Happy Thanksgiving

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> Special Thoughts of You And Your Family

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Thanks Sue!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day! I'm slowly beginning to *smell*

the stuffing in the oven so maybe I will be able to taste some food

after all this afternoon!!

a

who may be on the mend

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> I'm slowly beginning to *smell*

> the stuffing in the oven so maybe I will be able to taste some food

> after all this afternoon!!

Thank goodness the antibiotics are starting to work already! Henry always

knows when one of his colds is finally getting ready to leave when that

first trickle of onions or broccoli that I'm cooking hits him. Even though

he hates both those food items, he says they smell heavenly *because* he can

smell them.

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My special greeting at Thanksgiving time to express to you and your

texperts my sincere appreciation for your help and loyalty in

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My best wishes for a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

Anastasia

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Let's all give thanks that we had the good sense to tell the doctors where to

go.

Ed

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Hear hear! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

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( ) Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I hope that you all

have a happy and safe thanksgiving. I also can't wait to see some photos.

I still can't believe that it's already thanksgiving and pretty soon it'll

be Christmas and a whole new year all together.

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Hello Faye,

What happens on a typical Thanksgiving day depends on the family, but in

ours (and in many, I think), the women spend all day preparing a 19-course

feast which includes turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry

sauce (from a can, with ridges and all, as said), yams, green bean

casserole, corn on the cob, dinner rolls, fruit salad, and about three

different types of pie (pumpkin, apple, and banana cream). Plus lots of

beer and wine. Then, we all sit on the couch, unbutton our pants (because

our bellies are swollen) and watch football (American-style). About thirty

minutes later, the tryptophan from the turkey kicks in (plus all the beer

and wine) and the men are snoring away while the women grumble over who is

going to clean up the mess. The next day is the best, however, because with

the leftover turkey you make sandwiches with cranberry sauce and stuffing.

When the turkey carcass is picked clean, then you make turkey soup with the

scraps.

A lot of people do sit around a big table with family and friends and give

thanks for the many blessings they've received over the year, then they

argue about politics or sports.

The holiday originated in 1600's, when colonists from your country, in an

attempt to escape the oppression of fish & chips, Shakespeare, and Fred

Short's ancestors, climbed on a rickety boat and sailed across the Atlantic,

landing at Plymouth colony in Virginia (they were headed for the Hudson

River but took a wrong turn somewhere). Ill equipped and ill prepared for

the harsh winter that came, the 102 original colonists nearly starved to

death until a group of Native Americans from the nearby Wampanoag tribe

brought them corn, yams, and wild turkeys to eat. Thus the colonists

(religious pilgrims) " gave thank " to God for sending the Indians to save

them, then promptly repaid them by taking their land, spreading plagues from

Europe, and nearly hunting the buffalo to extinction. (Of course, now the

Native Americans are extracting repayment in the form of casinos, which is

transferring many of the riches of the European-Americans back into their

hands).

And that's it in a nutshell.

-Bill

(who has the right to make the aforementioned commentary due to my mixed

Irish, English, German and Cherokee heritage)

On 11/24/05, spiritual_element4 <spiritual_element4@...> wrote:

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> We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK, however I just wanted to

> wish you all a good one.

>

> By the way, do you all sit round a table and say what you're thankful

> for? What exactly happens on a typical thanksgiving day? As you can

> tell, I'm extremely ignorant to your traditions So please forgive

> me.

>

> Be safe.

>

> Faye.

>

> http://www.ukfaye.com

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Hey Bill

Thank you for that. lol. Very interesting. Well have yourself a nice

holiday. Give thanks to the poor turkeys that..well, I won't say as

this is an all age discussion group...but you know.

Take care, have fun everyone.

Faye

http://www.ukfaye.com

> >

> > We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK, however I just wanted

to

> > wish you all a good one.

> >

> > By the way, do you all sit round a table and say what you're

thankful

> > for? What exactly happens on a typical thanksgiving day? As you

can

> > tell, I'm extremely ignorant to your traditions So please

forgive

> > me.

> >

> > Be safe.

> >

> > Faye.

