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The "What's on your mind?" Thread -2016
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Oh wow! How cool is that?! She will enjoy seeing them, I'm sure.
Husband found a dead all-black cat in the street. Didn't ask for gory details, but I presume a car hit it. He will bury it in our backyard. Poor thing.
Just checking in real quick. Most of the house is packed. I'll know tomorrow if the Baptist Men will be able to move me or not. IF they can't, the district manager has given the maintenance men authorization to move me on Saturday, The difference is paying them $200 or giving the Baptist Men a $50 donation for their church, IF I can get by with that, I can return MOST of the money Nat lent me, and have a leg up on things! Say bunches of prayers for me! I miss the forums! See ya'll for real next week.
It's so annoying! I get in trouble if I yawn on the phone. So, I'm feeling pretty awake and the random thought pops up in my head - yay; I'm not yawning - and then because I thought about yawning, I yawn. Ugh.
A couple (?) of years ago, the Myth Busters "busted" the "myth" that yawning is contagious. They did it by having a guy walk through a waiting room full of people who were looking at their cell phones or magazines, and the guy yawned, and no one caught it. Because, no one was looking at him! They seriously messed this one up -- it's only catching when people know about it. In point of fact, it's been shown that dogs who see their humans yawn tend to yawn. It's not only catching, it's catching across species! And you can get it from reading about it, or simply thinking about it, like you did.
Sympathy.
Margret
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I need a mwahahahaha evil laughter smilie here.
Margret
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I learned about this in psychology. This is apparently proof of the empathy reflex in human beings.
Well, I wish I could end my yawning reflex because yawning is "not professional" and blah blah blah.
Ran to Wal*Mart to get some stuff to make a tater tot casserole and I was leaving, a man was going in who looked just like my insanely abusive ex at first glance. I froze, dropped my bags, and gave this little half scream before my brain kicked in and realized it wasn't him. Not that it could have been because he's in California and I'm back home in Missouri, but logic is slower than emotion. So I made a complete fool of myself. Yay
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still sounds like got, these symptoms are classic. How is it doing now? I know gout will go away on its own if you eat a rather bland diet, lots of oatmeal and other stuff I don't like, I prefer to take Allopurinol to get rid of it but it's on prescription only.
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We have In-N-Out here but that's not nationwide. I think it may be a Western States only chain. My daughter who lives in Montana always takes about a dozen of their burgers home in a cooler with a hotpack in it on the plane because that chain is not in Montana.They cut their huge potatoes on the premises (you can actually see them cutting them) and then fry them. Most other places soak their potatoes in beef broth which gives them that "delicious" flavor, In-N-Out does not do that. Otherwise I like Wendy's but I get a chicken sandwich there and at Arby's I only get their potato cakes at the drive-through window, I take those home and eat them with apple sauce.Yeah BK bought out Tim Horton's. BK food is mediocre at best. It's been declining over the years. It almost seems like they gave up caring at all. My favorite thing there used to be the whopper but I noticed that more often than not, the grills aren't going. You can tell when they are and aren't. Their fries are awful. I used to like their onion rings a lot but lately, the quality seems to have diminished, I thought it was my imagination but DD said the same thing.
McDonald's fries are good if they are HOT. Once they start to cool off they are just as bad as everyone else's.
Right now, the greatest fast food item of all is the Cinnabon Delights from Taco Bell. They are INSANE. If you have not tried these, you must. Don't bother getting less than a dozen. They are that good. Really. Now I want some.
I absolutely despised California, but there are a few things I miss. In 'N' Out is one. I also miss the ease of finding a Joe's Crab Shack. And Jack in the Box. And produce prices.
Hmmm, I can't think of anything I miss that doesn't involve food . . .
Cherry extract is sold as a natural cure. Gout is the build up of uric acid crystals in the joint. The best medication is allopurinol. My husband has gout and with this 4 dollar medication hasn't had an attack in over a decade. I think there are several different medications. One type of gout is the body making too much uric acid the other is the bodies inability to rid itself of uric acid. There may be another medication for that.
My husbands gout started in his big toe.
So did my husband's. I was 22 or so, looked about 16, and asked his doctor what he'd prescribed for Roger and how it worked. (Bear in mind that this was over 40 years ago.) He told me that there were three medications used to treat gout:
- Colchicine -- a pain medication for acute attacks, not used to actually control the gout.
- Probenecid -- which makes the kidneys work harder to remove uric acid.
- Allopurinol -- which keeps the body from making so much uric acid.
He had prescribed the first two for Roger. I pointed out that Roger already had albumin urea (a marker for kidney problems) and asked whether it wouldn't be wiser to use allopurinol than probenecid. The doctor did not like having his judgment questioned, especially by a "little girl," but I was his patient's wife so he couldn't just brush me off. Therefore, he lied to me. (I have it on the authority of a good doctor whom I did not know at the time that it was a lie.) He said that the probenecid was working, and if he took Roger off of it to put him on allopurinol and the allopurinol didn't work, when he put Roger back on probenecid Roger might have developed an allergy to it and then there would be nothing that would work for his gout and he'd die horribly. Then he went into detail about the "dying horribly" part of that. When Roger went into kidney failure several years later his nephrologist spent a very long time figuring out what had caused it -- probenecid. Roger is now on allopurinol, which works just fine, thank you very much, but he also has virtually no kidney function and goes to dialysis three times per week. If I didn't think he was long dead I'd be looking into suing the doctor who did that to him.
I recently read a book about getting off of gluten. The doctor who wrote it said that he has a test he gives his patients -- he asks them whether they are willing to follow doctor's orders without question, no matter what their own judgment tells them. Those who say "No" fail the test, and are not welcome to be his patients. Well, he just failed my test for doctors. Any doctor who discounts the concerns of a patient that way should not be in practice, IMO. Certainly he should not be my doctor, or my family's.
Margret
Allopurinol seems to be safe long term he has had the dose adjusted up and down a few times via yearly tests. It is 4 bucks a month. It was only 8 or 9 before they started the 4 dollar Rx program. Some of the newer drugs have side effects and cost 10X more. This goes with some of the BP medications. New isn't always better.
I would never trust a doctor without question. My mom is a LPN and she's seen the effects of incompetent doctors all too often. Several years ago, my great uncle was in the hospital (I don't remember why, but he had Parkinson's and was in bad health). The doctor was about to give him a MRI and my mom said, "You know he has a pace maker, right?" The doctor said, "Yes, I know." Mom said, "And you want to do a MRI?" The doctor said, "That's right." Then my mother had to explain TO THE DOCTOR why a MRI would kill a patient with a pacemaker.
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