3G GoofyGeekyGoddess Teh Hawtness HeartB's blog: "Sounding off."

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My best friend had a heart attack at age 30!!!! YES HE IS ONLY 30 YEARS OLD!!! He woke up several times before it happened over the months, with his arms numb or they "fell asleep" and he'd have to shake them to get the feeling back!!! He has been a smoker since he was 17 years old. He used to smoke two packs a day and a year ago, cut down to half a pack to a pack a day. It doesn't matter how much you smoke people!!!! Smoking is going to kill you no matter what!!!!!!!!!!! Monday morning at 3am he called me on my cell phone. I NEVER sleep with my cell phone, but thankfully did that night!!!! He asked me to please come downstairs as soon as possible. I went downstairs and he was hunched over his bed. His arms had gone numb. He had no feeling in them, but could feel me touching them. He was cold and clammy. His mouth and arm were blue on and off. We went to the emergency room where he had to wait twenty minutes before a doctor could see him despite the fact he had chest pain. The doctor couldn't figure out what was wrong, but said because of the chest pain it was important that he stay. After that, we had to wait three hours before being admitted to the hospital so they could keep him for observation. Then it was another two hours before they did an EKG. The doctor ALMOST let him go thinking it could have simply been discomfort, until he looked at the EKG ONE last time. He noticed the line that SHOULD have gone straight dipped down a little!!!! He immediately ordered a CATH and it saved his life!!!!!!!!! Upon surgery, they found that his main artery was totally BLOCKED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They fixed it with a stent. He now has to make drastic changes to his life because he was so stressed out and "fixed it" by smoking. He also has to cut cheese and a lot of sodium out of his diet despite the fact he USUALLY ate healthy before it happened. He has to go to rehab three times a week, is on SEVEN different medications, and MUST quit smoking!!!! He will have to be monitored closely by doctors for the next year. You think you're invincible because you're young?!!?!!? You think death can't touch you?!!?!? You are so very wrong!!!! My point is, you have to be good to your body people!!!!!!! It's the only one you have!!!!! I am SOOOOO grateful I didn't lose my best friend!!!!! Don't you want the people in YOUR life to be grateful they still have you?!?!!? Make the changes necessary for good health TODAY!!!!!!! Tomorrow is never a promise for any of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT INVINCIBLE!!!!!! Repost this if you want to. I want this to make a difference to you people! I want you to know how important it is to be good to your body!!!!! STOP SMOKING!!!!!

All My Love,
3G [GoofyGeekyGoddess] aka Meg

Earlier this month, my world changed. My beloved Aunt Annie passed away. She was my mom's "baby" sister. Annie came to me in spirit that day and told me something had ruptured and she passed out, and she died. It was later found from an autopsy that she had an eptopic pregnancy and bled internally to her death. Her fallopian tube had ruptured. Her death is not what changed my world. The way she died did. Her husband and she were unable to afford insurance. However, Minnesota Care provides free health insurance. She had it, but her husband's inability to help her fill out the paperwork every six months brought forth the day of her death. Now, my Aunt Annie was born with brain damage. Nobody knows how it was caused, but she always had difficulties showing basic emotions and learning. She was a smart woman in her own ways. I connected with her because she was a fellow lover of animals and like me, had an amazing ability to communicate with them like nobody could. She was able to tame ferrel cats and strays like I am able to. Something about that Native American magic perhaps? Basically, she was unable to rely completely on herself. Three days before she died, she was bleeding all over her bedsheets. Her husband, a paramedic at that, changed her bedsheets every hour for three days straight. Now with his knowledge, you'd suspect he'd be bright enough to take my aunt to the hospital and save her life, right? However, his religious beliefs were not supportive of that. He is so pro life, my aunt told me in spirit, that he let her die when she asked him to bring her to the hospital. He could not bear the thought of them aborting his unborn child to save his wife's life. That in turn, leaves him raising their daughter who is not even one years old. I'm absolutely disgusted by what I know intuitively. I have no way of proving it, but I can tell you I'm not the only one who knows injustice lingers in this matter. I have been trying desperately to forgive him for the sake of my cousin. She will be one come March. If anyone has some good sound advice on how to forgive considering the circumstances, please leave it in my comments. :) I need guidance here as much as can be given. Thank you for reading this.....

