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		<title>Hot enough for you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a blastfurnace wind, from just before dawn, when I looked out on my severalth trip to the bathroom to pat myself down with cold water on a face washer, and the eastern sky was a glaring bright hazy white. And I had to spend considerable time out in it stocking up for my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1099&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burial &amp; other bodily solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can anyone help, or point me towards help, with information on the usefulness of bodies with metastatic cancer for assorted organ transplants.  Would cornea or skin be possible, if nothing else?
Alternatively, should I try contacting various medical schools or anatomy museums to find if they'd be interested in a massively-surgically-altered specimen as an example?

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		<title>Fade away or gradually die</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some more sad news Edward Woodward&#8217;s BBC Obituary I mentioned Breaker Morant just recently elsewhere. Callan seems to have branded itself into a generation, too. Glad now DVD releases are available. The Wicker Man has left quite an impact as well. Saw him only a couple of weeks ago, doing a good job in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1102&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplating yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't really like that word <span style="font-style:italic;">"palliative"</span>, when it's used in my direction. "Curative" or "healing" would be <span style="font-style:italic;">much</span> nicer.

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		<title>A different 9/11 remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the start of this blog, usually on this day, running up to Remembrance/Armistice Day on 11/11, I commemorate the 9/11/1938 Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht), also called the State Pogrom Night. Especially since, not only due remembrance for itself, it has examples of political and propaganda uses, twisted mendacity in language, an interlocking step-by-step [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1074&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemotherapy + Gripe update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherein Much Tedious Matter is Related Hoo boy, whatta *fun* few weeks! Last gripe was a few days after start. Survived a week or so more on water, peppermint tea, watered juice, watered stock, crystallized ginger, barley sugar &#38; some mints. (Don&#8217;t know why I forgot Gatorade powder I keep to make up into drink [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Month on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dustday + 30 Previous entry about Dustday (Dust Day (23rd ,September, 2009) in Sydney) It used to be a nine-days&#8217; wonder. Now everything&#8217;s faster. Posted in climate, dust, events, photos, statistics, Sydney<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemotherapy + Gripe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: Skip this to avoid whinging, complaining &#38; yukkiness. Think I&#8217;ve washed most of the cytotoxins and their accompanying protective drugs out, as far as possible, so started on the new drug from specialist. Eating as healthily as I can manage, with fresh fruit &#38; juices, vegies, fish, organic meats &#38; milk, nice bread, etc. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friend&#8217;s Stroke: some wonderful news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been too well, so haven&#8217;t written much, and, worse, haven&#8217;t been to see my friend as much. So it was great first to see him with a new tracheotomy that meant he could put a finger over the tube and speak, and in a separate room. Then they removed the trachie and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is the start of the third cycle of this set of chemotherapy. This time haven&#8217;t had much of an upswing at the end of the last cycle. Feeling tired. Apart from that, everything went without problems. Also saw specialist for results of tests and scans. They couldn&#8217;t find any problems, which is sort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3605673&amp;post=1033&amp;subd=sketchesbymez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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