Thanks Jack68. I do want to make my own cheese but never seem to get around to it. Thank you for the recipe. It reminds me of one I came across in a cookbook I've had for years by Swami Sarasvati. Now I've had to go look...
OK..she adds fresh lemon juice, but the recipe is for cottage cheese and she says to leave it overnight or until the cheese is firm and compact.
That happened to me once when I went out one afternoon with someone I'd known well for several years but hadn't caught up in ages as he'd been away. He took a business call, which went on and on...though he did walk away, thank goodness.
In the meantime, I ordered a couple of glasses of expensive wine, and yummy appetiser.
(turned out he was glad to find I had ordered and complimented me on my choices )
Oh, heck yes. Yet we see it already now with the cost of some drugs for say, cancer treatment. I can't grasp how the really decent stuff remains out of reach of the ordinary person because it costs hundreds of dollars each month. So unfortunately, accepted treatment doesn't necessarily place these drugs on the PBS. It makes me so cross. At the same time, I would rather our medical service any day compared to eg that of the U.S....
It's false economy. It makes more sense for the government to spend the money and help someone recover or function better, hence reducing medical costs for keeping the person really sick.
Last year I flew out of Australia on Friday, 13th. It was a lucky day for me because it was the only day I could find a seat that didn't cost the earth at that time of year. I was totally ok about flying on that day.
[quote venere08]...I wanted to post this in case anyone on CS knows of someone who has early onset MS, especially a young person, as it is aggressive in that age group. If it can turn someone's life around, how fabulous that would be...
In the people already helped to date, the objective measures are not prone to placebo, such as actual nerve function as involuntary muscle spasm, which often does not recur. But of-course, controlled experiments need to be performed before support for the theory can be found,or otherwise. Interestingly, no double blind experiment has yet to be conducted with aspirin, which to this day, is still prescribed to cardiac patients.
I wanted to post this in case anyone on CS knows of someone who has early onset MS, especially a young person, as it is aggressive in that age group. If it can turn someone's like around, how fabulous that would be. It still becomes dependent on the person's veins being amenable to unblocking, which is not always easily done it seems.
For anyone interested, I posted this on the Inters also.
Yes, where would we be without scientists' tireless dedication?... Glad she is managing the symptoms well. These new drugs are terrific. Same with Parkinson's, where new drugs help control much of the shaking.
Nite Vinny. I'm off to work. A long drive ahead today but nice countryside.
Of-course it isn't new, as in yesterday hot off the press. As mentioned, clinical trials are underway. And yes, unblocking veins in the neck is not always straight forward, as everyone is different, and has different vein structures. It's not like pinning a bone together.
I don't think anyone, especially Dr. Zamboni is talking about cures. But for those who get their lives back, I think that is cause for celebration. Horrible for those who cannot benefit. Very sad then. And yes, lots of research needs to be done, and is being done.l These are scientists after all. One such trial is about to start here in a major hospital in Melbourne Australia. It is something that cannot be ignored. The possible benefits are huge.
RAHNI SADLER: She's hoping for a result like Kerry Cassidy.
Kerry Cassidy: All right, how much have we got?
RAHNI SADLER: A Melbourne accountant and mum. This is home video of the spasms Kerry suffered before hearing of Dr Zamboni's blocked vein theory. Kerry Cassidy: When it was explained that people have had blocked jugular veins, I actually went, "Wow, that's amazing" because I have this stiff neck and I get pain in here. And I thought.....you start...I kind of was second guessing. I didn't want to get really excited and go "Oh, yeah, this is it!"
But I thought "Hey, that actually makes sense to me."
RAHNI SADLER: On March 11, 2010, Kerry took a chance. She was the second Australian to try the operation. Kerry Cassidy: The next day I got out of bed and opened the curtains and I went...(GASPS) I almost - I was saying to the kids "Look outside, it's so blue, "look at the trees." "Oh my, God!" Everything was so clear. And I was just sitting in the room, just going, "Is this me? "Is this because
I want to see this?" I didn't realise how much my vision had been affected by the MS.
Chrissy Amphlett: I've just walked out of the operation. It was a really great experience and I know it sounds weird. I am a bit knocked out, I'm a bit blown away by what's happened. I have had cameras up inside me. I've had veins opened that was stenosed. I've got the biggest jugular vein he's ever seen. RAHNI SADLER: There is as yet no scientific proof of Dr Zamboni's theory.
For sufferers like Vicky, it's too late. As the disease progresses, the damage cannot be reversed.
Vicky Costa: Everyone have a go on the punching bag!
RAHNI SADLER: Her old self is just a distant memory.
