Grrr! Another friend with cancer!

I just found out that the wife of an Ex-Buffalo has Stage 5 breast cancer with lymphoma. (They live in TX and are not in the blogsphere as far as I know) The only thing that I can figure is that she didn't get regular breast exams. I have no idea if she has a family history of this, I never knew them.

Curiously the Wikipedia entry lists a highest level as Stage 4, but it isn't an absolute reference, just a good one. And it's possible that a communication glitch could have skewed the stage, regardless it's still serious.

Interestingly, just this morning I came across this article on Slashdot about success using capsaicin, or hot chili peppers, in treating mice with prostate cancer.


FYI, an Ex-Buffalo is someone who was employed by Flying Buffalo during their heydays of the mid 80's. There are honorary Ex-Buffalos who are spouses of Ex-Buffalos, and Ex-Buffalo Wannabees who hung out enough at Flying Buffalo to sort of qualify but who never actually worked there.

I am a bona fide Ex-Buffalo, as are several others on my flist.

MORE ICONY GOODNESS!

Thanks to Cardigirl for pointing this out. It seems LJ in their never to be sufficiently blessed heart has decided that paid account holders deserve more icons without buying the +100 set!

I spent a lot of time last night while watching SG:A with my wife and maxing out my 34 available with icons that I've "borrowed" from all over the place. That was just iconage from my laptop, I've more on it that will have to wait until I buy my 100, then there's the icons on my desktop!

SQUEE!

Does anyone have the Angel Role-Playing Game rulebook?

I'm looking for information on the game, I'm wanting to set up a campaign using Wolfram & Hart as a base of operations and was wondering if the RPG had any add'l info on W&H that might be useful to me. I'd like to talk to someone before I coughed up $25 for the game.