May I suggest starting a thread entitled "Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton are ugly"
;P Dana On 5/4/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, I don't want to go there again, but I have noticed that I haven't > been getting enough email lately. > > ;) > > > Dana wrote: > > Do we really want to go there again? All I know is that my recent > > adventures in beta-medicine have taught me that medicine is like > > anything else. There is a conventional wisdom, which, once you dig, is > > usually not exactly true. So I am wary of things that everyone agrees > > are true. To take an example that does not relate to my own health -- > > which I would rather not hash out onlist -- conventional medical > > wisdom says that prunebelly syndrome is a hopeless condition and if > > your baby has it you may as well abort. Yet I have talked to many many > > healthy adults with the syndrome as part of the pro bono work I did > > for that group. > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > On 5/4/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Did anyone see the story about the brain damaged fireman who woke up > >>after 9 years? > >> > >>Maybe they shouldn't have let Terry go? > >> > >>http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-brain04.html > >> > >>Channeling Linda Richman of SNL fame: > >> > >>"Sometimes a PVS is not really persistent. Discuss" > >> > >>THE STORY: > >> > >>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Nearly 91/2 years after a firefighter was left > >>brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did > >>something that shocked his doctors: He asked for his wife. > >> > >>Staffers at the nursing home where Donald Herbert has lived for more > >>than seven years raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. > >> > >>It was the first of many conversations the patient had with his wife and > >>four sons Saturday during a 14-hour stretch, Herbert's uncle Simon Manka > >>said. > >> > >>''How long have I been away?'' Herbert asked. ''We told him almost 10 > >>years,'' the uncle said. ''He thought it was only three months.'' > >> > >>''He stayed up 'til early morning talking with his boys and catching up > >>on what they've been doing over the last several years,'' firefighter > >>Anthony Liberatore said. > >> > >>Dr. Rose Lynn Sherr of New York University said such a recovery is > >>"almost unheard of after 10 years.'' AP > >> > >>-- > >>================================================================= > >>Ray Champagne - Senior Application Developer > >>CrystalVision Web Site Design and Internet Services > >>603.433.9559 > >>www.crystalvision.org > >>================================================================= > >> > >>The information contained in this transmission (including any > >>attached files) is CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the > >>person(s) named above. If you received this transmission in > >>error, please delete it from your system and notify us > >>immediately. If you are not an intended recipient, please note > >>that any use or dissemination of the information contained in this > >>transmission (including any attached files) and the copying, > >>printing, or retransmission of that information is strictly > >>prohibited. You can notify us by return email or by phone at > >>603.433.9559. > >> > >>Thank you. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156383 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
