The Certifiable World.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
Socrates

Thank God my husband is no philospher lol Thats my job lol

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I have an aunt by marriage who is suffering from Epilepsy. She had a hard life struggling with this disease and recently had a brain hemorrhage.
Although she began to talk and answer questions, this morning the doctor said she was in deep sleep.
So what does this all mean Coma?
Is this the end? Well it would not be such a bad thing if God decided to take this poor woman and give her life everlasting where she could live in peace and tranquility.
My own Mom got Parkinsons and Alzheimers as a side effect from the pills they gave her.
The doctors over dozed her and damaged her brain and it went from there. She lived in the country and we had a plane fly by spraying the corn fields.
The water of course, came from under the ground.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown

So as a matter of curiosity, I began to do a little search as to how many people have brain afflictions.If it is of interest to me it might be of interest to many.
First I found stats having to do with Schizophrenia.
Australia has around 285,000 cases
Britain has 280,000 cases,
Canada has 280,000 plus
the US has 2.2 million
India has4.3 - 8.7 cases,
china has 6- 12 million cases.
They say it can be triggered by many things like stress in pregnancy, genes, marijuana and other brain altering drugs,
People can begin having it from 15 years of age.
In the US , in 2002, 62.7 billion was spent dealing with the issue of Schizophrenia.Out of three million people, 21,000 could have this affliction.
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Parkinsons world wide 6 million cases and many undiagnosed
Canada has 100,000 cases of Parkinsons
The US has around 1 000 000 cases
Britain has 800,000 cases
China around 1,200,000

Italy 407 out of 100,000 population
Nebraska, USA is very high 329.3 people/100,000

from highest to lowest/100.000 pop
Sweden 22.5/100,000 pop
Faeroe Islands 21.1
US 20.5/100,000 pop
Japan 16.9
Estonia 16.8/100,000 pop
Finland 16.6
Norway 12.6
England 12/100,000 pop
Bulgaria 11.6
Netherlands 11.5
Italy 10,4
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Alzheimers Dimentia
India 3-4 mill
US 4.5 mill
Canada 420,000 and by 2031 they expect 3/4 million people to have it
England 750,000
Iran 6% of 4,200,00 people or 250,000 people Is Khomeini one of them? How about Khadafi?
We know Reagan had it as President.
France 1.3 mill expected to have it by 2020
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Brain Tumors in US

On January 1, 2002, in the United States, there were approximately 105,960 people (56,865 men and 49,095 women) alive who had a history of brain cancer. This includes any person alive on January 1, 2002, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer at any point prior to January 1, 2002, people with active disease, and those who had been cured of their disease.

Race/Ethnicity	Men	Women
All Races	6.3 per 100,000 men	3.2 per 100,000 women
Caucasian	5.6 per 100,000 men	2.8 per 100,000 women
African American	12.8 per 100,000 men	6.3 per 100,000 women
Asian/Pacific Islander	11.2 per 100,000 men	6.8 per 100,000 women
American Indian/Alaska Native	7.3 per 100,000 men	4.1 per 100,000 women
Hispanic	9.5 per 100,000 men	5.3 per 100,000 women

Brain Cancer Statistics Article

The current estimated human population for the planet earth in 2010 is 6,865,300,000 by the United States Census Bureau. The United Nations estimates that world population will be over the 7,000,000,000 mark in 2011. Recent U.N. organized surveys performed in multiple countries have found the average percentage of people who suffer from some sort of cancer is 31%. The American Cancer Society has found similar numbers in its studies of North and South America.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_get_cancer_in_world#ixzz1ELaNwxmd

I know a lot of people who died from brain tumors but did not find any quick stats available.
I don't know why we sit worrying about wars etc. when most of the world is or will be insane pretty soon.
lol
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crazy quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
Jim Slattery

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen W. Hawking

Life is like a role of toilet paper; hopefully long and useful, but it always ends at the wrong moment.
Rudyh

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yup

We are all certifiable lol
We are all the same where disease is concerned and if the brain is diseased then there is not much hope for anyone. So George Carlin was right when he mentioned the planet being able to take care of itself.
People are dying from HIV. Germs know how to survive our antibacterial products. Cancer requires no oxygen to live . We destroy our planet and then sit rotting in hospitals where there are no answers.

It is scary that the world today is also controlled by people who we do not know, and especially if when we do not know if they are sane or not.

We probably wage wars because of insanity.
We require answers as why we get disfunctional brains and solutions to this problem , sooner rather than later.
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The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test.