So I bought a toy from lego.com. I was double charged for it. I brought it to the company's attention and they called the bank and took care of it. I checked my bank account the next day and it said I was not charged AT ALL for the toy ordered at lego.com. Because of this, I withdrew $100 and gave it to my mom seeing as she's broke. That left me with $67. I had to buy groceries so I did. My dad gave me $80 to pay off the overdraw fee that said I owed $44.77. It was taken care of. Then I checked my bank account to find I was -180 dollars. I called the bank and told them what was going on so they took off some of the money. Now I have an outstanding overdraw of $105. I can't take care of it until the 27th which would leave me with about $20 to live off for the month. WTF would you do? Is it the banks fault or.... is it mine? Input welcome.

I'm okay. His anger is not. Sometimes he can be sweet. Most times he can't be. My heart mislead me into believing I was ready and he was ready. Right now we're just friends. I'm trying to keep it at that. I have intimacy issues. He has anger issues. He said he was sorry after we were play fighting and he pushed me into the ground. He didn't mean to hurt me. I know he didn't mean to hurt me. We play fight all the time. He's not as patient as I need for him to be, but... he's better to me than my mother..... than my sister.... than my father are to me. I'm not saying it's okay. It's not okay. For now I'm in a relationship with myself and he's in a relationship with himself. We're just friends right now. It might end up staying at just that and only that. Only time will tell. He needs counselling and I need to feel safe around him. Until then, we're just friends.

Dear Fake Person, I, myself, used to weigh 365 pounds. As a teenager, I was an ugly girl. I saw myself as ugly, but that did not by any means stop people from loving me... nor liking me. My beauty was always within. I was liked and I was loved. I had a heart of gold, and I still do. So I am writing a letter to all of you "fake people" who can't find the strength to be yourselves. I have to wonder what brings you to think you can't be yourself and be liked or loved? Is it that you grew up in an environment where it wasn't safe to be you? I did too, but I was always myself. That's no excuse. Perhaps you were TOLD you were beaten with the ugly stick, not realizing that true beauty lies within? I've been told that. That's still no excuse. Has nobody ever opened a door for you or smiled at you when you smiled at them? Don't let that get you down. I have no respect for the fact that so many people find it necessary to wrap themselves in a painting of another person and create a life that does not exist... just to win over love. Do you realize you are toying with real people with real emotions? You have to take that into consideration. You can't play the victim. You are not a victim. You are victimizing yourself, though. I do have compassion for you... to a degree. Upon analyzing the situation at hand, it makes me think that we as a society are far too judgemental. As children we taunt other children for being different. Do we realize that we are all created to be different? No. No. No we do not. Sometimes, even as adults, we do not come to respect that. We teach our children without realizing it, that they should be just as judgemental as we are. Instead of seeing the beauty of your soul, we choose to look at a person for their cover. We are taught not to judge a book by it's cover, but we grow up in a society that does it all the time. Magazines airbrush celebrities to make them look "better" which in turn makes us "real people" feel worse about ourselves. We put good looking people on a pedestal. We have shows that glorify plastic surgery for the ugly ducklings to become beautiful swans. What changed in them besides their physical appearance? Nothing. They still have the same beautiful soul they were born with. They still have the same glorious heart full of love. I have compassion for people who feel that they will never be good enough as themselves, so they find their escapism in pretending to be somebody that will have an appealing cover. You just want to be liked. You just want to be loved, right? I don't hold anything against you as a person for doing so, but it is not right for anybody to feel so damned insecure that they can't just be themselves. I wish that, being a small part of the human race, I could make a major difference in the way that the entire human race treats their own. You, the way you are, deserve to be liked and loved. It is your soul and your heart that matters most in this world of ours. Have we, as your enemies, no hearts? Have we no ability to see your soul? We are all born with that love within. We are all born with that intuition. As babies... as children... we see the beauty of the soul. How can we not love one another as we should? I am sorry you are not comfortable enough in your own skin to expose your true self. I am sorry you have to find photographs of models or "good looking" people to post as your own. I am sorry that you won't show your true colors. I am sorry you can't see that you would be liked or loved as yourself. Not everybody is shallow. I wish you could see that. This is my letter to fake people. I sincerely hope that you all find the strength within to come out of the darkness and be yourself. You deserve to feel safe. You deserve to be liked, loved and respected like anybody else does. Sincerely, A Real Person

