Monday, December 22, 2008
Report: Frail Michael Jackson suffering from rare lung condition
12/22/2008
By KORIN MILLER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, December 22nd 2008
Michael Jackson is suffering from a rare lung condition and needs to undergo an emergency transplant operation, according to a report that continues to gain steam.
And his normally outspoken publicist hasn’t denied the allegations.
The King of Pop may even be fighting for his life, New York Times bestselling biographer Ian Halperin tells In Touch magazine and Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper.
Halperin, author of such tomes as “Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain” and “Stalking Britney: Under Siege With Britney Spears,” says Jackson has been diagnosed with Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition.
“He’s had it for years but it’s gotten worse,” Halperin told In Touch. “He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it.
He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It’s the bleeding that is the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
According to Halperin, Jackson “can barely speak” and is having trouble seeing: “The vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone.”
Jackson, who has lived largely out the public eye in recent years, shocked fans in July when he was photographed in wheelchair.
The 50-year-old also received help walking when stepped out in Los Angeles earlier this month wearing a Zorro-style face mask.
Jackson’s rep was unavailable for comment Sunday, but the singer’s brother Jermaine didn’t deny the reports, telling Fox News, “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Teen’s dying wish brings hope for orphans
12/21/2008
By MITCH STACY
A year to the day after she buried her son, Joanie Halgrim rode in a minivan down a rocky dirt road not far from the airport in Nairobi, Kenya. Her stomach turned from the stench of rotting garbage and raw sewage mingling with exhaust fumes and the acrid smoke from sizzling meat peddled by street vendors.
The van stopped in the midst of some bleak gray apartment blocks, their balconies festooned with drying clothes flapping in the sun. She and the other travelers got out and entered an austere concrete block building. It didn’t look nearly finished, and yet in a week’s time it would be a home to unwanted children, a place where they would sleep in neat rows of new wooden bunk beds upstairs, the first real bed many of them would ever have.
As she walked around the dusty interior of the orphanage last month, deep feelings welled up inside Joanie. On the second floor, she found a balcony and walked outside to be by herself. And she started to cry.
She thought about the many times she had prayed for a miracle when her son, John, was sick.
She realized that maybe now she was getting it.
___
It was a year and a half before, in April 2007, when the two ladies came to the Halgrim house in Fort Myers, Fla.
“Think of me as your fairy godmother,” one of them, Sue Fenger, told 15-year-old John Halgrim.
He smiled. She was a volunteer from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the charity that helps dreams come true for children with life-threatening ailments. He was a boy with a time bomb in his brain.
“I’ve been thinking about this,” John told her.
He had considered a trip to the Bahamas after hearing about an opulent resort called Atlantis, where guests get to swim with dolphins. That sounded like the coolest thing ever, he thought. And he knew his two brothers and sister would like it, too.
But as John’s illness intensified, a wholly different idea came to mind.
Maybe the mission videos he’d seen at church planted the seed, the ones showing kids living in slums without running water. Or maybe it was the television program he once watched, where other kids who had lost their parents to AIDS were forced into slavery.
Whatever the reason, John become fixated on those children — and that place.
“I want to stop the hunger in Africa,” he told the wish-granter.
Fenger didn’t know what to say at first.
John went on: “I want to open an orphanage in Africa.”
That, of course, wasn’t what Fenger expected. Other kids ask to go to a movie premiere, visit the set of “American Idol” or even meet the president. That kind of wish can usually be granted. But this?
“John, that’s a really big wish,” she said. “I’m not sure Make-A-Wish can do a wish like that. Do you have a second wish?”
John got quiet. Then he made up his mind.
“Nope,” he said, “that’s my only wish.”
“Are you sure there’s nobody you’d like to meet?” she pressed. “Soccer stars? Singers?”
“Nope,” he said again.
He was, in so many ways, an ordinary kid. He liked soccer and fishing with his brother Justin and had a crush on a girl at school named Katie. But John also believed steadfastly in God and faith and still, somehow, miracles.
