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No, this is not about the bridge connecting two people during sex.

Instead, it is about a new procedure to help those with hearing challenges.
The first person in New Jersey recently got one with instant success.
It will likely help a lot of people in years to come.



I remember a gentleman, who used to be on here, and another site, who had deafness.
I hope someone will forward this information to him and to others who may be helped
with their hearing challenges.

For more details go to their homepage;

I have to cut down my coffee intake to one cup a day


I'll show him

A third of the calendar gone already !
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Turns out that communicating with others literally affects our health more than diet, exercise, even our addictions.

Seeing my interaction in Spain mainly consists of a cheery 'hola!' and cheesy grin while I'm marching my dog round the streets, or going into shops with a hesitant 'necesito ...' + point / mime, I guess I am stuck with popping in here every now and then. Biggest incentive I have yet for learning Spanish and getting out and meeting more people, mind



I will be logging back in to make health-improving comments (#HIC) at regular intervals on this and other blogs. I wonder what the best dosage is? Make 3 comments, 4 times a day?

Here's that study


If you don't or can't follow the link - the lassie postulates that social intergration is more important to longevity / quality of life than family, quitting smoking / drinking, de-stressing, doing exercise, maintaining healthy weight, diet, even clean air. Scary thought.

Don't you love it when you find you can put more into a day? Due to my low iron count, my ability to cram my day full has been severely compromised. I had no idea why I was falling asleep all the time and had so little energy to do even the simplest of tasks.

It hasn't been that long, but I'm already feeling more energy. The past two days I've been at a craft fair up at the resort, where I made lot$ this summer. This weekend wasn't as good as July, but it wasn't shabby. The great thing about it was that it was close (only a 15 minute drive), and didn't start until 11am. That allowed me to get in an early bike ride as well as get everything ready for the fair. Woohoo!

Yesterday was not as lucrative as Saturday, but it still wasn't too bad. I'd woken at 3:30 am and couldn't get back to sleep, so by the time 5pm rolled around, I was done. On my way home, sure enough there was a car accident blocking the entire road on the one road into and out of the resort area. I thought of turning around and having dinner at the resort, but I was like 3 cars away from where the cars were in the ditch. I opted to just wait it out. (Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but two fire trucks, an ambulance and two tow trucks attended). About an hour later, the ambulance and the fire trucks left, allowing traffic to get moving. Traffic was backed up right to the resort, trying to get out. That's the reason I don't travel on long weekends.

This morning, waking at my usual 5:00am, I snuck a peek out the window and noted it was heavily overcast, with clouds shrouding Mt. Cheam. I opted for going back to sleep for a bit. Three hours later, Sadie kitty was most vocal in her demand to be fed.

As morning morphed into lunchtime, with dull overcast skies, I decided to take my bike to the Browne Creek Wetlands and ride it from there to the Heron Reserve on the other side of the river. According to Google, it was about a 11km ride each way. I remember asking someone how far it was one day, and they told me it was a long, long way. Well, walking, maybe. I ride my bike 15km almost every morning, so 22km seemed pretty doable.

Riding through the wetlands, I hadn't realized how much my fitness had increased, and how much easier my new bike is to pedal. It was a breeze riding through there, where, on my old bike, I'd struggled to ride up some of the inclines.

Once through the wetlands, it connects to the dike on the west side of the river and travels about 7km up the river to a main road and bridge. After crossing the bridge, a dike on the east side of the river runs down the other side and curves around to the Heron Reserve.

I was delighted when it took me only an hour to get to the Heron Reserve, and rode past it to explore the dike further. I took the first cut off to the Rotary Trail that follows the river, only due to time and not being sure how long it'd take me to get back, or even where I was exactly.

I found my way back with no problems and rode the dikes back to my starting point. I'd programmed map my ride to let me know exactly how far I'd gone. Getting back to the fork in the trail, I made an extra loop up to the river, and then back along the same trail, to ensure that I'd get in 25km. I planned that well! On the trail back to my car, the disembodied voice of the app told me I'd cycled 25km. W00t!

But the best thing that I realized on my ride, that I haven't been able to do, is I can now stand on the pedals to cycle. I haven't been able to do that for a long, long time. It was an absolutely perfect day for a bike ride, as the sun dissipated the clouds and it was a perfect September day - cool enough to enjoy the full day outdoors, but warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt.

Speaking of which, you know you've lost weight when you unbutton and unzip your shorts and they literally fall down to your ankles. Entertainers get unplugged - I get unzipped.

