Breaking News Surgeon General Issues New Warning

[johnlennon_shallrise]

[sarcasmo]

1. My wife has dementia, this is not funny.

[johnlennon_shallrise]

3. Sorry, Take A Chill Pill It Wasn't And Isn't About Your Wife

Nor is it about my inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine! If you read the box it says it's about FOX NEWS!!!!

[sarcasmo]

8. I am no fan of faux news but when your wife has dementia then let me tell you to take a chill pill.

[greiner3]

17. My mother also has dementia;

While her condition is anything but funny, there are so many environmental causes of dementia, including a strong genetic link.

As to the humor content of the OP, I find it humorous; and true; and a sad commentary on the state of our country.

I see your DU name and wonder WHAT you do find funny and/or sarcastic.

Jus saying.

[Deep13]

37. dick move

[Chemisse]

11. Lots of people have dementia.

How is that even relevant? Nobody is making fun of people who have dementia.

[RC]

15. My mother died with dementia. I think this is funny.

And quite true too.

[plethoro]

42. I work three days a week in an Alzheimer's Hospital and am surrounded

by people with dementia. No, the header post is not remotely funny. I'm sorry about your wife, sarcasmo. I know how bad dementia can be.

[Politicub]

47. But who will stand up for the victims of anal leakage?

And for the zombie army of Alli users, mewling like feral cats for someone to speak for them? Or just a piece of blotting paper?

I'm sorry to hear about your wife, and hope you don't take offense.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

56. I grew up fighting to survive Ulcerative Colitis.

started bleeding age 6.....deteriorated over the next 13 years....major loss of blood, excruciating pain, social ostracism and more. Finally, major surgery (in the nick of time. Few more days and I would have died of a ruptured bowel) and waking up to a permanent bag. At the age of 19. Which no one told me would be the outcome. Eeeeek!

I admit I find bowel problem jokes a little difficult.



and sometimes being reminded of the the torture triggers me. Which is what just happened to me.....and above, probably to sarcasmo.



Sometimes people get triggered, and honestly, it may be hard to be compassionate but they probably need it.

[Ms. Toad]

59. Hugs

Close to my daughter's story - UC at age 4. She didn't end up with a bag at age 19; she got primary sclerosing cholangitis. She'd trade in a heartbeat -and she'll likely end up with a bag anyway. Her current colon cancer risk (at age 22) is 25%.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

64. ....

It's such a cruel disease, not to mention the humiliation factor. Too many shitty *ahem* stories to tell. Kids and adults are cruel and fucked up--I'll just leave it at that.

My heart breaks for you and your daughter. Truly.
There's a website called IBDSucks.com. Maybe it would be helpful.

What is Sclerosing Cholangitis? I developed side effects, like pseudo arthritis, which paralyzed me with pain one summer, not long before the surgery. In those days, they didn't tell the patient much and my mother was mentally ill..didn't discuss anything with me, so I don't know much of the details. At least being stuck in the bathroom all the time gave me some moments of protection against her. She was violent and unpredictable.

I always thought the stress of being trapped with her was the cause of my disease.
Now I think it's all karmic.

[Ms. Toad]

70. Literally, scarring and inflammation of the bile ducts

It is likely an autoimmune disorder, and the scarring of the bile ducts ultimately destroys the liver. A small percentage of people with IBD (especially UC) also have PSC - but about 85% of people with PSC have IBD. She will likely need a liver transplant. It also puts her at risk for cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, gall bladder cancer, and acts as an exponential multiplier of her risk for colon cancer - currently around 25% because of the combined effects of UC and PSC). Once you're diagnosed with both you get a colonoscopy every year. No good screening tools for the first 3 cancers that can catch them at a treatable stage. No medical treatment for the PSC itself (only the surgical one - and only once the impact of living with an impaired liver is more hazardous to her health than living with someone else's liver).

It sucks. The "good" news is that having both often means the UC is easier to keep under control Sort of like your "good" news of being trapped in the bathroom giving you a break.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

74. wow. youre not kidding...

That really does suck.

......silent......




If you ever want to pm me to talk, please do. I don't have any solutions but I can listen real well.

[Ms. Toad]

78. Thanks! n/t

[freshwest]

67. Reading what you've said, I'll delete. Since I've been a caregiver in all those situations and won't

speak on myself, I understand. I still think the OP is about Faux News. But I'm not insensitive, just sick and tired of being sick and tired. I don't come here to talk about these things, this isn't the Health Forum. But it's not worth being on a thread it if people are going to see it this way. Just adding more to my Ignore list, anyway.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

73. ?

