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Medical Misdiagnosis October 1, 2018

Posted by wmmbb in Personal Experience.
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After a week, I was released from hospital on Friday. I was not expecting to be admitted. I had gone to St George Hospital to get a second opinion, after I had been categorically diagnosed as having cirrhosis (hardening of the liver)by doctors at Wollongong Hospital.

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EDUCATION WAS FOR SOMETHING December 20, 2013

Posted by wmmbb in Growth, Personal Experience.
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We are born. We spend a fixed amount of time within the matrix of the Earth’s ecosystem, sometimes at psychological, psychic distance from mother nature, while simultaneously indifferently trashing and despoiling her foundations and fundamentals. We are somehow thoroughly culturally conditioned. We had better know something of the environment of ideas we inhabit. Then we die.
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NELSON MANDELA: PLAYER IN HISTORY December 9, 2013

Posted by wmmbb in Modern History, Personal Experience.
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History in our age of global communications can often occur, like sport, as spectacle. Events take place and  the personal experience is disconnected, or the direct autobiographical and personal context and location is very different.
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MENTAL HEALTH CARE August 8, 2012

Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics, Personal Experience.
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The Olympics might be seen as the achievement both of physical health and special talent and skills.I have not appreciated the issue of mental health until I had experience with another person’s attempted suicide.
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THE SCALE OF THINGS February 10, 2012

Posted by wmmbb in Personal Experience, Philosophy.
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We might not be able to comprehend infinity, although at least 78 million light years might well be infinity for practical purposes, although it has a beginning and an end, and measures across the Galaxy.
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SRI LANKA CALL SCAM October 22, 2011

Posted by wmmbb in Humankind/Planet Earth, Personal Experience.
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I suppose that might have been Colombo calling, but I did not ask.  I had become too angry and was running off at the mouth.
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WHY WORK? April 17, 2011

Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics, Humankind/Planet Earth, Peace, Personal Experience.
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Our apparently feeble-brained Prime Minister has proposed that all work is ennobling, when the overwhelming evidence  that it is often debilitating and counter-productive.
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TODAY: HEADING TO HOSPITAL March 30, 2011

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Hospitals are the test of civilization, but operations of any type are best avoided if possible.
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KIDNEY DISEASE AND CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE October 9, 2010

Posted by wmmbb in Personal Experience.
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Prednisone did not work for my kidney condition. Now I will be taking Cyclophosphamide as from tomorrow.
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