Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kl2116!mraspuzzi From: mraspuzzi@kl2116.DEC (Michael Raspuzzi) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Smoking (here we go again) Message-ID: <2851@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 10:20:14 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2851 Posted: Mon Jun 24 10:20:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:08:33 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 29 I am going to apologize for what I am about to write but I need some place to blow off some steam and this is the place (so they tell me). Well, I am about to loose my 3rd grandparent in the course of 2 years due to smoking. How come it is so hard for people to listen to someone say that smoking is not good for them (even if it comes from a doctor). I loved my grandparents enough to try and convince them not to smoke and to try quitting but I am a young whipper snapper and don't know the ways of the world yet. So here I sit, very depressed and feeling helpless as my grandmother stays in an oxygen tent. I remember my other grandmother (much to clearly) how she suffered the last few months of her life. You can't believe what it is like to watch someone struggle for every breath they take. It is also hurts to look at someone who is literally blue because they can't get enough oxygen, therefore, the carbon dioxide level in their blood gives them that color. My grandmother is only 65 (my other grandmother died at 68) and I had hoped that my grandparents would live long enough to see one of their 15 grandchildren give them a great-grandchild. I was fortunate enough to have a great grandmother who didn't smoke and who took care of herself and she lived until she was 93 (she dies of natural causes about 5 years ago). I have no wonderful words of wisdom for anyone, I just needed this space to relinquish something that has been pent up inside. Thank you all for your patience and consideration. Mike Raspuzzi DEC Software Specialist ARPA: mraspuzzi%kl2116.dec@decwrl .....decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kl2116!mraspuzzi --------