Do I have any potential as an author like Sarah Dessen?
Question by tallysmiley: Do I have any potential as an author like Sarah Dessen?
“The doctor said the prognosis isn’t good” I heard my mother speak, I saw her lips move with the words but some how I still couldn’t hear. “Your sister’s going to be in the Oncology unit at Children’s Hospital for at least two months under going treatment for stage 4 melanoma” my mind drifted away from the dusty kitchen table and from the white empty walls to last summer.
“Halley wear the sunscreen, you already look like a gang of orange markers attacked you” I said handing her the bottle of SPF 70 she examined the bottle as she hit the gas pedal.
“Lila, you expect me to wear this? It’s summer for god’ s sake not Halloween and I don’t want to look like a pale ghost like you!” she said throwing the pink rigged bottle at me .
I snapped back into the moment remembering the picture that day from the beach, she looked like she was of Spanish descent, her long wavy black hair against her dark skin and then me looking like your typical Irish girl, long blonde hair and pale skin. She was wearing a leopard print bikini and I a black one piece. They both kind of suited our personality, me classic and simple and my sister’s risqué and vibrant.
“Did you hear me Lila” my mother said as she sniffled and took her left arm rubbing her blue blouse that accented her red hair and green eyes nicely.
“Yeah” I said as my voice also shook back to reality
“Your father will be bringing her home to get her things for the stay, they need to start the chemo immediately.” my mother said peering out the window.
It’s being told by the perspective of the younger sister, while her sister is in the hospital she will be with her for most of the time because her parents are working to pay all of the hospital bills, while Lila (Thinking about switching the names) is at the hospital she meets and begins a close friendship with Owen, who is dieing of cancer and has a slim chance of survival. Anyway in the end it looks as if Halley is going to make it so she focus’ her attention on Owen, but then in the final days of Halley’s life they find a MET rapidly growing on her lung, that soon kills her. Owen then makes it. The title would be “Short But Sweet”
How does it sound?
I don’t see my sister’s keeper in this plot at all I’m a big fan of Jodi’s work and I’ve read My Sister’s Keeper and this is nothing like that, for example the younger sister isnt being asked to give up her organs and she wasn’t created to save her sister. And the younger sister’s life in the end isn’t taken and the older sister doesn’t live because the younger sister dies. I just don’t see that similarity at all.
Best answer:
Answer by Ellenfp
The plot has potential (although it sounds SO much like My Sister’s Keeper but with a few changes), but you really need a good lesson in grammar.
“Yeah[,]” I said as my voice also shook back to reality [.]
“…melanoma[.]” [M]y mind drifted away from the dusty kitchen table and from the white empty walls to last summer[.]
You do you use the word ‘said’ (< - dialogue tag) more times than it's needed. Try this:
"...ghost like you!” She threw the pink rigged bottle at me .
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
What does the blood coughed up in lung cancer look like (kinda graphic)?
Question by thespeedyellsbury: What does the blood coughed up in lung cancer look like (kinda graphic)?
I found a small, pinky fingernail-sized dried brown stain on my dad’s pillowcase; the stain was surrounded by what looked like a tiny amount of dried clearish liquid. Should I be concerned, or is it a coffee stain? (He’s in his mid-70′s.)
I’ve seen hemoptysis in the late stages of lung cancer (the size of 2 coins, with a small clot or two) and in the final stage (50cc. in half a day), but has anyone seen what it looks like when it just starts?
Thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by myndstream
You stated it was dried, it had not just started, watch his pillow for more. If there is no more don’t worry about it.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Can black mold cause any mental problems like depression?
Question by : Can black mold cause any mental problems like depression?
I already have the more serious problems for example, digestive problems and my stomach and intestines swelled, my hands are numb, always tired, headaches, nauseous, lightheaded, feel weak, shakey, pain in my abdomin, hard to fully expand lungs. I honestly don’t know if this is from black mold or not but i know that it does exist in my room. My question is can it cause any mental illnesses?
Best answer:
Answer by tod m
Kidney, fatigue, dizziness and circulation (numb hands) problems from diabetes? Avoid sugar.
Get the a1c test.
