What We Can Learn From David Blaine Part I

[jmjm530]

Most of the headlines this morning read something like "David Blaine Fails To Set World Record" or "Blaine's Buildup Fizzled" or David Blaine's Bubble Burst." But isn't this simply a case of catergorizing the glass (or let's say the bubble)as half empty when it really was half full?
     To me, what Blaine accomplished was amazing and inspiring, raising the bar for what is possible with the human mind, body and spirit.
     There was one part that struck home during his Navy Seal training sessions when Blaine was doing pushups in the hot sand. The  Seal instructor said something like "block out the pain, it doesn't exist", just connect with who you are and it the pain will disappear.
     But more telling was another part, where Blaine was meeting his long-timer hero for the first time -- motorcycle stunt legend, Evil Kneivel. Kneivel was contending that you had to be "born" to do the truly amazing in life, to push yourself beyond normal boundaries.
     It was obvious at least to me that Blaine had a different take, but ended up deferring to the aging and very ill legend. What Blaine seemed to want to say is that we're all potentially David Blaine's and Evil Kneivels -- given the right circumstances, courgage, motivation and willpower.

[mikesimon]

I share your impressions of David Blaine and I agree about his take  to setting your mind to do it as opposed to being born to do it. What troubled me was the potential damage he was doing to his body. That struck me all wrong and I wondered about what's really going on inside his head and soul. It just seemed wrong to me if he truly did subject his organs to damage. Mike

[doglover28]

OhGreat, you sound like me.  Any little gas pain now and I think it's my liver.  If you don't mind my asking, did you find out from a routine physical?

[IwillBeatHCV]

I believe Roosevelt once said: " There's nothing to fear but fear itself". And a older and wiser co-worker of mine always says: "95% of the things we worry about, never happen".
If all of you would have read some of my postings pre-Tx, you would have realized that I was extrememly apprehensive about Tx. So apprehensive, that at one point I had decided not to Tx, and told myself that this was my fate, so why bother with Tx. But actually it was the fear that kept me from doing Tx. And if it wasn't for the postings from many of you that knocked some sense into me, I probably would not have done Tx. And now that I am just about done with tx, I can tell you that 95% of the things I was worried about never happened.

[doglover28]

Thanks!  See, I'm already feeling better. I've always been a worrier and years ago, one of my friends told me that about 95% of things that we worry about don't happen.  I appreciate the reminder.  I just need to live in the present, and not let the future get to me.

[ohgreat]

Yea.  I had Lymphoma....or I thought.. Went in, the doctor looked at it and said, this isn't even a lymph node.  It is just a cyst or in other words a big pimple.

This whole thing is a hypochondriacs worst nightmare.

Now unfortunately I have serious problems with a mass inbetween my ribs that is supposed to be my liver.  No one has said, "yea I feel that to, thats my liver.  all livers are that hard."  Most people I tell it to just look at me weird or something and say it is probably nothing.  I feel like I have cried wolf one to many times.

I cant WAIT until the doctor can rub this, give me the Cat Scan/MRI/Genotype and I can find out what the status of my liver is.

"Hurry up and Wait" is right.  My life now revolves around dates that are Doctor visits/Test Results.

[doglover28]

My thoughts and prayers are with you.  Maybe the mass is just muscle that you are feeling.  Maybe you tense up when you rub that area.  I will be happy when I know the status of my liver as well.  I already know I've probably had this for 25 years, and I do know that I am a 1a.  I don't know my viral count, though.