Jersey Girl wrote:Can you have some kind of topical numbing cream for the sunburned areas?
malkie wrote:The radiation techs recommended a non-oily over-the-counter cream for me. I used it a few times. Aloe vera is also supposed to be good. Some people have no issues - others (!!) are just very sensitive (in lots of ways), and benefit from a little soothing (in lots of ways )
Jersey Girl wrote:Oh okay. I was thinking more along the line of actual numbing creams. Like numb, son.
Sorry - numb brain. From what I've heard (and felt), numbing should not be needed - the radiation plan is designed to minimise skin effect while maximising tumour exposure.
Just as I was about to hit "submit" I realised that it might look as if I were saying "Sorry you numb brain." rather than using my numb brain as an excuse.
1. It's not what I meant. 2. I wouldn't dare!
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Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
Judging by what I have learned from my extensive reading of history (especially religious history), and by the well documented fact that sick people who pray or are prayed for are not any more or less likely to survive or experience a speedy recovery than those who receive only conventional medical attention, my guess is that God, if he exists, can best be described as completely indifferent, rather than great or just.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Gunnar wrote:Judging by what I have learned from my extensive reading of history (especially religious history), and by the well documented fact that sick people who pray or are prayed for are not any more or less likely to survive or experience a speedy recovery than those who receive only conventional medical attention, my guess is that God, if he exists, can best be described as completely indifferent, rather than great or just.
given your "judgement", then what purpose does a thread such as this serve?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
subgenius wrote:given your "judgement", then what purpose does a thread such as this serve?
What worthwhile purpose does your incessant trolling and blindly irrational, sycophantic support of Trump serve?
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Just? Well, if he is, he certainly interprets that word in a very different sense from the way it is usually employed by those human beings recognised as having the highest ethical standards. He really doesn't seem to bother much whether the weak and innocent get murdered, tortured or raped on his watch, does he? Whereas a human being who did nothing to stop such outrages while knowing about them and having the power to stop them would be seen as spectacularly unjust, not?
Oh wait ... he may not look just if we judge by the way he runs the world in which we actually live, but it will all work out just fine when we are all dead. Is that it?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Jersey Girl wrote:So now this supportive thread has turned into a debate/pissing contest over the existence or non existence of God.
I'm completely disgusted.
Well, I appreciate your attempt to turn this strictly into a support thread. I thought you had already started a thread like that elsewhere. But he OP clearly questions the existence of God and it is something I struggle to deal with because I have literally hundreds of well meaning, good hearted people offering "thoughts and prayers" while at the same time I don't believe that's particularly helpful. Of course I don't ever say this to them because that would be rude and they don't owe me a damn thing anyway so I keep my mouth shut. But at the same time I have to deal with a lot of them currently pushing all kinds of pseudo-medicine "spiritual" crap onto us. Videos with miracle cures from "natural medicine." From the essential oils people pushing diffusers and frankincense onto us, to the constant Deepak Chopra type loonies who keep my wife watching these videos to the point that I'm worried she's getting into another cult. It is getting a bit out of hand.
I had to send my own mother-in law away after two months because she keeps trying to give my wife special herbs that the doctor said is forbidden. She sent me to the store to buy all kinds of weird crap and I didn't understand why until I realized she thought it was actually curing her of cancer. Ginger root, almond oil, every damned herb you can think of, Papaya, milk thistle, you name it. I was blowing a hundred bucks on grocery list every 3 days because this crap is friggin expensive. And of course the Elders giving her blessing every week is just bound to turn into, "See the Church is true after all, otherwise how come my cancer went away?"
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