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
I know this sounds like a stupid dream.. but I want to cure cancer.?
Question by invisiblemonsters: I know this sounds like a stupid dream.. but I want to cure cancer.?
so you know how teachers are always asking, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” i’ve never really known the answer to that, but about a month ago i participated in the light the night cancer walk in los angeles and it kinda changed my perspective. i’m so sick of watching people having to go through so much. okay my question is, what are you supposed to study to try to find the cure for cancer? i was thinking biology.. but i’m not sure. i know i probably sound like another stupid teenager going through a phase, but i really want this..i’m a sophomore in high school, so i don’t think it’s too late yet.. (i took biology last year)
Best answer:
Answer by Daisy
How about we try to prevent cancer in the first place. A very interesting book you might like to read is called The China Study by Campbell.
Good for anyone trying to avoid the major killers of today.
Don’t ever lose your passion , people with passion achieve and are happy.
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
What is life like for a person with Cystic Fibrosis after a lung transplant?
Question by Bruce W: What is life like for a person with Cystic Fibrosis after a lung transplant?
I heard, and I may be wrong, that a person who receives a lung transplant will need this repeated within a few years, perhaps 5 years? What is a person’s quality of life like after a double lung transplant? Will the person develop CF problems in the new lungs? How long are people living after a lung transplant?
Best answer:
Answer by gangadharan_nair
Lungs- Since this organ’s main attachments are rather simple, lung transplantation is not too difficult a surgical procedure. Lung transplantation has been performed on several patients, and there is no doubt that one day, transplatation of this organ is quite common.
There are several patients who has received donor lungs. Unfortunately, to date, no one has survived for very long after this procedure even when operative recovery has ensued. Fatal rejection reaction have occurred in all cases.
What do you think? Answer below!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: Isn’t banning fast food restaurants a little too much like dictatorship?
Question by BERT: Isn’t banning fast food restaurants a little too much like dictatorship?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668254978871827.html?mod=yhoofront
Wouldn’t it make just as much, if not more sense to ban tobacco to stem the tide of lung cancer or outlaw alchohol to curb alchoholism? This sounds like the beginning of something very bad to me. Whay are your thoughts?
Best answer:
Answer by Pənny Proud
They shouldn’t ban them, but try to suggest changes on the menu, or the low-grade ingredients they use, or bad combination of foods they serve.
Add your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Categories: News Tags: food, restaurants, fast, dictatorship, isn't, little, much, like, banning
Why is it that if something is bad for you like arsenic in water causes lung cancer no on cares, but…….?
Question by praise seitan: Why is it that if something is bad for you like arsenic in water causes lung cancer no on cares, but…….?
if something is bad for you and fun like alcohol then people are ready to tell you how bad it is for you?
Best answer:
Answer by Someones’ Mom
The element of fear can control multitudes far easier than anything else!! Arsenic is in well water, but doubtful you will find it in City water. And if it is present, doubtful anyone would tell us about it……panic, you know!! And pressure on the City….
What do you think? Answer below!
JVZoo Product Feed
Why doesn’t the U.S. have cigarette warning labels like most other countries?
Question by My Avatar Is Beautiful: Why doesn’t the U.S. have cigarette warning labels like most other countries?
They’ve done studies and the graphic images do have a better effect over fine print. It’s common sense. You wanna smoke something from a box that has a black lung on it, or one that has a couple words about cancer?
Do they not care, it’s insulting, check it out:
http://livestrongblog.org/2009/04/15/cigarette-warning-labels-across-the-world/
Has anyone clicked the link?
Best answer:
Answer by Neha
despite the warning labels, people are gonna smoke no matter what.. or at least the ones who are addicted to smoking..
Add your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: my fiance is losing her dad to lung cancer, wot is it like for her??
Question by Hurricane Music Group: my fiance is losing her dad to lung cancer, wot is it like for her??
over the last 5 months she has been watching him deteriorate and now hes on life support with ventilator and shes too scared to leave his side, can anyone tell me wot she is going through, through ur own experience, so i know how to deal with her,,, i hardly hear from her too kuz she lives in the hosp and we at long distance.
