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This is a strange souvenir, but when Tim had finished his course of radiotherapy, they gave him his mask to take home!! Not quite sure what we're going to do with it, but the nurse told us some people use them as planters!! Here I was, amusing myself with it while we were waiting to see the consultant!
(Now, we're waiting for the latest (thyroid) cancer to be removed. Unfortunately, although Tim went the hospital for surgery yesterday, after waiting a few nervous hours on his own (after I'd left) he was sent home as the equipment for testing nerves was found to be faulty! Now he's having to wait for a new date.)
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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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.
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.
In the Pink=In Good Health
In honor of World Thyroid Day and of course all my fellow thyroid cancer survivors:)
Kim Klassen texture
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.
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.
"I feel so fantastic that I can't even begin to describe it. I have been living in misery for almost 2 years - I didn't realize it had been so long. Over the years I spoke of anxiety, exhaustion, unexplained fear, being forgetful, weight gain...so many things. I am now taking a tiny pill called Synthroid. It gives me the added thyroid hormones I need to function. The biggest battle for me during all of this was the mental battles. The anxiety and fear for no reason was so hard to handle. Now, I have such clarity of mind. I could just cry for joy with how blessed I am to be through this ordeal. I had no idea how bad I felt until I started feeling well again. The old Erin is back!"
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That's something I wrote in my journal one month after being diagnosed with hypothyroidism at the age of 22 four years ago. April 28th marks the day I received the diagnosis. It's a milestone day for me. I was released from unexplained fear, anxiety, and severe depression thanks to a tiny little purple pill that I will take everyday for the rest of my life.
For more information on the symptoms of hypothyroidism, click 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 :)
Thank you for your support. 1,074organizations and 53,193people signed the Petition from over 61 countries
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
20 politicians in Japan signed the petion against the inhumane decision by the ministry of education raising the limit of annual radiation exposure to the children in Japan from 1 mSv to 20 mSv.
Tomoko Abe (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 4th term)
Yoshifu Arita (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mitsuji Ishida (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Tetsuo Inami (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Azuma Konno (Member of the house of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Kusuo Oshima (Member of the house of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Ryuhei Kawada (Member of the house of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Ryoichi Hattori (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Hirayama (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mizuho Fukushima (Member of the House of Councilors, Social Democratic Party 3rd term)
Hiroyuki Moriyama (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Yamazaki (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Tadatomo Yoshisa (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Akihiro Hatsushika (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Mari Kushibuchi (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Masako Ohkawara (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Yumiko Himai (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Hiroshi Hase (Member of the House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party 4th term)
Yukiko Miyake (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Yuko Mori (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Special Advisor to the Cabinet, Kosako Toshiso resigned. He said that it's not acceptable for raising annual radiation limit for the children 1mSv to 20 mSv. He also criticized that the crisis management of the government is disorganized and haphazard.
1,074 organizations and 53,193 people signed
the Petition from over 61 countries
This petition was being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
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.
Here is the "Franken Puss" - snoozing away. He is a gentle old boy. He is on medication for life (Hyper Thyroidism). He is 15 years old - a lynx point siamese cross. Gentle and Regal Looking. I took him from a mission shelter at age 6. I will look after my old boys forever and ever. My late sister, Elizabeth was with me - and she named them both when we were driving back from Mission.
Frankie misses my beloved Bugsy, he looks for him still. It breaks my heart.
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.
I have been sickly nowadays and also very busy making arrangement for my mother's assistant living home. Yesterday, she finally moved to the assistant living home about 200 miles from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant. I still need to do some legal works for my mother. I hope I will be able to reunite with my family in the U.S.A. soon.
The situation of nuclear disaster here is getting worse.
On April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children. Most likely many of them will get thyroid cancer in the future like the children in Chernobyl.
Dr. Ira Helfland: There really is no safe level of radiation Children are much more vulnerable than adults
www.winonadailynews.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists...
Please click the link below and sign the petition for saving the children in Japan
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Thank you for your support and friendship.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&userstoinvite=...
This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
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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 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.
Mietze was sadly diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism at the end of October / beginning of November.
This was taken on the first day after she started feeling better, following her adverse reactions to Vidalta, an oral anti-thyroid drug.
Initially, she appeared to tolerate it, but after ten days she started vomiting (including blood). It's taken her around a month to return to her pre-Vidalta condition.
