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6246. thoughtful - 8/23/2004 5:00:24 AM For those of you with auto-immune disorders: a recent study done shows correlation between auto-immune disorders such as RA and schleroderma and thyroid dysfunction. Can't hurt to get your thyroid function and thyroid anti-bodies tested if this is you. 6247. wabbit - 8/23/2004 5:05:06 AM I get that done yearly. So far so good. I also get tested for Lyme - without a visible rash, I wouldn't necessarily notice the other symptoms. 6248. thoughtful - 8/23/2004 5:52:24 AM Glad to hear it. Given what I've learned about docs and graves disease, I suspect a lot of fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue is really undiagnosed or undertreated thyroid disease.
I've been coping with it for 25 years already. Is there some kind of silver anniversary award i can get for that?
;-) 6249. Bill Russell - 8/26/2004 1:31:40 AM ' my husband's grandmother who made it to 106. '
My great Aunt of Shadyside, Md. lived to be 108, and had a clear mind until the end. At the age of 100 she wrote a book about her life, which was published and is still in print.
She had gone to California as a young girl to teach Native American children. Later she owned and ran a hotel and was the Postmaster of Shadyside.
Remarkable lady! 6250. arkymalarky - 8/26/2004 7:29:01 AM How cool!
Most of the rural elderly out here are very active and a number of them have lived into their 90s. I don't know many who've gone to the nursing home.
I had a student once whose great-howevermany-grandmother was 114 and died some years after that, but I don't think her age was on an official record. Her parents had to have been slaves. I sent a student to interview her on audiotape once, but unfortunately we weren't able to get anything very coherent or unique from her. 6251. judithathome - 8/26/2004 7:36:42 AM I'm back from the doctor and he was amazed to see the hole in my tibia is STILL there. However, the rest of it is healed and I don't have to go back for 6 months. Also, I no longer have to wear the electronic bone stimulator for 10 hours a night...or at all!
But he said to use the cane because as perplexing as it is that the bone healed that way (and all the other docs he dragged into to see the x-rays agreed) it may be in a weakened condition and I need to be careful.
6252. arkymalarky - 8/26/2004 7:40:15 AM My goodness. I hope it stays ok.
Did you say in the Cafe the other day that you got stung? Bob killed about ten wasps up here this afternoon. I don't know where they're coming in or what we're going to do, besides set of bug bombs. He thinks they're coming in through the recessed lights. Diva loves to kill them and eat them when we swat them, and so far we haven't been stung. 6253. judithathome - 8/26/2004 7:47:31 AM Yes, I was stung 3 times by some really tiny little bug which I couldn't see because it was still dark outside where I was. It was painful as hell and I got rather dizzy. After the Benedryl, though, I didn't remember anything for hours. ha! 6254. arkymalarky - 8/26/2004 7:49:36 AM That's creepy (not the benedryl, the bug). Wonder what it was. 6255. judithathome - 8/26/2004 7:59:19 AM I don't know but he packed a powerful punch. It flet like fire was under my skin until the pill kicked in...yur friend who has all the allergies would've freaked!
How is she, by the way? 6256. arkymalarky - 8/26/2004 8:07:05 AM I guess she's ok. I rarely talk to her, though Bob keeps in regular touch with her husband and we talk on the phone. Last I talked to him (last week some time) she was doing ok. 6257. Bill Russell - 8/30/2004 12:32:49 AM Health professsionals used to tell us to eat only one or two eggs a week because of the cholesterol. Now they're saying it's OK to eat one egg a day.
Next year, perhaps, they will tell us about the new egg diet:
Eat eggs for every meal, and eat all you want. They are high in protein and contain everything an animal needs for good health.
LMBO 6258. judithathome - 9/1/2004 11:34:04 PM Flame Retardants Found In Foods
A wide variety of common food in American supermarkets is contaminated with tiny doses of toxic artificial chemical flame retardants, according to a study released Wednesday.
Samples of fish, pork, duck, turkey, cheese, butter, milk, chicken, ice cream and eggs from three Dallas grocery stores were tainted with polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, according to an article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers said those stores should be typical of most American supermarkets.
Because this is a relatively new health concern, no one has studied yet whether PBDEs are harmful to humans and, if so, at what levels, the Environmental Protection Agency's top toxicologist said. However, in animal tests they've harmed the nervous system and altered hormonal function and the development of reproductive organs.
6259. thoughtful - 9/2/2004 12:04:34 AM That's a relief! I'm off to make my 5-alarm chili!
Bill R, haven't you heard? Eggs are real food, straight from the chicken and are good for you. I eat 2 eggs a day. 6260. Bill Russell - 9/3/2004 12:10:26 AM ' I eat 2 eggs a day. '
My guess is:
You don't need vitamin and mineral supplements.
And you likely don't need doctors either. 6261. Bill Russell - 9/4/2004 10:27:40 PM Battle of the sexes: Toilet seat up? Toilet seat down?
When a toilet is flushed the swirling water "atomizes" and sends out a very fine mist/spray of bacterally laden moisture.
Apparently this "bacteria laden moisture" arises from the toilet bowl, then settles upon everything, and anything, that is in your bathroom....your toothbrush, face-cloth, towels, etc. etc.
The best thing to do with any and every toilet seat (that you have chance to employ) is to close the lid completely prior to flushing, hence eliminating that debate 'tween males and females.
So away we go, can we flush out further comments?
6262. arkymalarky - 9/5/2004 12:22:44 AM Solves it for me. I'll have to try to remember that. 6263. Bill Russell - 9/5/2004 2:15:52 AM The World would be a better place and husbands and wives can stop fighting about it. 6264. Bill Russell - 9/5/2004 2:15:57 AM The World would be a better place and husbands and wives can stop fighting about it. 6265. Bill Russell - 9/5/2004 4:05:53 PM A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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