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You don't have to do anything. Talk to people. Sit in the sun. It does get easier. H ... View more

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Good one, Jules. What a nice start to my day. H ... View more

I agree entirely. I think there are huge additional issues for young people. I never felt I had my future taken away. I felt I did not have one for a while, but it seems to have been a different feeling to what younger people seem to express.They are expressing genuine anger about having life taken away just as it is opening up. I empathise with that enormously, although it did not happen to me like that. I was an old fart already. H ... View more

Hi John I can see from the time-stamp that you were up pretty late. I would be too. Glad you have checked in here. It is a good place to come back to as things take shape. It sounds like you life might be changing substantially once you have the test results. Or not. It is a long wait. I am surprised about that. If it does change for you, you might need to let it change and find what's normal after a while. You might not be able to keep the same normal. Not lecturing you, just reflecting what gets said around here as people go through the system. Keep us in the loop. Okay? H ... View more

Don't rush into anything, Ben. Can you please post a photo of you in a puffy dress and then we can make an informed group decision about this. On a lighter note, the reports of new study findings tend to highlight the important the difference between correlation and causality. A 'risk factor' is not a 'cause'. Risk factors seem to correlate with certain outcomes, but they do not cause outcomes. This is obvious because, apart from a few notable exceptions, we do not know what the cause of cancer is. I am going to give up dry ginger because if I have a brandy and dry, a scotch and dry and then a rum and dry the dry ginger will make me drunk. fhis ha' be'en clinielly pfroven, hic. H ... View more

I can't compete with any of this. I can offer a salute from here, that's all. H ... View more

everyone here is upside down, so you're in the right place. H ... View more

Fantastic, Ben. I did not know about this. Thanks. I have mentioned here before that Lab Tests Online is a good information source. The link is: http://www.labtestsonline.org.au/index.html H ... View more