He also believed that he would eventually be healed, that this thing in his brain was put there so he could do something important.
And this, he decided, was important.
___
The crushing headaches began more than a year before the wish-granters came calling, in early 2006, around the time John turned 14. On the soccer field, where he was used to being better than most other kids, he felt weird and off-balance. His mother started noticing that he looked too gangly and awkward out there, like a giraffe.
Doctors thought he might have allergies or migraines. One wanted to put him on antidepressants.
His mom insisted on an MRI.
The radiologist who performed the procedure in March 2006 knew right away what he was looking at.
He showed John’s parents the thing in the boy’s head, a black spot in the middle of the image of his skull. Joanie thought it looked like a little bomb had exploded in there.
“My mom came out 10 minutes later and gave me a big hug and kiss,” John wrote later in a journal he started keeping. “I was stumped. What was wrong? My mom told me I had a tumor then, and that is when my journey with God began.”
At first, John felt relieved. At least they knew what was wrong. Now, maybe, the headaches would stop.
Then he started to get scared. His Aunt Debbie, Joanie’s older sister, had a brain tumor — and she died.
“Am I going to die?” he asked his mother.
“No,” she tried assuring him. “You’re not going to die.”
But only a few weeks later, doctors at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis took John’s parents into a room and delivered the unthinkable news: Their son had a malignant tumor on his brain stem that was impossible for surgeons to remove without damaging his brain or killing him.
Odds of survival were long. But John and his family believed he could beat it from the start. He spent six weeks at St. Jude with his mom for radiation and chemotherapy.
He would lie down on a table while a machine swirled around him. He had to wear a mask to keep his head still, which he hated. They even sent him to get the braces off his teeth so it would fit tight on his face.
“When I went in, my mom always told me to imagine God zapping the tumor away,” he wrote in his journal. “And you know what, I did. I did every day.”
He also jotted down a Bible verse. Hebrews 11:1: “Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.”
Before he got sick, John went to church most Sundays with his family but wasn’t what you would call religious. He acknowledged that something happened to him when the cancer showed up.
“I learned I needed to change my life,” he wrote in the journal. “I learned I needed to live my life through God’s eyes and not my own. I learned I had been asking him for so much more than I had been giving him.”
John thought about that at St. Jude when he learned that every kid with cancer gets a wish from the Make-A-Wish people.
Back home in Fort Myers, he bugged his mother for months to call Make-A-Wish so he could tell someone about how he wanted to help the kids in Africa. He thought the charity might help him raise money or even send him on a mission trip.
But his parents didn’t want to hear about it. The tumor was still there, slowly killing their son, and they were desperate to find some way to stop it.
Calling Make-A-Wish seemed like giving up.
“John, let’s worry about you,” his mother would say.
Joanie spent hours on the computer researching possible treatments. She called specialists all over the country. She and her son flew to Los Angeles to spend 15 minutes with a top pediatric brain cancer man. She even took John to a faith healer, who grabbed his head, pushed him down and said he was healed.
The tumor was still there, of course, but the radiation and chemo seemed to keep it in check as John started his freshman year at Fort Myers High School.
Then one day in April 2007, a year after the initial diagnosis, John sent a text message from school.
“Mom, I’m seeing these spots.”
John soon started to get dizzy at school. A few months later, doctors determined that the tumor was growing again and spreading out in his brain.
“I almost lost all my faith when I heard this news,” John confided in his journal. “But later on that night I sat down with God and had a long chat. I asked him are you testing my faith, is it my time and what did I do? All those questions, though, I learned were from the devil, and all I had to do was keep faith in the Lord and he would heal me.”
Meanwhile, a doctor’s referral had put John on the Make-A-Wish radar. And that’s how it was that Fenger phoned and finally persuaded Joanie to let her come by to talk to John, who was eager to tell her about his wish.
