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Saturday 27th November 2004

Oh dear, I'm so far behind and have so much to say that I'll just have to start here and work backward and forwards.

If you're looking for C.O.P.D. .. it is further down the page. Today I received this list of "Chinese Proverbs" from my relative. Enjoy!

CHINESE PROVERBS
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Virginity like bubble, one prick, all gone.
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Man who run in front of car get tired.
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Man who run behind car get exhausted.
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Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.
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Foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ.
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Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.
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Man with one chopstick go hungry.
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Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails.
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Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
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Baseball is wrong: man with four balls cannot walk.
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Panties not best thing on earth! But next to best thing on earth.
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War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.
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Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house.
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Man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.
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It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it.
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Man who drive like hell, bound to get there.
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Man who stand on toilet is high on pot.
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Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.
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Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs.
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Man who fart in church sit in own pew.
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Crowded elevator smell different to midget.
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Now sendthis to others.
Nothing will happen but they will laugh

I was recently diagnosed with C.O.P.D. (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). I was able to find a VHS tape at our local Food Basics Supermarket Drugstore. The tape is called "With Every Breath". It suggests a web-page at witheverybreath.com .. but I couldn't find anything more about COPD on the web-page. The tape features Peter Gzowski, who recently died with COPD. On the tape he is on oxygen. (My friend Ed, who also had COPD has recently died. He did not smoke). This tape gave all details about COPD. This disease is a chronic and deteriorating (means it is continual and gets worse) disease which is incurable. It kills over 300,000 Canadians each year and costs the health service billions. The main causes: smoking and second-hand smoke. No wonder my doctor asked me about my smoking habit! I have never smoked!

When I was a child I remember my mother telling the doctor that I had a cough like a dirty old smoker.
I always have dreaded parties and any social functions because there were always smokers. I often wondered why such get-togethers made me feel as though I was being throttled.
My employer said "You're anti-social".
My school teachers said "She's not a good mixer".
My doctor said "You can't be allergic to tobacco".
Once I awoke in hospital after surgery and was surrounded by smokers - visiting the other person in the ward. ... She was made very sick by the smokers. I subsequently wrote to the hospital to complain. The hospital administration replied that they could do nothing about the smoking.
That was about 1973.
Nowadays smoking is not permitted anywhere near hospitals.
Several times I staggered from the office of my employer as I was unable to breath due to his heavy cigar smoke. It was so embarassing - coughing, choking, throwing up into the toilet. Eventually he fired me. (My husband said I made too much fuss and would never find an office where people did not smoke. .. especially in accounting. Thank goodness he was sooooo wrong).

All this time the finest most sensitive alveoli of my lungs and nerves were being damaged and my brain was being starved of oxygen.

I joined the Non-Smokers-Rights-Association at its' beginnings, when Gar Mahood began the organization. (Thank God for this wonderful man). The NSRA has a web-page at http://www.nsra-adnf.ca. Their head office is in Toronto, Canada. Their web-page gives details of many interesting subjects concerning smoking. There is also a PDF page about Workers' Compensation Claims by people like myself who have been injured by SHS (second-hand smoke).

If anyone out there is similarly injured and would like to join a Class Action Suit against tobacco companies, (or already have such a Suit that I could join) please contact me! I shall most probably die from COPD. But, of course, we all have to die of something. However, I feel I have been damaged mentally, physically and socially by the irresponsible actions of tobacco companies. They owe me.

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