My God Mother is 81 years young. She has one son and one grandson.
Little John her grandson is now a senior at LSU. When Little John was four years old he could read anything you would put in front of him. His Mother and Father both have master degrees. His Mother read to him when he was still in her womb.

His Grandmother, who is my Godmother would take him on Saturday mornings to McDonalds. When they would pass my bicycle shop about 13 years ago, he wanted to stop and talk to Mitch. My God Mother calls me Mitch. He would beg her to stop. She would tell him that I was too busy.

I let little John use my computer. Little John was very smart. His Mother had him reading War & Peace when he was five years old. I owned a white Ford Van back then. Little John wanted to see my Ford van. I brought him to the parking lot to see my van. I raised him up in the front seat. He saw SRS on the steering wheel. He asked me if I knew what SRS meant. I said no.

He told me it meant Secondary Restraining System, that is the air bag.
He continued to tell me that the seat belt was the Primary restraining system. Little John told me his Mother’s friend has a Van like just like this one and she let him read the book. I told him so many times. “Your The BEST!” Little John loved to hear that he was the BEST.

I said John, I have friends that are not as smart as you. He said, Mitch you know that you can get new friends. One day one of my five younger sisters, was having a crawfish party in her back yard. All of our very large family was arriving at the party. I was sitting in the back yard with my grandson on my knee. My grandson was about 3 or 4 years old. John was about 5 years old.

Little John and his parents arrived at the party. When little John saw me he started running toward me. When he saw my grandson sitting on my lap, he stoped short and said, Mitch, Who is the best?

I said, come here, he said no, who is the best? I said come here and meet my grandson. My grandson could play T ball , however he could not read like little John. I finally got him over to me and lifted him up on my other knee. Little John was heavy. He ate all of his food. Today he is over six feet three. He said , Mitch who is the best? I said, you are the best at who you are, I am the best at who I am, and my grandson is the best at who he is.

Little John said, no Mitch, who is the best? I knew that I was sending the wrong message telling little John that he was the best! Four o’clock in the morning I get my ideas. I thought of the words.
“I am the best at who I am!” I made round label stickers with these words and gave them to little John and my grandson.

I gave them out at many of my over 2500 presentations. School Teachers love the circle stickers. It takes the competition out of being the best. So many kids have low self value, because they believe they have to be the best at sports and other things to be somebody.

No on one earth has your finger prints, your DNA, and your thinking. You are one of a kind. You have a unfair advantage. What you want the most is a unfair advantage. You already have a unfair advantage. Once you know and truly believe in your heart that you already have a unfair advantage, with persistence, you can do anything you want to do, you can be anything you want to be.

There is no competitions, you are one of a kind. You are priceless. You and only you must believe this first. Six billion people on earth, and you are the on the endangered species list. When you past away you will be on the extinction list. The true giver is always the receiver. You can buy more happiness with a heart filled with joy, than a pocket filled with money. How may I serve humanity with humility? What can I do?

Mike Marino, Jr. aka “In Person,” is the co-author of two books and a Distinguished Toastmaster who helps people fall in love with learning. He speaks and writes on the love of Knowledge is the root of all good!. To book Mike for your next association meeting, conference or corporate event, contact Mike Marino, Jr. In person 504 833 4405 or email mailto:marinojr@bellsouth.net marinojr@bellsouth.net”
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Symptoms of mesothelioma take a long time to develop, which is a major reason for the high fatality rate. Symptoms include shortness of breath, difficult breathing, and pain in the chest or abdominal cavity. Chest pains indicate that the disease is aggravating the nerve cells in the tissues, and has reached a serious stage. Less severe chest discomfort and shortness of breath are generally due to the accumulation of fluid between the two layers of the pleura.

Mesothelioma of the abdomen can have symptoms of abdominal pain and swelling. Other symptoms include cough, fatigue and unexplained weight loss.

As chest pain, shortness of breath or abdominal pain are symptomatic of several diseases, tests are required to identify the cause. These tests vary depending on the symptoms and may include an electrocardiogram (EKG), and a chest or abdominal X-ray. If abnormalities are seen, a CT scan or an MRI scan is taken. These tests help determine the size, location and extent of a possible tumor.

