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Stay away from Medicine
All my dear blogger
It's not for those who are using medicine for major treatments or believe in medical treatment.
It's my idea and practice they we can avoid medicine by taking measures for our disease like pain anywhere in body.
First we have to look in our daily life that what we had eaten at night or in daytime that pain started after that. Very simple to avoid eating that particular dish.
Same like other thing happens in our daily life to avoid them and to get rid of the disease.
Hope positive comments to be written.
It's not for those who are using medicine for major treatments or believe in medical treatment.
It's my idea and practice they we can avoid medicine by taking measures for our disease like pain anywhere in body.
First we have to look in our daily life that what we had eaten at night or in daytime that pain started after that. Very simple to avoid eating that particular dish.
Same like other thing happens in our daily life to avoid them and to get rid of the disease.
Hope positive comments to be written.
Update on my illness.
I self-diagnosed covid, but after going through all the symptoms, I am now under the impression, that what I have is a very bad cold. How do I know that?
Well.. Cold sores, or o*al herpes. They always present themselves when I have had a particularly bad cold, so the fact that BOTH my lips had them, it's pretty safe to say that I don't have covid. I'm just dealing with a monster of a cold. That type of cold that makes your voice turn into a croak, at times. I also have that extremely annoying cough, that just will not go away.
So yes - no corona for me this time, thankfully. Or.. Well, I MIGHT have it, just not Covid-19.
"But Philipsen, what do you mean when you say you might have corona?"
An excellent question. You see, although the common cold is usually caused by rhinoviruses, in 15% of cases the cause is a coronavirus. The human coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, and HCoV-NL63 continually circulate in the human population in adults and children worldwide and produce the generally mild symptoms of the common cold. The four mild coronaviruses have a seasonal incidence occurring in the winter months in temperate climates.
If it was covid, I wouldn't have as much energy as I do now, and I probably wouldn't have cold sores either. I mark this down to a change in climate. It's the only thing I can think of that would give me a monster cold. Or maybe that I didn't sleep a lot during my flight home from the US. The next time I am going there, I am taking a direct flight so I don't have to stress with changing flight, and it makes me more relaxed as well.
But for now, it's time to relax and enjoy this extended weekend. It's a public holiday today, and tomorrow, every person at my job, who is paid by the hour, is off. I do not fully understand why, but it suits me well. It gives me more time to recover from my cold.
Well.. Cold sores, or o*al herpes. They always present themselves when I have had a particularly bad cold, so the fact that BOTH my lips had them, it's pretty safe to say that I don't have covid. I'm just dealing with a monster of a cold. That type of cold that makes your voice turn into a croak, at times. I also have that extremely annoying cough, that just will not go away.
So yes - no corona for me this time, thankfully. Or.. Well, I MIGHT have it, just not Covid-19.
"But Philipsen, what do you mean when you say you might have corona?"
An excellent question. You see, although the common cold is usually caused by rhinoviruses, in 15% of cases the cause is a coronavirus. The human coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, and HCoV-NL63 continually circulate in the human population in adults and children worldwide and produce the generally mild symptoms of the common cold. The four mild coronaviruses have a seasonal incidence occurring in the winter months in temperate climates.
If it was covid, I wouldn't have as much energy as I do now, and I probably wouldn't have cold sores either. I mark this down to a change in climate. It's the only thing I can think of that would give me a monster cold. Or maybe that I didn't sleep a lot during my flight home from the US. The next time I am going there, I am taking a direct flight so I don't have to stress with changing flight, and it makes me more relaxed as well.
But for now, it's time to relax and enjoy this extended weekend. It's a public holiday today, and tomorrow, every person at my job, who is paid by the hour, is off. I do not fully understand why, but it suits me well. It gives me more time to recover from my cold.
Dietary contradictions...
Since I lost 10 pounds this year through daily walking and LESS FOOD, I've been watching YouTube videos about what foods to eat and what foods to avoid. There are easily 20 different contributors who claim to be doctors with all sorts of advice on the subject of improving health.
Most of them talk about Keto or Ketosis and avoiding sugar and carbohydrates. Okay, I get it. But... Up until I started watching these videos, I was always told by the medical professionals in real life, that breakfast should be the most important meal of the day.