Well yes, of course I understand that the OP is about FuxSpews....

But humans do tend to go on tangents at times. As I did.

Sorry it angered you so badly that you need to put me on ignore.

I'll stir be reading you though, fresh. you bring a lot of intelligence to the board.

[freshwest]

83. Oh, no! You're never going on Ignore! And I'm not mad, just what I said I was...

I agree with the poster who says some are looking for a fight. Now that the GOP candidate for POTUS is vanquished, some are going after fellow Democrats. The GOP threat isn't over, with the war or women, unions, schools, the social safety net and the environment. We've got climate change and other things to focus on, instead of julienning DU members.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

88. oh good! I was beFUDDLED!

I have to run--I'm at work and need to do some stuff before my next assignment, but before it got too far along...

just wanted to say I'm glad it wasn't what I thought!!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

65. oh and i meant to say, when u have bowel disease, no one stands up for you.

Total strangers attack you.

Sorry, I'm not getting on your case, honestly.

Just...public education, I guess.

[rainin]

51. There are many causes of dementia

Fox News is only one cause. Since you know that this was not an attack on your wife or any of the other people who are suffering from this terrible condition, please try not to take it personally. We can still reflect on how fox causes brain damage and other afflictions with humor.

Sorry about your wife. Have you looked into "Leaky Gut Syndrome"? I know a woman personally who recovered fully from Early Onset Dementia by healing her gut. I've heard the outcomes are not as positive in later stages. Just FYI.

Take care.

[proReality]

54. My mother died from complications caused by Alzheimer's and

I'm sole caretaker for my father, who is now in the first stages of Alzheimer's. I've been involved with their declining health for the last 15 years and have had them living in my house for the last 7. That wasn't and isn't funny, but this OP is.

Edited to ad: You need to find your sense of humor or you won't make it through the hard times you're having now. Believe me, I do know what I'm talking about.

[Ms. Toad]

58. Mine, as well -

And I stopped reading when I saw "dementia" in the list of things caused by Fox news. I probably wouldn't have said anything - but I had the same reaction as you did, and wanted you to know you're not alone.

[MsFlorida]

60. sorry, my grandfather had dementia and now it appears my dad does too.

all I can say is it hurts your heart. Prayers to you.

[merrily]

71. I am so very sorry.

[tpsbmam]

85. I understand your post.....

when you're deep in the heart of dementia with someone you love, it's pretty overwhelming and may be hard to see the funny in a post like this.

The person most beloved to me in the world....my grandmother......died of Alzheimer's in 1973, when few people had heard of the disease. She was the person in my life who was always in my corner, standing up to her daughter (my mother) when she and my father were mean to me. She was my "person."

Perhaps I'm just further distanced from her death, though hers is the picture you'll find throughout my house and she remains absolutely beloved by me and always will.....I think it's funny.

But your reaction is, indeed, understandable. Not everyone who is in your place reacts the same, so others whose loved ones have dementia saying they think it's funny just don't have the same reaction as you. Doesn't make yours wrong.....at all.

Hugs to you and your wife.

[RichGirl]

89. I'm sorry for your wife....

But you can't take everything personally. Laughter is the best medicine. Almost any funny would offend someone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Hopefully the poster will self delete the post.

[Quantess]

4. Why, what's so bad about it?

It's a joke.

[antiquie]

5. I am new in this forum.

Do they require us to leave our sense of humor at the door?

[Bucky]

34. They did, but I thought they were kidding. It's so hard to tell on the internet.

[sarcasmo]

6. Joking about dementia is OK in your book?

[FredStembottom]

9. Yes.

Guided both my parents through years of dementia. One died of the Lewy Bodies form.

Having my sense of humor back after all that feels so wonderful!

[RC]

16. The OP is not joking about dementia.

It is joking about Fox News.

[plethoro]

43. No, but the OP is

trivializing dementia by using the possibility of acquiring it by watching FOX news. This borders on Black Humor. Having said that, I fully understand that the scope of humor nowadays ventures into areas not seen as funny by those of us who lived in a different age.

[juajen]

46. Give it a break, people. I could soon be there myself, and I got the joke.

[tblue]

26. You either laugh or you cry

My mom and my mil have it. If my family can't keep a sense of humor, we are toast. Now, that said, everybody deals with these personal issues in their own way. There's no right or wrong way to do it. But sometimes in this site the admonitions to walk on eggshells gets really tiresome. Few people on this site aim to seriously injure anyone and it's just as inappropriate to make that assumption. --!not that that's ejst you did. You only asked the question. .