___
As Fenger tried to figure out how the charity could help, John’s health got worse. But he never complained or moped or got mad. When people told John they would pray for him, he’d tell them right back that he would be praying for them, too.
One of those people praying for him was a young pastor named Orlando Cabrera. John’s uncle attended the Summit Church, where Cabrera preached. John went there sometimes, and he liked Cabrera.
One day Cabrera asked if he could come to the house to pray with the boy. During the visit, Joanie urged her son to talk about his wish. John explained how he wanted to help kids in Africa somehow, maybe even go on a mission trip.
Naturally, Cabrera wanted to know why. Why wouldn’t John want to take a vacation or do something else fun? The wish was supposed to be just for him, after all.
John propped himself up on the couch so he could look at the 33-year-old pastor.
“Orlando, God didn’t allow this to happen to me so I would get something out of it,” he said.
Cabrera decided then that other people needed to know about this kid — and his wish.
In early June, the pastor returned with a video camera. He thought he’d show the video to his congregation, then maybe appeal for donations to benefit the church’s African missions and outreach.
John, as bad as he felt by then, liked the idea, too. This could work.
He sat down at the end of the dining room table and faced the camera.
“Hi, I’m John Halgrim. I’m 15 years old,” he began.
His head pounded, he was dizzy and sick to his stomach, and his face was puffy from the steroids. Nevertheless, he sat for more than an hour to talk about his cancer and God and the kids in Africa and his dreams for them.
“I know that he’s got something great planned for me,” John said. “And I know he wants me to do this.”
___
Doug Ballinger couldn’t believe what he was seeing when a friend at Summit Church showed him the video. The 68-year-old retired businessman was moved by the boy’s spiritual maturity and selflessness.
He also realized that he might be in a unique position to help.
Ballinger, who had moved to Fort Myers from Memphis, recently had taken his first mission trip to Nairobi, and he couldn’t get out of his head the poverty and the suffering children he saw there. He and his son, J.D., who’d been doing African missions for years, formed a charity and called it Help the Least of These, the name taken from a verse in the book of Matthew.
Father and son had helped build a new church that doubled as a schoolhouse in a Nairobi slum. They decided their next project needed to be a small orphanage. So many children are parentless in a land where violence, starvation and disease kill most adults before they reach their mid-40s. But they needed to raise the money.
That’s when Ballinger saw John’s video. “It was like God did a certain thing,” he said.
The video was shown during services at the Summit Church in October 2007. At the end, a pastor explained how the weekend’s collection would be donated to Help the Least of These to build the orphanage and give John Halgrim his wish. Many who watched it were in tears. And they gave — more than $13,000 that first weekend.
That was just the beginning. As word spread and more people found out about John’s wish, they gave more money to help build the orphanage for him.
Plans for a larger orphanage were put to paper, a project costing around $90,000. Sixty children would eventually live there, and local residents would come for church in the ground floor common room on Sundays. The building was designed so more floors could be built on top if it needed to be expanded.
John never got to see the video. By the time it was shown at church that fall, the tumor was stealing his ability to function. He could hardly talk or see anymore, and had trouble getting up and down out of the brown recliner in the living room where he spent most days.
But soon afterward, John’s Uncle Ed came over with a drawing, an architect’s rendering of the front of a building. The boy’s grandmother, Jackie Streit, sat down next to his chair and held it out in front of him so he could see.
“John, look,” his grandmother said. “This is the orphanage that you wanted. It’s going to happen.
“Most boys your age are infamous,” she joked. “You’re going to be famous.”
In neat block letters across the top of the drawing was the name of the building: The John E. Halgrim Orphanage.
John smiled. Then he lifted an arm off the chair and gave them all a thumbs-up.
A few weeks later, surrounded by his family at a Fort Myers hospital, the 15-year-old died.
At his funeral, Cabrera spoke and showed the video again as a tribute to the boy and his wish. Mourners donated another $15,000 for John’s orphanage.
