My illness: Emphysema

What Is Emphysema? Emphysema is a degenerative disease that usually develops after many years of assault on lung tissues from cigarette smoke or other toxins that pollute the air. These toxins destroy the small air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, that stretch as they transport oxygen from the air to the blood and then shrink as they force out carbon dioxide. As a result, the lungs lose their elasticity, and exhaling becomes difficult as the damaged lungs trap air and cannot effectively exchange it with fresh air. As the damage progresses, the effort needed to breathe increases and, ultimately, each breath becomes labored. (Illustration provided by the American Medical Association.) Emphysema is one of a group of lung diseases referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that can interfere with normal breathing. Other diseases that come under COPD include asthma and chronic bronchitis. According to the American Lung Association (ALA), nearly 16 million Americans are estimated to suffer from some form of COPD, and COPD is the fourth-ranking cause of death just behind heart ailments, cancers, and stroke.

Sunday 7 September 2008

Ugh, what a day that was...

Well there's still just that little bit of hope in the world as earlier today my cousin David (who's a comic book artist) got married today, and too a gal he met on the internet too.
Sure, the place it was they got married was quite nice but it was a shame about the god damn weather though as it'd been raining throughout most of the day.
I had a slight headache though, which I think was getting worse because of the loads of camera flashes.
On our way home as we'd brought 2 cars since they was me, my Mum, my Dad, my 2 brothers, my sister & my 2 nephews, and the car my Dad got into suddenly stopped in the middle of no where, however where it stopped though was a bit of a problem as the car had stopped 2 feet in water as this large puddle we splashed through on our way there grew upto 2 feet of water during our time at the wedding, the current was quite strong so me and my brother Daniel helpped my Dad and my brother Simon cross the water.
So I had water inside my brand new shoes, I said to my brother Daniel "Got that much water in my shoes, duck's will be moving in soon".
And when I we were halfway home my headache had gotten worse (felt like my head was gonna explode), took some painkillers and went for a lie down after I nipped online for a quick moment.

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About Mugen...

Mugen is a fighting game for the PC where you can download & add ANY fighters you want, whether they're from Streetfighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dragon Ball Z and various Anime's and more, you can even add stages and theme music for that stage.I currently have a tool that allows me to edit colours of any character I want, I also know how to change the character's name's and the sizes of the characters, I also have a tool that'll let me create my own Mugen character which I hope to do at some point, what you'll need is the Mugen Character Maker, a sprite sheet for the character you want to create and sounds for the moves they do (like "HADOUKEN/SHO-RYU-KEN" for Ryu/Ken for instance).

Many people have made their own Mugen's available to download so you can either choose to make your own from scratch or download a pre-made one by someone else.
You can find several pre-made Mugen's at www.caiman.us

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