Now, I'm hearing as crazy as one meal around 5pm.
I get the short term fasting and the avoidance of sugar and carbohydrates, but a routine of planned starvation with only one meal a day doesn't 'sound like' sound advice.
I'm debating if I should post some of those videos that I think fall off the edge of the earth.
Clean your liver by eating these foods, toxins in these foods, the best way to speed up your metabolism...
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Most of them talk about Keto or Ketosis and avoiding sugar and carbohydrates. Okay, I get it. But... Up until I started watching these videos, I was always told by the medical professionals in real life, that breakfast should be the most important meal of the day.
Now, I'm hearing as crazy as one meal around 5pm.
I get the short term fasting and the avoidance of sugar and carbohydrates, but a routine of planned starvation with only one meal a day doesn't 'sound like' sound advice.
I'm debating if I should post some of those videos that I think fall off the edge of the earth.
Clean your liver by eating these foods, toxins in these foods, the best way to speed up your metabolism...
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Just a little pinch she said...
More than a year ago I was having some pain to a molar that previously had a root canal and crowned. The dentist took an x-ray and found nothing. The recommendation was maintenance, so the hygienist did a deep clean and applied a thick paste into the gum line that I wasn't to brush out for 48 hours. I'm not sure of the name of the product, but it has some antiseptic properties and the pain subsided.
The problem appears to have returned as I'm getting sensitivity to pressure (I cannot chew gum or it aggravates the condition) and slight pain from cold, so I no longer put ice cubes in my mouth.
I'm with a different dentist now and explained my dental history. She took x-rays and couldn't find any infection or cause for the pain. The recommendation was (another) deep cleaning. Unlike the previous maintenance that only required the area to be desensitized, this one required full Novocaine injections.
As long as I'm in the chair, shouldn't we do both sides?
Okay, she replied.
It's amazing how they describe getting a needle as a 'little pinch' when they are going all the way to the back... the area that shuts off all sensation to the front of the jaw.
I said "Why do you call it pinch when it's much more than that?"
She said "Should I call it harpoon?"
I replied, "Yeah, that's more appropriate."
4 injections, 30 minute wait, 30 minutes of digging, scraping and cavatron followed by an antiseptic rinse, I was done.
My entire lips and jaw area was numb for more than 2-1/2 hours.
I didn't follow instructions about not eating until the numbness wears off and the bite on the inside of my cheek should be gone in a few days!
While I was uncomfortably numb, I went home to play comfortably numb.
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The problem appears to have returned as I'm getting sensitivity to pressure (I cannot chew gum or it aggravates the condition) and slight pain from cold, so I no longer put ice cubes in my mouth.
I'm with a different dentist now and explained my dental history. She took x-rays and couldn't find any infection or cause for the pain. The recommendation was (another) deep cleaning. Unlike the previous maintenance that only required the area to be desensitized, this one required full Novocaine injections.
As long as I'm in the chair, shouldn't we do both sides?
Okay, she replied.
It's amazing how they describe getting a needle as a 'little pinch' when they are going all the way to the back... the area that shuts off all sensation to the front of the jaw.
I said "Why do you call it pinch when it's much more than that?"
She said "Should I call it harpoon?"
I replied, "Yeah, that's more appropriate."
4 injections, 30 minute wait, 30 minutes of digging, scraping and cavatron followed by an antiseptic rinse, I was done.
My entire lips and jaw area was numb for more than 2-1/2 hours.
I didn't follow instructions about not eating until the numbness wears off and the bite on the inside of my cheek should be gone in a few days!
While I was uncomfortably numb, I went home to play comfortably numb.
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COVID-19 Warning! :shock:
Background: Like 7 million other Americans -- anyone with transplants, auto-immune conditions and others -- I'm on an immuno-suppressant. That makes me more vulnerable than normal to COVID-19.
But I had the 2 COVID-19 vaccines and 2 boosters, the last booster the one that covered some of the latest COVID variants. And being cautious I went 2+ years without getting COVID.
Recently I went to a "Floyd Nation" concert, a *great* show by a Pink Floyd cover band (highly recommended!).
It was there at that concert I likely caught COVID-19. Crowded with people, screaming at the top of my lungs -- and as a former Army platoon sergeant I know how to use a "command voice" and yell loud enough to command 200 soldiers to pay attention -- I had a great time doing all things one would expect one to do at a concert.
