Re: Major shortcoming in Paradox new panel lineup

["Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Throw that into the border debate. Mexicans coming to the States for the
first time are generally healthier than ones who are born and raised here.
Once you get away from grandma's cooking simple traditional foods back home
and go to prepackaged foods, alcohol and cigarettes, it is the beginning of
the end for some.

"Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The wit is returning? Seems like your feeling
>> much better. That is good news...
>
> For sure.  I've been doing great for a while now.
> I had one rough spot in February but ever since
> it's been good.
>
> FWIW, the wit never left.  As I was being wheeled
> into the surgical unit with all kinds of wires hooked
> up to me and a huge catheter in my carotid artery
> I noticed the sign saying "Thoracic Surgery" and I
> couldn't resist.  In my best imitation of Richard
> Attenborough I said "Welcome... to Thoracic Park!"
> :^)
>
> I've kept my sense of humor through the whole
> thing, cracking jokes with the nurses and doctors
> and trying not to take myself too seriously.  At
> times laughter was the alternative to tears.
>
>> Sometimes I wish Jim would lighten up on the
>> death imagery...
>
> He's under the misapprehension that it bothers
> me.  Maybe if I actually thought I was going to die
> I'd be upset with his nonsense.  I don't and I'm
> not.  I fully expect to live many more years.  My
> oncologist says there's no sign of any remaining
> cancer.  It could come back but I could also get
> creamed by a bus.  Either way, I'm enjoying life
> and, as someone put it here (was that you?),
> living every day.  Jiminex, meanwhile, sits in his
> hovel bitching, cursing and raging against people
> thousands of miles away.  So who is more alive?
>
>> A friend of mine put his wife in an urn a couple
>> of weeks ago. Diabetes is a slow miserable
>> way to go. She was only in her mid forties...
>
> That's really sad.  It's especially difficult when
> someone so young is lost.  I wasn't aware that
> Diabetes hits Mexican Indians more than others.
> I did a quick search and you're right.  An NIH
> site says they're almost twice as likely to get the
> disease as whites. :(
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
>
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