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| colors of awareness ribbons http://www.awarenessdepot.com/Colors.html Adoptee - White Aids - Red Click here to see red products Allergy - Gray Alzheimers - Purple Amber Alert - Yellow Animal Abuse - Purple Anti Tobacco - Brown Aphasia - Gray Arthritis - Blue Autism-Puzzle Pieces Click here to see autism page Asthma - Gray Breast Cancer - Pink Click here to see pink products Breast Cancer Survivor - Pink Birth Parent - Pink Bladder Cancer - Yellow Bone Marrow - Green Bone Cancer - White Brain Cancer - Gray Brain Tumor - Gray Cancer - Purple Cesarian Section - Burgundy Child Abuse - Blue Click here to see child abuse page Childhood Depression - Green Child Exploitation - White Colorectal Cancer - Brown Colon Cancer - Brown Colitis - Purple Crohn's Disease - Purple Cultural Diversity - Orange Cystic Fibrosis - Purple D.A.R.E. - Red Depression - Green Diabetes - Gray Disabled Children - Gray Distonia - Blue DUI - Red Domestic Violence - Purple Eating Disorder - Light Blue Education - Blue Emphysema - Gray Endometriosis - Yellow Environmental - Green Epidermolysis Bullosa - Red Epilepsy - Purple Equality - Yellow Esophageal Cancer - Light Blue Eye Injury - Green Fibromyalgia - Purple Foster Care - Purple Gang Prevention - Black Genocide in Darfur(Sudan) - Green Gerd - Light Blue Graves Diseasea - Light Blue Gynecological Cancer - Purple Hodkin's Disease - Purple Headache - Burgundy HIV - Red Heart Disease - Red Hospice Care - Burgundy Homeopathy Awareness- Emerald Green Hunger - Orange Irritable Bowel - Light Blue/Purple Kidney Cancer - Green Kidney Transplant - Green Kidney Disease - Green Leimyosarcoma - Purple Leukemia - Orange Liver Disease - Yellow Lung Cancer - Gray Lung Disease - Gray Lupus - Purple Lyme Disease - Green Lymphoma - Purple Lymphedema - Light Blue Macular Degeneration - Purple ME/CFIDS - Blue Melanoma - Black Mental Illness - Gray Missing Children - Yellow Mourning - Black Mental Retardation - Green Mental Health- Lime Green MS - Gray Multiple Myeloma - Burgundy Myasthenia Gravis - Light Blue/Teal Organ Donation - Green Ovarian Cancer - Light Blue/Teal Parkinson's Disease - Gray Peace On Earth - White Pancreatic Cancer - Purple Prostate Cancer - Light Blue Pro Choice - Light Blue Pulmonary Hypertension - Purple Reflex Sympathitic Dystrophy - Orange Retinoblastoma - White Reye's Syndrome - Blue Right To Life - White Rhett Syndrome - Purple Sarcoidosis - Purple Scleroderma - Light Blue Sexual Assault - Light Blue/Teal Self Injury - Orange Spinal Bifida - Yellow Substance Abuse - Light Blue/Teal Suicide - Yellow Support Our Troops- Yellow Testicular Cancer - Pink Thyroid Disease - Light Blue Tissue Donation - Green Trisomy 18 - Light Blue TSUNAMI TRAGEDY AWARENESS - Light Blue Vacterl - Gray Victims Rights - Blue Water Quality - Blue Worker Safety - Green Yopa - Gray -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susie Wills, BSN, RN, CLT - AUTHOR ABC'S of Living with Lymphedema A is for Acceptance. You can deny that you have lymphedema and get worse, or you can accept it, learn how to live with it, and do very well. B is for Bandaging. (Please refer to A.) Your therapist may give you alternatives for after therapy, but to start out with, bandaging is a necessity. C is for Courage. Why? Because every time you go out in public someone is going to ask, "What happened to you?" It takes courage to be able to educate your friends as well as strangers about lymphedema. D is for Denial. It doesn't work. (Please refer to A.) E is for Exercise. There are breathing and limb exercises which are proven to be effective in treating lymphedema. F is for Forgiveness. On those days when you just have to cry because you are so overwhelmed, go ahead and cry! Then realize you are human and forgive yourself. G is for Giving. You have lived with lymphedema and have valuable information which can help others who are struggling. Join or organize a support group, volunteer with the Red Cross or American Cancer Society. H is for Help. Ask for it. You'll be surprised how many people are willing to give it without expecting anything in return. I is for Information. Seek it from your doctor, therapist, the NLN. The more you know about lymphedema, the more educated decisions you can make. J is for Justice. There is none. (Refer to A.) K is for Kindness. Especially to yourself. L is for Laughter. It truly is the best medicine. Look for and enjoy the humor in life. M is for Maintenance. Lymphedema cannot be cured, but if you follow your maintenance program you can manage and maintain it. N is for No. This is a small word in the English language that is underused by people who find it difficult to take care of themselves. O is for Overwhelmed. This occurs when you think, "I have to do what for the rest of my life?!!" You just have to do it for today. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not arrived. P is for Prevention. Follow the 18 prevention steps provided by the NLN. Q is for Quality. The quality of your life with lymphedema is ultimately up to you. R is for R-e-s-p-e-c-t. This was a hit record for Aretha Franklin. S is for Symptoms. Know what symptoms you need to report to your physician. T is for Treatment. Treatment is available. Learn what options are out there and educate your physician. U is for Urgent. