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My Fearless Dad

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It almost seemed to me that dad wanted us to grow up as warriors. He taught us how to fight at a very early age. I mean I do not remember not play fighting with him and Chuck. He taught us all sorts of moves, like head locks, half nelsons, and scissors with our legs. Fighting was a very natural thing. I recall once, after “Walt”, that’s what mom called him, was deployed to Hawaii to prepare for his duty in Vietnam, we had a little fighting treat. It featured Chuck, and some random kid that walked by our house on Flamingo Court, when we lived on the Marine Corps compound at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. I always liked the name of that place, it really seemed important.

Anyway, for some reason we heard a commotion outside. We all piled into the parents room.  By “all” I mean Dad, Mom and mean. Oh yeah, by this time we had another addition to the family. Joey. He was named after his dad, Walter Joseph. His dads name was Walter, yet Joey does not remember much about his dad. Yet, he ended up with all his service medals, and the flag they used in his burial when he was KIA (killed in action) in Vietnam in 1966. He was younger and smaller, and Chuck and I didn’t pay that much attention to him, because we were “out the door” as much as possible. In Hawaii, it is THE THING TO DO when you are a kid! The beaches, the fishing spots. Ah, but I digress…

So, we are all on mom’s bed looking out the window, and we see Chuck! there is this kid that is looking like he is giving him a hard time. I got up and was heading out the door to go intervene. But, dad said, no! Let’s see what happens. So, there was Chuck, who was a pretty sensitive kid in my opinion, with a brute of a guy out there in front of the house. He was trying to pick a fight with Chuck. Chuck was not trying to start anything, but he also wasn’t backing down, and trying to run away either. Ahh, so now I was beginning to understand. Dad wanted to see how Chuck handled himself, at the age of 9!!!

What happened next was truly amazing to me. The kid, who was bigger than Chuck, and obviously more daring, grabbed Chuck around the torso. They struggled a minute, then the kid grabbed him from behind trying to force him to the ground. Now I can say, that even at that time, Chuck was a little stout, or was sorta chunky but not fat. Well, he had a little weight on him anyways, I was the skinnier of the two of us. So, this kid has Chuck in some sort of hold from behind, then, Chuck flips him! Chuck flipped the kid literally over his head and he landed on the ground hard! Chuck, leaned down, although I am sure he was astonished like the rest of us at what had just happened, and put his knee on the guys chest. He told him to , “Get outta here, and don’t come back”! Wow!

That was the first time I was both amazed at my brother and proud at the same time. Everyone in the bedroom was astonished, and mom clapped and said Yay Chucky! Dad, quieted us all down and said, Shhh! Act like nothing happened! Don’t let him know that we watched. Chuck, came in, got a drink of water, and he said to me, you ready to go down to the golf course? And that was that. There was no mention of his heroic beat down of a local trouble maker. But, I was proud of my brother.

When we left though, there were those peculiar clouds of smoke that seemed to hang in our house like clouds do and a windless day. We didn’t think that much of this. But by this time the Surgeon General had come out with a warning about cigarette smoking that I had heard. I remember many times asking both my mom and dad to quit smoking because of this. I could not help remember that a few years earlier, our family was over at friends, and the dad in that family, with his wife sitting right there, told us that his wife was diagnosed with cancer. He told us this while every one was truly puffing away on Pall Malls at the time. We all thought it was very sad. It was like there was nothing that really could be done. It was hopeless. And yet, the waves of smoke clouds built in the house.

Really in the 60′s and before, people didn’t have that much air conditioning. Most of the cooling at that time was done with fans. So, smoke would build up in houses, and really linger a long time. I can really see this as causing lots of second hand cancer.

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Cigarette Smoking has Finally Taken Mom

I can remember way back, it was the very early 60′s. My mom and dad had a great life with friends. They would occasionally socially drink, go out with friends and smoke cigarettes like chimneys. Smoking seemed like an odd thing to do. I really did not get it. Breathe in smoke, breathe it out. So, what is the big deal?

A kid just cannot fathom what is really going on here, and apparently the grownups either. It was just a gay old time. Cigarette use was plastered all over ever new movie that came out, and on all the commercials it seemed. it was an accepted thing to do. Now, it almost seems like mass hysteria. That is until you realize that cigarettes contained extremely addicting substances. When you are a non addict, then get addicted to something, you think it is because you like it. You think maybe you love it, and can’t live without it. You can’t imagine not smoking.

