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7105. thoughtful - 5/17/2007 3:00:15 PM Judithah, detached retinas ain't fun. I hope it's not serious and that the doc can fix you up.
Hubby had a different retinal issue...fluid built up behind it making the surface 'wrinkled'. There was nothing to be done and fortunately it went away by itself.
I hope yours is as benign an issue as his was.
7106. judithathome - 5/17/2007 4:59:01 PM Wonk, got the number and suggest Magos delete the post now...thanks! I can't get a referral until Monday when my doc returns from a trip. Will keep you posted. (And thank your brother for me...I just might give him a call!)
Thoughtful, I'm thinking it's going to be a big nothing...I have no symptoms, no pain, no blurred vision...he showed me a lot of examples of what it might turn into but didn't seem overly concerned. (Didn't send me straight to the specialist, rather.)
He did show me that particular problem your hubs had, though...said it actually looks like over-stretched SaranWrap. 7107. judithathome - 5/17/2007 4:59:55 PM Sorry, I thought this was the Cafe...maybe Wabbit could delete it. 7108. judithathome - 5/17/2007 10:19:24 PM Well, my doctor just got all in a swit and referred me to another eye doc and I will be going in tomorrow...he was quite miffed at me that I thought it could wait til next week. 7109. arkymalarky - 5/17/2007 10:58:06 PM This site is very neat for monitoring diet and fitness. 7110. wonkers2 - 5/18/2007 10:33:43 PM A few hospital jokes 7111. judithathome - 5/19/2007 8:41:58 PM My eye is fine and that was 3 hours and 15 minutes out of my life that I'll never get back...the specialist's office is a hotbed of inefficency and there were about 20 of us sitting there with dilated eyes, trapped in a room waiting to see the doctor.
Only funny thing was that his name was Dr. Hu and the girl at the desk said "You're here to see Dr. Hu?" and I said "Ranalle" and she said "No, Dr. Hu" and I repeated "Ranalle" and finally I glanced down at the card and saw DR. (whatever) HU printed on it and told her I got it...but that I felt like I was trapped inside an Abbott & Costello routine. Unfortunately, she was too young to get that particular joke...
Anyhow, I'm supposed to watch for any changes in my "floaters" and "flashes" and if I see a change, to come back...otherwise, just keep getting older. 7112. wonkers2 - 5/19/2007 9:50:32 PM That's good news! 7113. betty - 5/20/2007 3:11:36 AM arky,
I was out running yesterday and my eyes started filling up with goo. Of course I thought of you...How is the fitness routine going? 7114. arkymalarky - 5/20/2007 3:56:09 AM I've been just maintaining a little exercise and eating out a lot less, and otherwise I haven't able to do a lot without getting worn out, but since my doctor doubled my thyroid medicine the other day I feel better. Today is the first day I really felt like I could tell a difference. I bought a basketball goal and Bob and I worked on assembling it quite a while without me getting exhausted. I don't know if I'll be up to "normal" next time my thyroid is checked in about three weeks, but I see I can function better with this upped dose and I haven't gained any more weight--I lost a pound or two from where I was originally and then planed off, and I'm thinking I'll be able to exercise longer now and eat less. 7115. arkymalarky - 5/20/2007 3:29:42 PM I'm also trying to figure out how long I may have had this; if I had it before my hysterectomy and then it went lower this year, when I gained ten or fifteen pounds and felt like crap but attributed it to being way overloaded (which I was). Or when I gained about 20 before that and got the symptoms that required a hysterectomy, which I attributed to extreme stress and overload while I was in a mad fight to keep our rural school from closing. I'm just trying to sort out what's what and trace things back so I can see where I'll be wrt health, weight, etc, once my thyroid is correctly adjusted and my allergies are back under control, which I hope will happen within the next few weeks. If "normal" is before all that, then my weight should be about 20 lbs less, and I'd like to lose another 20 eventually, to get to where my weight was in my 30s.
I'm focusing on feeling good, though, at the moment, and won't concern myself with weight per se until I'm at what I think would be my "normal" health level through eating a balanced diet and exercising.
Speaking of which, anyone have opinions (HA!) on the detox rage? I read an article in MSNBC about it that really warned about it, but I know a few health-food store frequenters (not health nuts--they seem to use health-product resources like a Chinese menu) who think it's great for cleaning their systems, not weight loss. 7116. arkymalarky - 5/20/2007 3:31:47 PM And wrt eating right, I am eating at least one piece of fruit and some vegetables every day and drinking a low-sodium V-8. And I'm drinking 4-6 glasses of water a day at a minimum and getting in physical activity most days, but--as I said--very little of it. 7117. arkymalarky - 5/20/2007 10:14:31 PM It took two days to put up that basketball goal. The instructions were awful, even by assembly instructions standards. But I got a lot of physical activity out of putting it together and was able to do it. Last week, no way. And I LOVE IT. I shot baskets while Bob cleaned off the old concrete slab I'm playing on (from the carport of our old house), and I just love it, chasing the ball around and everything. It's all fun. 7118. thoughtful - 5/22/2007 2:41:34 PM On the importance of adequate protein and other nutrients in the diet.
Death by veganism
WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty....
Protein deficiency is one danger of a vegan diet for babies. Nutritionists used to speak of proteins as “first class” (from meat, fish, eggs and milk) and “second class” (from plants), but today this is considered denigrating to vegetarians.
The fact remains, though, that humans prefer animal proteins and fats to cereals and tubers, because they contain all the essential amino acids needed for life in the right ratio. This is not true of plant proteins, which are inferior in quantity and quality — even soy.
A vegan diet may lack vitamin B12, found only in animal foods; usable vitamins A and D, found in meat, fish, eggs and butter; and necessary minerals like calcium and zinc. When babies are deprived of all these nutrients, they will suffer from retarded growth, rickets and nerve damage.
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There are no vegan societies for a simple reason: a vegan diet is not adequate in the long run. 7119. wonkers2 - 5/22/2007 4:03:18 PM I saw that article yesterday. It confirmed my previous opinions about veganism. It also validates my occaisonal two slider and fries lunches. My new daughter-in-law is a vegetarian. But she drinks milk, and eats eggs and cheese, etc. I hope that will be enough for a pre-natal diet if she were to get pregnant. She grew up a vegetarian and is a graduate of MIT and has a PhD from U of Washington. So, I guess she didn't lose any brain cells as a result of her diet. 7120. thoughtful - 5/22/2007 4:59:42 PM what's a slider? 7121. robertjayb - 5/22/2007 5:35:38 PM (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher
The closer had a wicked slider that was almost unhittable.
A small greasy hamburger
We ordered five sliders.
(curling) A piece of teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice
(Wiktionary)
7122. thoughtful - 5/22/2007 6:02:02 PM hmmm...you learn something new every day! 7123. wonkers2 - 5/22/2007 9:22:50 PM A slider is a very small hamburger cooked with onions. Sometimes they are a bit greasy, hence the name slider. The kind they sell at White Towers. 7124. thoughtful - 5/24/2007 2:39:53 PM The two go hand in hand...the diabetes drug Avandia substantially increases the risk of heart attack.
Diet and Exercise can stave off type 2 diabetes
Participants randomly assigned to intensive lifestyle intervention reduced their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. On average, this group maintained their physical activity at 30 minutes per day, usually with walking or other moderate intensity exercise, and lost 5-7 percent of their body weight. Participants randomized to treatment with metformin reduced their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 31 percent.
So which is it...expensive drugs that are less effective with potentially deadly side effects?
Or diet and exercise that is more effective and will make you look and feel better?
I report...you decide.
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