Tag: dying
member name: Fern Cohen
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April 02, 2008 09:45 PM EDT --
According to a special on ABC-TV this week, there is a place in the United States where, for a price of $70,000, you can have your body cryogenically frozen when you die. They drain the body of blood . . .
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April 02, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
This week on a Barbara Walters special, she explored the idea of longevity. There is a scientist who is trying to isolate a chemical from red wine that could help us live to 150 years old. . . .
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March 21, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
As with everyone else in New York these days, I find myself distracted by the Governor Spitzer sex scandal, the subsequent Governor Paterson extramarital-affair gossip, and the [NJ former governor] McGreevey . . .
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March 26, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
At my support group Monday our facilitator provided a little insight, which was sad for me to hear, but I had to hear it to make sense of something I have not been able to make sense out of for a long . . .
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April 11, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
I went back to the internist today. The blood pressure was 144 over 88. This was acceptable to her, but it's still too high in my book. It should be more like 125 over 75 or 80. . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:05 PM EST --
January 27, 2008 was the fourth anniversary of my ALS diagnosis!!
The next day – January 28, I had my quarterly appointment at the Beth Israel ALS clinic. There were several things I wanted . . .
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April 25, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
It's been an interesting week for sure!
Saturday night, I went to an extended-family seder given by the family of a friend and her husband [he has ALS]. It was nice; we took Access-a-Ride, . . .
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December 29, 2007 04:10 PM EST --
I've been through a very weird two weeks. First I was broadsided by a crisis with one of my aides. It was about something the new "fill-in" aide said that was totally twisted . . .
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January 05, 2008 07:33 PM EST --
A New Year. The only resolution I am making is to make no resolutions. I will try to live one day at a time, and have no more hopes of anything getting any better or any easier. It's . . .
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June 28, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Everybody always asks the same questions: First, they want to know how I got it. Then they want to know what can cure it. And the hardest question of all: “When did you first notice something was . . .
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February 21, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
Everybody always asks the same questions: First, they want to know how I got it. Then they want to know what can cure it. And the hardest question of all: “When did you first notice something was . . .
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