> >

> > http://www.ukfaye.com

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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> > ===

> >

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Dear Group,

I'm off to Denver to spend the Holiday with my daughter, will be back next week. Hope all of you have a terrific Thanksgiving, full of good food, and family. I'm thankful for all of you daily!

Colorado Springs

[ ] A note from JoAnn Hueth

I had a recent correspondence from JoAnn, which she said I could share... for those that are wondering how are friend JoAnn is....she sounds good. For those of you that don't know/remember her she had revision about the same time as Martha and (Nanfash) in Fall of '04 with Dr LaGrone.

Hi Cam, you are right on all of your suppositions. I came back for one last fling at work, so to speak, and have been overwhelmed with all there is to do-I rarely have time for emails, let alone all the searching I'd like to do on various topics. My husband (from Spain) was here until Sunday and since he is retired and speaks broken English, he just waited for me to finish school so we could then do things-very time-consuming. He returned to Spain and I will join him at the end of semester which is Feb 3. I'm retiring as of Dec. 1, but will be hired until I leave so that will be a nice few months of double pay. In the meantime, he is to be working on a guest cabin that we are building with the crazy idea of having a bed and breakfast in the near future. If it's fun, and profitable, we'll continue with it. If it becomes tedious, then we'll just have a guest room...I had my one- year anniversary Oct. 13. I saw Dr. LaGrone in Aug. and all was well. I'm to continue being a little careful until about 18 months. All in all, I'm doing much better. Usually I don't feel the screws in the pelvis, but if I'm tired, or have been in the car too long, then I do. I'll decide whether or not to remove them at about my 2 year anniversary. First I want to lose the 15 lbs. I've gained over the last year, get back in a walking routine in Spain, and then see.I have had some numbness in my left foot, especially toes, since surgery, so it may be permanent. I notice less flexibility than pre-surgery and don't know if this is the result of L5-S1 fusion, or the screws-I've heard that when they are removed, there is more flexibility-understandable then, why doctors would not like them removed. I've also noticed a big change in my gait and discomfort in my hip joints and sometimes, knees. I'm hoping this is the result of my aging body adjusting and not flat out arthritis. The climate of Oregon could have something to do with it too! I'll be spending Christmas in Colorado where I usually feel better, so I'll be observing my body this year. Unfortunately, I won't be skiing and sadly, I'm not sure I will again..my neck is very degenrated and I think I'll have to avoid all sports that could create more damage-for me that means skiing and tennis. I hope that this surgery has stopped further degeneration and I can just live with a painful neck. I am doing pt for it (today I meet at a warm-water pool-I'm excited to get water exercises) and I bought a traction machine. Otherwise, I'll have to consider cervical fusion-I might as well look for a job as one of the knights in armor that stand outside tourist shops in Spain!Gotta go, I'm glad you wrote, how are you doing?Jo Ann

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Hiya Faye,

For my family (10 of us) we got together about 1pm,

soon as you open the door you can smell all the good

food! We had the typical Thanksgiving fare of Turkey,

Ham, Yams (ick), stuffing, mashed potatos, cranberry

sause with the ridges! hehe, hot buns with butter,

vegetables, casserole, wine, and berry juice. For

dessert we had home made pumpkin pie with coolwhip,

home made lemon marange pie, and fanke. Before we eat

we say a prayer and dig in! Afterwards we sit there so

full ready to pop for about an hour then all of us

younger family members played games. We played Trivial

Pursuit (I won, go me), Trivia for Dummies, and Uno

Attack. Between playing we had turkey sandwiches and

more food (that we don't need). It was a loud (lost my

voice) fun time! The others read through the paper's

advertisements for Friday's crazy shopping day, the

busiest shopping day in America where a lot of the

stores open at 4am, 5am, and 6am (I'll be asleep). We

all left about 11pm to head home and digest.

I share Bill's sentiments, I am not a fan of the

pilgrims what so ever, I view it more as a day to get

together with my family for good food and great fun.

It's like a test run for Christmas lol.

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Ooops. You're right. I meant to say that they were headed for River

in Virginia, and not the Hudson. They got blown off course and ended up in

Plymouth Mass., hence the harsh winter. Plymouth back then was originally

spelled Plimoth. How, when and why it got changed is a mystery to me. I

should know this history as well as you, a native Massachessetain, because

I'm named after the first governor of the colony, Bradford, and

allegedly one of his descendants, although my blood got mixed along the way.

