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Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: scouted: EU wants to ban cig ads


> In a message dated 11/21/02 6:08:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << My younger brother, now deceased, was more or less in the same boat.
>  But he got allergy shots for years and by the time we were teens I was
known
>  as the one with the bad allergies. <G> >>
>
> Ah, but you have to have money for shots. I don't have any.
> Or you have to be poor to get free care. I'm not poor; I have land and a
> business.
>
> Since 9-11 I've been living sorta hand to mouth. Two out of three
investors
> who were going to raise shrimp on desert land had offices in one of the
> towers. Our extended family has been trying to sell some land since then.
>
> It takes about $500 just for the alergy testing. I'm in a kinda holding
> pattern...
>
I understand.
I was the oldest of 7 kids. When my brother was getting the allergy shots
there were at least 5 of us. We were.....almost poor......considering the
standards of the 60s.
It was a pretty major sacrifice for Chris to get those shots.

When Chris was born (about 18 months after I was born) he got a nasty staph
infection while still in the hospital. He almost died and spent quite a long
time recovering in the hospital. (The hospital I now work at coincidentally)
Being so sick so soon after birth caused Chris to have quite a few health
problems ( he was pretty much the runt of the litter also), and I suppose my
parents felt he had it (allergy shots) coming to him.

xponent
Lucky Maru
rob


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