That is what addiction sounds like though. But, for people who are otherwise non addicts, it doesn’t seem like you are addicted to smoking. You realize that you simply can’t wait to smoke another cigarette. That is how you see it. That is because well everyone is doing it, and why analyze it?

I remember, back when my parents started smoking. Dad was in the Marine Corps, and mom had 2 kids. She was a bit of a kid herself really. It was 1962. I was 7, my brother Chuck was 6 and my mom was in her 20′s. She did a lot of things I liked. She made amazing peanut butter cookies, and oatmeal cookies for Chuck and me. Chuck was an amazing brother for me. He and I were only 11 months apart and we were truly inseparable. Chuck and I explored every part of our world, which I will elaborate on later.

Dad also did amazing things. He would find roadside farmers selling cantaloupes and watermelons that were simply irresistible. My dad also, could go to junk yards and find parts to fix his cars. At first, i thought it was sorta “ghetto” to use a phrase from today. But, once we got to the junkyard, we had a ball! There was all kinds of stuff there. And we always found what we needed to fix the car, or anything else around the house.

He also started a small business, and sold soap! It was called Amway, and I was at first a little embarrassed to go with him out to restaurants and other places because he would strike up conversations with anybody. He was fearless. I think it rubbed off on Chuck and I. As it was, if Chuck and I got into a fight with someone, or caught a snake, or went out adventuring on our own, we would never be punished. It almost seemed like he was proud we were so adventurous. Maybe, he saw us as becoming a warrior like him.

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Today, 11/28/2009 I had the opportunity to give my old, “ex” step-dad a call. He was the one that in the day that had no fear at all of smoking cigarettes. After all, he could bench press 250 pounds in the day, and could drink just about anybody under the table.

Well Ray told me that he had gotten very sick. And when he was brought to the hospital, that they had a very difficult time diagnosing what was wrong with him. He didn’t give me alot of details, but it turns out that he is one of the last people that ever want to see a doctor, and he really respects few of them. Many of them as he puts it, are pixilated to the point of being incoherent.

Well, Jed, his REAL son started looking up what causes leukemia. I think we did it together. We found that alot of cancer, especially leukemia is caused from benzene. Look out folks! Apparently there is alot of benzene in the gas we pump, so don’t breathe the fumes! They may kill you!!!

So, we found out that benzene can give you leukemia. But what did that have to do with smoking cigarettes? Well as it turns out, benzene is also created when organic material is only partly burned, and a lot of smoke is created. Well in that smoke can be high concentrations of benzene. at least high enough to possibly give you leukemia.

So, of course, stay away from cigarettes, and the second hand smoke of them. But, also be careful when outdoors, when campfires are made, or brush is cleared and burned. Benzene can also be created there as well.

Ray told me in this call that he was taking some “experimental” drugs for leukemia. He was originally hospitalized at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas. This facility is known for it’s great care for cancer victims, and is also a great research facility.

He told me that the drugs he was taking was less invasive than the usual chemo-therapy that one might get. He is part of a research study, and he told me that he knows of one other person taking the same treatments as him. Now, from what Jed tells me, this chemo therapy can also use your own DNA to help in the battle. I don’t have many details yet, but i will pass them along as soon as I do.

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This is Ray

I would like to report to my readers that it is true. My step-dad has cancer, and is receiving chemo therapy.

My step-dad whom I will call Ray B was a fiesty alcohol drinking up to 5 packs a day smoker. Now, technically he was my step-father for only a little over a year. But, in many ways it was one of the most intense years of my life. I did keep in touch with him closely for a long time after his married to my mom, Jonell ended.

Oddly enough, they met in an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting in the 60′s. well I guess late 60′s would be closer to the truth.

Anyway, Jonell was apparently a pretty but mixed up dame. And Ray was a wild one with  admitted self destruction in his path. From his college days and much earlier, Ray would hook up with his pals, and drink themselves into a stupor much of the time. And as I have heard it, drugs of any type they could get their hands on were part of the life-style.

Ray was a big man. He stood about 6’1″ and usually pushed the scales at 220. He loved boxing, and it seemed he knew the outcome of every match. Names like Jerry Quarry, the Great White Hope, Mohammad Ali, Sonny Liston, and ….what’s his name? Let me go look on my little meat cooker, hold-on. Ok I got it, George Foreman! Yeah, only in America can you go to look at an appliance to remember the name of a great sports legend!