-Bill

(p.s. not much of a Red Sox fan, but share their hatred of the Yankees as a

Mariner's fan.)

On 11/25/05, RMBJustice@... <RMBJustice@...> wrote:

>

> Bill writes:

> " ...landing at Plymouth colony in Virginia (they were headed for the

> Hudson

> River but took a wrong turn somewhere) "

>

> Bill - was this a joke along the lines of getting away from Fred's

> ancestors? If not the Plymouth settlement is in Massachusetts. Pilgrims

> arrived in 1620. The lost settlement of Virginia, which is what you might be

> thinking of, was 1587. But they didn't give us Thanksgiving!

>

> Nope, not a history buff. Just a girl who grew up in Massachusetts so this

> story was drilled into our heads. Another thing we learned when young &

> impressionable is the Boston Red Sox are Gods and should be worshipped. It's

> Massachusetts' version of religious education in school. The BoSox are all

> about faith.

>

> Rose

>

>

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Faye:

A tradition in my family is that we (my parents and I) spend Thanksgiving

at my aunt and uncle's house every year. There are usually about 25-30 people

gathered there, which includes uncles, cousins and more cousins plus neighbors

and friends of the family. What is really neat is that we usually only see my

cousins once a year so this is the time to catch up on what is going on (not to

mention to see how much some of my cousins have grown). Everyone is from all

over the country here: Tennessee, North Carolina, New York, Virginia,

Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Washington (state) etc..

Everyone brings something to share, so that my aunt doesn't have to do all

the work herself. There are two tables (one for adults and one for the kids).

Usually we have three different kinds of Turkey meat, mashed potato stuffing,

sweet potato, corn, peas, two cranberry sauces, handmade rolls, jello salad,

beets, broccoli casserole, green bean casserole, and this year we had some

merlot that my cousin and his wife made. After an hour or so, we usually come

back and have dessert - Bourbon cake, pumpkin pie, or apple pie. After that

while the men all gather around the computer or sit and talk about computers and

such. Everyone else sits and play card games until someone decides it's time to

head home. I usually end up bringing homework or something to read or music to

listen to.

My mom has to work Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving when all the

insane and idiots decide to make a mad dash into stores for bargains). Oh, did I

mention stores around here open at 4am or later? The dummies gather outside

stores starting around 12 midnight here in order to be first in the store! It's

crazy if you ask me. I just feel sorry for the ones that HAVE to work in retail

that day - because there is bound to be at least one if not more idiots that end

up getting injured due to the stampede into the stores when the open the doors.

Not to mention the malls are croweded, traffic jams galore and police everywhere

directing people where to park and when it's safe to drive..so I personally have

never set foot outside our house on Black Friday and I doubt I will anytime in

the future.

But, on a personal note for me Thanksgiving gives me the opprotunity to look

back and see how much has changed since the previous times, to think of those in

my family and friends that have passed away and to say a prayer for their

families; but also to look ahead to the coming season of Christmas and think to

myself how lucky and fortunate I am to have what I have...and that is the love

of family and friends.

Meredith

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Since becoming parents we've found ourselves in the business of creating

memories and this particular year rates right up there with our family spending

Thanksgiving 2002 in New York City with Davey Lamb.

I am a native Bay Stater too and we've just returned from our Thanksgiving

holiday with my family who lives in Plymouth, MA. But, along with spending this

Thanksgiving holiday with my family (it's been sixteen years) the ultimate was

our unexpected visitors -- a flock of very large and aggressive wild turkeys who

spent Thanksgiving Day running full tilt throughout my parents property. What

an awesome site.

Bill, for the past twenty years my sister-in-law has been a full-time staff

member in the capacity of an historian, researcher and 17th century costumed

role player at the Plimoth Plantation -- an outdoor living-history museum.

According to the museums website

http://www.plimoth.org/whyplimoth.asp<http://www.plimoth.org/whyplimoth.asp>

there were no concrete standards for the spelling of some words.

Aucott

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Enjoy Alley! I enjoy your postings and your information. I give thanks for

that.

