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• The road ahead for Joe Mortelliti
  by Darren Stones

  By Darren Stones Our friend Joe Mortelliti...

  By Darren Stones Our friend Joe Mortelliti is scheduled to be admitted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on Monday 22 October 2007 for two rounds of chemotherapy treatment in readiness for a bone marrow transplant. On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Joe is scheduled for a bone marrow transplant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Joe’s bone marrow donor is his brother. Joe Mortelliti – August 2007 Many of you are aware of Joe’s battle with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia during 2007, and it’s reached a point where his doctors have strongly recommended he undergo further treatment to help secure his long-term health. Early this week, Joe had two days of tests on his vital organs, blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy. Joe will be in hospital for approximately five weeks and isolated due to a risk of infection. He will then be moved into units located near the hospital provided by the Leukaemia Foundation where Marion and he can stay together. Approximately every two days, Joe will undergo further tests, monitoring and be given support for a few hours. This will continue until February 2008, when he is due to return home to Geelong. Bone marrow transplants are generally not offered to people over 55 due to the severity of the treatment on ageing bodies. Joe has recently turned 57, so he acknowledges he’s been given a special opportunity. Joe informs that a bone marrow transplant has risks, but provides a cure from leukaemia. Joe has remained positive throughout and retained his sense of humour in such trying times. He has proudly continued to support and encourage his peers. He was recently invited by fellow RedBubble and PassionForPixels member Mark Ingram to supply photographs to his specialist stock library. Joe has more outback roads to travel and numerous photographs to take. He and his wife Marion are determined to live their lives together to the full. Joe and Marion would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has expressed wonderful support via e-mail throughout their first journey. As Joe and Marion prepare for their second journey, it’s their precious children, family and friends, and friends they have not yet met who help them to go ahead one small step at a time, one day at a time. Joe’s extensive portfolio of images can be viewed and purchased at RedBubble.com http://www.redbubble.com/people/mortelliti I’d like you to join me in expressing best wishes to Joe and Marion, and the Mortelliti family. Thank you.

• Please read and sign.
  by salsbells69

  clickhere Abhorrent treatment for art. If this g…

  clickhere Abhorrent treatment for art. If this gets your blood boiling please sign the petition. Thanks all. Sal

• Treatments HELP!!!
  by Darren Sharp

  I have noticed some pretty awesome treatments on here lately and i would love to know how you guys do it?? / Especially the gold and chrom…

  I have noticed some pretty awesome treatments on here lately and i would love to know how you guys do it?? / Especially the gold and chrome type of treatments, they make the pic look vintage and they stand out!! I don’t mean Sepia and B&W they are not these or maybe they are just tweaked???? / Any help would be appreciated!!!

• The Death of "Common Sense" by Lori Borgman
  by Nathan Johnson

  Obituary of the late Mr. “Common Sense” Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, “Common Sense”, who has been with …

  Obituary of the late Mr. “Common Sense” Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, “Common Sense”, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn’t always fair; and Maybe it was my fault. “Common Sense” lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6 -year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. “Common Sense” lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Panadol, sun lotion or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. “Common Sense” lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. “Common Sense” took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. “Common Sense” finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. “Common Sense” was preceded in death by his parents, “Truth” and “Trust”; his wife, “Discretion”; his daughter, “Responsibility”; and his son, “Reason”. He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; “I Know My Rights”, “Someone Else Is To Blame”, and “I’m A Victim”. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

• It Happens in the Best of Families
  by Patricia L. Ballard

  My daughter is 22 and now living in New York. She lives on her own in Brooklyn with a big orange and white cat who has an overbite. She w…

  My daughter is 22 and now living in New York. She lives on her own in Brooklyn with a big orange and white cat who has an overbite. She works and goes to school and lives pretty much as any normal 20 something. When Leslie was 14, she was struck with Obsessive/ Compulsive Disorder, or OC as it’s now called. In about a month’s time, she went from being a typical moody teenager to having contamination OC. Much is now known about the genetics of mental illness. Why it runs in families. Much mental illness can be classed as a neurological problem: or to put it very simply, the brain gets stuck in a pattern. Something mis-fires in the neurons. People with OC are not crazy. They are separated from people with schizophrenia and personality disorders by the fact that they know that their thoughts and behaviors are irrational. They just have terrible anxiety anyway. OC is a part of the spectrum of anxiety disorders. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this type of OC or any type of OC, let me start by describing what happens on a symptomatic level. This is just our experience. There are many degrees of OC and as many symptoms as there are sufferers. Lesiie was in her freshman year of high school. She had been caught just before Christmas in a fight between two of her friends. Usually very well liked by her teachers, she was being picked on by a drama teacher at her school. Also, in the United States this is the year that cliques and harrassment of students by other students seems to peak. All of this was going on at her school. The worst of it hit just before Christmas. A friend who stayed with Leslie for a weekend during the fall while my husband and I were out of town had told me that Les was washing her hands constantly. Her father had mentioned that he had seen Les opening the door to her room with her foot. If she exhibited any of these behaviors in front of me, I missed them. The average OC sufferer goes 9 years before receiving treatment. We count ourselves lucky that it was only a few months until we figured out what was wrong, Upon going back to school in January after the holiday break, Leslie’s contamination anxiety sprialed out of control. Certain parts of our house became “contaminated” to her. She would no longer go into her bedroom and slept in our guest room. If any article of her clothing touched the floor, she would no longer use it Even if it was washed again. She washed her hands constantly at the kitchen sink, but wouldn’t dry her hands with a regular towel. She would only use paper towels. Since the trash was contaminated, she left the used towels on the kitchen counter. They would stack up almost a foot high on the kitchen counter if I didn’t constantly throw them away. Her hands became raw and cracked and bleeding from all of the washing. She wore long sleeves to school to hide her hands. Normally an animal lover, she no longer touched our cats and dogs The list of symptoms is long. I won’t go into all of them. These are just a few of many. We all three felt like prisoners in our own home. Her dad and I were panicked. We had no idea what was wrong. One Saturday morning when we were at our lowest, we were in our home office.I was sitting at the computer staring at the screen not doing much of anything. When the luckiest intuitive flash of my life struck. My college abnormal psychology class came back to me. I’d been out of school since 1972, but I bless the professor that I had for that class. I looked at my husband and said, “Oh my God! She has Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder!”, and turned around and plugged every form of the term that I could think of into my browser. One of the hits was the web site for the Obsessive/Compulsive Foundation. That was the start of our finding treatment for Leslie.

• Today....
  by jules / Missy frost

  Ok today was hospital treatment day so not much got done. . / We are slowly getting a collection of art t-shirts together. / Missy Ballons…

  Ok today was hospital treatment day so not much got done. . / We are slowly getting a collection of art t-shirts together. / Missy Ballons CLICK HERE Brightness and light from darkness with Missys Inspired CLICK HERE TO SEES And of course the all new,,,,a Really Nearly naked Tshirt u cant miss this one click here CLICK HERE / Nice ;) And if your really bored of the election well join my new campaign :) / CLICK HERE / Tell us about you and where u are… Talk in the forum and vote on what you think of your local politician ;) go go go… The shop seems to be going slooowwwwwwwwww today… But feel free to go buy something , just buy anything lol CLICKHERE Owwww and leave a comment it makes this worth while… :> Hello is there anybody there? Where u from? Who are you, what work have you got on here… Are you actually going to buy something? Or are u poor like us lol (—-CLICK HERE TO GET VIZUNS TOOLBAR-—-)