Best answer:
Answer by buchanan.clan
She’s going through one of the worst experiences of her life…losing a parent…she’s scared, she’s sad, she’s exhausted, and she’s confused. Probably totally zoned out. Just listen to her when she wants to talk, comfort her when she wants to cry, try not to get mad at her if she seems distant or short tempered….she’s hanging on to the last moments she can spend with her dad, she loves you but she knows she prob has the rest of her life to spend with you…her days with her dad are probably numbered and she wants to do everything she can to keep him comfortable and show her love
just try to be super supportive and understanding, now and even more so if and when he passes….
Add your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
How is it some people can smoke for 40 years and not develop anything serious like lung cancer or emphysema?
Question by : How is it some people can smoke for 40 years and not develop anything serious like lung cancer or emphysema?
My husband’s grandfather lived to be 93 “chewing” (he would put this thing in his mouth & spit, not sure what it really is but I know it’s bad.) smoking, & drinking pepsi & beer every night. Whereas I know there are people that could just smoke cigarettes for a few years and die a horrible death. Why is this?
Best answer:
Answer by ilovehim23
My father smoked in his early 20s, but he gave it up to become healthier. Then, at 48 he passed away from colon cancer. If you ask anyone that knew him they’d tell you what a wonderful man he was. There’s no explaining it. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people…it sucks, but hey that’s life, right?
Add your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: Why do people say things like tanning salons, cigarettes, and alcohol should be banned?
Question by Miss Mallory: Why do people say things like tanning salons, cigarettes, and alcohol should be banned?
It just seems weird to me, ya know?
People comming off as crazy. “Well, tanning beds give people cancer, so they should be banned all together.”
It’s like when a non smoker walks up to somebody smoking a cigarette and says, “hey, did you know that’s bad for you and that every time you inhale your lungs are turning black and that one day, that little tiny mix of paper and tobacco is gonna give you cancer and end your life slowly and miserably.”
You would think a smoker would know that. After all, they get to see first hand the damages done by smoking. Better than any non smoker who doesn’t wake up feeling a tightness in their chest when they try to inhale, and who doesn’t find themselves exhausted and out of breath doing the simplest of things.
Just like people say tanning beds are bad. That if they had it their way, they’d be shut down for good. Just because people tan, doesn’t mean that they are ignorant to the dangers of tanning. There are signs posted that tell you that it’s bad for your body.
And then people who say alcohol should be banned, because it makes people act stupid and is the cause for drunk driving. Well, most of the time, those drunk people are at bars with other drunk people. I do agree that being wasted in public isn’t good.
But I don’t think that alcohol is to blame for deaths caused by drunk drivers, because at the end of the night, it wasn’t the alcohol that made you drive your car, it was you.
I guess I just don’t understand why you cry and complain about things like this. If you don’t believe in smoking, DON’T SMOKE.
If you don’t believe in drinking, DON’T DRINK
If you don’t believe in tanning, DON’T TAN!
But why try to bombard the industries with insults and accusations, and why fuss at people who support them?
It’s just a rant. Does this make sense to anybody else?
Best answer:
Answer by Free-bee
please dont rant. 
but i think tanning fries your skin and is bad, and so is smoking, you dont have to try it to have an opinion on it.
but alcohol. no harm there if you dont get drunk everyday.
so i’ll ban 2 out of 3
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
feel like im not getting enough air in my lungs?
Question by prolly234: feel like im not getting enough air in my lungs?
for 4 months now,i feel like im not getting enough oxygen into my lungs.my head feels very spaced out and sometimes i feel lifeless.i have headaches sometimes and recently my throat has been aching really badly to the point that i feel like im choking.most times especially at night,i feel like im going to die.ive been to the emergency room and i was told by the doctors that i have mild anxiety and mild anaemia.this is really botherin me because recently,the feeling of not getting enough air has become stonger and shows no signs of improvement.i also feel very weak and have loss of co-ordination sometimes.i also have mild chest pains.my eyes also feels tired and i feel pressure inmy brain sometimes.plzzz,i need to be sure this is only anxiety and not some serious ailment.