Vicky Costa: Oh, look I'm not holding!
RAHNI SADLER: Does that surprise you?
Yeah, I feel like telling her, "Hold on, you're going to fall." Vicky Costa: I haven't taken time to play these, so, yes, it's been a while. Um, yeah. I wanted to protect her not to fall and it's me, so it's weird.
I have suppressed a lot. I've been too busy - too busy being strong.
Kerry Cassidy: Good evening. So how are you feeling now compared to how you felt before you had the treatment? Chrissy Amphlett: Well, it's eight weeks now and I have got my motivation back. I don't have the fritzed, nervous feeling running through my body.
I am now walking eight blocks whereas before, I was walking one block. But I just am really starting to feel like I can look into the future again and have a life and I can possibly have a job.
Saturday night. #
RAHNI SADLER: And on a night not long ago, Chrissy took to the stage with Cold Chisel, performing again.
RAHNI SADLER: Dr Zamboni discovered most patients with MS had blockages in the veins in their neck. His theory was that because the blood was not circulating properly, deposits of iron were building up in the brain, becoming toxic and attacking the nerves. His method is to unblock the veins
using a tiny balloon threaded up via a vein in the groin. His first patient was his wife. The results were incredible. It brings a big smile to your face.
Dr Paolo Zamboni: Oh, yes. (CHUCKLES)
RAHNI SADLER: Other patients, like these, followed. Every one has found improvement.
Woman: For me, it's very difficult to walk. Now, I dance and it's fantastic. I have a heart full of happiness.
RAHNI SADLER: But the blocked veined theory contradicts everything the medical establishment believes. Most neurologists dismiss Zamboni's apparent success as mere placebo - patients just think they're getting better. The treatment is so new there haven't been large clinical trials to back up his view.
Dr Paolo Zamboni: As a scientist, I need of study, capable to prove this.
RAHNI SADLER: And if the studies bear out what you found so far, how much of a difference could it make to millions of people around the world?
Dr Paolo Zamboni: It will change the quality of life to million of people.
Chrissy Amphlett: You know, things are possible, you know. I believe. I'm an optimist.
RAHNI SADLER: Patients like Chrissy Amphlett aren't willing to wait.
Chrissy Amphlett: There's been something I've wanted to do for over a year now. I wake up in the morning and everything hurts, everything, and sometimes it feels like I have a python that's wrapping around my body and squeezing my body. It's the weirdest - sometimes I feel like a big shark is biting me on my shoulder. They say that I will be in a wheelchair in four years.
RAHNI SADLER: Unblocking the vein seems not only to alleviate the symptoms of MS but to stave off further damage. Do you want a hand?
Chrissy Amphlett: Yeah, I'll just take your arm. We'll go down this way, it will be easier.
RAHNI SADLER: Chrissy will be awake throughout the 3-hour procedure. Chrissy Amphlett: I'm very excited to know that I feel that I'm going to get
I am so hoping that your step daughter will benefit from this!!! Dr Zamboni's wife certainly did, and many others since, so here's hoping!
Here's part of the transcript from the link you cna't open, which I will post in parts... Chrissy Amphlett: Right, let's go and do this.
RAHNI SADLER: Chrissy Amphlett is on her way to hospital for a controversial new treatment. Multiple sclerosis has ravaged her body since symptoms first appeared 14 years ago.
Chrissy Amphlett: Where I think it began, when I was doing the 'Boy From Oz', when I would hit that last note of Judy Garland, my leg would start to shake and I just thought it was nerves.
Chrissy Amphlett: I had a few hours sleep.
Chrissy Amphlett: It wasn't until about 2005, I was walking along the street, I was walking along 19th Street. It was very hot and I couldn't walk. All of a sudden my body shut down and I couldn't - I had a lot of trouble putting one leg in front of the other. Sometimes you get pretty down. Sometimes you think, well, it's better off me being dead than going through this. I mean, it really gets you down. I think there's a really high suicide rate with people with MS, right? Because you just get sick of it. RAHNI SADLER: Two decades since her diagnosis, this is daily life for Vicky Costa. At 20, she started getting blurred vision and tingling down one leg.
When you had the diagnosis, were you relieved to have a diagnosis or were you devastated?
Vicky Costa: No, no devastated, devastated. Yeah. The worst thing I ever heard in my life. I last walked when I was 30, which is almost 12 years ago.
RAHNI SADLER: If you had to explain to somebody who doesn't have MS what the worst parts about MS are, what would you tell them?
