At Work

Nothing exciting to say, just here at work procrastinating. Have to do rounds. Had to send a guy to the hospital a couple hours ago. He was dizzy and blood pressure elevated.

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medhodgepodge

Must get ready to go to school. Have exams. Whine whine, feel lousy. Would never by choice take morning classes when I work nights.

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www.change.org/myfundraising/wfmhchange My drive to raise $500 for WFMH by the end of the year.

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http://adjix.com/e3ek Make your own healthy baby food. Wonderful recipe e-book only $10.

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The air in the building where I work is so dry. I often drink a half gallon of water in a night when I'm working.

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Better fast food

Let's face it, I'm no cook. Most fast food is pretty much an artery clogging fat load, but something like a baked potato and chili from Wendy's is actually not a bad meal. I get the baked potato (yes, I use sour cream. Because life is too short to eat a !*!&$( DRY POTATO!) and a large chili with onions and cheese. I pour the chili on the potato. Chili is loaded with fiber and nutrients. Potatoes have B vitamins and potassium, especially if you eat the skin. So this is actually a reasonably healthy meal. You can also get a side salad with Italian dressing and make it complete. Well, get whatever dressing you want, but I tend to roll with the oil and vinegar based ones. Ranch is bad because it contains MSG. On my soapbox. MSG is not a "spice." It technically has no flavor of its own. MSG IS A NEUROTOXIN! It alters the brain chemistry of the person eating it. No joke, look it up. Many people are intolerant of this vile substance. For most, it causes intestinal distress to one degree or another. Sometimes it can even cause respiratory distress. I used to be on several asthma meds until I started watching out for MSG in foods. I was able to get off ALL asthma meds. I still have mild asthma but it tends to only be triggered by extreme cold or exercise and does not require medication.

At any rate, yes, you can find healthy alternatives at fast food joints. I know this. I just don't always take them...

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Irresponsible and Reprehensible

The story from MSNBC is about a doctor who performed an abortion on an 18 year old client at 23 weeks. The fetus emerged alive. The clinic's owner cut the cord and placed the newborn and the afterbirth in a garbage bag. Read the story first and then the Curmudgeon's Comment.

The Crusty Curmudgeon sez: Once the fetus was born alive, it was the responsibility of the clinic staff to immediately get medical care for it. Also, it was irresponsible of these doctors to do an abortion at this stage of pregnancy unless there was a compelling medical reason. My belief is that abortion should be available on demand after counseling about all options and possible effects both physical and psychological during the first trimester. After the first trimester, it should be available only if there is a viable medical reason for doing so.

It was reprehensible of the clinic staff to agree to do an abortion so far along without sound medical reason in the first place. It was diabolical of them to not get immediate emergency medical care for the live infant. They should all be stripped of their licenses and jailed immediately.

Monosodium Glutamate: It Straight UP Sucks!

We all should be concerned with getting MSG out of our food supply. This stuff is quite literally a neurotoxin. It does NOT add flavor to food. It alters the brain chemistry of the individual eating a food to which it has been added, so said individual perceives the food as tasting stronger.

MSG generally causes headaches and irritable bowel, but it can also cause respiratory problems. I used to be on several asthma medications. When I became aware of MSG's ill effects, I started reading labels and if it was in something, I passed it up. I was able to get off all asthma meds.

There are studies that suggest that the number of children with autism and ADHD may be related to monosodium glutamate in our food supply. It became widely used after 1950 in the United States. The number of children with such problems rose sharply after that time. Hmmmmm....

As little as 2 tablespoons of MSG can cause animals such as dogs to have seizures.

Do we really need this crap in our food? I think not!

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Correction

http://www.openzine.com/…rangeworld Mistake on the original link to the zine. Sorry about that, y'all

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New Strange World Mini-Zine Issue #2

http://newstrangeworld.openzine.com/ Issue #2 of my mini-zine is ready. Info about bipolar disorder and supplements, plus cool vids and funny pix. Dig in!

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Facebook Cause: Drive for WFMH

http://apps.facebook.com/…ses/190050

Please join my drive to raise money and awareness for the World Federation for Mental Health.

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Affordable insurance plans

http://adjix.com/qrr

Don't have insurance? Check out these plans. As low as $49.95/month. In business since 1982.