She is doing ok at the moment and was assessed for I131 (radioactive Iodine), which is another, possibly the only, conventional treatment option for her.
We are considering the options available to us and feed on demand (within reason), catering for her increased appetite, which is one of the more obvious signs of the condition.
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.
J'ai été chez le vétérinaire avec elle mercredi pour son vaccin et pour lui faire raccourcir les griffes. Vu son âge, 14 ans, la vétérinaire a pris du sang après une séance manucure et pédicure très mouvementée, Poussy ayant décidé qu'elle n'était pas d'accord. Elles se sont mis à 4 après lui avoir mis un linge sur la tête pour couper ses ongles, c'est la 1ère fois qu'elle réagissait ainsi ! Mon ancien vétérinaire est décédé et lui, il faisait cela en 30 secondes !!!
Bref, les analyses signalent un problème de thyroïde que je dois surveiller et faire re-contrôler dans 3 ou 6 mois. Je ne sais pas si cela est dû à son âge ou autre chose.
Je vais me documenter sur cette maladie qui, selon les symptômes décrits par une assistante au téléphone le lendemain, ne semblent pas rassurants : vomissements, amaigrissement, diarrhée, grande soif, miaulements. A part la diarrhée, elle a parfois ces symptômes ... que j'ai attribués aux grandes chaleurs que nous avons eues cet été.
Cette visite chez le vétérinaire ne s'étant pas bien passée pour elle, Poussy me fait la tête et elle boude sérieusement, mais elle vient quand même dormir avec moi heureusement.
Ces nouvelles me perturbent un peu, mais je vais faire avec en espérant que ma Poussy vive longtemps, longtemps car elle est très précieuse à mon coeur.
Bon week-end à vous mes Ami(e)s
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I have been to the vet with her Wednesday for its vaccine and to make it shorter claws. Given her age, 14, the vet took blood after an eventful manicure and pedicure session Poussy having decided that it was not okay. They are set to 4 after having put a towel over your head to cut his nails is the first time she reacted well! My previous vet and he died, he made it in 30 seconds!
In short, the analyzes indicate a thyroid problem that I must monitor and re-check in 3 or 6 months. I do not know if this is due to age or something else.
I'm reading about this disease that the symptoms described by an assistant on the phone the next day, does not seem reassuring: vomiting, weight loss, diarrhea, thirst, meowing. Apart from diarrhea, she sometimes has these symptoms ... I attributed to extreme heat we had this summer.
This visit to the vet who was not gone well for her, Poussy me head and she sulks seriously, but she is still sleep with me happily.
These new disturb me a bit, but I'm hoping to do with my Poussy live long, long time because she is very precious to my heart.
Enjoy your weekend my Friends
Ambystoma Mexicanum (Amphibian, Urodeles)
That species lives in the Lac Xochimilco and can reach a maximum length of 30cm.
It is a salamander that will spend its entire life in the larval stage due to a deficient thyroid but will be able to reproduce. (MNHN)
Photographed at the Ménagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris
I have never seen or heard about this creature so I figured I would show you one!! Though to get a clear picture through the glass but here we are!
surgeon re-ultrasounded my neck and it looks like my thyroid cancer has recurred. I would like to read or make a mini comic on what you should physically do after getting bad news. I don't think you're supposed to run around buying things but it's what I've done every time.
In this image: Poorly differentiated follicular thyroid cells shortly before launch. The cells were then exposed to microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the Cellbox-Thyroid investigation.
From the article: The multi-national efforts that go into research aboard the International Space Station show that working together can yield results with universal benefits. This is especially the case when talking about human health concerns such as cancer. Researchers make use of the microgravity environment aboard the space station to seek answers to questions about the nature of cancer cells. With the Microgravity on Human Thyroid Carcinoma Cells (Cellbox-Thyroid) study, recently conducted in orbit, the hope is to reveal answers that will help in the fight against thyroid cancer.
The American Cancer Society estimates about 62,980 cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. for 2014. The thyroid is a gland in the neck that secretes hormones that help the body to regulate growth and development, metabolism, and body temperature. The Cellbox-Thyroid study is enabled through a collaborative effort between NanoRacks, Airbus Defense and Space, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to facilitate the microgravity investigation aboard the space station.
