Never Mothers, just think about what Cows have to go through so you have their babies’ milk to drink which will start tumors in your breasts and uterus, thyroid problems, hormonal-related cancers!
Frankie sitting under my office lamp. His eyes are a deep navy blue and I can never capture the true beauty of them - because he blinks or turns away. In this case, the lighting was just not right.
She starts to do well and I lower her diuretics, but then the problems with the toxic fumes from the neighbours will get us and I'm too slow to get her inside. And she deteriorates immediately. I was on the phone when it happened about 4 days ago. She is back on maximum dose diuretics as a result.
I have now relocated all the cats to a temporary home until I can find us a home to move to. I sleep there and feed them but I don't have internet access. I only moved them last night.
I had Josie's blood tested on Saturday. They were good. Her thyroid is 35. Over 60 is hyperthyroid. Her T4 in march was 87. She still needs her heart medication. I'm hoping that in the new environment, her heart thickening may reverse. (it is unlikely)
Ideally her T4 should be under 30. There is a chance that over 30 is pre hyperthyroid.
I put this triptych together of our three cats who after terrible beginnings in their lives are all doing well even though Lily has recently developed thyroid problems.
Lily has one blue and one golden eye. Tommy is a ginger tom and Zelda has green eyes. All of them are in my pets album.
I experimented with a digital pencil sketch on Lily's image and converted the other two to mono.
This is shaping up to be a real doozy of a week...
I have an appointment for an emergency root canal tomorrow afternoon, then more fasting blood tests for diabetes, thyroid test, and cancer checks early on Wednesday morning.
Hopefully, Hit Girl and Nurse Misery here have got my back. :/
Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common name bladder wrack or bladderwrack, is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, also known by the common names black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, and rock wrack. It was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1811, and was used extensively to treat goitre, a swelling of the thyroid gland related to iodine deficiency.