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Aqualyte

http://TwitPWR.com/aqualyte/

Yes, this is a product that I sell. I use it myself. Aqualyte is coral calcium. It helps strengthen your bones, of course, but it also alkalizes water or juice. Research shows that alkalizing your diet has wonderful health benefits including the reduction of inflammation in your muscles and digestive tract. Aqualyte comes in easy to use tea bag style sachets, no inconvenient powders, no nasty taste. You can give it to your pets too, and the used sachets can be put in your potted plants to nourish them as well. As little as $25 per month for an individual supply. No hard sell, just check out the web site and decide for yourself.

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Mental Illness = A Crime?

http://www.care2.com/…ail/961442

Is being mentally ill a crime? Please read Mary's story. Her mentally ill brother, a heart patient, died in prison. She wants the justice department to investigate and is being stonewalled. Do not persons with mental illness deserve at least the basic rights? Have we not at least come that far?

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Medication, dependence and addiction

All medications are drugs. Many have potential for dependence and some have potential for addiction. Dependence and addiction are not the same thing. When a person develops a dependence on a medication they will need to taper off use of it. Dependence is a purely physiological condition. Addiction has both physiological ans psychological components. With addiction, a person needs increasing amounts of a substance for it to continue having the desired affect. While a person can experience some distress in discontinuing a medication that they are dependent on, the distress is markedly worse in withdrawing from a medication or substance that they are addicted to.

Statistically, less than 1 percent of people become addicted to any medication. The medications with the greatest potential for addiction are opiate painkillers, not psychoactive medications such as antidepressants.

Why I Hate MSG (from the Experience Project

F or many people, monosodium glutamate causes digestive distess. I am certainly one of those. If I ingest this vile substance, I will be sitting doubled over in agony on that certain throne for a couple of hours.

But worse, MSG also causes respiratory distress. For me it sometimes causes numbness of the lips and tongue. I used to be on asthma medication before I discovered that MSG could cause respiratory distress. When I started being careful to check for MSG on the food ingredient lists, I was able to stop taking asthma medication. However, MSG may be in the "spices" or "flavorings" in certain products. It is (astoundingly) considered a GRAS (generally regarded as safe) food additive.

Studies show that just two tablespoons of MSG can cause seizures in dogs . And since MSG was introduced as a common food additive in 1948, cases of autism and ADHD have risen sharply.

Certain foods contain naturally occurring trace amounts of MSG. Unless a person has a severe glutamine intolerance, these foods will never be a problem. Soy sauce is often vilified, but it would be difficult to use enough that it would become problematic except in the case of a severe intolerance. Foods like soy sauce are not the problem. Added MSG is the problem. MSG is a far from harmless food additive. In my humble opinion, it should be banished from use.

I love the night shift

#Night #shift is the right shift, most of the time. But it can be rough. This website has some tips for #night #owls. http://enw.org/…tShift.htm

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The Flu Shot and Anti-viral medications

This is a reply I posted in response to a post by the Lazy Iguana. I decided to duplicate it here, because unlike my previous post, this is news you can use!

Unless there is a really heinous potentially deadly even to normally healthy people strain of the flu going around, I do not get the flu shot. The flu shot is pretty well a crap shoot. If you are immunocompromised or over 65, you should get the flu shot, because even healthy older people are more prone to the flu becoming pneumonia due to less hardy immune systems, lower lung capacity, and a general slowing of healing functions. But for the rest of us, it isn't as essential.

All this annoying medical training has taught me one thing: the new anti-viral medications are very safe and very effective. The one caveat is that you have to take them as soon as you realize you're really sick. Not just the coughing-stuffy head-sore throat-minor upper chest congestion kind of sick. The kind where you have a cough that feels like you're going to hack up one of your lungs, which may feel like you inhaled sludge. Also there is usually fever and muscle ache with the flu. There isn't a stuffy nose. There might be a sore throat, but it's usually from coughing. At any rate, get ye to the doctor and ask for an antiviral. It won't destroy the viruses that are already in your system but will stop them from replicating so you will get well faster. Rather expensive stuff but very effective. One of the few medications to come along where I've said "this stuff really rules!"