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  Torn between being Gay and the Truth.........

  by ScoobySnax in

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  is there anything worse than this?

  sometimes it is ok, other times it sucks.

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  MsMcDucket

  correct, I believe in the Bible God's word

  Well, whatever floats your boat. Just stop running into mine. I don't have to believe in what you believe in.
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  Torn between being Gay and the Truth.........

  by ScoobySnax in

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  is there anything worse than this?

  sometimes it is ok, other times it sucks.

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  MsMcDucket

  Hey Dinah! What up!? I think Scooby got information overload. It seems that he's getting a lot of PM's. He just needs to get away from the computer and chill or play some easy word game or something that relaxes him.

  It took me 18 years to see the light. To free my mind of that heavy yoke!
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  bone marrow for dummies

  by loosie in

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  please forgive my ignorance but i need to know.

  when someone gets a bone marrow transplant does that involve a blood tranfusion?

  my friend (who is still in and doesn't know i am out) has a friend who is getting a bone marrow transplant.. i was wondering how much icky worldy blood she will get from the bone marrow donor?.

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  MsMcDucket

  This article is old but it gives a case study.

  When a Jehovah's Witness is diagnosed with AML, it is important that these issues are confronted immediately. Any new forms of therapy, such as the use of autologous stem cell grafts, should be discussed with patients early in the course of the disease. Patients will then frequently seek advice from the Jehovah's Witness liaison committees about the therapies in question. In considering bone marrow transplants and peripheral blood stem cell autografts in this case, the local committee sought further advice from Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States but decided, in the end, that the use of these techniques was up to the conscience of the individual concerned.

  My feeling is that if the procedure had been presented as essentially the same as "white blood cell transfusion", WTS would have said "no". In this case, it was presented as the same as "bone marrow transplants", and the WTS said "OK, conscience matter". I think this is a good case to show how arbitrary and how murky is the boundary between permitted and prohibited treatment.

  http://www.ajwrb.org/physicians/muramoto-murky.html
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  bone marrow for dummies

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please forgive my ignorance but i need to know.

  when someone gets a bone marrow transplant does that involve a blood tranfusion?

  my friend (who is still in and doesn't know i am out) has a friend who is getting a bone marrow transplant.. i was wondering how much icky worldy blood she will get from the bone marrow donor?.

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  MsMcDucket

  I really don't know for sure.

  But here's a case report for you:

  The patient is a Jehovah's Witness and enrolled in the Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program at University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care. He is unwilling to accept red blood cells or platelet transfusions because of religious convictions, but accepts erythropoietin, interleukin-11, G-CSF, peripheral blood stem cells, and bone marrow. Informed consent was signed for a bloodless autologous stem cell transplant.

  http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v26/n2/full/1702483a.html (You can read the full story.)
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  Torn between being Gay and the Truth.........

  by ScoobySnax in

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  is there anything worse than this?

  sometimes it is ok, other times it sucks.

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  MsMcDucket

  ducket- you are obviously an unbeliver

  As Little John says "What!?". You mean I don't believe the things that you believe in.
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  Torn between being Gay and the Truth.........

  by ScoobySnax in

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  is there anything worse than this?

  sometimes it is ok, other times it sucks.

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  MsMcDucket

  If you are a christian you are equipped to handle this and you expect it. i would much rather suffer a little here on earth than die and suffer forever because my head was too thick to see the truth

  Oh brother! Lord have mercy! You might as well dust your feet off and keep strutting cause I'll never believe that.
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  Torn between being Gay and the Truth.........

  by ScoobySnax in

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  is there anything worse than this?

  sometimes it is ok, other times it sucks.

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  MsMcDucket

  When you put God first in your life everything else falls in place. so stop thinking about yourselves so much. God is just and God is fair, He did create justice and fairness

  That's pure malarky! The bible makes people think that they are supposed to suffer, quietly, until they die; and then, after they're dead there will be no more suffering. You got to wait until you're dead to be happy.
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  Did anyone ever "Really" stumble you ?

  by Casper in

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  this is one of the things i felt could get really petty in the congregation i attended, sometimes over the top, in my opinion.. one time a group of us sisters went on a shopping trip.

  the driver was knocking herself out trying to find some "decent" music on the radio.

  finally gave up and put a john mellencamp tape in.

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  MsMcDucket

  Wow, MsDucket....

  I don't blame you one bit..!! There would have been "Hell" to pay, if I'd seen one of them smacking on my babies... So glad you and your Hubby were united in that situation. I do believe "ALL" my worldly words would have come back to me in a heart beat...!!!!

  I just had that krazy look where you think the person is going to go ape nuts on you; and I was hissing! My daughters tell me I don't know how to yell!
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  bone marrow for dummies

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please forgive my ignorance but i need to know.

  when someone gets a bone marrow transplant does that involve a blood tranfusion?

  my friend (who is still in and doesn't know i am out) has a friend who is getting a bone marrow transplant.. i was wondering how much icky worldy blood she will get from the bone marrow donor?.

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  MsMcDucket

  BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. The bone marrow extraction, or harvest, is the same for autologous and allogeneic transplants. Harvesting is done under general anesthesia (i.e., the donor sleeps through the procedure), and discomfort is usually minimal afterwards. Bone marrow is drawn from the iliac crest (the part of the hip bone to either side of the lower back) with a special needle and a syringe. Several punctures are usually necessary to collect the needed amount of bone marrow, approximately 1–2 quarts. (This amount is only a small percentage of the total bone marrow and is typically replaced within four weeks.) The donor remains at the hospital for 24–48 hours and can resume normal activities within a few days.

  http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/A-Ce/Bone-Marrow-Transplantation.html
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  bone marrow for dummies

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please forgive my ignorance but i need to know.

  when someone gets a bone marrow transplant does that involve a blood tranfusion?

  my friend (who is still in and doesn't know i am out) has a friend who is getting a bone marrow transplant.. i was wondering how much icky worldy blood she will get from the bone marrow donor?.

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  MsMcDucket

  BMT

  Bone marrow is a soft, fatty tissue inside the bones. This is where blood cells (red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells) are produced, and where they develop. In a disease of the blood cells -- especially cancers such as leukemia -- high doses of chemotherapy may be required to destroy the cancer. However, this also destroys normal blood cells.

  In other cases in which hereditary or acquired disorders cause abnormal blood cell production, transplantation of healthy bone marrow may correct these problems. Transplanted bone marrow will restore production of white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

  Bone marrow transplant patients are usually treated in specialized centers. The patient stays in a special nursing unit -- a bone marrow transplant unit, or BMT -- to limit exposure to infections.

  Donated bone marrow must match the patient's tissue type. It can be taken from the patient, a living relative (usually a brother or a sister), or from an unrelated donor (found through the national marrow donor program). Donors are matched through special blood tests called HLA tissue typing. (See HLA antigens.)

  Bone marrow is taken from the donor in the operating room while the donor is unconscious and pain-free (under general anesthesia). Some of the donor's bone marrow is removed from the top of the hip bone. The bone marrow is filtered, treated, and transplanted immediately or frozen and stored for later use. Transplant marrow is transfused into the patient through a vein (IV) and is naturally carried into the bone cavities where it grows to replace the old bone marrow.

  Alternatively, blood cell precursors, called stem cells, can be made to move from the bone marrow to the blood stream using special medications. These stem cells can then be taken from the bloodstream through a procedure called leukapheresis.

  The patient is prepared for transplant by administering high doses of chemotherapy or radiation (conditioning). This serves 2 purposes. First, it destroys the patient's abnormal blood cells or cancer. Second, it slows the patient's immune response against the donor bone marrow (graft rejection).