In many cultures the expectation is for women to be responsible for contraception. Many men are severely against using their own barrier protection. Cheap, easy, reasonably effective preventing pregnancy, and better than everything except abstinence for prevention of disease. But it's not just this refusal by men. Very little research on men has been done---almost all such work and results apply to women. Sure, it's said methods for men are harder to develop, but more likely it's just another example of attitudes between sexes.

A traveler from South Africa to California last week recently tested positive for the Omicron variant.
He is self isolating and so far all contacts are testing negative. He was fully vaccinated.
His symptoms are mild. This is the first verified Omicron variant infection in the USA.

Moments ago;

(Germany) (AFP) –


With intensive care beds filling up and health staff running short, a hospital in Bavaria's Freising made an unprecedented decision to transfer a coronavirus patient to northern Italy for treatment


Through the highs and lows spanning 18 months of the pandemic, Germany had on many occasions taken in patients from neighbouring countries as hospitals elsewhere ran out of space.

But a fourth ferocious wave has sent infections to record highs in Europe's biggest economy, putting hospitals in parts of the country under immense strain and forcing some to look elsewhere in the EU for help.

While the absolute number of patients in intensive care still lies below the peak a year ago, this time around, hospitals are also ailing from the double whammy of a shortfall in personnel that has seriously hampered their ability to cope.

"Last week, on Wednesday or Thursday, we had to transfer a patient by helicopter to Merano," said Thomas Marx, 43, medical director at the hospital in Freising, a town with 50,000 inhabitants that is about 350 kilometres (220 miles) away by road.


"We had no more capacity to receive them, and the surrounding Bavarian hospitals were also full," he said.

Germany hospitals' ability to cope with the new spike in Covid-19 cases is being exacerbated by shortages of qualified staff as people desert the sector .

The hospital also had to send another patient to another Bavarian town Regensburg over the weekend.

"We are at the limits of our capacity, which is why we have to resort to these means," he said.

Marx's service is handling 13 intensive care cases at the moment, three more than it has capacity for.

Five of them are coronavirus patients, all of whom are unvaccinated.

With Germany's vaccination rate stagnating at under 70 percent in recent weeks, top health officials have pleaded for more to get the jab to stem the surge in infections.

Chancellor Angela Merkel made a new plea on Wednesday for the unvaccinated to get jabbed, saying "when enough people are vaccinated, that is the way out of the pandemic".

In a bid to get more to take the jab, Germany's parliament is poised to vote through new regulations for more curbs on the unvaccinated.

Under proposals drafted by the three parties in talks to form Germany's new government, unvaccinated people will soon have to produce a negative test to use public transport or go to the office.

At the intensive care unit of Munich Clinic Schwabing, senior doctor Niklas Schneider voiced frustration over vaccine resistance in some quarters.

"I find it really astonishing that vaccination is not accepted by the masses even though we have the possibility to get it. It is not completely understandable to me that so many people are allowing themselves to be misled by some horror stories about vaccines," he said.

Like the hospital in Freising, the Munich clinic is at full capacity.
"The team is holding on, but we are incredibly frustrated... because at the end of the day we are the last resort for everything that is wrong with society as a whole," said Schneider.

"The sick people who come to us, who are in mortal danger, we have to treat them, they need help. It doesn't matter if they were previously anti-Corona, anti-vaccine or double-vaccinated, although we don't have any of the latter in the ward."

Besides the relatively low vaccine takeup compared to other parts of western Europe, health staff also complain that more should also have been done to bolster their capacity.

Looks like Biden is setting up another leftist killing spree with measles . Last time there was a death in the US from measles was under Obama . Trump had that sorted , guess he just likes kids , his own childen and grandchildren . Any body only need look at the shite in the Biden family to know the difference what bad family can produce and now that brainless parent is running the US .

While the covid killing spree continues to kill thousands a week its still Bidens main game , his underling mental condition has incapacitated him and his cabinet to make the correct decisions .

Just look at the blogs here ,The most boring and over and over same old story ,it is no wonder that the blogs are on their way to a very slow death
Has anybody wondered why most of the people that were here are gone?
Well just look at the blogs and you'll have your answer
I am sure that there will be a lot of people that will leave their very nice disagreement Thoughts
But that is not going to change the facts that most of the blogs that are here truly are the remedy if you want to get to sleep ,or if you want to die a Slow Death
These blogs are better than Mommy's bed time stories when I was Young