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dark and roomy in ambiance,
a large envelope was lying atop a solid mahogany desk.
Thick black writing on the face of the brown paper read "X-RAYS DO NOT BEND."


mmmmmmmmmmmm!! I thought to myself
"Challenge accepted"

Staying fit and slim can be a challenge for many. Some folks have a harder time of it for medical reasons, but often many just don't put in the effort. There are changes that may make life more difficult for the overweight crowd---restrictions on airline seats, increases in costs of insurance, disadvantages in gainful employment, etc. It is possible to be obese and fit, but this is rare. Non-fit overweigt folks tend to have greater risks of chronic illness and earlier death. Thoughts on this issue? Aa.

BBC reports a 60 YO lady had a healthy birth-could have been twins-missed full report. Thoughts on this. Mom will be almost 80 when kids are the age of majority. Aa.

Ah, poets and philosophers have forever waxed clued about our tickers. The heart this and the heart that. But just how connected is the heart with our thoughts and emotions. Specifically, can one die of a "broken heart"? Aa.

Lots of folks fear them. Is it just misplaced fear? Conspiracy thinking? Ignorance? Not taking your psych meds? Aa.

17 year old black boy, with a widely metastasized lymphoma, progressing over almost a year. Lesions almost from head to toe, including liver, spleen and a large colon mass (couldn't approach surgically till metastases debunked via chemotherpy). Carribean Seventh Day Adventist family, extremly conservative and orthodox. Children must absolutely obey parents, and noone takes any medicine into God's temple (our body) except natural products. Back in Jamaica, a family member died on cancer chemo therapy. Painful death. Family allowed the boy naturopathic treatment, as things got worse, ending with arrival in ED close to death. Here's the kicker, folks, biopsy of lesions show over 85 % chance of 5 year survival (standard for "cure") with modern chemo therapy (kids tend to be much more treatable). Family refusing definitive treatment. Counselors, ethicists, clinicians, clergy, many others tried their best. Family resolute. What to do, all you sensitive clever bloggers? Take case to a judge to force treatment? Respect their wishes? ????? Aa.

one of those years !

In Maine we have a problem with addiction to opiates, both street and prescribed. Hundreds of overdose deaths occur each year, to which of course some might say good riddance. MME's are a way of settting the dosages of opiates to make equivalent their various strengths. A significant proportion of people regularly consuming 200 MME daily of such drugs will die in any given year. The legislature is proposing that no person be prescribed more than 100 MME daily. Is this good policy? Does it interfer with with the nurse/doctor-patient relationship? Aa.

Would you ask a deaf person to listen harder? Would you ask a blind person to look harder?

Then why is it ok to tell someone with depression that they got to try harder?

I heard that a lot over the years and let me tell you what that does to a depressed person. It makes them feel like they are not trying and feel inadequate. It makes the hill they have to climb seem like a mountain. It makes them feel like they are not good enough. It makes the person feel even worst and retards the chances of them coming out of the depressed state. It will rarely encourage them to "snap out of it", quite the opposite. It sends a person even deeper into a depressed state.

Next time you want to tell someone depressed to try harder, don't. Just don't, its the worst thing you can do.

On the 29 of January two people tried to rob me at my house I push the gun away and closed the door took two times and they run off. What is going on any more you need to make sure you look first I did not it happen around 11 pm. Be safe