[Bucky]

35. My sister raises chickens and I'm offended by your joking about "walking on eggshells."

Unborn chicks die that way, dammit! Omlettes that were meant to be never find their way to a skillet to fulfill their purposes.

[Auntie Bush]

19. So then, are you suggesting no one can post anything humorous about any disease

or condition because someone might have that disease and be hurt?

[12AngryBorneoWildmen]

40. My God, People.

This is like anyone blaming those idiot DJ's for the British nurse offing herself (I know, I'm sure someone's 3rd cousin committed suicide and takes offense to such flippant terminology). How sterile are we going to have to be? Jeez, I mean Shephard Smith is only an asshole 99% of the time, so should we apologize for 'broad brushing' the whole network? If one is that sensitive, maybe one should veer from this site (or maybe the internet altogether).

[plethoro]

44. You don't hold those DJ's culpable for that nurse

committing suicide? Interesting... I do and will be donating to a fund to help them atone.

[TheMadMonk]

69. The ones I find culpable are the British media who excoriated...

...and continued the public humiliation of this poor woman until she killed herself.

THEY are the ones who hounded her to death, not the two DJ's who aired a two minute phone call and moved on to their next segment.

Stupid, purile, their prank may have been a lot of things but I doubt very much that there was an iota of maliciousness to it.

What the tabloid media did to the nurse, WAS malicious, it was copy at any cost.

And what has followed her death is the distilate essence of maliciousness. "THEY MUST BE MADE TO SUFFER FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE." Seems to be a fairly common mantra. People WANT to see them suffer and express actual pleasure at the thought of that suffering.

[plethoro]

72. And the proximate cause of this alleged excortiation?

To me, it's two DJ's pretending to be something other than what they were. Knowing and willing maliciousness notwithstanding, I hold these two responsible for what ultimately happened. But, then, I understand people have different value systems. I'm following the case closely and will do whatever I can to help the departed woman obtain justice.

[TheMadMonk]

84. Without that excoriation, and public humiliation I think...

...it highly unlikely she would have killed herself.

[plethoro]

86. Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. Personally, I do not

care for these types of contacts by persons simply playing jokes. Even the Sarah Palin one I didn't care for, even though Palin disgusts me. These kinds of things did not happen during my formative years when I was developing an understand of right from wrong. So maybe you are right about the suicide cause; I don't know. That said, it will not upset me if these two DJ's never practice their craft(?) again. TTYL, MM.

[TheMadMonk]

87. I also think such jokes are childish and purile.

However, absent a clear intent to do harm, or equally clear disregard for FORSEEABLE harm, I don't believe the jokers should be held responsible for what are clearly the consequences of a third party's actions, regardless of the fact that that third party could only act in the wake of the initiating action.

Whether you realise it or not, what you are essentially saying is, once the first bully starts in on a victim, other bullies, whilst not quite free to lay in with impunity, enjoy at least a limited amount of diminished responsibilty, because they're only following up on the initial act of bullying.

[michigandem58]

7. Would you have objected if it included causing people to become "mentally challenged"?

Even with a sense of humor, some things are just in poor taste.

[Quantess]

14. No. It would be a joke.

Mentally challenged is not a clinical term, either.

[adieu]

25. No it's not in poor taste

Not being able to distinguish humor from non-humor is poor taste. The joke is about Fox News.

[RC]

45. And Fox News is in itself poor taste.

So yes, humor is called for.
Apparently some think that because Fox News itself is in poor taste, that humor should not be used against it.

[cascadiance]

10. Whew! Have been suffering the last week from a horrible cold/flu...

... and was wondering if they were releasing something about a new bad blu strain... Thankfully I'm immune to this disease, avoiding this crap like the plague it is!

[Lilma]

12. Glad to report that I dont watch Faux news.

So I am fairly certain that I wont get brain leakage, bigotry and logical fallacies, but I am old and may get dementia and paranoia delusions.

[LiberalArkie]

13. I am so very happy that the Politically Correct people were not around when

Charly Caplin, the Three Stooges and others were around.

My mom died from Dementia followed by Alzheimers and my dad from lung disease. After mom died, Me and my dad laughed so hard about things mom did when she was alive, that he had to turn up the oxygen valve and then we laughed about that.

Mon would be looking all over the house, under things, on top on things for something. She was not wearing her glasses and we would just look over her head and she would start laughing. They were on top of her head.