“NanoRacks is hosting this German research study aboard the U.S. National Laboratory,” said Jeff Manber, CEO of NanoRacks. “It may well make critical advances in understanding and even delaying the onset of cancer in the thyroid.”
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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.
Bonkers on the bed soon after I gave him his nightly medicine (anti-seizure and thyroid medicines, if I remember correctly). We give the cats medicine using a large syringe for oral dosages, some Bonkers drools a little bit of it sometimes...
Anyway, he looked a little lonely when I took his picture. The other four cats are downstairs and he wants us (Naomi and me) to go upstairs with him.
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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.
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12 politicians in Japan are against the inhumane decision by the ministry of education raising the limit of annual radiation exposure to the children in Japan from 1 mSv to 20 mSv.
Tomoko Abe (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 4th term)
Yoshifu Arita (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mitsuji Ishida (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Tetsuo Inami (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Azuma Konno (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Kusuo Oshima (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryuhei Kawada (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryoichi Hattori (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Hirayama (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mizuho Fukushima (Member of the House of Councilors, Social Democratic Party 3rd term)
Hiroyuki Moriyama (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Yamazaki (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Special Advisor to the Cabinet , Kosako Toshiso resigned today. He said that it's not acceptable for raising annual radiation limit for the children 1mSv to 20 mSv. He also criticized that the crisis management of the government is disorgnazed and haphazard.
www.mbs.jp/news/jnn_4712952_zen.shtml
There's no future for the country which neglect their children. - Masayoshi Son Softbank CEO and Donates USD$120 million to Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts. Also he will set up an advisory group on the use of natural energy sources.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&us erstoinvite=...
This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
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Our slightly-built little Tabby cat passed peacefully away this morning; he was just over 15 years.
Although he'd had a Thyroid problem for some time, that was well controlled by medication.
The first sign of a serious downturn in his health occurred only yesterday evening, and we promptly rushed him to the Emergency After Hours Vet - who confirmed what we had already guessed: his time was now extremely limited.
He was given medication to help him through the night, but by this morning he was in an extremely bad way, and so it was that we made our way to the local Vet to say our goodbyes to him...!
Velcro was a very loving, very affectionate little cat who gave an awful lot of Love to anyone he came in contact with. He will be missed.
Rest in Peace, Little Guy, and thank you for being you...!
PS - The photo was taken last April, and shows Velcro fast asleep in / on his favourite "Pink Blanky"...!
Thanks so much for the very kind and encouraging comments beneath this photo...! Your support is always greatly appreciated.
FOOTNOTES
We still have Peewee (who is nearly 15; hopefully, he will adjust to Velcro's absence...
I'm just about to start my reviews, but I'm very late starting, so my apologies if I don't make it to your photo tonight...!
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!
Argent on the stairs, ready to retreat if we approach her with medicine (which she has to take once a day for her thyroid problem and for a more nebulous (the vets can't figure out what it is yet) intestinal problem that causes her to lose weight sometimes).
Looking up the Euclid Steps
From www.syracuse.com
The 178 steps from Euclid Avenue to one of the highest drumlins in Syracuse are often called the “thousand steps” because that’s what it feels like to climb them. They could soon earn a new nickname: “The $1 million staircase.”
The concrete and brick steps near Westcott Street were built almost 100 years ago, leading to an old sheep pasture with a spectacular view of the city. They are the stuff of legend, heavily used by neighborhood walkers and a destination for all manner of runners, ruck sackers, college athletes and anyone seeking a challenge.
Now, the steps are crumbling. Some steps are missing chunks of concrete the shape of a half moon, a hole where a shoe should go. More than two inches of concrete have chipped away in some spots. Twisted historic bricks look as if they are reaching up to trip people.
For some, the disrepair only adds to the challenge – like climbing a rocky peak in the Adirondacks. Others see a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The Euclid steps have been loved to death.
Pouring life back into them will likely cost more than $1 million. And every time people start imagining what the project could become, the price tag goes even higher.
“I have a dream about this,” said Sen. Rachel May, D-Syracuse. She scrolled her phone for a photo from a trip to San Francisco. In that city, known for its steep hills, donors sponsored handmade mosaic tiles to cover more than one staircase.
“I don’t think it’s going to happen because this would add to the cost, which is already considerable,” she said about adding the colorful tiles.
But repairing the Euclid steps in some fashion is about to happen. The city plans to start the first phase of the work within the next two years with a $600,000 state grant.