Fine-needle aspiration may also be given. In this procedure, a thin needle is used to remove a small sample of the fluid in the abdomen or lungs for examination. A biopsy is also taken through a thoracoscopy or video-assisted thoracoscopy (VAT), or through a led laparoscopy. Here, a tube-like instrument inserted through a small incision gives a view of the tumor and collects a tissue sample. A bronchoscopy or a mediastinoscopy may also be done. This enables the doctor to look for other masses of tumors in the lungs or to take tissue samples from lymph nodes.

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Let me say from the outset- I am in no way offering anyone advice – (I’m no expert) I am only saying as a very ordinary person, what works for me in maintaining a positive attitude.

I’ve been told of other guys in my situation who have become highly emotional when told “the bad news”and become “basket cases” for days. I can understand that and I won’t deny that at one point (for a short time) I did want to stand on a mountain top and scream for no reason, because it is scary confronting stuff, but it is not my natural response. I find I never have to look very far to find someone who is worse off and just like Polyanna I find that “be glad game” works wonders.

I learned many years ago that in life it is pointless to ask, “why me”- because the real answer to that has to be “why not me?” Having accepted that, the only thing that remains is to add up the plusses. When I look around, I never have to look far to see someone who is much worse off than I. Over recent years I have lost several friends who have developed brain tumours. I can only thank God, that my challenge is way less than that.

I also am grateful that in this country I do have access to top specialists and the best technology for treatment- and I will be treated. In many countries, this would not have been possible. For these reasons, I feel very positive to the point where I really don’t feel I have the right to complain at all. If things turn bad on me later on, I will have to deal with that if it happens, but meantime I will go on “feeling lucky”.

The lady who took my CT scans said something very powerful. As usual I used my sense of humour when she asked me how I was feeling.

I said to her, “I’m sorry to have to say it but you run a dreadful party- first of all the drinks were disgusting, then you invite me into the lounge room and throw me into the middle of a large record player that doesn’t play music and you then run out of the room leaving me all alone for ages”.

She laughed and said, “Well, I hope you didn’t dislike it too much because we are going to see one another every year from now on to keep monitoring you! Just think how much better off you are going to be than the thousands of people who are running around out there who haven’t been tested, who have no idea that cancer is growing inside them already – you at least have a chance of cure and you will know where you stand”.

Last night on the television news there was a very exciting story about a medical breakthrough in Australia that is looking extremely positive. It seems they have been able to isolate a protein that they believe may be the key to blocking cancer growth in a wide variety of cancers. It was still good news at the end of the report when they said it could be available as soon as five years away!

Nowadays the advances in medicine are so rapid- no matter what your condition, it only goes to show- you never know what’s around the corner.

That being said, I will continue to play the “Polyanna game” and just be glad for the mercies and the hope that I do have- and will concentrate on that, because I have found over the years, this is the attitude that consistently works for me best. This situation is no different.

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A new European study found that after the initial treatment for chemotherapy, radiation treatment may be a better solution than surgery for patients suffering from advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small lung cancer accounts for about 80 percent of all lung cancer cases reported.

The new study was reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, examined 579 patients suffering from late stage, non-small lung cancer that had advanced to the point where surgery could not effectively remove all of the cancer. All of the patients had received three cycles of chemotherapy.

After chemo, 165 received radiation treatment and 167 received surgery for the remaining cancer. On average, the patients receiving the radiation survived 17.5 months compared to 16.4 months for those who received the surgery. According to HealthDay, “the five-year survival rate was 15.7 percent for those who had surgery compared with 14 percent for those treated with radiation. While the survival rates were similar, radiation was the preferred treatment because of its lower rates of complications and death.”

The study’s authors wrote, “these results are important, because several centers routinely use chemotherapy followed by surgery to treat patients with this stage of disease based on small randomized studies that showed that surgery alone in inferior to chemotherapy and surgery in stage IIIA patients.”

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