RE: {Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969} Re: {Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969} Re: FaceBook ...
Ramon Lopez
Sorry to hear about your situation Steve. I hope things get better for you soon. I cant imagine what it must be like to feel ill and isolated.
I'm not sure if prayers work but I will keep you in my thoughts... for what that's worth
Ramon
On Thursday, September 10, 2020 Steve Gluck <brooklyn-prep...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Not to bring everyone down … and being somewhat in agreement with many of the comments and criticisms of FB …
For the past year and a half I have been mostly bed-ridden … (much longer actually … it’s a wonder I was able to make it to our 50th) … not all-day everyday … but my waking hours are about equally divided between distress … extreme distress … and agony … (often tilted toward agony) …
I had over 30 doctor’s appointments with various physicians last year and none of them know what’s going on …
The odd thing is that on good days I look so good … vigorous, vibrant and healthy … that they don’t even seem to believe how sick I am … I even went into therapy last year just to try and figure out why I can’t get anyone to believe me …
I had to cancel two trips out west to see my kids and grandkids because I was too sick to travel … and I have a feeling sometimes that I may never be well enough to travel again.
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Plus … several years ago I was totally disowned by my large, close-knit, extended family ... after I discovered that they’d cheated me out of a quarter of a million dollars … no family reunions, holidays, birthday parties, weddings, funerals … none of that stuff …
The only social event I’ve been to in the past 5 years or so was our 50th … (also the only time I can think of that I’ve had a meal I didn’t prepare myself) …
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AND … I live on a town where I don’t hardly know anyone that is filled with bikers and gun-nuts who absolutely hate me … and make that fact known … so I have absolutely zero social life here …
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Hell … if my son Dominick didn’t call me every Sunday … as he has ever since I was released from the hospital after my heart attack in 2009 … the only people I would ever talk to are the check-out girls at the supermarket and the baristas at Starbucks …
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It’s a little bit, in some small way I think, like being in solitary …
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On the other hand … my spirits are good … I’m working as hard as possible on a bunch of stuff … and I keep telling myself that I’m getting better … looking forward to getting back in the gym … and hopefully, moving back out west at some point to be closer to the kids …
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But in the meantime it’s just about all I can do to get through the day and keep myself fed and washed. I try to keep the kitchen bathroom sort of up to snuff … but otherwise I live in filth and squalor … and there isn’t much I can do about it … as the forest slowly encroaches in on me …
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So if I feel well-enough to sit at my computer and get on FaceBook for at least some kind of discourse … well … that’s enough … it’s something anyway …
You never know what’s going on in peoples’ lives …
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IndeedNot just The USA third of the Planet and increasing .I had an account mainly to keep o touch with my Italian relatives . Only posted Encouragement to donate to a number of environmental , wildlife refugee ,charitable organizations . Never posted a “ like “ any personal information and certainly not vacation pictures nor selfies .Hope you’re wellRegardsJoe
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On Sep 10, 2020, at 5:25 PM, 'Thomas Russo' via Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969 <brooklyn-prep...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Never had a Facebook account. Somewhat bemused at how easily people have substituted this medium for real world connection to others. More distressing is the lack of regulation/ accountability for misinformation, propaganda, and malicious information shared on this platform. Sadly most Americans are getting their news and information from Facebook.
Tom Russo--
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On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 4:20 PM, 'Stephen Marengo' via Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969 <brooklyn-prep...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
This was "posted" on a light pole outside the gym. Kind of sums up my feeling on facebook
On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 08:47:57 AM EDT, 'Joseph Navarro' via Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969 <brooklyn-prep...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
GaryCouldn’t agree moreI no longer want to be a targeted unit if consumption .Also , who is actually honest on Facebook ?I git tired of the endless fluff , “ likes “, aspirational images , constant stream of sunsets etc etc .These coupled with the bad actors and suspect “ news “ convinced me it was time to opt out .RegardsJoe
Joseph Navarro AIA
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On Sep 9, 2020, at 7:52 PM, Garry <garry....@usa.net> wrote:
Steve... I found out one day a number of years ago that I could not access my Facebook.... their resolution was for me to send a copy of my birth certificate to prove I am who I am... Never went back and don’t miss it. I find social media too inflammatory and back in the day the word was be careful how you communicate in e mails... that went out the window with social media.