Speaking specifically about manic depression, she asked, "How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?"

A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, "A basketball coach?"
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Mary was having a tough day and had stretched herself out on the couch to do a bit of what she thought to be well-deserved complaining and self- pitying.

She moaned to her mom and brother, "Nobody loves me ... the whole world hates me!"

Her brother, busily occupied playing a game, hardly looked up at her and passed on this encouraging word: "That's not true, Mary. Some people don't even know you."

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From the Northwest Florida Daily News comes this story:

A Crestview couple who drove their car to Wal-Mart, only to have their car break down in the parking lot. The man told his wife to carry on with the shopping while he fixed the car in the lot. The wife returned later to see a small group of people near the car.

On closer inspection, she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the chassis. Although the man was in
shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to stand the embarrassment, she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand UP his shorts, and tucked everything back into place. She took a
deep breath and stood up boldly to face the crowd.

She looked across the hood and found herself staring at her husband, who had been standing idly by. The mechanic, however, had to have three stitches in his forehead…

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Have a good one folks :)

No Miracles

French movies are very different from what we watch here in North America. They seem to be closer to the essence of what real life is.

Like today, I watched a movie with subtitles about a man who woke up from a coma and found he was paralyzed from the neck down.
They even sewed up one eye because it wouldn’t tear and they wanted to save it.

He could not talk, so he had to blink for “yes” or “ no”, to communicate.

It was a hard battle for him to relearn how to talk let alone write a book blinking one letter at a time.

He had a family who would come visit and take him on outings with him. He'd watch his two children play and entertain him because he was Dad.

The movie was about his thoughts because he now saw that although his life was loose and immoral, with lots of wine, women and song, it was only the mother of his children and the children who valued him, when others laughed and
mimicked his seemingly vegetative state.

It reminded me of a book we read in High school : Johnny Got his Gun but this young soldier woke up with no arms legs hearing or face. The only way he could communicate was through head banging for “yes” and “no” .

Neither story is a life one wants to live.

To be imprisoned in your head is not an ideal one longs for... and yet, we are all in our heads.

In the end he began to believe that this was just a dream, that he was still in a coma and would one day wake up and live a normal life.

This belief gave him hope and a desire to live, even if it was in his head.
He was able to enjoy life and laugh at people, their silliness and awkwardness as they struggled to make it..... life...... work for them selves.

He could see himself in them, except now he was above it all. He reached a state of higher maturity and understanding. Things which mattered, didn’t matter anymore.
He had lots to fall back on and relate to.

He was able to finally find a little joy in his state of affairs.

I believe eventually Parkinson’s patients must end up this way as well, once their nervous system gives out and fails to send messages to other parts of their body.
I knew this was the case with my Mom.

But as long as there is hope, then I guess everything is bearable.

While I was watching this French movie, multi tasking, I came across a story about the Virgin Mary and people on the net, scoffing at her virginity .

The French movie came to a portion whereby the Wife took this paralyzed man to church where miracles had been witnessed.

He, himself, was not a religious man but had nothing to say in the matter and so the wife spoke for him to the priest. He got his communion and a prayer for a miracle.

No one wants to believe Mary producing a virgin birth because it would definitely be classified as a miracle and yet in life, miracles happen everyday.

Doctors perform surgery with hands guided by nothing short of Gods will. Cancers cure by themselves.
We all have cancer but it takes a strong immune system to keep it under control. Miracle?

The blind see. The deaf hear. Accidents are prevented. Bombs don’t explode. The premature continue to grow and strengthen. Goals are scored miraculously without hindsight. The win is either yours or it isn't. It's already written up for you beforehand.

There are so many stories that have no explanation except that they all must be a result of God’s will.

Incurable diseases get cured.

It’s as if there is such a thing as mind over matter.

Say no to Satan and he will leave your body and make it whole again.

Say yes to God and he will fill your mind with strength to beat the most horrible of all odds.

He will regenerate what seemed to be lost forever.

I don’t know but today seemed to be a day of miracles for me. The way things fell into place so I could sit down, understanding it and write about it.

What people do not seem to understand, is that even with all your faculties in order, people fail to communicate. To communicate requires understanding.

Not understanding and failing to communicate, leads to other problems our society seems to be suffering in. Wars, immorality, hunger, sickness etc.....all of our problems stem from not being able to understand or communicate.

To be able to communicate, with or without all your faculties, is indeed a miracle.
Does it take a paralyzed person to see this or perhaps .....the innocent?
Then why are we lost, with all the knowledge we obtain from life and living?

Something to think about.



:)