[amb123]

18. It would be funny, if it weren't SO true.

[James48]

20. k&r

[Roland99]

21. I'm offended by this, too

I have severe anal leakage due to a bizarre farming accident in my teens and I take great offense at mocking anyone with said condition.








btw....







funny OP!

[Bucky]

36. Is that a Star Trek reference?

[Roland99]

41. nah.

[DallasNE]

22. What, No Criticism On Anal Leakage

I guess it "depends" on the infirmity being suffered.

[The Wizard]

38. Eric Cantor is anal leakage (NT)

[11 Bravo]

23. The "anal leakage" part is actually a good thing. The average FoxNews viewer ...

is so completely full of shit that without a little release now and then, they would explode.

[Politicub]

48. This is the first sign of Santorum!

And of the apocalypse!

[rso]

50. leak

bingo !

[PoliticalBiker]

24. ??!?!?!?

[CindyinIndy]

27. Anyone else notice

Since the election is over, lots of people trying to pick fights on here?

[freshwest]

30. Yes, I noticed the rebels looking for a cause.

[sellitman]

66. +1

I couldnt put my finger on it but you nailed it.

[SoapBox]

80. Ditto!!!

I'm having many daily "WTF?" moments.

[mac56]

81. true that

[CindyinIndy]

82. Glad the Good Guys won!

Can't imagine the grouchiness if we'd lost! Cheer up, people!

[Unknown Beatle]

32. Nothing about

anal ventriloquism? Watching Faux Snooze will have you talking out of your ass.

[libodem]

33. The disease of National Psychosis brought to you by Faux

The viewers are willfully self deluded and absorbing non-reality based fabrications to make their lifestyle assessments on. They are fucked up. Poor sheep.


Dear Goddess,
Please bless all of the afflicted, the families and the friends of those with any type of dementia. I worked ten years in our veterans' home and loved the Alzheimer's unit best. My mom and dad both had diminished mental faculties when they passed. I never loved any of them less for not being fully functional. Please look after the feelings and hearts of those who suffer the torment of a loved one who no longer recognizes them. Bless them with understanding and hope.
Blessed be.....amen

I don't believe anyone is disparaging patients with a dementing illness, here.

The joke is on Faux.

[The Wizard]

39. Employing loose associations

and feigned outrage is just so Republican.

[mn9driver]

49. Admit it. You are making fun of me.

This isnt really about Fox News; it's a secret plot by DUers to make me feel bad about myself. Everyone is out to get me.

[longship]

52. That anal leakage will get you every time!

Gotta watch out for it at all costs.

I had mine corked.

R&K

[El Shaman]

62. That fella-----

------Santorum has it -right!!??

[lillypaddle]

53. Speaking of the Surgeon General ...

There is an ad that plays on the various progressive radio shows, it's regarding premature birth. What bugs the hell out of me is that she pronounces "pregnaNcy" as "pregnacy." She's a doctor, for chrissakes, and well educated, what gives with that? It's like hearing a realtor call themselves a realAtor. Sheesh.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

55. well, I knew someone who was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig fan.

She died of an inoperable, fast growing brain tumor.

[ReRe]

57. K&R

This needs to be uploaded on those right wing freeper sites, all over Facebook, tweeted, texted.
Send this great visual up into the big cloud in the wild blue yonder!

[El Shaman]

61. ;-)

Don't worry about the 'party pooper/s' , best post I've seen since I joined DU. Keep up the great stuff!!

[TheDebbieDee]

63. I agree. I think it's pathetic to try to make SOMEONE ELSE responsible for your BUTTHURT!

[SunSeeker]

68. K&R

[DainBramaged]

75. Taking offense to everything posted, the new DU mem

enough people.

Olive Garden, AppleBees, Cigarettes, breastfeeding, circumcision, narwhals, pit bulls, smoking bans

Elliot Spritzer, High school bands, soda pop, pornography, toilet paper dust, Natalie Wood's untimely death

food stamps, kids on planes, drinking caffeine, bombing the moon, tax fast food

Rapture, PETA, Vaccinations, orange juice, and Jessie James

Ipads, PayPal, Michael Vicks, Octomom, unicorns Charlie Sheen and now Fox News

We didn't hate the Weiner, 2 Broke Girls are the new screaming kids in restaurants, we didn't include the spare tire....... and the Dugger mom is popping out another one......

[another_liberal]

76. could add . . .

One could add that: "Excessive viewing of Fox News can make one vote against one's own best interests."

[In_The_Wind]

77. K & R

[rock]

79. You see the problem don't you

The people this is aimed at are saying, "What does Fox News say about that new warning?"

[budkin]

90. Anal leakage... ewww