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***Earniel*** · 03-30-2010, 05:51 PM

Then I think some species may want to evolve in something horribly-tasting really quick.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-30-2010, 06:10 PM

They'll probably have to grow poisonous. If they just taste horrible, they'll become a much demanded item at chic restaurants.

***Earniel*** · 03-31-2010, 05:32 AM

Not enough. Tetrodotoxine is pretty nasty stuff, but it doesn't stop people from eating puffer fish.

Amael · 03-31-2010, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Sometimes I really wonder how we manage to have any species left.

I wonder about that a lot these days. But there is always hope! The night is always darkest before dawn. The only question is ... what's the darkest it can get?

***Tessar*** · 03-31-2010, 12:42 PM

Please pray for my sister, guys. It's my oldest sister. She just called me and told me that she went to see the doctor because she has been feeling crappy lately, and apparently there is a spot on her liver. Tomorrow she's going in for a CT scan or something...

I don't know what it means, and when I googled it I got too freaked out to keep researching. But it looks like it could either be a cancer that has a less than 5% survival rate, or it could be absolutely nothing... or a cyst or just something relatively minor. Like I said, I couldn't handle much research.

I'm really worried. :-/ I really hope this is nothing.

inked · 03-31-2010, 06:15 PM

Prayers ascending, Tessar!

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-31-2010, 10:51 PM

Sicut incensum. Keep us updated.

***Earniel*** · 04-01-2010, 08:08 AM

Let's hope it will turn out okay.

But trust me when I say that one should never try to diagnose something using the internet. You will only end up with the worst-case scenarios.

Midge · 04-01-2010, 12:31 PM

Indeed. I heard a news report advising people not to look up what may be wrong with them on the internet for just that point. It makes doctors waste time convincing their patients they don't have something that they really don't have.

My beef today is that Youtube switched formats and got rid of their "Randomize" button! Stupid Youtube.

**Mari** · 04-01-2010, 02:00 PM

Oh, that's scary Tess. I'll pray for her.
Just out of interest: did you look up the chances that it actually is a horrible cancer? Percentages and internet diagnoses can be a bad mix.

***Tessar*** · 04-05-2010, 12:23 AM

Thanks guys... at this point it's looking like it may just be a blood clot, but they wont get actual results for another day or two. I mean... a blood clot isn't great, and she is still in some pain/it's potentially dangerous, but not nearly as serious as it could be.

So hopefully it's just that.

***Tessar*** · 04-08-2010, 11:23 PM

Say a prayer. I think she gets the results tomorrow. It's probably nothing

. But anxiousness is par for the course at this point.

***Varnafindë*** · 04-09-2010, 03:22 AM

Will pray.

***Tessar*** · 04-09-2010, 07:02 PM

Sounds like we have good news, considering what it could have been.

She has a tiny birth defect... apparently some of her blood vessels in her liver are tangled up so she may have internal bleeding and she might need surgery. Apparently it's somewhat common, and it usually never bothers people, but somehow it's being a problem for my sister.

... which doesn't sound so great when I say that, BUT... it's not cancer or the other horrible things it could've been. She's going in for another appointment soon so they can figure out if she's going to need surgery or if they can handle it without any of that.

***Earniel*** · 04-10-2010, 06:25 AM

That's a relief, at least in the way it is not something horribly lethal.

**Mari** · 04-10-2010, 01:46 PM

What Earn said

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-10-2010, 04:18 PM

Tritto.

Midge · 04-12-2010, 02:43 PM

RAR! I hope that buying a house is generally easier when you a) don't have school and b) have all your records in one household, instead of scattered over two!

I feel like butter scraped over too much bread. Which probably means I'm addicted to something - maybe not a Ring, but something else... like reading books or doing too much stuff for other people. *sigh*

***Tessar*** · 04-12-2010, 08:20 PM

I'm going to have to ask for prayers again. Unfortunately apparently they spoke too soon... that's just a birthmark on her liver (?! I had no idea there was such a thing) so now they have no idea why she's been so tired and in pain. More tests are going to follow.

I have a hunch it might be depression and lack of sleep. That's what I'm hoping it is. She had a problem like this in college, and it was just because of stress and staying up till all hours of the night plus partying too hard. I suspect she is repeating that pattern now as a working adult.