Obama is a fine example of diversity... not the anti-Christ. Have you ever taken into consideration that he, being of a multicultural background, may actually be the perfect candidate for Presidency seeing as we as a nation have to make peace with various countries?????? Let alone he's the exact opposite of George W. Bush whereas John McCain is a spinoff of Dubya. Therefore, we need a positive change... not a minor adjustment. I'm voting for Barack Obama. I want to see change. I don't want to just dream of it anymore. That's all we'd be doing if we voted for John McCain: dreaming of changes to come.... and they won't.

Pray for me. I'm very sick right now, hence my unusually crabby self. They're checking my ALT on my liver again because it was elevated three months ago. An elevation in my ALT could indicate anything from liver disease, liver failure or my consuming something containing soy all those months ago. However, I am in a lot of pain, been throwing up bile and tire easily when I eat and/or drink. They're not sure what's wrong. I have another appointment in the morning to see if they need to draw more blood or not. I'm asking you to think positive thoughts for me. I really need positive energy sent my way right now. Thank you. In Love And Light, Meg aka |3G|

Mankind kills you, not God. I'm sorry to say we are our own worst enemy in many ways. I'm trying my damnedest to go back to life the way it should be: without chemicals AT ALL. I eat organic foods, I drink organic beverages, I wear some organic clothing (I can't afford it to all be organic), I use organic deodorant, soap and shampoo. I also use Seventh Generation laundry detergent. Why? I have a disease (PCOS) *and* the genes that puts me at greater odds of developing SEVERAL forms of cancer. I'd rather be healthy, obviously. I'd rather be safe than sorry. At least this way... I'm giving myself a chance to overcome the odds. Be well. Do whatever it takes to be well. In Love And Light, |3G| aka Meg Are Vinyl Shower Curtains Toxic? AOL Posted: 2008-06-12 19:03:49 Filed Under: Health News (June 12) - That new vinyl shower curtain with the fun rubber ducks sure has a powerful smell -- but could it be toxic? Yes, according to a national environment group. Photo Gallery Tim Sloan, AFP / Getty Images Chemicals in Plastics Spark Safety Concerns1 of 5 That "new shower curtain smell" might be giving off toxic chemicals linked to serious health problems, according to a new study. A national environmental group tested vinyl shower curtains sold at major retailers nationwide and found they contained high concentrations of phthalates. The Center for Health, Environment and Justice, based in Washington, tested five brand curtains and liners sold at major retailers nationwide, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Kmart, Sears, Target and Wal-Mart, the New York Daily News reported. Researchers said all of the curtains contained phthalates, chemical substances used to make plastics soft and flexible, and varying amounts of organotins, which are compounds based on tin and hydrocarbons. Studies have linked such chemicals to damage to the liver and the central nervous, respiratory and reproductive systems. "The familiar 'new curtain smell' may be toxic to your health," said Mike Schade, the center's PVC campaign coordinator. "It's really surprising that retailers are manufacturing products that contain and release harmful chemicals in our homes."

Yes it's a real MuMM. I know it seems like it's out of a movie, but it's not. This is a real situation. This plays a BIG part in my social phobia. I am afraid to leave my house at all hours of the day, some days are worse than others. This has been an issue since I was 15. I'm now 28. So if you want to think it's out of a movie, go ahead. I know the reality of it. I live it every damn day. Shut the fuck up and quit judging me. You don't know what the Hell I go through. Be glad you don't.