Best answer:
Answer by JW
I have been going through the same experience. I understood that I had developed anxiety after having an anaphylactic allergic reaction while on a bus on the highway, but the breathing issues (feeling like a I had a lack of oxygen, constantly taking deep breaths with little satisfaction, constant yawning, and dizziness) didn’t add up. I went through a lot of tests: for asthma, a gastroscopy, and an ultrasound. The doctor’s just prescribed me an inhaler and sent me on my way.
I suggest you look up articles on Chronic Hyperventilation Syndrome and see if the symptoms apply to you. It is not a serious ailment and there are no medications that can help you with this issue. It can be a product of the anxiety from hyperventilating, but breathing techniques, yoga, meditation are all suggested to help with this problem.
If you need to go onto a medication to take the edge off from the anxiety, a doctor may prescribe something like rivotril or xanax in small doses as needed when you’re feeling anxious, but I seriously suggest looking up articles on CHS because that is one syndrome that doctor’s tend to overlook!! I am still learning to deal with my symptoms, but it has really helped to ease my mind and know that I am getting the oxygen I require, I just may be getting too much!!
www.breathingwise.com **Check out this website and good luck**
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Today i would like to share my fathers story with you,?
Question by mani: Today i would like to share my fathers story with you,?
my father 52 years old fit healthy person last year in may got numbness in his left side some doctors advices to have hard cirvical coller for this numbness but no use of that,after that he got severe headache his brain MRI’s shows a Tumor in his his brain at the right pipalarry location measuring abt 5.5 cms.in october he undergone through a brain surgery thank God it was successful my father was so happy that time then in november still he had some weakness in his left hand and foot after taking two months medicines doctor advices him brain radiation he got radiation also and then doctor asked him for full body scanning where they found his brain tumor was pipalarry metastatic cancer of lungs which have been spread to his brain,doctor said its first stage he can recover soon so in this year feb 15 he got chaemotherapy.before chemo my father was just like a normal person but after having chemo he got himself completely on bed he started loosing his strength but no memory loss he got nausea body pain and on 20 feb he got very bad breathing problem then on 22 we admitted him in hospital doctors saw some water surrounded his heart and told to be discharge this water on 24 my father had so much hope regardung his health but on on 24 morning he passed away in ICU at the time doc shifted him there for water discharge,its really hard for me to share this with all of you then we call the doctor and ask him why this happened then doc said he had lungs can of last stage thatswhy he cannot survive longer.now my question is can this happened because of chemo if any one have experience regarding this pls reply me.his age was 52 we really need him why this happened,
Best answer:
Answer by blueberry
Oh..
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
What does a smokers cough feel like?
Question by Carol: What does a smokers cough feel like?
Best answer:
Answer by julie d
Well, unfortunately I can answer this question for you as I have smoked for over 30 years and need to quit, but can’t seem to. As a smoker, I often get a sore throat. I have a dry hacking cough during the day, and a deeper cough at night. When I wake up, it feels like my lungs are tight and I cough hard and a lot of mucus comes up. Also, I am short of breath quite often and when I laugh there is a hoarseness to it. This scares me, because my dad died from smoking and in the end stages of lung disease you literally die from drowning in all of that mucus that is stuck in your lungs and you can’t cough it up.
If you haven’t tried smoking yet, PLEASE don’t! It is so hard to quit and so deadly. I wish I had never started.
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
well i would just like to figure out what kinds of materials and problems the trade centers dealt with?
Question by Jen C: well i would just like to figure out what kinds of materials and problems the trade centers dealt with?
I am asking this because the fire fighters and police and every one that helped out with the 911 disaster was unawear that inside the trade center they dealt with all sorts of items like asbestous, and many other cancer causing agents. I was just curious to how the government can get away with this. Obviously the terrorist knew what they were hitting and when they hit it everything that was inside those buildings is now inside the lungs and bodies of many american citizens. And i think that someone should be held responsible for the work that was done inside the trade center and for however the terrorists discovered what kind of work they were doing
Best answer:
Answer by Citizen1984
All of the junk that people like is basically made of very harmful materials whether it’s your laptop that has ICs filled with vile poisons to buildings that are filled with asbestos, plastic film on the windows. The basic products of our economy are hazardous waste and pollution.