I hope that's all it is.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-12-2010, 09:37 PM

More where that came from!

03-30-2010, 05:51 PM	#161
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Then I think some species may want to evolve in something horribly-tasting really quick. __________________ We are not things.

03-30-2010, 06:10 PM	#162
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	They'll probably have to grow poisonous. If they just taste horrible, they'll become a much demanded item at chic restaurants. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-31-2010, 05:32 AM	#163
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Not enough. Tetrodotoxine is pretty nasty stuff, but it doesn't stop people from eating puffer fish. __________________ We are not things. Last edited by Earniel : 03-31-2010 at 08:31 AM. Reason: edited because if you're going to sling about long names you might as well get them right.

03-31-2010, 06:15 PM	#166
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Prayers ascending, Tessar! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

03-31-2010, 10:51 PM	#167
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Sicut incensum. Keep us updated. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-31-2010, 12:42 PM	#165
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Please pray for my sister, guys. It's my oldest sister. She just called me and told me that she went to see the doctor because she has been feeling crappy lately, and apparently there is a spot on her liver. Tomorrow she's going in for a CT scan or something... I don't know what it means, and when I googled it I got too freaked out to keep researching. But it looks like it could either be a cancer that has a less than 5% survival rate, or it could be absolutely nothing... or a cyst or just something relatively minor. Like I said, I couldn't handle much research. I'm really worried. :-/ I really hope this is nothing.

04-01-2010, 08:08 AM	#168
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Let's hope it will turn out okay. But trust me when I say that one should never try to diagnose something using the internet. You will only end up with the worst-case scenarios. __________________ We are not things.

04-01-2010, 12:31 PM	#169
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	Indeed. I heard a news report advising people not to look up what may be wrong with them on the internet for just that point. It makes doctors waste time convincing their patients they don't have something that they really don't have. My beef today is that Youtube switched formats and got rid of their "Randomize" button! Stupid Youtube. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

04-01-2010, 02:00 PM	#170
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Oh, that's scary Tess. I'll pray for her. Just out of interest: did you look up the chances that it actually is a horrible cancer? Percentages and internet diagnoses can be a bad mix. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

04-05-2010, 12:23 AM	#171
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Thanks guys... at this point it's looking like it may just be a blood clot, but they wont get actual results for another day or two. I mean... a blood clot isn't great, and she is still in some pain/it's potentially dangerous, but not nearly as serious as it could be. So hopefully it's just that.

04-08-2010, 11:23 PM	#172
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Say a prayer. I think she gets the results tomorrow. It's probably nothing . But anxiousness is par for the course at this point.

04-09-2010, 03:22 AM	#173
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	Will pray. __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

04-09-2010, 07:02 PM	#174
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Sounds like we have good news, considering what it could have been. She has a tiny birth defect... apparently some of her blood vessels in her liver are tangled up so she may have internal bleeding and she might need surgery. Apparently it's somewhat common, and it usually never bothers people, but somehow it's being a problem for my sister. ... which doesn't sound so great when I say that, BUT... it's not cancer or the other horrible things it could've been. She's going in for another appointment soon so they can figure out if she's going to need surgery or if they can handle it without any of that.

04-10-2010, 06:25 AM	#175
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	That's a relief, at least in the way it is not something horribly lethal. __________________ We are not things.

04-10-2010, 01:46 PM	#176
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	What Earn said __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

04-10-2010, 04:18 PM	#177
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Tritto. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-12-2010, 02:43 PM	#178
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	RAR! I hope that buying a house is generally easier when you a) don't have school and b) have all your records in one household, instead of scattered over two! I feel like butter scraped over too much bread. Which probably means I'm addicted to something - maybe not a Ring, but something else... like reading books or doing too much stuff for other people. sigh __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

04-12-2010, 08:20 PM	#179
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'm going to have to ask for prayers again. Unfortunately apparently they spoke too soon... that's just a birthmark on her liver (?! I had no idea there was such a thing) so now they have no idea why she's been so tired and in pain. More tests are going to follow. I have a hunch it might be depression and lack of sleep. That's what I'm hoping it is. She had a problem like this in college, and it was just because of stress and staying up till all hours of the night plus partying too hard. I suspect she is repeating that pattern now as a working adult. I hope that's all it is.

04-12-2010, 09:37 PM	#180
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	More where that came from! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

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