Michael McKean

Helen, I suppose. 234 covers the same area, though. I wasn't even aware we had more than one area code. Mark, nah.. the rest of the number is boring. - Michael McKean

The fever is getting to me, joey. I'm cranky and sick of doctors. I can't complain too much, though. I'm still alive. :) - Michael McKean

Michael, it's good to hear from you! I can only imagine how tired you are of doctors at this point... - FFing Enigma

You're constantly in my thoughts Michael. Hope you're feeling better soon. - Derrick

You should have a dance off with him to settle the issue - RAPatton

:( - Ell Bee, See?

Around the world? - Anika

Sorry, forgot to specify. That's just for the US. - Michael McKean

I think many people think lung cancer = smoker. Odd, since most of the people I know who had lung cancer weren't smokers. - Anika

I care. - Derrick

That about sums it up. When people find out I have lung cancer the first reaction is often to ask me about what I did to get it. This doesn't really happen with other cancers. - Michael McKean

My grandmother died of it, and my grandfather lost a lung to it - RAPatton

"Mother Maria Skobtsova, a martyr of the Nazi concentration camps, and an early 20th century intellectual and nun, wrote an insightful essay entitled, “Types of Religious Life.” In it she articulates five ways of being religious: the “synodal,” the ritualist, the aesthetical, the ascetical as well the ideal way, the “evangelical” (or “way of the Gospel.”). While it is easy to point fingers and categorize certain churches or groups as “this” or “that,” what’s really interesting (and frightening!) is how easily I seem to fall in these inaccurate and perilous ways of thinking about the Church." - Michael McKean

"I think it is best that a man should have a little bit of all the virtues. Therefore, get up early every day and acquire the beginning of every virtue and every commandment of God. Use great patience, with fear and long-suffering, in the love of God, with all the fervor of your soul and body. Exercise great humility, bear with interior distress; be vigilant and pray often with reverence, with purity of speech and control of your eyes. When you are despised do not get angry; be at peace, and do not render evil for evil. Do not pray attention to the faults of others, and do not try to compare yourself with others, knowing you are less than every created thing. Renounce everything material and that which is of the flesh. Live by the cross, in warfare, in poverty of spirit, in voluntary spiritual asceticism, in fasting, penitence and tears, in discernment, in purity of soul, taking hold of that which is good. Do your work in peace. Persevere in keeping vigil, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, and in sufferings. Shut yourself in a tomb as though you were already dead, so that at all times you will think death is near." - Michael McKean

:( - Ell Bee, See?

"Stigma has kept Breath Cancer deplorably underfunded. And that's why only 15% of us live longer than five years. That's unfair. So please. Care." - Michael McKean

"Far away in the constellation of Aries, in a 14th magnitude barred spiral galaxy designated as NGC 918… a star exploded with enough candlepower to briefly outshine its home. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan) on October 11, 2009, this Type II supernova might be hiding in the intergalactic dust, but it isn't hiding from Joe Brimacombe." - Michael McKean

good to know - MicahBear78