___
Joanie had promised her son over and over that she would be the shepherd of his wish.
That’s why she and her mother went to Nairobi with other volunteers last month to paint the walls, buy supplies for the kitchen and help move the kids in, working amid poverty that was previously unfathomable to them.
She had T-shirts made for each of the orphans and volunteers that said, “Something Heavenly.”
At a ceremony to dedicate the building a few days after they arrived, Joanie sat in a plastic lawn chair in the front row, cradling a small boy in her arms. She listened to people talk about John and his wish and how many obstacles had to be overcome to get to this day.
When it was her turn to stand and take the microphone, her emotions made it impossible even to speak at first. Lined up on rows of benches before her, the children waited quietly, their scrubbed faces looking up at this woman who lost her son and because of that came all the way to this place to give them better lives.
“I know John is watching this,” she said. “He should be here.”
Since he couldn’t, his mother opened his journal and started reading aloud. It was the part John wrote on that day in June last year when the pastor came to make the video.
“Today was hard, but so have been the last couple of weeks,” she read.
“But all you have to do is have faith and everything should be all right...”
AP writer Katharine Houreld in Kenya contributed to this story.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Vitamins C, E don’t protect against cancer: studies
12/09/2008
Tue Dec 9, 4:03 pm ET
CHICAGO (AFP) – Vitamins C and E do not appear to reduce the risk of cancer, according to a pair of new studies which debunk earlier research suggesting supplements might provide some protection against the often deadly ailment.
Some 15,000 men aged 50 and older participated in the study, which included an eight-year follow-up period, but neither vitamin appeared to appreciably reduce their cancer risk, according to the studies appearing in the January 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
The findings are disappointing news for the more than half of American adults take vitamin supplements—many in the hope of warding off illness.
They appear to refute earlier observational studies that linked use of vitamins E and C with reduced risk of certain forms of cancers, including cancer of the prostate.
One of the two studies—the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)—found that vitamin E or selenium supplements, whether taken alone or in combination, appear not to reduce the risk of prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
“It may be time to give up the idea that the protective influence of diet on prostate cancer risk can be emulated by isolated dietary molecules given alone or in combination to middle-aged and older men,” Peter Gann of the University of Illinois at Chicago reflected in a JAMA editorial.
SELECT researchers studied the supplements’ effects over seven years on some 35,533 men, aged 50 years or older.
The researchers said that “large-scale, randomized trials” still must be conducted on the use of vitamin supplements and cancer.
Until that next generation of trials, “physicians should not recommend selenium or vitamin E or any other antioxidant supplements to their patients for preventing prostate cancer,” said Gann.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Pair in court over baby’s brain injury
12/03/2008
4:00AM Thursday Dec 04, 2008
By Jarrod Booker
A baby who allegedly suffered a serious assault at the hands of his parents has been left brain damaged.
Police have charged a 30-year-old man and his 21-year-old partner with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and failing to supply the necessaries of life, after the incident at their home in Motueka, near Nelson.
The assault allegedly took place on or about Labour Day, and the baby boy was taken to Nelson Hospital the same day with a fractured skull, before being flown to the Starship hospital in Auckland in a critical condition.
Last month, Detective Sergeant Kevin Tiernan told the Weekend Herald the boy’s injuries were consistent with the child being banged against an object and “probably more than that, in terms of shaking or something like that. The severity of it confirms that it’s non-accidental.”
During their investigation, police expressed frustration at the lack of information coming forward from the family of the boy.
They would not reveal what led to the charges against the parents, who were due to appear in court yesterday.
The boy has been removed from the couple’s care by Child, Youth and Family, as has a 13-month-old child who had also been in their care.
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Social Security Administration
800-772-1213
P.O. Box 39702
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310-356-6808
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210-521-7273
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INFORMATION AND REFERRAL
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211 Information Line
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