One of my parent’s next door neighbors, John, is in need of an organ transplant. His liver stopped working last week. Now things get a little worse see, in Ohio in order to get on a liver organ transplant list one has to have been in Alcoholic Anonymous for at least 2 years on top of the fiscally able to pay for the procedure and anti rejection medication for the rest of his life and proving that his imedate and extended family will provide enough support for long term survival. Now in John’s case they think the liver problem was not caused by alcohol but is heredity, which also means that family partial donors are probably a no go, regardless the 2 years of AA is required.
Given it all John’s options don’t look good so the family has asked me to look around for more options and I you. I have been doing some net searching but if anyone has or finds more info please comment, mail me or say a prayer.
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One of my parent’s next door neighbors, John, is in need of an organ transplant. His liver stopped working last week. Now things get a little worse see, in Ohio in order to get on a liver organ transplant list one has to have been in Alcoholic Anonymous for at least 2 years on top of the fiscally able to pay for the procedure and anti rejection medication for the rest of his life and proving that his imedate and extended family will provide enough support for long term survival. Now in John’s case they think the liver problem was not caused by alcohol but is heredity, which also means that family partial donors are probably a no go, regardless the 2 years of AA is required.
Given it all John’s options don’t look good so the family has asked me to look around for more options and I you. I have been doing some net searching but if anyone has or finds more info please comment, mail me or say a prayer.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Well a big happy Thanksgiving day to you! I really have one big thing to be thankful for this year, spending it with my family. See since I was in Canada for the past 2 Thanksgivings it is actually a big deal, something I have really missed.
Well gotta run, time to clean up and head to pick up Grandma and head to Aunt Pat’s and Uncle Frank’s.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Well a big happy Thanksgiving day to you! I really have one big thing to be thankful for this year, spending it with my family. See since I was in Canada for the past 2 Thanksgivings it is actually a big deal, something I have really missed.
Well gotta run, time to clean up and head to pick up Grandma and head to Aunt Pat’s and Uncle Frank’s.
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What is a Just War?
I’m glad to have found St Thomas Aquinas’ Conditions for a Just War which I first remembered encountering during the first U.S. vs. Iraq War baci in ’90 and ’91. At the time I wanted to go on the record as being a concious objector, simply put my religon had to all for concious objection and I had to be on record with some leader of my religon that I was one. Being Roman Catholic concious objection is allowed if the War was an Unjust War as defined by the above link.
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What is a Just War?
I’m glad to have found St Thomas Aquinas’ Conditions for a Just War which I first remembered encountering during the first U.S. vs. Iraq War baci in ’90 and ’91. At the time I wanted to go on the record as being a concious objector, simply put my religon had to all for concious objection and I had to be on record with some leader of my religon that I was one. Being Roman Catholic concious objection is allowed if the War was an Unjust War as defined by the above link.
| “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” |
| You are Desiderius Erasmus! You have great love for others and will do just about anything to show it to them. You are tolerant and avoid confrontations, so people generally are drawn to you. You are more quiet and reserved in front of strangers, but around some people you open up. When things get tough, you like to meditate alone. Unfortunately you often get things like “what a pansy,” or “you’re such a liberal.” |
What theologian are you?
A creation of Henderson
| “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” |
| You are Desiderius Erasmus! You have great love for others and will do just about anything to show it to them. You are tolerant and avoid confrontations, so people generally are drawn to you. You are more quiet and reserved in front of strangers, but around some people you open up. When things get tough, you like to meditate alone. Unfortunately you often get things like “what a pansy,” or “you’re such a liberal.” |
What theologian are you?
A creation of Henderson
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Serendipity of the Blog
Serendipity is all about making fortunate discoveries by accident. You can’t automate accidental discoveries, but you can manufacture the conditions in which such events are more likely to occur.
First thought, how my blog has recently connected me to a deceased friend‘s relative. How the previous sentence was the second most emotionaly difficult thing I have wrote on this site, the first being the above mentioned post.
Honestly I really have no idea why I do this. Many of the reasons mentioned in Manufactured Serendipity could apply.
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Serendipity of the Blog
Serendipity is all about making fortunate discoveries by accident. You can’t automate accidental discoveries, but you can manufacture the conditions in which such events are more likely to occur.
First thought, how my blog has recently connected me to a deceased friend‘s relative. How the previous sentence was the second most emotionaly difficult thing I have wrote on this site, the first being the above mentioned post.
Honestly I really have no idea why I do this. Many of the reasons mentioned in Manufactured Serendipity could apply.