Jeanie, It all comes down to something that I wrote about the why's...
Why me? or Why not me. You asked since no one in your family ever had Leukemia then why did you? Also why me? Believe me I have tons of information that I have collected for over 27 years and I have stumbled into some of them. Since I have been an Electrical Engineer for most of my life I had to work on many projects concerning very high voltages that also included high amounts of radio frequencies especially from some of the power stations that feed radio and television transmitters. I had some friends that used to work for Con Edison in one of the power sub stations which I had to be involved with from time to time. Whenever I would enter the felicity the hair on my head and arms would stand on edge even though some of those high voltage tunnels required everyone in those high voltage areas had to wear something called a Faraday shield and some of the power coming into that felicity from the main generating station was around 500,000 volts. As it turned out there were six people working in the facility but not every time in those high voltage tunnels, but I guess enough for everyone to have acquired cancer of different kinds, mostly Leukemia AML but also brain, lung and Myelodysplastic Syndrome which proved fatal to all of them except for the one with Myelodysplastic Syndrome which had no cure. Amazingly he seemed to have beaten it without any explanation from the doctor, and I actually recommended him to that doctor because I knew one of the doctors at the time that I had my bone marrow transplant 26 years ago that specialized in Myelodysplastic Syndrome so I asked him does this ever happen? He told me that every once in a while it does happen. That man never returned to working with anything to do with high voltage electricity. Eventually when I moved to Florida we lost contact with each other. There was another article that I read about power lines that ran through the back yards of peoples homes and it was found that a small percentage of those people that lived near any power lines that had about 13,000 volts did in fact have a higher chance of them getting cancer then those that did not live near ant power lines. Also how about what is in the our water or air or the food that we eat and drink? So let's say that if you are not the one that has the then it May not happen to you. Who knows? Only time may tell? 18's, Marty On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes Marty I've always wondered why I got leukemia. I am the youngest of > 11 children and no cancer in family except lung cancer and 1 breast cancer > in my older sister. > I didn't even know much about leukemia when I was dx. > Even with fighting cml for 12 years I have had a full rich life. > I got to go to the mountains with my daughters and granddaughter. We > stayed in a beautiful cabin high in the mountains. > We toured the Great Smoky Mountains and they are beautiful. > I am now spending a week with my daughters and we are enjoying our visit. > Yes we are born and then we die but sickness teaches us to live each day > as it comes love each other with the time God gives us. > Blessings to all > ❤️❤️ > > My Motto: Faith and Pills❤️ > With 💗Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Chi > Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia > Started Gleevec 2/2004 > Started Tasigna 9/2009 > Started Sprycel 11/2009 > Started Ponatinib January 2015 > Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > > On May 20, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > *I was thinking about most of us that have been through a mirage of > illnesses, myself included, and in thinking about it I have come to the > conclusion "why me" syndrome. However rather saying this, even though we > may be suffering in our own ways why not say "why not me"?.* > > *In effect anyone that has had any health disturbance/s in their lives are > in fact a wounded solider, however, it has also become that wounds heal and > this makes us go on. * > > *I remember two movies that put an impression on me. One was the Shawshank > Redemption. One of the characters, Morgan Freeman told an inmate that "you > either get to living or get to dying.* > > *The other was Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks. He was sitting on a > bench at a bus stop and was talking to a woman who was a total stranger to > him. One of the remarks he made, and this was after his mother had passed > away. He said she once taught him a lesson about life, "life is like a box > of chocolates you never know what you will get" * > > > > > > *When we think about it the one thing that we still have is life. We also > know that every person in this world will have already been borne and > eventually will have to die, it is just how we live our lives in between > those times that really matters, and makes us what we are.* > > *Try to be kind to most people, be compassionate, say hello every one once > in a while.* > *Remember, that life is what you put in to it, and get out of it. * > *18,s* > > *Marty Gartenberg* > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. 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