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The fears of disease

Permanent Linkby NicS on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:37 am

AIDS. Pancreatic Cancer. Some third thing. We all fear them, in some small way or another. Zack, however, especially fears them. Death is a major fear for him. But were getting better at dealing with it. Zack posted about his fear of all life ending, the universe just collapsing, etc about 2 weeks ago. Today, its really a non issue. I even typed that in and we felt a little fear, but not like the panic attacks we had before.

So were hoping the same thing will happen to us if we talk about the other big fears we have, that simply writing about them will help alleviate them, even a little. Most are irrational, but some have merit. So, here it goes:

-Headphones: We wear these large, $40 dollar Skullcandy headphones a lot. Like, an hour a day, minimum. Recently, we have been feeling this sort of pressure on our head and in our ears. We are worried about the headphones growing a tumor or causing cancer.

-Laptop: The headphones are used with our laptop, which we usually work with on our lap. We watch Netflix or do homework (ha!) on it, and it'll sit there, warming our thighs. Again, cancer or tumors growing is the big fear.

AIDS: We just donated blood for the 3rd time in our lives, and 2 days later there was no call, so we know were clean. The two day rule is simple: The US blood bank is consistently 2 days away from running out, so our blood gets tested and used on 3 people rather quickly. To make sure those people do not get infected, very, VEEEEEEERY strict testing is done on about 20 different diseases to make sure its not spread. And guess what? No call= no AIDS. Yet, the paranoia persists. We have no idea why. The last sexual contact we had was May 26th-ish, and a little bit of her blood got on C's fingers. I washed them ASAP. Like, "[CONTACT]. BWAAAAAH" run to the bathroom and wash hands for 5 minutes while she apologizes profusely. That was it. And this recent test proves that she nor I doesn't have AIDS... even though she still sleeps around and C. hasn't in 5 months.

Pancreatic Cancer: We have been having pain lately above our right hip, but its only when we sit in an odd position, so we figure thats it. But our neighbor died of Pancreatic Cancer 3-4 years ago, and its been kinda scary when the topic pops up. The main fear stems from that semi-random pain (It either comes or doesn't come at all).

Since this is america and our healthcare is both awesome and expensive, we can expect the best care, but at the same time we need to keep the small symptoms under wraps to keep costs low. Still, money can't cure everything, common sense needs to kick in somewhere. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a rare, not very aggressive type of pancreatic tumor in 2003. There was a surgery that his doctors highly reccommended that could remove the tumor and extend his life by 10 years. Instead, he chose to go for "Alternative Medicine", and became a vegan for 9 months after his diagnosis. In 2008, he openly regretted his decision. He was worth $7,000,000,000 dollars. Thats Seven Billion. $7B. And yet he died. He could have been saved, the operation, AT MINIMUM, would have gave him 10 extra years, at most cured him altogether. Instead, he went and ate veggies for 9 months.

Penn Jillette once said about cancer-treating hypnosis tapes (Yes, they're real) "Desperate people will do anything to get better." I seriously hope no one gets that desperate, that they would buy snake oil instead of going for scientific treatment. Still, there are people in Africa that sell "AIDS-Curing" juices and fruits and nuts and candies. They sell like crazy, because people are desperate. Out of 33 Million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world right now, 23 Million are in Africa alone (http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm). A little over half of adults, by the way, are women. Rape. Geez, that keeps coming up...

I hope this wasn't too boring, but in the end this is our blog, and we really don't care about if were boring. We just hope you might understand our point of view on some things and maybe relate. Were here for you, like we know your here for us.
-NicS

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