DU Awareness days - just tossing out an idea here

[The Straight Story]

I was driving home today from the store and thinking about my wife and her Parkinson's disease and how little I knew or heard about it until she was diagnosed with. Then thought about how the government tosses out awareness days/weeks/months and so on. Which led me to:

What about a thread a day under the awareness heading? People chime in, we could educate each other, share stories, and so on.

Thinks like GLBT day, cancer day, conspiracy day, religion day, and the list is endless.

When we have 5-7 similar days in a row we could make it a week of awareness (like in religion, wiccan, christian, islam, etc and so on) A whole week of a similar theme.

I dunno, just tossing it out there. I have to and help the wife with some things and will check back later.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Grateful Dead awareness day!

I'd like the opportunity to expound on 4-28-91, in particular.

[The Straight Story]

4. Since you were the first reply, that day is all yours!

Can put it in a music week theme perhaps :)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. Here's The Set List. Sounds Like It Must've Been A Great Show.

To this day, my summers just ain't the same without catchin up at Giants Stadium. I miss the shows dearly.

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The Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, Las Vegas, NV (4/28/91)

Comments: Carlos Santana and his band opened

Jack Straw
Candyman
Wang Dang Doodle
Althea
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Bird Song

Foolish Heart
Saint of Circumstance
Crazy Fingers
Truckin'
Deal
drums
space
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Around and Around
Sunshine Daydream

Box Of Rain

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Yep. And that Bird Song was ***17 Minutes Long*** w/Carlos sitting in.

Really. Too bad you can't download the SBDs off archive.org anymore. That was really quite an afternoon.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. That sounds like a good idea

Maybe it will happen. In the meantime, I always hate to hear about the chronically ill, so I was wondering if your wife has tried Himalayan Goji Juice. I'm not a distributor yet, but look under Freelife Goji and you will find a website. It is the most nutitionally dense food on the planet. The cure for most diseases begins with extreme nutrional therapy. Goji has helped a lot of folks. Check it out. And good luck!

[The Straight Story]

3. Will do

Got to run for a bit but will be back.

If people like the idea I am sure we could find enough folks to start a thread a day relating to various topics.

[graywarrior]

5. "Awareness" Awareness Day, because some people just aren't.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Yeah, but the target audience

wouldn't know it was going on.

[sandnsea]

6. I was thinking of starting a journal

My husband had a heart attack a few weeks ago and boy am I learning stuff. And this is even after my mother had a heart transplant and I didn't think there was much more I needed to learn. But I didn't know if anybody would be that interested.

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Goji Juice will help with that as well.

[The Straight Story]

9. Sorry to hear that, how is he doing?

Had to have been a scary thing indeed.

[sandnsea]

10. He's good

They put in two stents and he's doing very well. I knew people had different kinds of symptoms with heart attacks, but he literally had only indigestion as a symptom, that was it. If he hadn't just trusted his instincts and gone to the hospital, he'd be dead. Talk about "Awareness", people should really know these sorts of things.

Thanks for asking.

[The Straight Story]

11. My mom had similar issues

And went in one day with a pain in her arm. Quadruple bypass, almost died. She stayed with us 5 more years before passing on (not related to her heart - got an infection in intenstines, it burst, had surgery and was doing so-so, then her one good kidney failed).

[sandnsea]

13. You expect the pain in the arm

That's what confused him, he didn't have pain in the arm or anything else. Just indigestion. My mom had the indigestion too though, but she was also nauseated and sick feeling which kind of threw me off. She waited too long to go to the hospital and ended up with so much heart damage, she had a heart transplant and passed ten years later. My dad had a heart attack in his sleep a year ago. It can really be sudden, that's for sure. If people could get regular angiograms, this sort of thing wouldn't happen so much.

[theHandpuppet]

14. I think that's an excellent idea!

:thumbsup:

K&R.