That put me 3 days in an ICU, with COVID giving me pneumonia in one lung. Thankfully, the hospital had me fixed up quickly, transferring me from the ICU to a normal room and then discharged the next day -- but with a wake-up call that things could have turned out very differently!
Of course, the US federal gov't now pretends that COVID is "normal" and is nothing to worry about.
But the *reality* is that more than 250 Americans die of COVID-19 each and every day.
So my advice: Be cautious!
But I had the 2 COVID-19 vaccines and 2 boosters, the last booster the one that covered some of the latest COVID variants. And being cautious I went 2+ years without getting COVID.
Recently I went to a "Floyd Nation" concert, a *great* show by a Pink Floyd cover band (highly recommended!).
It was there at that concert I likely caught COVID-19. Crowded with people, screaming at the top of my lungs -- and as a former Army platoon sergeant I know how to use a "command voice" and yell loud enough to command 200 soldiers to pay attention -- I had a great time doing all things one would expect one to do at a concert.
That put me 3 days in an ICU, with COVID giving me pneumonia in one lung. Thankfully, the hospital had me fixed up quickly, transferring me from the ICU to a normal room and then discharged the next day -- but with a wake-up call that things could have turned out very differently!
Of course, the US federal gov't now pretends that COVID is "normal" and is nothing to worry about.
But the *reality* is that more than 250 Americans die of COVID-19 each and every day.
So my advice: Be cautious!
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the perineum lump
Or 3rd testicle
And I thought cycling was good for your health
It usually develops posterior to the scrotum in the soft tissue of the perineum, as two masses on both sides of the median raphe, or as a single mass located midline, or lateralized over the ischial tuberosity
And I thought cycling was good for your health
It usually develops posterior to the scrotum in the soft tissue of the perineum, as two masses on both sides of the median raphe, or as a single mass located midline, or lateralized over the ischial tuberosity
Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages
The Netherlands is to widen its euthanasia regulations to include the possibility of doctors assisting in the death of terminally ill children aged between one and 12.
The new rules would apply to between five and 10 children a year who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government said on Friday.
“The end of life for this group is the only reasonable alternative to the child’s unbearable and hopeless suffering,” it said in a statement.
The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia under strict conditions in 2002. All cases must be reported to medical review boards. The law already provided possibilities for euthanasia involving terminally ill babies until their first birthday and for children over 12.
Only one instance of euthanasia for a minor aged between 12 and 16 was reported in 2022, figures from regional review boards show.
The Netherlands will not be the first to allow doctors to assist in the death of children of all ages. Belgium has allowed it since 2014.
The new rules would apply to between five and 10 children a year who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government said on Friday.
“The end of life for this group is the only reasonable alternative to the child’s unbearable and hopeless suffering,” it said in a statement.
The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia under strict conditions in 2002. All cases must be reported to medical review boards. The law already provided possibilities for euthanasia involving terminally ill babies until their first birthday and for children over 12.
Only one instance of euthanasia for a minor aged between 12 and 16 was reported in 2022, figures from regional review boards show.
The Netherlands will not be the first to allow doctors to assist in the death of children of all ages. Belgium has allowed it since 2014.
Regression
Well...never thought this could happen...but the morning after pill is illegal in Wyoming...what states in the US will follow??? This quote is from CNN news...
As the fight over abortion pills heats up nationally, Wyoming on Friday prohibited the medication in what NARAL Pro-Choice America called a “first of its kind” law, and also enacted a near-total ban on abortion.
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill making it a felony to prescribe, sell, or use “any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Violators could face up to six months in prison and a $9,000 fine.
The legislation takes effect July 1.
As the fight over abortion pills heats up nationally, Wyoming on Friday prohibited the medication in what NARAL Pro-Choice America called a “first of its kind” law, and also enacted a near-total ban on abortion.
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill making it a felony to prescribe, sell, or use “any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Violators could face up to six months in prison and a $9,000 fine.
The legislation takes effect July 1.
SAD
I had read about it, I thought I know how to recognize it. But no reading prepared me to understand until I moved to the gloomy and cold. Seasonal affective disorder that is.
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