Anyways, although I was an occassional smoker in 1968, I was still pretty amazed that people would go to AA meetings to get rid of alcoholism, (or really to learn to live with it), and smoke like there was no tomorrow! I mean, these places, at least in Galveston Texas, Lamarque, and Texas City were a nightmare. The smoke was incredible at these meetings and almost everyone smoked.

So, they get a longer life by reducing alcohol intake, and lose it back, or more to cigarettes and cancer. At the time not a single alcoholic in those AA meetings gave a “rats ass” (to use a phrase from the vocabulary of Ray), about cigarettes, cancer or the consequences. I guess they only wanted to take care of their most pressing needs. I can understand that. These people were living on the edge of existence, and I bet alot of people currentlky at AA meetings today are on the edge of life and death as well.

Well this is the person I knew as Ray back then, and I guess I learned alot from him. I will explain more in the next post.

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Coach quit is here! Never fear! If you are a smoker this is just what the doctor ordered. Without a doubt you have found the best quit smoking program under the sun.

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But dear friend, as much as I would like to be able to say I made it for you and the world to quit with…alas I made it for myself.

You see I simply had to quit smoking.

I HAD to quit smoking. The story goes like this:

I had smoked for many years. Yes, I knew all along that cigarettes were dangerous. But I was a young man, and for much of the time a boy. I lived on the edge of danger anyway. I used to work on a snapper fishing boat. We used to take tourists out to sea from a little Texas gulf coast Island called Galveston.

For much of the time, we used a 65 foot wooden vessel called the Buccaneer. It had a twin sister named the Jean Lafitte. We even had an old steel clunker called the Cavalier, but at any rate most of the time we had better have the bilge pumps on constantly, or we were in for a sinkin.

I remember seeing one fishing boat that had sunk at the dock! It was called the Miss Suncoast. We would spend all day out fishing, and untangling lines, dealing with sharks and sick customers. Oh it was a trip.

Once we were within a few blocks of a water spout. And yes, I was the one who noticed, and told the captain. I wasn’t afraid at all though as I remember. In fact the head deckhand, I was a deckhand too, just not the head one. Well anyways, John the deckhand told me to tell everyone to reel up their lines, we were going to go fish under the water spout! He continued, “thats where the best fishing is, we will catch Ling Cobia over there!”

That sounded thrilling to this 16 year old deckhand. so I told that to everyone on the boat! and mind you, they were all doctors, lawyers and Indian Cheifs, not poor and uneducated like us. And yet…

…and yet not a single one of them questioned whether we should in fact be going over to fish under a friggin tornado!

Now, I had an excuse, I was young, dumb and fearless…but they?

They were older, more mature….educated? Well, I think they were greedy actually. You see Ling Cobia is a prized fish down south. And they are very hard to catch.

Well, the head deckhand, John pulled up the anchor and the captain, I think it was captain Larry (more on hime later in my blogs) well, captain Larry wheeled the boat hard to starboard, and that immediately sank my heart!

We were turning away from the water spout!

And then something started to happen. All the customers started asking ME a sixteen year old kid, why we were turning away from the great fishing spot?

I did not know either! But I was asked a surprising amount of times, to the point that I was forced to go in the wheel house and ask the captain!

Well, when I did, I didn’t get a real answer. They all just started laffing! and some real hard laffs too! After a while I figured it out…

But it took much longer to figure out why the customers, these fishy fishing customers, these educated cats, older and much more mature, why did they want to risk their life for a fish?

Well much later in life I came to realize that people risk their lives all the time, without really thinking about it. Some drive drunk, some drive agressively, some do drugs, some are alcoholics and some smoke! And beleive it or not, some do them all!

Well, I did the smoking part. In a later episode I will tell you how I got hooked. But for now, I just want to thank you my readers, I hope to entertain, enlighten and help you lighten your load. Especially that load called smoking. If you smoke, or live with someone who does, this blog will help. It will explain how the Coach Quit system works and why you need it. You will see why it works so well.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this writing, I smoked and I had to quit. I will later tell you why, but I am so glad that I discovered how I could quit. And I will share it all with you. and I will add some stories that I lived for fun.

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