by nate on Monday, October 19th, 2009 | Friendship, Love, Love Poems, Love Story, Relationship | 6 Comments

I received this on my email, I can’t validate its honesty of the story, but what I am about to share is that I’m amazed of what the couple did…

The girl in the picture is Katie Kirkpatrick, she is 21 . Next to her, her fiance, Nick, 23.

The picture was taken shortly before their wedding ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the US .

Katie has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving medication.

In the picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of chemo to end.

In spite of all the pain, organ failures, and morphine shots, Katie is going along with her wedding and took care

of every detail. The dress had to be adjusted a few times due to her constant weight loss

An unusual accessory at the party was the oxygen tube that ketie used throughout the ceremony and reception as well.

The other couple in the picture are Nick’s parents. Excited to see her son marrying his high school sweetheart.

Katie, in her wheelchair with the oxygen tube , listening a song from her husband and friends

At the reception, katie had to take a few rests.The pain do not let her to be standing up for long periods

Katie died five days after her wedding day. Watching a women so ill and weak getting married and with a smile on her face makes us think….. Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it last. We should stop making our lives complicated.

Life is short

Break the rules

forgive quickly

kiss passionately, love truly

laugh constantly

And never stop smiling

no matter how strange life is

Life is not always the party we expected to be

but as long as we are here, we should smile and be grateful.

Tags: cancer, Katie Kirkpatrick, morphine shots, Nick, sickness, smiling, terminal cancer, true love, unusual marriage, wedding, wedding ceremony, weight loss

by nate on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 | Health, Life | No Comments

(CNN) – Headaches, big and small, are among the most common health complaints. Almost 90 percent of women and about 70 percent of men get tension headaches, the Mayo Clinic says. Yet doctors still don’t know much about what causes them.

In a new large-scale study published in the journal Neurology this week, researchers found that higher temperatures and, to a lesser extent, low air pressure, influence severe headaches.

But researchers aren’t sure how temperature influences headaches, and others say that a slew of other factors could be involved in the connection.

“I think it’s more complicated than that,” said Dr. Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who was not involved in the study. Temperature and pressure may be indirect evidence of other causal factors.

The study looked at more than 7,000 patients who had come to the emergency room of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, between May 2000 and December 2007, all of whom were discharged with a primary diagnosis of some kind of headache. About 75 percent of these patients were women.

Researchers compared environmental factors such as temperature, air pollution and barometric pressure on the day of the patient’s visit with a day the week before and a day the week after. They found that the risk of severe headache increases about 7.5 percent for each temperature increment of 5 degrees Celsius (about 9 degrees Fahrenheit).

“Fairly consistently, it was warmer on the days that individuals came in than on control days before and afterwards,” said Dr. Kenneth Mukamal, lead author and physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

But as to why temperature is connected to headaches, Mukamal said researchers aren’t sure. The physiological connection is not well understood, he said.

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Tags: doctor, headache, health, hot air, migrain, sickness, weather