May chose the project to receive money from the State and Municipal Facilities Program, or SAM. The state has spent $3 billion from this fund since it was set up in 2013. It is pork-barrel spending legislators and the governor can award as they like. Unlike other grant programs, there is no competition from similar projects across the state. Grant recipients spend the money and get reimbursed.
The city is also working on a $500,000 grant application, possibly to the state’s Environmental Protection Fund parks program. This application would need to be approved by the Syracuse Common Council. The rest could come from the city’s budget.
For now, the estimated cost is $1.2 million. That’s almost $7,000 per step in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of a city struggling with poverty, gun violence, lead paint poisoning and more.
“What’s the alternative? These are going to be here. People are going to be hurting themselves,” May said. “It was really seeing how many people are using this for recreation and how treacherous it’s getting. There are some areas in there where you shouldn’t run.”
Many of the 178 steps from Euclid Avenue to Westminster Park are chipped and crumbling. The brick ramps between sets of stairs are jumbled, creating a hazard for runners and walkers.
The cost is jaw-dropping to the people who use the stairs. But they don’t hesitate to say it’s worth it to keep them open.
Larry Ellison, a retired postal worker, lives across the street and uses the steps to train for climbing Adirondack peaks. For him and others, it’s a practical argument, no different than paving a road. “Someone’s going to get hurt,” he said.
Michael Root, a retired teacher, climbed the stairs Wednesday afternoon with a 20-pound weight in a ruck sack. It’s heart-pounding exercise. His goal was to hike up and down six times. By the end of summer, he hopes to build up to 10 trips.
“I just have to be smart, keep my eyes down,” he said. “It’s really a treasure from 100 years ago that just seems to be ignored.”
As they talked, more people gathered, said hello and encouraged each other to keep moving. The steps may be a hunk of boring infrastructure, but they are a solid foundation for spontaneous community.
They’ve been used by police and fire department recruits, high school football and lacrosse players and Syracuse University athletes.
The columns at the base are often marked with chalk lines to record each trip up and down.
Kansas City Chiefs running back Derrick Gore, a Nottingham High School graduate, credits 5:30 a.m. Euclid stair workouts for his success.
Subhasree Sengupta, a doctoral candidate in the school of information studies at Syracuse University, said the steps have changed her life.
The Covid-19 pandemic kept her stuck in her dorm while managing diabetes and thyroid problems. Her doctor prescribed exercise in addition to medication. Sengupta starting working with Karl Sterling, a personal trainer, at the steps.
The first day, she climbed half of the staircase, then turned around to see her progress. She has worked up to 3 trips.
“Now I crave it,” she said. “The best part about climbing is it gives you confidence, especially for someone who doesn’t do a lot of outside exercise.”
After some people conquer the stairs, they rest on a bench. Others add on to their routine with burpees, air boxing and pushups.
At the top of the stairs, Sengupta walks a curb like a balance beam around Westminster Park. Sometimes, Sengupta, Sterling and others play badminton in the park, a simple circle just under 5 acres.
Climbing stairs burns more calories than running in on a flat surface. The 5-inch steps require frequent turnover. The steps increase in elevation by 68 feet in just 422 feet of distance.
“I could go all nerdy and sciencey,” Sterling said. “Being outside is good for your nervous system, your vision, your spirit.”
Sterling created a Facebook invitation for his 100th birthday party at the top of the stairs. It will be June 5, 2061. He is already getting cards from people who don’t plan to be there.
“That’s how much I love the steps,” he said.
Karl Sterling, a personal trainer, stands near the top of the Euclid Avenue steps on the city’s Eastside. He loves workouts on the stairs so much, he has already planned his 100th birthday party at the top. It will be 2061. July 13, 2022. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
Last year, local musician Leo Crandall took his last breath at the top of the stairs. Crandall, 67, had tried to improve his health by walking the steps each day with a set of pushups at the top. In May 2021, he had a fatal heart attack after his workout. Friends left a temporary memorial at the top of the stairs, Nancy Keefe Rhodes said with a warning for people to be careful.
Rhodes, who has served on the city’s public arts commission and lives nearby, said she hopes the steps are restored rather than newly built. She has memories of the steps, dating to college in 1966.
“It’s a lot of money,” she said. “But they are a landmark for which ordinary people have fondness, rather than a triumphalist public monument. So we should take care of them.”
