強哥

我也常常被問到，我是否想過死在廣島和長崎的日本人。
但對我來說，這樣一個問題似乎比較適合去問日本軍閥——那些願意為達成他們遠大目標，而犧牲自己人民的人。
他們發動戰爭，而頑固拒絕停止。難道他們不需要為死亡的國民
負起最終責任嗎？

14歲侑賢罹惡性腫瘤，腹脹如孕婦，歷經多次開刀、電療仍無效，日前離世。他生前接受安寧緩和治療，選好葬禮形式、遺照和服裝，在家人陪伴下，從容離世。

當兒童面臨病危、需要長期照顧，或難長期存活的疾病，多數的家長常會緊握一絲希望，傾盡所有資源和財力，盼救孩子一命。根據台大醫院安寧病房經驗，成立20多年來，收治上萬例安寧個案，但18歲以下的患者，不到百例。

14歲的侑賢走了一條不一樣的道路。侑賢出生時身上就有一些咖啡色、平面的斑紋，且頭圍比一般新生兒大，但當時檢查不出原因，家長也就沒放在心上。

侑賢媽媽曾雅玲說，一直到侑賢國小六年級時，個子實在太小，就帶到醫院看新陳代謝科，才知道兒子身上的斑是咖啡牛奶斑，可能是神經纖維瘤表徵，是基因突變所引起。但當時孩子身上沒有瘤，以為是良性，定期追蹤就可以。

唸國一那年的3、4月，侑賢開始走路變怪，肩膀都會往左斜，5月時又常說腳痛、吃不下，7月時上課疲倦、常睡著、走路像老人一樣低。到診所檢查時，掀起侑賢衣服一看，肚子內有一團東西，就像懷孕3個月。

If I Were a Freshman AgainThomas Arkle Clark

It is the habit of age to give sage advice to youth. One of the pastimes in which everyone periodically indulges is the pleasant hallucination that if he were given the opportunity to live his youth over again he would do it differently and more successfully. We are all of us, even though we have no more than reached middle age, given to regretting our neglected opportunities and our lost youth. It gives one a virtuous feeling in imagination to dodge all error, but it is extremely doubtful if many of us, even if we had a second chance, would avoid many of the pitfalls into which we stumbled, or follow a straighter path than that by which we have so far come. If it is merely pleasant for us to conjecture what we should do if we had a second try at it, it may be profitable for those whose who are younger to listen. If only foresight could be as accurate as the backward view!

If I were a freshman again I should not work so many hours as I did. I put in enough hours with my books in my hands, but I did not accomplish much. I had little concentration. Many students whom I know, and I was one of this sort, spend a great deal of time in getting ready to work. With a book in hand they look out of the window at the clouds or at the pretty girls passing along the street, and all the time they deceive themselves with the idea that they are working.

Many an evening, when the work was heavy, I would determine to begin early and get it over with, but I could spend half an hours in arranging my books and getting myself seated in a comfortable chair. All this time I imagined I was working. I spent as much time in goading myself no to duties that I should have liked to shirk or in getting ready to work as I did in actual labor. If I were a freshman I should plan my work, I should try to develop concentration – I should work harder but not so long.

I should learn to work with people about me. As it was, I lived a somewhat isolated life. I did my reading and my studying alone, and though there were some advantages in this method, there were serious objections. Now I must often work under different conditions from those by which I was surrounded.in college; there is work to be done where there is no quiet, and I do it with difficulty. As I tried on a crowded ocean steamer to put these wandering thoughts on paper I was constantly annoyed by the confusion about me and by the spasmodic attempts at conversation made by a well-intentioned but misguided young man at my side. If I had learned to work under different conditions I might have turned the conversation aside as a steep roof sheds the rain. I believe it is a great advantage for a young man to do his work himself, but he should not subject himself to the slavery of doing it alone.

常感覺憂鬱、心情鬱悶的人不妨吃點木瓜、菠菜、草莓、豆類等含葉酸食物。振興醫院身心內科主治醫師袁瑋表示，近日有些研究報告發現，補充「L-甲基葉酸」（L-methylfolate）似乎可以讓抗憂鬱劑效果變得更好。且L-甲基葉酸可幫助血清素、多巴胺與正腎上腺素分泌，這些化學物質分泌正常，都會讓情緒更為穩定，以上食物都含有豐富的葉酸，適量補充對身心很有幫助。

袁瑋醫師指出，實驗中所用的抗憂鬱藥物包含各種藥物，但以SSRI類藥物（選擇性血清素回收抑制劑）、SNRI類藥物（血清素及正腎上腺素回收抑制劑）占多數。研究發現，服藥患者若服用L-甲基葉酸補充品，藥物效果似乎更好。

袁瑋醫師解釋，L-甲基葉酸是一種醫療級「葉酸」，葉酸是維生素B9，屬於一種水溶性維生素，如果吃太多相關食物，身體自然會代謝出去，沒有證據顯示會有嚴重併發症。

袁瑋醫師另提醒，憂鬱症患者平常除了要按時服藥，生活作息、飲食也要規律、均衡，喝酒容易讓憂鬱症病情更為惡化，建議憂鬱症患者最好不要喝酒，以免影響病情。

General MacArthur's Prayer For His Son

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee-and what to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take him too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain."

主啊！
請陶冶我兒子，使他成為一個堅強的人，
能夠知道自己什麼時候是軟弱的；