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Medical Miracles

MEDICAL MIRACLES What happened to mad cow disease? And bird flu from Thailand? I ask myself. Legionnaire’s disease? Minimata? E - coli ? Did they succumb to medical expertise? Or just disappear from the current-panic shelf? Will you survive the next wave? Will I ?

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James Marshall Goff

Date: 2/11/2012 5:32:00 AM

Sid.... I knew a guy who lived in the forests of Northern Minnesota.....a logger for hire....beautiful little family in the woods....cleaned a "coon" he killed one day to put food on his table, got staph and died in 24hrs. so sad....jimbo

Sidney Beck
Date: 2/11/2012 5:41:00 AM

Thanks Jimbo for reading my poem....yeah the "simple life" is sometimes a dangerous thing......we all live in huge cities and kinda wish we lived in the far country away from etc etc yet it is not so lovely sometimes....best wishes Syd