I am personally aware of how hard it was to see, Ann, one of my daughters, struggle with the pain of the treatments for her breast cancer. After many long months in the hospital, Ann, in 1995, was relieved of all of her pain as she left us and went to be with the Lord. Her parents, her husband her brothers and sisters, her two children, her friends, her many young autistic students - - all of us, still miss Ann very much.
But, today, because of the many improvements in breast cancer prevention and care,
thousands of lives are being both helped and saved worldwide, every year. In this
way, other families are spared the heartache our family has experienced with our
loss of Ann. But, much more research needs to be done and research, as you know,
costs lots of money.
If you know anyone with breast cancer, you have first hand knowledge of the pain,
the upset and the struggle that must be endured with today’s ways of treating this
kind of cancer.
Back in ‘95 I’d have given anything and paid any price to simply reduce Ann’s
agonizing pain. One of the aims of breast cancer research is to find better ways to
diagnose and treat those with breast cancer. So far, there is no sure cure, but there
are lots of newly discovered and less painful treatments available. These have been
discovered by intensive research and then put into practice. In this way the suffering
of breast cancer patients is much less in many ways.
Ann’s husband has this to say about his wife:
“Ann was diagnosed via a mammogram in October 1993 shortly after we got home
from our year in Israel. By the time she was diagnosed her cancer was stage 4
metastasis and had spread to her hips and liver. She had a mastectomy and then
radiation and chemotherapy. In June of 1994 she had massive chemo with stem cell
transplant at the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, she had her stem cell infusion
on July 5. I well remember how we watched the July 4th fireworks from a hospital
room overlooking the Delaware River. She seemed to do a bit better for a while after
that.
In June of 1995 I was invited to a conference in Cambridge England. Ann went with
me and we spent some time in London. We took a wheelchair with us because she
could not walk for any long period of time. By the end of the trip she was not feeling
well and when we got home we immediately called her oncologist. She entered the
hospital the next day. The cancer had reinvigorated and had spread pretty widely.
She was in St. Luke’s until she died in August. There are a lot of things that she
endured. I had to give her injections every day for almost a month before her stem
cell procedure. I don’t remember how many major and minor surgeries
mastectomy, catheter placement, catheter removal, etc. She spent over three
months in the hospital during her treatment. She endured it all with grace and
courage. She mostly worried about the kids and me. She was a remarkable person
and I miss her very much.”
Before her marriage Ann, who was 43, had been an excellent, and dedicated teacher
of autistic children. Those who worked with Ann and the children were often filled
with astonishment and praise for the way Ann so lovingly cared for “her kids.” She
treated each one as a special person and did her very best to comfort, teach and
help them in every way.
Even after her marriage, she and her husband often invited the children to spend a
weekend with them in their home. In this way Ann tried to help the children’s
parents so they could have a couple of day’s relief from the constant care that
autistic children always require.
So, if you would like to donate some of your money toward breast cancer research,
here is an easy way to do it: order one or more of my useful, comfortable and very
special PINK SLEEP MASKS. I guarantee and promise you that 25% of the money you
send for this special sleep mask will be given directly to one or more of the Breast
Cancer Research Foundations for you and we all thank you for your help.
Terry L. Weber
http://www.crafty-ones.com/web/viewproduct.asp?prodID=3085
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Terry Weber is a retired advertising/direct mail sales letter copywriter and inventor of several useful items. Terry and his wife Doris are Habitat For Humanity, RV Care-A- Vanners who, for the past eight years have volunteered to help build more than 39 houses all over the USA. They travel to and from the 2-week long builds in their RV. The money they make on their Crafty-Ones website |
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Before you start trading in the FOREX markets you will need to set up an account with what is known as a Forex Broker. Once you start your search for the perfect broker, you may feel overwhelmed by the number of them who offer their services online. Deciding on a broker requires a little bit of research on your part, but the time spent will give you a much better idea of the services that are available and the fees charged by various of these brokers.
Strictly speaking, a forex broker is an individual or a company that buys and sells the orders placed by the trader according to his decisions. The way brokers earn money is by charging a commission or a fee for their services.
All serious brokers need to be associated with a large financial institution such as a bank in order to provide the amount of funds necessary for margin trading. In the United States a broker must be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and also with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). These credentials will ensure you have peace of mind, knowing that you have protection against any case of fraud and abusive trade practices.
What you’ll always want will be to find a broker who executes orders quickly and with minimum slippage. All reputable online brokers will offer automatic execution of orders and will let you know their policies regarding slippage. A good broker should be able to tell you how much slippage can be expected in both normal and volatile markets.
Margin accounts are the basis of Forex trading, so you better be sure you clearly understand the broker’s margin terms before setting up your trading account. You also need to know the margin requirements and how margin is calculated. It may be the case that margin change according to the currency traded; or maybe the margin is the same every day of the week or maybe not; so you have to find out and have all this information pretty clear. Additionally some brokers may offer different margins depending on what kind of account you are trading, i.e. a mini or standard account.
One more thing that you should consider is that the trading station software available to you from your broker is very important for your success as an online forex trader. You should get a feel for the options that are available by trying out a demo account at a few of the available online brokers. Always keep in mind that above all, you are looking for reliability and the ability to perform well in fast-moving markets. A good trading software should offer automatic trading and may have special features such as trailing stops and trading from the chart, which is a great plus. Some features may only be available at an extra cost, so be sure you understand what your trading needs are and how much the broker charges to provide them. If you conclude those extras are necessary for your trading style and techniques it would be a good investment to have them in your arsenal.
Lastly, one more thing you should consider when choosing an online forex broker should be to find out whether trader’s funds are insured or not and what’s the extent of that insurance.
Consider all these issues and you will be sure you have chosen the best broker for your trading style.
Adrian Pablo is a Forex freelance writer with articles published in a number of places. Get a free report on Fibonacci Trading and learn more about the world of forex trading , visit:
