All about cure

Cancer survivor becomes wellness coach

2010-03-11T02:57:00.000+02:00

Here is an article by Joanne Shuttleworth which appeared on the front page of the Guelph Mercury on March 9th 2010 – my 65th birthday.

I celebrated the publicity for my cancer prevention program called Start Here and Go Forward. I also celebrated the fact that I’m still alive and cancer free 23 years after having 3 types of cancer in 1987.

GUELPH -Lynn Roodbol was 41 when she learned she had breast cancer. Six months later she was also diagnosed with colon cancer and then skin cancer. All this a year after her husband had lost his job.

It was a devastating period and Roodbol said she felt helpless and hopeless as she became a pincushion for chemotherapy, at the beck and call of her doctors, and faced with the very real spectre of her death.

“I had myself in a pine box,” Roodbol said quietly. “I really thought I was going to die. But my husband coached me through it and I had a huge support system. And somewhere along the way something changed.

“The light went on for me and I stopped that downward spiral. I wanted to do anything I could to live again.”

Roodbol turns 65 next week — a number she never expected to reach in those dark days. She’s also a certified wellness coach in part from gratitude for the extra 20-plus years she’s been given. And part to help people who may be feeling as powerless as she had. Roodbol is leading a five-week workshop called Start Here and Go Forward, a program based on wellness coaching that will discuss healthy lifestyle choices, which help prevent cancer and reduce the risk of its recurrence.

It runs from Hospice Wellington’s temporary location on Woodlawn Road on Monday evenings, 7 to 8:30 p.m. from March 22 to April 19. Cost is free, but registration is required.

The methods she recommends are neither a surprise nor complicated and they can prevent other diseases besides cancer — eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, get plenty of sleep and relaxation and learn to manage your stress.

“I’m not an expert, so if I can do it, anyone can,” she said. “But sometimes it’s difficult to see that on your own. A wellness coach will grab your hand and work beside you as you realize your goals.”

Roodbol said she was weighed down by negativity when she was diagnosed with all her cancers, and even when she began to recover she still didn’t feel well. She started to visit a therapist who helped her to leave negative feelings behind and focus on the positive.

“Therapy taught me to let go of anger and guilt. After all, I was an X-ray tech and I didn’t have a mammogram. I blamed myself. I was full of guilt. I had to learn to let it go,” she said.

It’s not as superficial as it may sound. Sometimes it takes a seminal event to put life in perspective. Sometimes an attitude adjustment is in order.

“Once you hear the ‘cancer’ word, you often don’t hear anything else,” said Erin McInnis, client services supervisor with Hospice Wellington. “And it’s easy to get lost in all the information. But life is about living, it’s about wellness. Lynn will challenge and inspire participants.

“At times like that, people are looking for things they can do to help themselves. Lynn will show them how.”

“If you spend your energy on wellness, it’s energy you don’t have to spend on being sick. And believe me, it’s so much more pleasant being healthy,” Roodbol said.

If you go:

WHAT: Start Here and Go Forward, a workshop based on wellness coaching that will discuss healthy lifestyle choices, which help people to prevent cancer and reduce the risk of recurrence of cancer.

WHEN: Monday evenings, 7 to 8:30 p.m. from Mar. 22 to April 19

WHERE: Hospice Wellington, 107 Woodlawn Rd. W.

COST: Free

This program is now full and I’m registering people for a new program starting on April 26 2010. Thank you for your interest!

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Curing Homosexuality

2010-03-09T15:11:00.000+02:00

First, let’s dispense with the obvious. Outside of being a sexual predator or a pedophile, a person’s sexuality is nobody Else’s business. Legislating morality has proven to be counterproductive in so many ways that it would take a series of lengthy articles just to skim the surface.

Beyond the political bullshit that surrounds homosexuality lies the murky depths of something known as “reparative therapy”, which is an attempt to “cure” homosexuality. It is a religiously motivated pseudo-science based on the premise that homosexuality is an unnatural disease that needs to be eradicated. This premise is so blatantly wrong it should be dismissed along with Hitlers “final solution”.

The facts remain that homosexuality is both common and highly essential in the lives of a number of species. In fact, no species has been found in which homosexual behaviour has not been shown to exist, aside from those species which are asexual, in which case, homosexuality is not a factor.

For more than twenty-five years, mental health practitioners and researchers have recognized that homosexuality is not a mental illness. Moreover, they are highly critical of attempts to change sexual orientation. These professional associations include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists and the National Association of Social Workers. These are not fringe groups. They represent roughly a half-million health and mental health professionals who support the fact that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus, there is no need for a cure. Furthermore, the American Psychiatric Association rejected reparative therapy as not only ineffective, but potentially destructive. The risks include depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.

Reparative therapy is nothing more than religious homophobia disguised as science, much like “Intelligent Design” is a clever disguise for creationism. At the core of these “ex-gay” ministries is the fundamental belief that god deems homosexuality to be an abomination and those who are found guilty are to be punished by death. Period. End of story. The blinders that some of the religious zealots wear could cover an area the size of Texas. They completely ignore the fact that all the leading medical associations have condemned “ex-gay ministries” as harmful practices that can cause severe emotional damage, including suicide after unsuccessful attempts to change and adapt to an adverse society.

Science does not yet fully understand how a particular sexual orientation presents in any individual. There are many hypothesis being studied, including genetic or inborn hormonal factors and complex interactions of biological, psychological and social factors. What we do know is that sexual orientation is not a choice. It emerges for most people in early adolescence without any prior sexual experience. Psychologists do not consider sexual orientation for most people to be a conscious choice that can be voluntarily changed, which is the main reason why mental health professionals agree that homosexuality is not an illness, mental disorder or emotional problem. In fact, research conducted for almost forty years has revealed that homosexual orientation is not associated with any emotional or social problems. However, thanks to the relentless misinformation being disseminated by religious zealots, mental health professionals continue to fight the idea that homosexuality is a mental disorder.

The fact that homosexuals in many parts of the country are denied the right to adopt children flies in the face of the results of many comparative studies between homosexual parents and heterosexual parents. These studies have found no developmental differences between the two groups of children in their intelligence, psychological adjustment, social adjustment, popularity with friends or their sexual orientation.

I won’t even bother to insult you by refuting the ridiculous and audacious belief that some of these wingnuts hold about gay men having more of a tendency than heterosexual men to sexually molest children.

Reparative therapy is not based on science, but religious dogma. The reported success rates of the conversion of homosexuals to heterosexual orientation proves false under close scrutiny. These reports are from an ideological perspective on sexual orientation, not from the scientific perspective of real mental health researchers. Their treatments are poorly documented and the post-treatment follow-up time is too short. Again, scientific evidence does not show that conversion therapy works and that it can do more harm than good and any attempt at sexual orientation conversion should be ethically questioned.

The fact remains that it is not possible to change someones sexual orientation, but the religious zealots make it very possible to make homosexuals miserable over it. Reparative therapy ‘ministries’ prey on the spiritually and emotionally wounded. Many who turn to these conversion ministries end up with a life of continual guilt and despair. It is no wonder that 30% of homosexual teenagers attempt suicide over this kind of guilt ridden and self-loathing education that is the result of two-thousand years of church-inspired homophobia. Unfathomable is the number of homosexuals that have suffered rejection of their families, been driven to suicide due to depression, have been discriminated against by anti-gay laws and even condemned to death for sodomy.

Attempts to change sexual orientation are nothing more than religiously motivated behavior modification. Reparation therapy is relabeled snake oil and is being sold to our gay community for a disorder that does not exist. Those who profit from selling the snake oil for money, power or fame and those who support the idea that homosexuality is a disease should be ashamed of themselves.

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"This too shall pass." גם זה יעבור

2010-02-27T04:14:00.000+02:00

Out of nowhere, that line suddenly struck me. It was fascinating that it was as though someone invisible whispered it to my ear. And I was like, hmm I must have read it somewhere or heard it some time ago. Then, of course, I googled it, and found one article in Wikipedia.

I found out that this phrase originated during the time of King Solomon. When he wanted to challenge his most trusted minister to bring him a treasure ’so magical that when a sad man looks at it he becomes happy, but when a happy man looks at it he becomes sad.’ The treasure is of course non-existent. But when the trusted minister asked the merchant if he knows of a treasure like it, an old wise man engraved something on a golden ring, גם זה יעבור which means “this too shall pass.”

As Enya’s song “Only Time” says, “And who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows, only time?” Maybe time can heal depression. We just have to hold on. Because, this, too shall indeed pass.

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PRF President and Executive Director Audrey Gordon

2010-02-16T14:31:00.000+02:00

Audrey Gordon is the President and Executive Director of the Progeria Research Foundation. Audrey was named one of the 2004 North of Boston Business and Professional Women of the Year. She is the front runner of countless efforts to fulfill PRF’s mission of finding a treatment and cure for Progeria. I sat down with Audrey to find out where she got the inspiration to start the foundation:

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Cure For Infertility - Divorce Tips For Women - Preparing For Divorce

2010-02-14T08:48:00.000+02:00

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. Start Saving – You will charge to accept your own money back it comes to accepting divorced. Remember you still charge to Pregnancy Cures advance a acceptable akin of active for not aloof yourself but Cure For Infertility your accouchement additionally if you accept them. So it is important that you accessible your Pregnancy Remedy own coffer annual as anon as accessible in which you can abode funds. Remember you will accept your lawyer’s costs to awning whilst the affairs are Cure For Infertility demography place.

. Track Your Annulment Affairs – If you can use a agenda Pregnancy Remedy or board account which you can accumulate a clue of all the important contest apropos to your divorce. This way you will be bigger able to clue the affairs with your advocate forth with any cloister deadlines that you charge to meet. This is additionally advantageous way of tracking and befitting Pregnancy Cures agenda of any discussions that you may accept with your spouse.

Sometimes such annal can Pregnancy Remedy be acclimated as affirmation in the annulment affairs to appearance back your accomplice did not accumulate an arrangement or they abandoned a cloister adjustment or agreement. This is the ideal way of recording the times back your accomplice has the appropriate to absorb time with the children. Plus you can use it as a way of assuming how abundant you participate in your children’s lives.

. Create A To Do Account – Application such a account will advice you to be organized and set up those things which are of accent during the divorce. So what you charge to do is address bottomward aggregate that you charge to do and as you complete anniversary one of them mark them off. The best way to do this is by application a ample atramentous brand to absolutely clean them out.

. Get Yourself A Annulment Notebook – As you will anon ascertain back the annulment affairs alpha a lot of paperwork is again generated. Cure For Infertility In adjustment to accumulate clue of aggregate accustomed to you the best affair you Cure For Infertility can do is accumulate it all in a arena binder. It is best that you not alone actualize a basis apropos to all affidavit captivated aural it but abode them all in archival order. You should abode the best contempo abstracts accustomed at the advanced of anniversary area of the binder.

. Reduce Your Expenditure – If you accept any debts in your name such as loans or acclaim cards again you charge to get these bargain as abundant as accessible above-mentioned to the divorce. Remember you will accept to alive off aloof your assets rather than your ally as well.

In adjustment to added advice abate how abundant you absorb anniversary ages again anticipate about affairs the car you accept currently and accepting a cheaper model. If you can absolute what you absorb on frivolities and if your accouchement are old abundant to accept explain why cut backs accept to be made. Should you acquisition that your accomplice is afraid to abutment you and the accouchement voluntarily again Pregnancy Remedy seek a cloister adjustment for Pregnancy Cures them to cure for infertility do so.

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SPERM ART ~ CONDOMS KILLED THE COUNT! COUNT SPERMULA!

2010-02-13T02:07:00.000+02:00

COUNT SPERMULA WANTS TO INFECT YOUR BLOOD!

MEET THE COUNT ~ COUNT SPERMULA!!!!

The Condom Killed The Count! Cover Your Head! Stop The Spread!

That’s right! Stop The Spread! Cover Your Head!

Don’t let Count Spermula Infect Your Blood!

Protect Yourself!

Wear A Condom if you have sex!

OR DON”T HAVE SEX!!!

More about Artist Bethann Shannon or Sperm Art…

Visit:

www.mypetsperm.com

www.thesillyspermshop.etsy.com

www.cafepress.com/sillyspermshop

LEGAL:

Bethann Shannons work is registered & protected under Copyright Law.

Many images, names and slogans are also registered Trademarks. uspto.gov

Please contact artist with inquiries .

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+ tofu-tacool

2010-02-09T08:41:00.000+02:00

soy’b ‘10

togu the tofu named after one of the event organiser, was the mascot of the soy’b (start of year ‘back) event held about a week ago at ngee ann polytechnic. it was the 3rd event this year and very successful indeed gauging from the attendance. held in an air-conditioned venue; though narrow, the spacious outdoor sure compensate for the cosplayers to gather around and to pose for photo-taking. of course, they could walk into the convention hall for some cooling air-con and at the same time check out the many art-related booths; or catch a drink at the tofu-cafe with cosplayers waiters/waitresses when the weather gets too warm.

soy'b

cosplayed as lelouch lamperouge from code geass, newtype calendar illustration version to the event. i fell in love with his cloak the moment i laid my eyes on it. since then i kept flipping through my artbook every other days till i finally decided to work on this; though it wasnt really easy especially the spikey ends which took me quite a while to get them right.

ルルーシュ・ヴィ・ブリタニア | photo©risuchia

it was quite a casual cosplay with no heavy props, no difficult to maintain hair style and no troublesome costumes. having cosplayed for awhile now, sometimes i do prefer to be in a more casual form then lugging heavy props around. because the lazy me wants to enjoy the event to the fullest, being able to move around freely, take random photos with friends and without worries about your complicated props and costumes while ‘patrolling’. however that being said, it’s still great to be able to show off your artisan skills to the public with your wonderfully made props and fancy dresses and of course for the love of the character you are cosplaying as.

the black king | photo©risuchia

ギアスの命令 | photo©bnn

took a couple of crack shots with my friends at the event and this below is my favourite. it was an idea by athensis: ‘the king and his 2 bodyguards’ – lelouch with okita and hijikata from gintama. there are more of these random shots we took, which you can find them at my deviantart journal if you are interested.

王 | photo©risuchia

otacool 2

there’s a new hype among otakus all around the world. otacool is a publication related to anime, games, figures, anything オタク. its first book showcased worldwide otaku’s rooms which felt as if you were browsing a figurine catalog just looking it. otaku’s rooms showcased in the book are indeed amazing. something i would wish for if i have that spare cash to spend, or at least a small otaku corner in my room instead?

otacool 2: worldwide cosplayers

What is Otacool 2?

Kotobukiya is pleased to announce the arrival of OTACOOL 2: WORLDWIDE COSPLAYERS in April 2010! In collaboration with Danny Choo and the Internet’s largest cosplay destination Cure, OTACOOL 2 promises even more stimulating and groundbreaking content. In keeping with the same concept of “OTAKU is COOL”, the next volume of OTACOOL will focus on cosplayers from around the world

following the success of its first publication, now it’s time for otacool 2: worldwide cosplayers! everyone around me is rushing to submit their best cosplays photos up now and photographers are also getting busy generating high resolution images for them. i have also recently submitted mine here. although the chances of getting selected seems kinda slim among all the epic veteran submissions from all over the world, it’s a still good chance to be able showcase them on danny choo’s webpage alone.

otacool 2's front cover released!

and nope, they did not forget about how all cosplays or otakus came about. there’s an artwork submission for artists too; where you get to test your character design skills for otacool mascot character! such a good chance for illustrators out there must not be missed. should you have your works recognized, you could expect more commission work especially from japanese companies, or who knows land yourself a job in japan perhaps? tempting isn’t it, should i try my luck on this too?

submissions for otacool 2 ends mid february click here to submit yours now, before time runs out!

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Heartcatch PreCure! Episode 01 Review

2010-02-07T09:11:00.000+02:00

“私、変わります！変わって見せます！！” (“I’m Gonna Change! Count on the Change!”)

Heartcatch PreCure adalah season ketujuh serial anime Jepang bergaya Mahou Shojo “PreCure!” yang melanjutkan ketenaran Sailor Moon pada jamannya. Dalam season terbaru ini, kisah akan difokuskan pada dua orang PreCure (singkatan dari Pretty Cure – nama kesatria legenda dalam seri ini) baru yang harus menyelamatkan dunia peri dari sasaran Profesor Sabaku.

Adegan dibuka dengan pertarungan antara Cure Moonlight dan Dark PreCure yang berlokasi di dunia peri, setelah bertarung sengit, Cure Moonlight berhasil dikalahkan, namun sebelumnya dia telah berpesan pada Shypre dan Coffret untuk menyerahkan Kokoro Parfume pada orang yang tepat dan jangan sampai jatuh ke tangan anak buah Profesor Sabaku.

Ternyata adegan awal itu adalah sebuah mimpi yang dialami oleh Tsubomi ( tokoh utama pertama Heartcatch PreCure!) yang sedang menuju ke kota baru dimana neneknya tinggal.

OPENING SONG Alright! Heartcatch PreCure!

Tsubomi terlihat berjalan menyusuri jalan menuju sekolahnya yang baru dan sepertinya dia ingin menjadi pribadi baru yang lebih baik! “私、堪忍袋の緒が切れました！” (I can’t stand it anymore)

Namun saat memasuki kelas barunya, tetap saja Tsubomi menjadi pribadi yang pemalu, bahkan teman sekelasnya Erika (tokoh utama kedua HeartCatch PreCure) menggodanya karena Tsubomi menuliskan nama panjangnya dipapan tulis dengan huruf yang sangat kecil dan bersuara pelan.

Tsubomi tampaknya tidak begitu menyukai pribadi Erika yang blak-blakan dan SKSD (Sok Kenal Sok Dekat) serta bego, sampai-sampai Erika menyelonong mengambil salah satu lauk Tsubomi saat makan siang dan membuat Tsubomi sedikit terkejut + ilfeel. Tapi siapa menyangka bahwa Tsubomi dan Erika memiliki rumah yang bersebelahan. Tsubomi tinggal di sebuah toko bunga bernama Hanasaki Flower Shop, sedang disebelahnya adalah rumah modiste Fairy Drop. Erika yang begitu gembira mengajak Tsubomi ke rumahnya dan langsung me-make over Tsubomi, walau Tsubomi langsung pulang karena merasa kurang pede dengan penampilan barunya.

Tsubomi akhirnya memberanikan diri berjalan-jalan ke sebuah taman dengan penampilan barunya, dan disana ia kembali memikirkan tentang Cure Moonlight yang muncul di dalam mimpinya. Tiba-tiba Shypre dan Coffret jatuh dari langit dan menghantam wajah Tsubomi, tanpa panjang lebar berbicara Shypre dan Coffret bersembunyi di dalam kaos Tsubomi *dan membuatnya nampak berdada besar. Tak berselang lama, tiba-tiba muncul seorang wanita (Sasorina) berpenampilan aneh yang sepertinya menanyakan keberadaan Shypre dan Coffret. Karena tidak menemukan yang ia cari, ia lantas pergi begitu saja.

Sasorina kemudian bertemu dengan Erika dan langsung merampas Kokoro no Hana milik Erika. Dengan informasi dari Shypre dan Coffret, Tsubomi berniat mengambil kembali Kokoro no Hana milik Erika dari tangan Sasorina, namun Sasorina malah menemukan sebuah boneka dan menggabungkan Kokoro no Hana milik Erika dengan boneka itu sehingga boneka itu menjadi sebuah boneka monster raksasa! Saat bersembunyi menghindari serangan monster yang memiliki Kokoro no Hana milik Erika, Tsubomi bercerita tentang mimpinya pada Shypre dan Coffret! Tsubomi yang bertekad kuat untuk menyelamatkan Erika membuat Kokoro Parfume yang bersemayam pada liontin Shypre bereaksi. Shypre dan Coffret pun segera menyuruh Tsubomi untuk berubah wujud menjadi PreCure dengan meneriakkan PreCure! Open My Heart!

Dengan Kokoro Seed yang diberikan oleh Shypre, Tsubomi berubah wujud menjadi Cure Blossom menggunakan Kokoro Parfume!

Bersambung…

ENDING SONG Heartcatch⋆Paradise

Preview Episode 02 “私って史上最弱のプリキュアですか？？”

(“Am I the Weakest Pretty Cure Ever??”)

Coupe-sama ada di dalam Botanical Garden milik nenek Tsubomi!? Apa-apaan ini?! Disaat Cure Blossom yang masih amatir berusaha menyelamatkan Erika, muncul seorang pemuda misterius!! Siapakah dia?! *Adegan seperti itu mengundang memori nostalgia akan Sailor Moon dan Tuxedo Mask… Nantikan Heartcatch PreCure! Episode 02! (14 februari 2010)

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On Brain Transplants

2010-01-30T20:23:00.000+02:00

Usually I can go a long and happy time without needing to think about the hypothetical “cure” question. But I’ve had a few disparate thoughts lately, probably because I’ve been taking a class in the history & philosophy of psychology, so I’ll relate them here.

There are two basic conceptions of “cure”. One sees a cure as essentially a brain transplant, the other sees cure as about improving independent functioning, removing impairments. You cannot easily divide up who supports or attacks which cure into strict camps of “NDs” and “Curebies”, and I will not attempt to. Nor will I talk, so much, in this post about whether or not various views come from a deeper-seated fear and hatred of Autism. I believe it is possible to hold either conception of a cure while either accepting or attempting to eradicate autism although obviously it will have some influence on what course of action towards a cure you advocate.

To be honest, I don’t even like using the word “cure”, as though Autism is cancer–which is simply not medically true. But I think there may be some be common ground between the various factions in the Autism community. For example, if “cure” is defined as “improvement in independent functioning” and evidenced by the gradual acquisition of, for example, the ability to communicate in complete sentences, generate original content, or converse? Then I, for one, would be considered “pro-cure”, as would a great many of my also incidentally pro-neurodiversity friends. Not, perhaps, “Autism is the devil” or “Autism is to blame for everything” or “Autism HAS my child” or “Cure at any cost”. But pro-cure nonetheless.

It can be hard, however, to separate a pro-cure stance focusing on functioning with one which demonizes Autism and calls for, essentially, brain-transplants. In addition, there is a great deal of disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a “brain transplant”, as it were. And–here it gets a bit wonky–this disagreement seems to stem from two basic issues.

1. Is it desirable to want your Autistic child to become Neurotypical?

2. Is there a difference between mind/personhood/personality/self and the brain?

If you believe that there is your child and then there is his brain, and the two are separate, then it makes sense to consider making his brain as typical as possible because you don’t believe you are changing who your child fundamentally is. But if you don’t share that belief, you will probably be adamantly anti-cure in this sense.

Personally, I prefer not to think about cures, and just focus on improving functioning and celebrating the person they are and letting them be a child. Working towards autonomy, not neurotyplicity. I am, in a sense, pro-cure.

I’d just like to see more people acknowledging the common ground.

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Purpose

2010-01-26T01:28:00.000+02:00

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, or Progeria, is a rare, genetic condition that appears in children as the effects of accelerated aging. Progeria is caused by a mutation of the gene LMNA. Prior to April, 2003, the cause of Progeria was unknown. Children with Progeria die at an average age of thirteen to heart disease. Progeria was first described in the late 1800’s by Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson and Dr. Hastings Gilford.

A cure for any ailment can only come about through extensive efforts and studies. Funding for these studies is extremely costly. For this reason, education is key to finding a cure for these children. A cure for Progeria will likely also help millions of adults who suffer from heart disease and stroke as part of a natural aging process.

The Progeria Research Foundation is located in Peabody, MA. They have now located 54 children in 30 countries living with Progeria. However, researchers believe there are statistically another 150 children living undiagnosed, or not identified by the Foundation, with Progeria in the world. I have seen their volunteers work first hand at raising money and spending their time working to raise money to cure Progeria. Please give to the Progeria Research Foundation.

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Homeopathy: Belly Flop to a Cure!

2010-01-24T20:23:00.000+02:00

Homeopathy says essentially this: Something that causes disease can be made to cure that same ailment if the something is diluted into water so much that it is no longer present. For example, if you were to take one molecule of cyanide and dilute it into a swimming pool, then drink some pool water, you would be cured of cyanide poisoning! Sound too simple to be true? Well, that’s because you must first release the Energy of the cyanide. Personally, I do this via belly-flopping into the swimming pool, though any kind of concussion of the water will do. Punching the water is also a pretty good way to do it.

Another example: it is clear that humans are basically a disease of the earth. We’re polluting the crap out of it, killing all the wildlife, etc. Now, this should be easy to fix with homeopathy. Since people are causing these bad things on Earth, all we need to do is have someone go swim in the ocean, concuss the ocean, and then distribute ocean water all over the world. In the same way that you can dilute a cyanide molecule into a pool, you can dilute one person into the ocean. You still need to release the Energy of that person, though. I would suggest the concussion be from underground faults leading to earthquakes and tsunamis, though enough belly flops would likely also do the trick. I feel quite certain that there have been a few people in the various oceans when these kinds of concussive events have occurred, therefore it is clear that Sea Water can already fix global warming!

And while we’re thinking about it, just imagine how many things have been diluted into the oceans: people, animals, plants, drugs, chemicals, pesticides, fish nets, volcanoes, tsunamis, airplanes, boats, etc, etc, ETC! This means that sea water can stop volcanoes from erupting, release fish from nets, repair damaged boats and aircraft, fix broken bones caused by tsunamis and downed aircraft, release the hallucinogenic hold of LSD, cure various cancers, and so on. In fact, if you have a disease, all you have to do is jump into the ocean, and then you will be diluted to homeopathic levels, meaning your disease will be diluted to homeopathic levels.

Belly flop into the ocean. Then drink up. Any disease you have will be cured!

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"There is no Neutral Territory." C.S. Lewis

2010-01-23T14:49:00.000+02:00

The warrior recognizes the truth of the C.S. Lewis’ words, “There is no neutral territory.”

Most of the citizenry wants to believe that life is lived primarily on neutral territory where they can escape the battle. There is no such place in the spirit or in the body. We choose to fight, or we choose to aid and abet the enemy by not fighting. These are our only two choices.

The general attitude toward training is that it is a hobby we do when we can get around to it. Or even if we exercise regularly, we half-ass it by giving our attention to other things while we lope on the treadmill or go through the motions with the machines. How much time and energy has been wasted in gyms by people who didn’t engage fully during exercise?

We are born on a battlefield. Spiritually and physically, our choices are victory or decline. I read some great advice the other day on bodybuilding.com: “…to ‘train like a barbarian‘: Treat every single set like it is your last set. Treat every single rep like your life depends on it.” Truthfully, your life does depend on it.

On the battlefield, I am being attacked. Regardless of how I feel about it, or how tired I am, or how much I may want to be doing something else, or how shaky my arms or legs are, I am still being attacked. Either I fight as if my life depends on it, or I resign myself to decline and defeat. Oh, how bitter it would be to stand in defeat knowing victory had been only moments away if I had just fought with passion till the end.

When we train, let’s train as if our lives depend on it…because they do.

King Leonidas: “This is where we fight. This is where they die!”

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Fibromyalgia and Neck Posture

2010-01-17T08:15:00.000+02:00

I recently stumbled upon this video that seems to explain a great deal of my own Fibromyalgia story. My very first complaints were that of neck pain. My physical therapist said I had forward head posture more than likely worsened by soft tissue damage from an auto accident. It makes complete sense that if your spine is not aligned correctly, it forces more pressure on certain nerves. This may be why our limbs are always going numb and we get pain surges up and down our bodies.

The doctor also speaks about the over medication of most Fibromyalgia sufferers and I totally agree. We are given more and more prescription drugs and all they do is end up treating the side effects of each new drug.

I am going to do a little more research on the subject and report back on the validity of this argument, but I may have just found someone who truly can cure my Fibromyalgia. Please feel free to add your thoughts and/or experiences with new treatments…I am grasping at straws because this is no way to live and I just cannot accept it today!

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…

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Beethoven

2010-01-16T20:15:00.000+02:00

Chapter 1 – Fate, For Elise

He hurried past the front door in the morning,

A letter in his hand, for Elise.

What is to happen of her, poor thing?

Of all the kids she hated him least.

The typewriter keys were like Piano keys;

Heavy and reluctant to submit.

A letter had to be typed, for the sake of Elise;

And in the morning he had to go post it.

Last night he’d typed, “It’s the brain, sorry.”

Apologising for his own disease.

In the morning he left in a hurry.

In his hand, a letter to Elise.

Spring was to bring with it song and dance.

So much for leaving things to chance.

Chapter 2 – Tempest

Of all the Elders she loved him the most.

Elise’s love for him was deep.

So, that day what came in through the post

Made Elise sit down and weep.

“Remember what it means to grieve”, he said.

“Rememeber whatever I’ve taught.”

“Remember that you too will one day be dead.”

“And that day be turned to naught.”

“There is, though, one thing left for me to give you.”

“Your inheritance, if you may.”

“Or maybe a lasting link between us two.”

“A sovereign o’er which to pray.”

Spring brought with it fear and pain.

And floating faces in the rain.

Chapter 3 – Kreutzer

Birds chirped joyously outside the window,

It’s hard to die in Spring,

When sunshine has replaced the cold, cruel snow,

It’s scary, the prospect of dying.

Elaborate Visions plagued Elise’s mind,

And made her tremble with fear.

It was insanity of the uterine kind

That made these demons appear.

Physicians found it hard to digest,

That the Elder’s health was at it’s best.

Physicians found it rather hazy

That Elise had been driven crazy.

The Elder couldn’t understand why,

Elise hadn’t sent a reply.

Elise drowned deeper into the abyss.

The Elder suspected that something was amiss.

(Perhaps it was the sovereign?)

The Elder thought it’d be wise to investigate.

Death appeared to be in Elise’s fate.

(Perhaps it was the coin?)

He arrived a day too late.

Perhaps it was the Kreutzer.

Spring was to signal the end of strife.

Instead it signalled the end of a life.

(It’s hard to die in spring.)

Chapter 4 – Moonlight

The coin rested on the Elder’s mantelpiece

As his health started to deteriorate.

A week after claiming Elise.

The coin sealed the Elder’s fate.

Spring was to bring with it song and dance.

So much for leaving things to chance.

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Backbiting - And ways to prevent it.

2010-01-16T14:32:00.000+02:00

Islaah ul Gheebah: The Cure for Backbiting

(Remedy of the evil disease of backbiting)

By: Hazrat Shah Abrarul Haq (rahmatullahi alaihi)

There is an extremely detrimental spiritual disease which has become very widespread in our day and age. It is the disease of gheebah (back-biting) due to which a person is harmed both in this world as well as in the hereafter.

In reply to the request of some of my acquaintances I have briefly compiled some of the harms of this disease along with the remedy for it from the writings and utterances of our pious predecessors.

By continuously pondering over these harms and by practicing and applying the remedies mentioned we will Insha-Allah rid ourselves of this evil habit and be able to protect ourselves from it.

THE HARMS OF GHEEBAH

1.) Gheebah is that it causes disunity and separation. And from disunity and separation; arguments, fights and disputes break out. One is deprived from the benefits and advantages which come from unity and love.

2.) Due to gheebah, darkness overtakes the heart. If a person has any spiritual perception and feeling in the heart, then at the time of gheebah he will feel a type of choking feeling and discomfort.

3.) Both one’s Deen and dunya are harmed by gheebah. The worldly harm is that if the one who is being back-bitten finds out about it then he will disgrace and rebuke the one who is back-biting him. The Deeni harm is that Allah Ta`ala becomes displeased with such a person and Allah’s displeasure is tantamount to hell-fire.

4.) It is mentioned in a Hadeeth Shareef narrated by Imam Baihaqi in Shu`abul Imaan that:

“Gheebah is worse than fornication.”

5.) Allah Ta`ala will not forgive gheebah until the one against whom this sin was committed forgives him. (On the condition that the person knows that he was back-bitten. But if he does not know then it is sufficient to ask forgiveness from Allah.) This is because of the fact that the sin of gheebah affects the rights of the slaves of Allah.

6.) Making gheebah is tantamount to eating the dead flesh of one’s own brother as mentioned in the Qur`an Majeed, Suratul Hujuraat, verse #12. How despicable can a person be to do such a lowly action?! Now the same way a person would hate to devour the flesh of his own dead brother, similarly one should abhor doing gheebah just as much.

7.) Doing gheebah is sign of cowardice and fear. This is why it is done “behind the back” in another person’s absence.

8.) By continuously being involved in gheebah, the NOOR and spiritual brightness of the face is taken away. The face becomes lusterless and everyone has scorn for such an individual.

9.) Another great harm of gheebah is that on the Day of Judgment the good deeds of a person will be transferred to the one whom he made gheebah of. If his right is not fulfilled by the transferring of deeds, then the sins of the person who was back-bitten will be loaded onto him. Ultimately he will be doomed to enter hell-fire due to his pitiful condition at that time. This person has been called a muflis (a poor and destitute person) in light of the Ahaadeeth. Therefore one should make amends of this before that time.

PRACTICAL REMEDY TO GHEEBAH

1.) One should take action and not be passive and quiet when gheebah is taking place. Rather one should take a practical approach. If someone does gheebah in front of you then first of all you should prevent the person from doing it. [This could easily be done in a friendly manner by changing the subject saying, "Aw come on.... Let's talk about something else!"]

If the person still persists in his gheebah then you must excuse yourself to leave that gathering. [Make an excuse to go to the bathroom or something else. Freshen up and come back. Hopefully the person will get the idea that you are trying to avoid his harmful conversation by leaving that gathering. And if he doesn't get the idea, then...] one should clearly let him know that what he is doing is a sin and do not be afraid of breaking his heart or hurting his feelings.

A true believer does not break his own Deen for the sake of not breaking the heart of someone else. We do not cause hurt to our own Imaan for the sake of not hurting someone else’s feelings.

2.) One very brilliant remedy to this evil habit is that you should notify the person whom you have back-bitten and let him know what you said about him. If one punishes and humiliates the nafs like this a couple of times then one will regret doing this sin for good Insha-Allah.

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

1.) The definition of gheebah is to say something about someone (whether Muslim or non-Muslim) in their absence that they would not like to hear. Such as, saying someone is stupid, or lacks intelligence or to talk low of someone due to their lineage or family/worldly status. Or to talk about the defects in someone’s house, clothes, body, appearance, etc. In short, to mention anything about somebody that would hurt their feelings.

Gheebah can be done verbally, by making a gesture, by winking the eye, or even by giving an indication to it in one’s speech. All of these things are included in gheebah.

2.) To attain complete benefit from these advices one should also consult a qualified Muslih and form an ISLAAHI TA`ALLUQ (reformative and spiritual connection) with him. If these methods of remedy do not have any effect then one should refer back to one’s Muslih and notify him of one’s condition.

3.) There are some instances in which gheebah can be permissible such as:

-If by hiding someone’s condition and not speaking about him openly, you are sure that it will definitely cause harm to the Deen or to people, then it is necessary to speak about him. This is NOT haraam, rather it will be considered naseeha (well-wishing) for others.

-Of course before openly speaking about the condition of someone and making “gheebah” of him one should first consult and Alim who practices the Deen, whether the condition of this person is such which can be spoken about openly or not. After he has overlooked the situation and allowed it, then one can go ahead and implement his allowance.

Otherwise if this is not being done for the sake of saving the Deen and people from harm and it is done due to the desires of one’s nafs and enjoyment, then it will be considered gheebah and it will be haraam. To talk about someone’s short-comings and faults without proper knowledge of his condition, is buhtaan (SLANDER).

4.) Even if gheebah takes place in one’s Shaikh’s gathering, then one should make an excuse and leave that gathering. Just like rain is a beneficial thing and enjoying the rain drops fall is pleasing, but if it starts to hail then one should run from there for fear of getting hurt. [Likewise the Shaikh's majlis is a means of showers of mercy but when there is sin in that very majlis then the showers of mercy turn to the shower of Allah's displeasure. Therefore one should not remain there.]

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Cure-All Soup

2010-01-10T14:04:00.000+02:00

It’s 8 degrees BELOW zero right now – without windchill!! That means it is definitely time for warm, hearty home cooking!!

This recipe for my Hamburger Soup is quick, easy, uses whatever you have on hand – and even has added benefits!

17 years ago I was VERY broke, VERY pregnant and VERY hungry – all the time! I still remember the day I pulled everything out of my almost empty cabinets, and was trying to figure out what on earth to make to feed my family that night. It was cold, snowing, I had just worked a 12 hour shift as a waitress (think – seriously hurting feet/swollen ankles, exhausted and sore back here). I had some hamburger left over from the previous nights meal, and so out of desperation, I browned up the burger and started throwing things in the pot. Now, I know there have since been several recipes for this type of soup put out there – but this is my original that came to me that day ( I did not own a computer, or a cookbook for that matter, at the time) and I still stand by it today. I have added a few spices, and the tomatoes, to the recipe over the years – but the recipe stays otherwise unchanged.