MustangSal

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Turkey Day yall! I'm going out of town for a few days so I needed to

get it in early

Alley

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>

> Wishing all the Americans on the list a wonderful and safe

Thanksgiving

> Holiday.

>

> Kathy F.

>

>

>

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Dear Joyce

You certainly are one of the folks I am thankful for ........Happy

Thanksgiving! With Love (Makayla'smom)

loveandlight1111 <loveandlight1111@...> wrote:

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I pray that we will

all be totally well this time next year or sooner.

Healing Blessings to us all having wonderful healing miracles. I

am so Greatful for Lyme Aid Buhner & Planet Thrive and all you sweet

loving people. Peace Joyce

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Dear and Makayla, Thank you so much for your beautiful reply. It warmed my

heart and brought happy tears to my eyes and also brightened my evening.

Peace,Joy and may you both have many healing blessings. Joyce

Berndt <nlberndt@...> wrote:

Dear Joyce

You certainly are one of the folks I am thankful for ........Happy

Thanksgiving! With Love (Makayla'smom)

loveandlight1111 <loveandlight1111@...> wrote:

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I pray that we will

all be totally well this time next year or sooner.

Healing Blessings to us all having wonderful healing miracles. I

am so Greatful for Lyme Aid Buhner & Planet Thrive and all you sweet

loving people. Peace Joyce

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well...Right back at ya Kathy!!

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thank you 4 your blessing and i wish u a very safe holiday.....Daneene <daneene123@...> wrote: Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. take care, Daneene

Everyone is raving about the all-new beta.

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I second that. I'm thankful for 50mg Zinc, 2mg copper, 100mg dim and

brussel sprouts and cabbage. Yesiree its gonna be good!

In , Dan Meatheany <dmeatheany@...>

wrote:

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> Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving - I am so thankfull to this

group - what a great source of information and support.

>

> How about we keep our brothers and sisters in the Middle East in

a special thought/prayer this Thanksgiving? My hope is that they

will all be hope for the next Thanksgiving.

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> Thanks again for all the support - Arkansas

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Happy Thanksgiving and the story was great!

jenny lou

Happy Thanksgiving

Excerpts from Arlo's Thanksgiving classic copied below

Further down CMS UPDATES AND THANKS

Truly wish I had Arlo's comic gift for telling a story about bureaucratic

stupidities ... anyhow, I hope we can look back at the CMS gaff with

similar mirth next year.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

~ Karl

" Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the

dump saying, " Closed on Thanksgiving. " And we had never heard of a dump

closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off into

the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the

side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the

cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile

is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we

decided to throw our's down.

That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving dinner

that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the next

morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, " Kid,

we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage,

and just wanted to know if you had any information about it. " And I said,

" Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope

under that garbage. "

Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at the

police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for being

so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and

we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out and

told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again, which is

what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station

there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was

both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said " Obie, I don't think I

can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on. "

full story: http://www.arlo. net/resources/ lyrics/alices. shtml

CMS UPDATES AND THANKS:

* LAF has promised to write a strong letters to legistlative contacts

* Many, many MDs are calling in, and have signed our petition.

* LRF has drafted an Action letter

* Betsy's work .... just amazing!!

(we would not even know about the problem without her)

* Betty, Lynn, Jan and SANO and others... rock!

(you know who you are)

* Alters' Newsweek piece!

* Bloggers (including scienceblogs) give support

* More than 3,000 who signed the petition also rock!

* All who have written letters, we celebrate too.

* Those of you who about to CALL

your part will be the BIGGEST of all!

The " therapeutic window " is small.

Step-by-step on how to call (with message):

http://www.lymphoma tion.org/ CMS-call. htm#email

PETITION

http://www.lymphoma tion.org/ CMS-endorse- RIT.htm

We note that each clinical organization (ASCO, ASH) and every expert in the

field that has commented on the ruling has said the same thing: the data was

not accurate, the payment rates to hospitals are grossly inadequate, the

consequences will be grave.

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Thanks ..

( ) HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends !!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers

Wags! Wags! Wags!

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I second that! I'm off to eat some smoked turkey and some fried too:)

-- Happy Thanksgiving

Hello to all,

Just wanted to wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving! To those

not is the

U.S. Happy Thursday!

Venizia