My youngest son impressed upon me this evening to watch some PETA videos with him. They were some tragically sad videos. Pregnant female horses being strapped for their urine, rabbits, monkeys, dogs, cats, ... so many poor animals ... even chickens who belonged to KFC and were too fat to walk. It was too sad.
Yet, they were animals.
I don't mean in any way to make it sound like the torture the animals went through ... are still going through ... is acceptable. It is not. Testing on animals should be stopped now.
Anyone - any laboratory - and research facility - any type of animal testing should stop immediately.
I don't understand the use of animals for research for human development or human research.
However, as a passionate believer in pro-life, with no exceptions, I also do not support any animal organization or environmental organization as long as abortion is legal.
You want to save the whales? Go for it. Not with my dime. My money, my energy, and my talents will go towards the pro-life effort. In my opinion there is never a reason for an abortion - not incest, not rape - the statistics prove there are far too few pregnancies as a result of incest or rape.
The bottom line is we have been given dominion over the animals. The animals are not on the same level as human life. Please do not forget that babies are more important than animals.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Not a Stroke -- Just Epilepsy
A few years ago ... let's say March of 2001 ... I experienced my first inkling of what would become Absence Epilepsy. Of course I didn't know it was epilepsy. I thought I was having a stroke.
So of course I did the smart thing and drove myself to my doctor's office. Wouldn't you?
Eventually I wound up in the emergency room of a wonderful hospital. Being very bored I had to have something to do.
What you have to remember is I had had a seizure. A massive seizure -- all of my communication skills were gone, and my words, when I tried, I just stumbled. Finally, I was able to convey to the ER nurses I needed a phone and a phone book, which they were quick to provide.
Easily I was able to find people to call - though I don't remember whether I knew them or not. Speaking on the phone was not easy for me, and the people who answered their phones, had to wonder who was calling them.
I do remember calling people time and again. And, the phone I used was on the nurses' counter, so they couldn't really take it away from me, and they couldn't sedate me without a doctor's orders.
I had to have been a real pain for them, but they were always gracious and kind to me. Finally, the ER doctor came, sedated me and whisked me off to an MRI. While the ER nurses had a break from me, the neuro nurses had no idea what was coming.
Here it is eight years later -- and I never had a stroke, just epilepsy, a brain tumor, and brain cancer ... inoperable at that. After radiation and chemo I am so blessed to know and be able to praise the Living God ... I have no brain tumor, no brain cancer.
The aphasia that goes along with the seizures of abs-once epilepsy can be frustrating, and exhausting. Nothing like the other types of epilepsy, and for that I am thankful.
So of course I did the smart thing and drove myself to my doctor's office. Wouldn't you?
Eventually I wound up in the emergency room of a wonderful hospital. Being very bored I had to have something to do.
What you have to remember is I had had a seizure. A massive seizure -- all of my communication skills were gone, and my words, when I tried, I just stumbled. Finally, I was able to convey to the ER nurses I needed a phone and a phone book, which they were quick to provide.
Easily I was able to find people to call - though I don't remember whether I knew them or not. Speaking on the phone was not easy for me, and the people who answered their phones, had to wonder who was calling them.
I do remember calling people time and again. And, the phone I used was on the nurses' counter, so they couldn't really take it away from me, and they couldn't sedate me without a doctor's orders.
I had to have been a real pain for them, but they were always gracious and kind to me. Finally, the ER doctor came, sedated me and whisked me off to an MRI. While the ER nurses had a break from me, the neuro nurses had no idea what was coming.
Here it is eight years later -- and I never had a stroke, just epilepsy, a brain tumor, and brain cancer ... inoperable at that. After radiation and chemo I am so blessed to know and be able to praise the Living God ... I have no brain tumor, no brain cancer.
The aphasia that goes along with the seizures of abs-once epilepsy can be frustrating, and exhausting. Nothing like the other types of epilepsy, and for that I am thankful.
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