www. lungcancer.. SOL(This is not a real web address)
Twenty years, or so
ago, if you suspected
you might have cancer,
you would try to ask a few
quick questions of the
doctor, or, if you needed
the illusion of control,
you might attempt to take an active
role in your diagnoses
by going to the public
library and checking out
(or if you are a bibliophile
you'd go to a book store and buy)
I Am Joe's Cancer,
The Idiot's Guide To Carcinomas,
and Malignancy for Dummies.
Now, with the help of Microsoft
(and hp technology)
and some assistance from AOL
Yahoo, Goggle, Dogpile, and Ask Jeeves,
all you have to do is type
lung cancer
into the search engine address box,
click on the search button,
and in one minute,
(15 seconds
if you have a broadband connection)
and you get 378,912 listings
and each one will scare you
half to death. Twice.
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Foolish Optimism by tex norman
"The worst is not always certain, but it's very likely." ~A French Proverb
"Maybe it's the x-ray technician's
thumb?"
"Maybe it's scar tissue from an old case
of pneumonia?"
"It could be nothing."
"If it's just a shadow
on the x-ray they
probably caught it in time."
"They can do miracles with treatment now-uh-days.
Ten years ago
you'd be a goner."
"Twenty years ago the Big
C was a death sentence.
Not any more.
There's power in prayer."