BEWARE!! There is an added benefit to this soup that I found out about by accident……No matter what cold/flu/sickness you are afflicted with, eat 2 – 3 bowls of this soup and it cures whatever ails you within 24 HOURS!!! Everytime!!! I’m not sure how – and I don’t care, I just know by personal experience – IT WORKS!!!

So, without further ado – here’s the recipe for Shady’s Hamburger Soup:

*NOTE: Recipe can easily be doubled (this is how I normally make it now, I also will use frozen veggies when I can) or you can even triple the recipe for freezing leftovers. Recipe freezes wonderfully, and will keep up to 6 months this way – just thaw and reheat*

1 1/2 to 2 lbs ground beef , browned and drained

2 cans corn (drained)

2 cans green beans (drained)

1 can carrots or mixed veggies (drained)

1 can peas (drained)

2 cans stewed tomatoes (do not drain) (optional)

1 large can tomato juice (or 2 cans plain tomato sauce mixed with 1 can water if you are out of juice)

1 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp (or more to taste) ground black pepper (this soup LIKES pepper)

2 tsp Italian seasonings (or 1 tsp each Oregano and Basil)

1/2 tsp. onion powder (optional)

*if more soup broth is desired, you can add 1 can plain tomato sauce to above ingredients*

Dump all into large pot and simmer on med-low heat until heated thru, stirring occasionally.

Serve and enjoy! I occasionally top with shredded cheddar cheese if I have some on hand, and a dollop of sour cream tastes great too!

This soup warms your insides, and makes a nice change from chili on really cold days.

Hope y’all enjoy!

Shady

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Standing Up for the Disabled

2010-01-10T08:03:00.000+02:00

Recently, the President of Parade Publications and a CURE Board Member, Randolph Siegel, wrote an eloquent and passionate article called “No Way to Refer to the Vulnerable” which was printed in the Chicago Tribune. The father of a daughter with epilepsy, and a supporter of CURE, Mr. Siegel addressed the ways that people refer to children and adults in our society who exhibit special needs.

In his article he said, “But if the true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, then these mean-spirited attacks are not only indefensible, they reinforce the intolerance and discrimination that these children and adults often face in their schools, communities or workplaces.”

CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy), including President Susan Axelrod, newest board member Connie Milstein, and others, applaud Mr. Siegel for his honesty and passion in this article.

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Choosing a Hand-Raised Parrot

2010-01-02T20:04:00.000+02:00

Buster, My African Gray Parrot

Parrots provide plenty of laughs for the whole family, however, getting the right parrot is essential.

Terms such as “hand-raised”, “hand-fed”, “spoon-fed”, and similar terms mean quite different things. I made the mistake of believing that a hand-raised parrot meant a tame parrot. If they haven’t been socialized before four months old they will NEVER be comfortable being handled no matter how old they get. Parrots experiencing “people fear” when young are imprinted for life.

Sometimes, sellers will try to pass off an older bird as a baby. They often can do this because birds are full-grown by about four months of age.

Tip 1: Ask how the parrot was raised. What you want to hear is that the parrot was fed by hand and that the bird was socialized. Socialized means the parrot was handled and played with by several people. Socialized birds welcome contact with people and like to be with them.

Tip 2: Look closely at the parrot. The eyes should be clear and without a yellow ring around the outside edge of the eyeball. If there is a yellow-ring the bird is older than one year.

Tip 3: Look at the parrot’s legs and feet. Older birds have a great deal of scaling (ridges) on their legs and feet while parrots under a year have smoother legs and feet.

Tip 4: Next, Check out the parrot’s health. Look at the beak. A smooth beak is one indication of good health. Feathers are another. They should be smooth and glossy with no signs of feather picking. The red tail on an African Gray should be a vibrant red and at least 3 inches long.

Tip 5: Make sure a “metal band” is on the bird’s leg usually signifying a professional breeder handled this bird.

I hope this article keeps you from getting hoodwinked by unscrupulous sellers!

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Tips for curing dry, chapped lips

2009-12-15T02:21:00.000+02:00

I suffer from chapped lips all year long, but the problem seems to get worse in the winter. I did some checking for tips on how to keep my lips soft and smooth. Here’s what I found:

Ayurvediccure.com says, “Keep the body hydrated by drinking lots of water. People who do not drink sufficient water are more prone to get dry lips and dry skin. Water or fluids keep the body moist which keeps the skin soft and supple. Apply lip balm or petroleum jelly on the lips to keep them smooth.” You shouldn’t lick your lips if they are dry. “Wetting [your] lips with [your] tongue makes the lips dark, and [they] lose moister. Stop wetting [your] lips with [your] tongue; apply moisturizer [instead]. Excessive use of lipsticks on the lips [also] makes them dark and dry. At times let them breathe without putting anything on them. Before applying lip color apply some lip balm or moisturizer on your lips to keep them moist. Always go in the sun wearing sunscreen on your lips. Otherwise lips get dry, dark and patchy.”

Ultimate-Cosmetics.comsays, “chuck your Chapstick. Conventional lip balms contain petroleum and sometimes alcohol, both of which dry the sensitive skin on your lips. Instead, moisturize and protect your parched, peeling lips with castor oil. Carry a small squeeze bottle of the oil and apply it with your finger often throughout the day. If you plan to be out in the sun, use a natural petroleum- and alcohol-free balm with an SPF of 15 a few minutes after rubbing in the castor oil.”

Clickhere to see a helpful eHow video with lots of helpful tips on keeping lips moisturized.

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MARRIAGE COCKTAIL

2009-12-03T07:51:00.000+02:00

MARRIAGE COCKTAIL

A Fiction Short Story

VIKRAM KARVE

The moment she saw us, tears welled up in her eyes – there is nothing more shameful for a young bride than to see her husband helplessly drunk, staggering disgracefully in other woman’s arms.

I felt sorry for her.

It is true – to be married to a drunkard is the crown of all misery.

I lay him on the sofa, took off his shoes, put a pillow under his head – she, his wife, did not move but remained frozen with a look of anxious trepidation on her face.

The man who was dead drunk, Arun, lay in stupor, oblivious to the world.

It was only as I began to leave that his wife, Sadhana, rushed into my arms and broke down.

“He will be okay,” I hugged her warmly and comforted her.

“I want to die! I want to die!” she began screaming hysterically, “Why is this happening to me?”