On Sep 9, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Steve Gluck <St...@stevegluck.com> wrote:
--Never mind ... it's back up and running ... … 😊 …
--On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 5:42:56 PM UTC-4 Steve Gluck wrote:
I might be jumping the gun here a bit ... and maybe I'm getting a little paranoid because I've been banned from so many FaceBook groups ... (for no reason) ...
... but I can't access FaceBook at all now ... all I get is a blank screen ...
Is FaceBook down? ... does anyone know? ... or have I been banned from everything? ...
... Wednesday ... September 9th ... 5:40pm ...
Steve
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Steve Gluck
Stephen Marengo
Joe Navarro
Steve
Very sorry to hear about your condition. It sounds like you need a health advocate to press for a diagnosis. I had an undiagnosed condition that miraculously went away -without any treatment.
I had very good doctors , despite their inability to find a route causes. My neurologist sent test results and blood samples , MRI reports to the Mayo Clinic. I'm sure you've seen specialists affiliated with Hospitals. Is there a Teaching Hospital near you ? These are often the most willing and capable of taking on cases others wont .
Tahe care
J Navarro
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Steve Gluck
Thank you, guys, for your kind words and offers of help … Ramon, Stephen, Joe, Paul … and I think you’re 100% correct, Joe, in that I need the services of a health-advocate. I’m going to try and be more proactive in getting the help I most certainly need.
In the meantime, one of our classmates has offered to drive up with his wife for a visit. This is all extremely difficult for me but I couldn’t possibly say no. I’ll try to keep everyone posted … but that’s all I can manage to say right now …
Steve
Steve Gluck
Stephen Marengo
Steve Gluck
Update …
They finally figured out what was wrong with me after more than three years of being bed ridden and in agony … a Vitamin B-12 Deficiency … (of all things) … without which one’s bodily-functions don’t function very well … if at all …
That was in February … and I’ve spent the past few months doing everything I can to get my health back …
I just thought I’d post this update after I made some recent posts on FaceBook that made me look … well … if not completely healthy … at least a lot healthier than I claimed to be in my last post here …
Anyway … that’s the latest … thanks again for all the well wishes …
All the best …
Gluck …
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Stephen Marengo
Ramon Lopez
Steve Gluck
Paul Herzman
James DiGiacomo
On Jul 27, 2022, at 10:36 AM, Steve Gluck <St...@stevegluck.com> wrote:
Thanks, guys ...
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On Jul 28, 2022, at 9:04 AM, James DiGiacomo <jdigia...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Steve
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Steve Gluck
I’m kind of glad you asked, Joe … I sometimes wonder myself why it took them so long to figure it out, but as far as I know … (and was told) … while a B-12 deficiency isn’t all that unusual, it’s not something they automatically test for … it requires a special, specific, B-12 test, and although I had a lot of blood-work done, not the B-12 test …
Also … the way B-12 deficiency symptoms are described at Web-MD, Mayo-Clinic, and other on-line sources, they don’t go anywhere near describing the agony I was in …
I’d been in the Emergency Room 4 or 5 times at least, but they kept releasing me, telling me over and over again that they couldn’t find anything wrong with me … ‘til the last time I called 911, when it took every ounce of strength, focus, and concentration for me to just get downstairs to the ambulance without passing out … and they finally admitted me …
They thought I had Leukemia, so they sent my bloodwork over to the Smilow Cancer Clinic where they figured it out … my red-blood cell count was at 6 … 13 is normal, and anything under 8 is critical … I don’t know what those numbers represent, exactly, but that’s what I was told … so they immediately gave me a transfusion and started the B-12 injections … first daily, then weekly, then monthly … now every three months …
Unfortunately, a B-12 deficiency can cause permanent neurological damage, which can have a kind of cascading effect and affect virtually everything else … so I still have most of the same symptoms, and I’m still in distress over one thing or another all the time, just not as severe …
S.
PS: Thanks, Paul … 😊 …
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