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August 16, 2010

I am not a pair of breasts


So much of a woman's sex appeal is related to having breasts that Venus went into deep depression when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 41 and, after a double mastectomy and lymph node removal under both arms, was left with an arm function disability.

"The breast cancer news hit my husband harder than it did me – so hard that he left me when I needed him most," says Venus, "but I was lucky enough to meet a new man, Lyle, a fellow cancer patient, pretty soon afterwards and he treated me lovingly as a beautiful human being rather than a pair of breasts."

"I was determined to live and beat this thing, and my kids were marvelous, they gave me no trouble at all and were little towers of strength."

"I had both breasts removed and decided against having plastic surgery or wearing falsies," says Venus. "By then I wasn't interested in my body image. I was just glad to be alive."

"Also, my breasts were never my best feature so it was really no big deal in the end to do without them."

“It was only after attending a local cancer support group – meeting people with severe disabilities from cancer treatment that I realized how minor my disability was,” explains Venus, “and it was at one of these groups that I befriended and then fell in love with a man who changed my life.”

"Lyle's prostate cancer treatment had rendered him impotent," explains Venus, "and if losing breasts makes some women feel less than a woman than imagine how he felt - he had lost his manhood!"

"Lyle was so concerned about his loss than he never paid attention to mine," explains Venus. "And this had a wonderful healing effect on me."

"In return - and I genuinely felt this way," adds Venus "it didn't bother me that Lyle was incapable of having sex with me in the traditional manner."

"We discovered that sex could be far more beautiful and lasting and satisfying without the need for breasts and a penis."



"I am not a pair of breasts," asserts Venus. "I am much more than that and I soon discovered just how right I was when I met Lyle.”

"There's definitely life after mastectomy," assures Venus, "and if I had to have my breasts removed in order to meet Lyle and realize how perfect I was - with or without breasts - then it has all been well worth while."

"I don't know whether Lyle and I will eventually get married and stay together," says Venus, "but right now he's the best thing in my life - apart from the kids of course - and I'm going to enjoy our relationship for as long as it lasts."


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    March 14, 2010

    solar radiation health catastrophe ahead?


    Ena notes that global warming scaremongering gained momentum at the same time as the 2012 doomsday nonsense escalated, and in view of recent growth in bunker building as well as scientific observation of huge solar eruptions she is wondering whether there is something really big going on in outer space that they're not telling us the exact truth about for fear of starting global panic about our imminent extinction - or, at the very least, a rise in cancer occurrences.

    "As I understand it, the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 in order to start all over again, not to end life on earth," says Ena, "and global warming, or climate change as they now call it, is a naturally occurring event having nothing to do with whatever little fleas like ourselves do on planet earth."

    "However, when individuals, families and nations start building underground bunkers I start to wonder what they know that we don’t know," muses Ena.

    "Apparently, Russia is building an underground city to hold 60,000 elites in the Yamantau Mountains; Norway has already built underground accommodation for the entire population; Sweden has established an underground seed bank; and wealthy families, like the Bushes, are building huge private bunkers in the middle of South America," relates Ena, "and that's just the tip of what’s going on – there must be many, many secret underground establishments for the elites that never get publicity."

    "The days of nuclear war scares are well and truly over," says Ena. "Nobody in their right mind believes that an underground bunker will save anyone from a nuclear holocaust. So why is all this underground bunkering gaining momentum? What do they know that we don’t know?"

    "We all know that a natural catastrophe from outer space wiped out the dinosaurs," says Ena, "and when I read something about solar flares I started to wonder whether scientists are predicting a similar natural catastrophe to hit us one day soon."

    "Apparently, the sun goes through an 11 year cycle of sunspots and solar flares and in 2008 scientists noted some huge solar eruptions suggesting a disturbance from a massive source which could be the Milky Way," says Ena, "and this means that our solar system may be moving into conjunction with the galactic equator of the Milky Way, leading to spectacular solar storms and high energy gamma rays that Earth's magnetic shield may not be able to deflect."

    "Already, we know that small solar flares can damage satellites and disrupt our power grids like they did in 1989," says Ena, "and now we know that a large flare such as a
    Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is capable of wiping us out by irradiating the Earth and every living thing on it."

    "As the next peak of the 11 year cycle of sunspots and solar flares is due in 2012, is all the hoopla about global warming and the Mayan calendar really about the possibility of a CME zapping us?"

    "Frankly, in this scenario, I don’t think an underground bunker would be particularly safe because of associated earthquakes, volcanic activity and flooding," muses Ena, "and, if the bunker people do survive the CME assault, then they may have to stay underground forever not just because of radiation contamination but also because the earth's protective shield could be irreparably broken rendering life unsustainable."

    "What really concerns me right now, though, is that solar flare activity is building up and zapping us every day with small solar flares that must have some effect on our health," adds Ena. "I know it may be silly to worry about cancer and things like that when there's a possibility we're all going to be fried in 2012, but I'd like to think positively about the future and if the sun does present an escalating radiation threat then this information needs to given to everyone immediately.”

    “Rather than feeding us rubbish about climate change and carbon pollution, we need to be warned about the real threat of 2012 – radiation!”

    Read about the Mayan calendar here:
    end of world predictions

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