While your concern demonstrates that you are compassionate there is nothing shocking that when you fill a big building with jet fuel and light it thousands of tons of poison will come out.
What is shocking is that medical care is denied to many of the responders and especially the volunteers.
President Bush’s first official action was to make the airlines immune so they would not have to pay for their own negligence in allowing four planes to be hijacked. The best we can hope for is to give the best medical care to the victims. But, we don’t do that either. We are morally lacking as a nation.
The terrorists who did the dirty work all died there’s not much greater punishment you can inflict upon them.
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
Is this statement true or false, having children under the age of 30 prevents a type of cancer, like cervical?
Question by Kakashi san fanatic: Is this statement true or false, having children under the age of 30 prevents a type of cancer, like cervical?
My boyfriend told me this, though I can’t say if that’s true or not. He said he read it from somewhere. That’s why I’m asking, because I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s rare, isn’t it? It shouldn’t really matter when you have kids of what age.
I just need different opinions. Really, what is cervical cancer caused from?
Best answer:
Answer by LYNN W
Its false. Cervical Cancer is caused from different strains of the HPV virus. There are many strains and there is a vaccine for some strains of it, but not all of them.
Add your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: What does a smokers lungs look like while their alive say a 10 year smoker.?
Question by MABISKING: What does a smokers lungs look like while their alive say a 10 year smoker.?
You always see those pictures of a 40 year smoker who died of a lung disease but what about ex smokers like me? I smoked for 10 years what do my lungs look like? Please give me a radical answer im an expert on cillia regrowth and all of the statistics related to quitting smoking. My question is somewhat theoretical is it possible that the lungs can heal and your dna can revert and change the alveoli back to normal? Is it possible that swimming running can influnce some tar removal what happens please any experts or med students?
Best answer:
Answer by E-Male Man
http://medicineworld.org/images/blogs/smokers-lung-22312.jpg
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: Is a person judged by the company he keeps? Like Obama?
Question by Big Daddy: Is a person judged by the company he keeps? Like Obama?
All of these are Obama buddies?
Melody Barnes, lobbyist for American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
William Corr, lobbyist for Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids,
Patrick Gaspard, lobbyist for Service Employees International Union.
David Hayes, lobby San Diego Gas & Electric.
* Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, lobbyist for bankrupt Global Crossing telecommications.
Ron Klain, lobbyist for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
William Lynn, lobbyist for Raytheon.
Cecilia Munoz, lobbyist for National Council of La Raza
Mark Patterson, lobbyist for Goldman Sachs.
Mona Sutphen, lobbyist for Angliss International.
Michael Strautmanis, lobbied for the American Association of Justice.
Tom Vilsack, lobbyist for NEA
Best answer:
Answer by JT
Commie birds of a feather flock together. Obongo, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, etc., etc., etc.
What do you think? Answer below!
JVZoo Product Feed
Why would a genius like Steve Jobs delay his cancer treatment a year?
Question by Green Genius: Why would a genius like Steve Jobs delay his cancer treatment a year?
by choosing an alternative treatment based on diet? Special Diet is not a scientific treatment for his type of cancer. His cancer was very treatable but he went against science and it cost him his life.
http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to-alternative-medicine/
Best answer:
Answer by Caolan C
Who cares…Steve Jobbs was a terrible man.
What do you think? Answer below!
JVZoo Product Feed
Q&A: Why do girls like men with either macho faces or feminine faces?
Question by : Why do girls like men with either macho faces or feminine faces?
To give you an example think of men with femine faces like bradd pitt and macho faces like that guy from street fighting films.
Now why is it I am always either to macho or too feminine?
Almost makes me laugh as I don’t care, but makes me wonder.
I think women inprint an image onto someone before they even see them with their own eyes?
Anyway f it i am drunk and in deep meditation so just thinking whats on my mind through salvia.
But seriously I had a trench ho called julie turning me down and she sounded like a 90 yrd dying from lung cancer.
How is that? I am not perfect but I am definately better looking than russel crow and bradd pitt.
Best answer:
Answer by Jemma
dunno..but i dont…
Give your answer to this question below!
JVZoo Product Feed