Because the steps are in the university area, they are perfectly situated for experts in architecture and history to study and debate.
Sam Gruber, an art and architecture historian, lives nearby and has written about the park’s history. He is a past president of the Preservation Association of CNY, which advocates for the project.
The stairs were built sometime around the 1930s as a public works project, Gruber said.
The Syracuse Journal reported on plans for Westminster Park in 1910, saying “the people of the 17th ward were entitled to have the park improved, as the people of that land pay a large portion of the city’s tax, with their residences being very valuable.”
The plan was to plant trees and build a gazebo for use by families traveling by trolley to enjoy the view, Gruber said.
In 1928, the city bought two lots on Euclid Avenue for $5,000 to build an entrance to the park, he said.
Other parks in Syracuse have staircases, but some are hidden or overgrown with weeds. The Euclid steps are more heavily traveled. Other stairs are made of brick and stone, which doesn’t weather as much as concrete in snowy Syracuse.
Gruber supports repair and maintenance of the stairs, but said he would shy away from a massive rebuilding. They have worked perfectly well for 100 years, he said.
“They are historic and part of the defining infrastructure of the neighborhood for almost a century,” he said.
Still, he acknowledged, more modern regulations could force the city to make changes.
He, too, uses the short-lived benefit of expensive road paving as a comparison for the price tag. Rebuilding the steps would last a lifetime, he said.
It is not enough to judge the cost of things in isolation, he said.
“Now if it is between fixing the stairs and opening the swimming pools, I think I and most people would say open the pools,” he said. “But it is not that simple.”
Marcos Parga, assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University, lives on Westminster Avenue and uses the steps to walk to campus. He is volunteering his expertise as a consultant to the city parks department.
Like others, Parga is trying to balance new ideas with the cost. He is puzzling through cost-effective ways to pour concrete on a steep slope. He also has an open mind about turning the park into something more than 178 steps.
The steps are lined on both sides by wild stands of maple trees and raspberries. There are deer and squirrels and too many places for vagrants to hide.
Parga wonders if there could be some kind of platform along the way where children could hold a nature classroom or artists could work. Could the city add other exercise equipment to turn it into a fitness park. Could his students help with the design as part of their coursework?
Preserving the historic stairs is the first priority, he said. The second part, he said, is how to make the space available for more people to use in a different way.
“There will be a really interesting debate,” he said, “about what it means to preserve it and what it means to move it into the future.”
Right now bambi is having her thyroid removed,please pray all goes well.Here I am giving her some love !
While thyroid cancer is very treatable with surgery and other therapies, it remains the fastest growing cancer in the United States.
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.
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My friend Melinda is an inspiration and my heroine! The title of this photo comes from a t-shirt she has, and it fits her perfectly. She is cancer-free now, but it has been a long fight for many years and with many many surgeries. She began with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and has been in remission from that twice, only to be followed by thyroid cancer, which was removed with her thyroid and it hadn't spread, and then breast cancer in her right breast. She went ahead and had a double mastectomy because of her history with cancer and the likelihood of it showing up in her left breast in the future, and she wanted to live her life without having to go back in for a mammogram every 6 months for the rest of her life.
The thing I love most about her though is that despite all she has endured and survived, she lives her life to the fullest with grace and joy and a fantastic sense of humor. She doesn't let this get her down, and when others might be moaning and feeling sorry for themselves, she is a nurse, and she volunteers her time at our church, and is just really one of the most fun, supportive and kind-hearted people I have ever met. I am honored to be her friend, and know without a doubt that my life is better having her in it! I am also glad that she kicked cancer's ass multiple times so that I can have her in my life!
Momcat rests after returning home from being treated with Iodine-131 for thyroid tumors. She was a feral cat in downtown Seattle that I trapped 12 years ago. A tough, intelligent girl. Hopefully, she is now cured of being hyperthyroid. And only slightly radioactive.
Theme of The Week - Product Photography
I have Hashimoto's, an auto-immune disorder which is the cause of my hypothyroidism. Because Hashimoto's only attacks the thyroid and because COVID-19 is new, it is unknown if it puts me at a higher risk. Hypothyroidism is an endocrine disorder, and is related to diabetes. Thyroid disease can interfere with the body’s metabolism and can alter blood sugar levels which can increase the risk of developing diabetes. Having diabetes does put a person in the higher risk group.