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today when it comes to caring for your lymphedema. V is for Victorious. You can overcome lymphedema even if you can't cure it. W is for Wise. Be a wise consumer. Learn all you can about lymphedema and treatment options and facilities. X is for Xylophone. A musical instrument which has absolutely nothing to do with lymphedema. Y ......................because we like you! (Please refer to theme song for "The Mickey Mouse Club".) Z is for Zilch. This is how much help the ABC's of Lymphedema will probably give you. Well, if you even giggled once it was therapeutic! ------------------------------------------ tina budde, thank you for submitting lymphing to our database! you can view your word by going to: http://www.pseudodictionary.com/word.php?id=25106 you can now link to it by clicking the "link to word" or you can send it to a friend by clicking the "send to a friend" button under your word. regards, HD Fowler - Moderation Paul - Concept Garret - Programming http://www.pseudodictionary.com ------------------------------------------------ The following information is for your information only and was provided by FDA today. *U.S. Marshal's seize skin sanitizer, protectant product made by Clarcon Biological Chemical Laboratory, Inc. from their Roy, Utah facility on August 2, 2009. The product was being manufactered and distributed to treat damaged skin, and protect against various infectious diseases. Consumers are being warned NOT to use any Clarcon products because they contain bacteria and are promoted as antimicrobial agents that claim to treat open wounds against various infectious diseases.* I think that FDA's stringent warning speaks for itself and is not a product that people would want to use, especially those with lymphedema and open wounds. -------------------------- Pfizer, the world's biggest research-based drug maker is offering 70 different drugs -- including big sellers such as Lipitor and Viagra -- for free for up to one year for those Americans who have lost their jobs and health insurance. The program applies to anyone regardless of prior family income who has lost their job since January 1 and has been prescribed one of the company's drugs for at least three months. You can enroll until 12/31/09 by calling 866.706.2400 to sign up. You can also apply online at www.PfizerHelpfulAnswers.com. |
| Alexander von Winiwarter (April 22, 1848 - October 31, 1917) was an Austrian-Belgian surgeon who was a native of Vienna. He was the brother of physician Felix von Winiwarter (1852-1931). Alexander Winiwarter obtained his medical doctorate in 1870 at the University of Vienna, and worked as a surgical assistant at the Vienna University Clinic under Theodor Billroth, who was a pioneer in the field of modern surgical practices. Later he became head of the surgical department at the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Kinderspitals (Crown Prince Rudolf Children's Hospital), and in 1878 moved to Belgium, where he became a professor of surgery at the University of Liège. Subsequently he acquired Belgian citizenship. In the latter part of the 19th century, Winiwarter introduced specialized massage and compression procedures to treat lymphedema, a disease that causes swollen arms and legs due to fluid retention in the lymphatic system.[1] In 1932, Danish physiotherapist Emil Vodder refined and improved Winiwarter's technique to treat lymphedema. Vodder's treatment was to become known as manual lymphatic drainage. --- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NeosporinCombination of Polymyxin B Antibiotic Neomycin Antibiotic Bacitracin Antibiotic Neosporin (from Neo, (Greek) new + Sporos, (Greek) seed) is the product name of an antibiotic ointment produced by Pfizer (later sold to Johnson & Johnson) used in the prevention of infection and speeding the healing of wounds. The original ointment contains three different antibiotics: bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B. Other brand names for this mixture include Mycitracin and Topisporin. The generic drug name for this mixture is "Triple antibiotic ointment". In China, this product is called "Complex Polymyxin B Ointment" which is manufactured by Zhejiang Reachall Pharmaceutical. GlaxoSmithKline manufactures Neosporin in many other countries, including Canada.[citation needed] In Mexico, GSK's trade name "Neosporin Dermico" is used for the topical ointment. Some people have allergic reactions to neomycin, so a "Double antibiotic ointment" is sold that only contains bacitracin and polymyxin B (for example, product name Polysporin). ---- Treatment for Scleroderma? (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A drug currently approved to treat cancer could provide the first treatment for scleroderma, according to researchers. Gleevec has shown to be effective in treating those with the chronic connective tissue disease. "There has never been a drug that has been shown to be effective for this condition. I think there is a very good chance of Gleevec becoming a real treatment for a previously untreatable disease," Robert Spiera, M.D., an associate attending rheumatologist at Hospital for Special Surgery who led the study was quoted as saying. Researchers enrolled 30 patients with diffuse scleroderma, a widespread severe form of the disease, and gave them 400 mg of Gleevec every day. To measure the effectiveness of the drug, researchers used a tool known as the Rodnan skin score; a measure of how much skin is affected by the disease. The investigators also measured lung function and diffusion capacity, a measurement of the lung's capacity to transfer gases. Lung disease is the main cause of mortality in scleroderma. After one year, the investigators saw a 23 percent improvement in skin scores. They also saw an improvement in lung function. Patients on the treatment saw an 11 percent improvement in diffusion capacity scores. "The lung function data was really exciting," Dr. Spiera said. "In patients with scleroderma, you usually see lung function tests getting worse over time, and if doctors try a therapy for a year and a patient doesn't get any worse, we get pretty excited. What is amazing to me in this study is that we actually saw improvements in both lung function tests." Scleroderma affects not only the skin, but also underlying blood vessels, and often muscles and joints, as well as the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, lungs and heart. According to the Scleroderma Foundation, 300,000 people have the disease in the US. The disease usually strikes in the prime of patients' lives, when they are 30-50 years old. SOURCE: American College Of Rheumatology, October 18, 2009 http://ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=22606 |