Vicky Costa: Not having any hope for a cure. RAHNI SADLER: But here in Italy, there is a new hope. I've come to meet Dr Paolo Zamboni, a vascular surgeon. In 2008, he devised a radical treatment after his wife, Elana, was struck down by MS. Paolo Zamboni wasn't prepared to just accept his wife's diagnosis of MS or her seemingly hopeless future.
Instead, he applied his scientific training and experience to finding out all he could about one of life's most baffling diseases.
Dr Paolo Zamboni: A disease like this in families is very heavy.
Dr Paolo Zamboni: RAHNI SADLER: You can see the blockage right there?
We're at an age where breakthrough medical discoveries are happening all around. Even a vaccine to stop over 90% of cancers by 2020! Some discoveries are from routine research, others by accident, others still, driven by sheer desperation of a personal nature.
Such is the case with Dr Zamboni(University of Ferrara, Italy)who has essentially saved his wife (in her 30's) who had developed MS.
Early days, but as Chrissie Amphlett, that gorgeous gal from the Divynls, has already found, thousands across the globe may soon benefit. Dr Zamboni's theory flies in the face of the current medical position of MS being an auto-immune system disease. Instead, it seems that it may well be of vascular origin. It is showing to be with many who are having the procedure in places such as Mexico, and of-course through Dr Zamboni's clinical trials and others, with CCSVI.
As he began to research MS and study real sufferers, he found that in all cases, the veins in the neck are blocked. This restricts blood flow to the brain, causing a build up of cerebral iron levels and which which leads to the myelin sheath deterioration. Unblock the veins in the neck, and the matter often resolves(not always straight forward, but still..).
We're at an age where breakthrough medical discoveries are happening all around. Even a vaccine to stop over 90% of cancers by 2020! Some discoveries are from routine research, others by accident, others still, driven by sheer desperation of a personal nature.
Such is the case with Dr Zamboni(University of Ferrara, Italy)who has essentially saved his wife (in her 30's) who had developed MS.
Early days, but as Chrissie Amphlett, that gorgeous gal from the Divynls, has already found, thousands across the globe may soon benefit. Dr Zamboni's theory flies in the face of the current medical position of MS being an auto-immune system disease. Instead, it seems that it may well be of vascular origin. It is showing to be with many who are having the procedure in places such as Mexico, and of-course through Dr Zamboni's clinical trials and others, with CCSVI.
As he began to research MS and study real sufferers, he found that in all cases, the veins in the neck are blocked. This restricts blood flow to the brain, causing a build up of cerebral iron levels and which which leads to the myelin sheath deterioration. Unblock the veins in the neck, and the matter often resolves(not always straight forward, but still..).
I don't want to get into a debate about smoking, and hijack this thread. I couldn't help making a brief comment at the time, to blizzard.
Castigate means to 'criticise severely'; 'inflict severe punishment'... another example of 'how on earth did you deduce that?' Can anyone ever make a comment on this site without being seen as kicking someone in the balls?
Ever think there was a medical reason for that? Aren't addictions grand???...And well done to you for defying them and checking yourself out. Bet your kids were proud of you.
Don't bother to travel by air. They don't take kindly to defiant passengers who want to check out.
What are you talking about? Speak for yourself, oz man. I have been partaken of communion at Sikh temples with my Indian friends, had banquets at the home of Hong Kong Chinese...All right here in Adelaide. Many Aussies do this - mix with other cultures.
But then you might be living in a darkened shoebox, in which case what you say would be perfectly correct('I don't see...')
I just d/l the ebook onto my pc or netbook and transfer it onto a program called calibre. A CS pal of mine from Engerland who's a whizz at IT, got me onto it recently. Great when I travel for work if I want to read and lightens baggage weight....The covers d/l perfectly, as well as any other graphics.
One of my favourite stores is amazon....it sells lots of different things, but I've only ever bought books so far. I'd be lost without having them on hand for hard to get books. Impeccable service too.
Also, deals direct on the odd occasion. Again, great service.
I've done my own research on this so called vitamin D deficiency epidemic. It just got me stumped that suddenly I and so many others are a bit low on vitamin D. It doesn't make sense....Until I read that protein leeches vitamin D from the body. So there you go...Makes sense, as most of us eat a fair amount of protein in one form or another, even in protein shakes and bars. I think it must be higher than before.
So for those eating a healthy diet, it's probably not that we don't get enough vitamin D into our system through the sun or supplements, but that we lose it through certain things we eat.
Yes, it would be. All that steamy moisture with the slow cooking, makes meat sooooo tender, which really suits to larger chunks of meat such as silverside, though that's one meat I have never cooked. My ex-father in law, RIP cooked the best I have ever eaten, though I think he used a large pressure cooker.
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That explains this guy then!!....it's the mountain climbing billy goat in him.