Thursday, I went on a 2-mile walk. When I got back to my house, I had trouble breathing and was coughing. And because one of my co-workers had been in England 3 weeks ago, I went into panic mode. After a panicked phone call to my doctor, I texted my co-worker and found that they were not sick. After I calmed down, I realized that the pain in my lungs was the same as when I had bronchitis back in December. I could feel my bronchial tubes, a bizarre tight-feeling upside down Y in my chest. Using the inhaler my doctor gave me back in December helped relieve the tightness.
TOTW winner
The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles (3,500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS.
During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, became tourist attractions. St. George, Utah, received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah. Marked increases in cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980. The vast majority of nuclear tests, 828 in all, were underground.
From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 anti-nuclear protests were held at the Nevada Test Site involving 37,488 participants and 15,740 arrests, according to government records.
Those arrested included the astronomer Carl Sagan and the actors Kris Kristofferson, Martin Sheen, and Robert Blake.
The Nevada Test Site contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles (640 km) of paved roads, 300 miles of unpaved roads, ten heliports, and two airstrips.
The test site offers monthly public tours, often fully booked months in advance. Visitors are not allowed to bring in cameras, binoculars, or cell phones, nor are they permitted to pick up rocks for souvenirs.
While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still subcritical testing, used to determine the viability of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal. Additionally, the site is the location of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which sorts and stores low-level radioactive waste that is not transuranic and has a half life not longer than 20 years. Bechtel Nevada Corporation (a joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, and Johnson Controls) ran this complex until 2006. Several other companies won the bid for the contract since and combined to form a new company called National Security Technologies, LLC (a joint venture of Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and Nuclear Fuel Services). AECOM, known earlier as Holmes and Narver, held the Nevada Test Site contract for many years before Bechtel Nevada Corp. had it.
The Radiological/Nuclear WMD Incident Exercise Site (T-1), which replicates multiple terrorist radiological incidents with train, plane, automobile, truck, and helicopter props is located in Area 1, at the former site of tests EASY, SIMON, APPLE-2, and GALILEO.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
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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. :/
Over the past couple of months, I've been battling thyroid cancer. I haven't talked about it here, but it's been what I've been dealing with. I had surgery in March followed by radiation treatment here in May. I've found the best way for me to combat the side effects of the radiation (mainly just a sick/exhausted feeling) has been to get out and be in the woods. So on this particular day, I took a ten mile bike ride on the Great Allegheny Passage from Ohiopyle toward Connellsville. About four miles from Ohiopyle, I came across this nice unnamed falls which looked great thanks to some heavy recent rainfall. Made the perfect spot for a break! Shot with my Fuji X100S, which I started carrying with me on these ventures again. Love that little camera.
The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles (3,500 km2) of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS.
During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, became tourist attractions. St. George, Utah, received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah. Marked increases in cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers, were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980. The vast majority of nuclear tests, 828 in all, were underground.
From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 anti-nuclear protests were held at the Nevada Test Site involving 37,488 participants and 15,740 arrests, according to government records.
Those arrested included the astronomer Carl Sagan and the actors Kris Kristofferson, Martin Sheen, and Robert Blake.
The Nevada Test Site contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles (640 km) of paved roads, 300 miles of unpaved roads, ten heliports, and two airstrips.
The test site offers monthly public tours, often fully booked months in advance. Visitors are not allowed to bring in cameras, binoculars, or cell phones, nor are they permitted to pick up rocks for souvenirs.
While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still subcritical testing, used to determine the viability of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal. Additionally, the site is the location of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which sorts and stores low-level radioactive waste that is not transuranic and has a half life not longer than 20 years. Bechtel Nevada Corporation (a joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, and Johnson Controls) ran this complex until 2006. Several other companies won the bid for the contract since and combined to form a new company called National Security Technologies, LLC (a joint venture of Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and Nuclear Fuel Services). AECOM, known earlier as Holmes and Narver, held the Nevada Test Site contract for many years before Bechtel Nevada Corp. had it.
The Radiological/Nuclear WMD Incident Exercise Site (T-1), which replicates multiple terrorist radiological incidents with train, plane, automobile, truck, and helicopter props is located in Area 1, at the former site of tests EASY, SIMON, APPLE-2, and GALILEO.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...