I sat her down, gave her a glass of cold water from the fridge, and said, “Sadhana, you just go to sleep now. Arun will be absolutely well in the morning. You don’t say anything to him – just ignore him – let him go to office. Then I will come here and we will talk.”

“You will come?” she pleaded.

“Yes, I will come in the morning and everything will be okay,” I calmed her.

I drove home late at night, lay alone in my lonely bed, commiserating, unable to sleep, wondering what to do.

I knew I had to do something, for I loved Arun dearly.

Hey, don’t get me wrong. It’s not what you’re thinking.

Tell me, can a woman love a man without ever having made love to him? Can a woman love a man without falling in love with him?

Of course she can – you can take my word for it – like I loved Arun.

Maybe it was our mutual chemistry or I don’t know what, but we certainly shared fantastic vibes, and we did love each other – Platonic, Ethereal, buddy-love – call it what you like.

Arun was my colleague and developing feelings of fondness for someone who you are in close proximity with for more than least ten hours every day is very natural – but he was much more than my “work spouse” – he was my soul mate.

Arun was my classmate from our student days in the States and I was not only his constant companion at work and socially, but also his closest confidante.

In such cases it is a thin line between friendship and having an affair, but we never crossed that line.

There were no secrets between us except the time he suddenly went to his hometown in the interiors of the mofussil and dutifully got married to the girl his parents had chosen for him.

Then he rang me up in the office, told me the news without much ado, and peremptorily commanded me to get his flat ready and come to the Mumbai Central Railway Station to receive him and his newly wedded wife.

I liked Arun’s wife Sadhana too.

She was a plump, graceful girl with a very pretty face and a sincere friendly smile which radiated a charming innocence.

She readily accepted me as a friend with honesty and openness, and generously understood my relationship with Arun without a trace of suspicion, envy or rancour.

I could not bear to see the poor innocent girl suffer like this.

Tomorrow I would talk to her, counsel her, and talk to Arun, and find a solution, make them more compatible, so that they could be happy, have a fun marriage.

But first let me tell you how it all started.

Arun loved his drink.

In fact, he loved his drink a bit too much.

I think he had an innate propensity for alcohol.

I noticed this and told him once or twice and then let it go as it was early days and maybe he was just enjoying himself, and I too didn’t quite mind sharing a spot of cheer in his affable company.

Maybe his parents knew this, his penchant for the bottle, and, maybe they thought that marriage was the panacea, and then they saw Sadhana, and said to themselves: “She is a very good girl, from a cultured family, excellent upbringing – I am sure she will bring improve him with her love and he will mend his ways after marriage. She’ll take care of him. Bring him around.”

It’s true; many people do seem to think the marriage is the easiest solution to many ills, like alcoholism, and everything will suddenly be happy ever after.

Sadhana’s marriage was a social triumph for her parents. She was an ordinary looking small town girl studying in college and it was almost a miracle, a stroke of good fortune, that the elders of the best known family in the town had come all the way their modest house, the girl’s parents, to ask for her hand in marriage to their son – a well-educated foreign returned top management executive.

It was a grand wedding; but I have heard somewhere that, sometimes, a grand wedding results in a disastrous marriage.

At first Arun too was quite happy at his newly acquired simple naïve “provincial” wife who he thought would be unquestioningly obedient and acquiesce to his every whim and fancy.

Sadhana turned out exactly as he expected – a nurturing, caring, loving wife who did exactly what he wanted, pampered him to glory and unquestioningly submitted to all his demands, except one – she did not allow even a drop of alcohol in their house. In this she did not yield.

On her first day she cleaned out his well stocked bar, simply throwing all the bottles of expensive booze down the garbage chute.

Arun tried to reason with her, explained the ways of cosmopolitan culture, but Sadhana stuck to her guns, defiant.

And when all of us at the office suddenly landed up for impromptu dinner with the big boss presenting Arun a bottle of his favourite Single Malt, Sadhana promptly drained the precious whisky down the sink saying, “This daru is evil stuff,” and then served us a delicious spur-of-the-moment meal.

This was the last straw!

I noticed Arun seethe in silence feeling totally humiliated in front of his colleagues, his juniors, his friends, and me, but he did not say anything.

He reacted the next day – from that day onwards he started drinking with vengeance.

Arun started drinking at the club bar on his way home from work every night.

At first I would give him company, but soon I stopped accompanying him, as his drinking grew from bad to worse and his behaviour would often become nasty after a few drinks.

And now this – a call at midnight from the club secretary that my colleague and friend Arun had passed out stone drunk in the bar and would I please take him away as they had to close up.

Next morning, I left the office around ten thirty, telling Arun that I was not feeling well and went straight to his house.

Sadhana was waiting for me.

“Shall we have tea?” she asked.

“No. Let’s go to the club,” I hustled her out of the house and bundled her into my car overruling her protests, “We can be more discreet there,” I said hinting at the servants, but I had other plans.

It was early, the club was empty.

I chose a lonely inconspicuous table and ordered a Pina Colada Cocktail for myself and a Soft Drink for Sadhana.

“You’ve got to help him,” I said to Sadhana, coming straightaway to the point, not giving her a chance to start her sob story.

“Help him? Of course I want to help him. But how?”

“You adapt a bit, and he too will change and get better.”

“Adapt? What should I do?”

“Give him company.”

“What?”

“Be his friend. Spend your evenings with him.”

“But he goes to the club every evening.”

“Go to the club with him, sit with him, meet his friends, chat, talk to him, and make friends with him. He will feel good. In fact, I would suggest that you join him in a drink once in a while and have a little fun.”

“What?” Sadhana said flabbergasted, “You want me to drink liquor? In my home I have not even seen a drop of alcohol…”

“Relax, Sadhana, don’t be so dogmatic,” I took her hands in mine and calmed her down, “You are in a different society now. There is no harm in having a small cocktail, or some wine – now-a-days everyone does – even I do.”

“No. No…”

“Here, sip this,” I said giving her my glass of the lip-smacking sweet creamy Pina Colada.

“No. No. I can’t have this bitter strong stuff,” she protested.

“Try it, just once,” I insisted, almost forced her, and she took a tiny sip.

“It’s sweet and delicious isn’t it? Now if you have a little bit for Arun’s sake, he will start enjoying your company. Arun needs companionship. Tell me Sadhana, isn’t it better he has a drink with you than his hard drinking friends – that he rather spends his time in your company than with his good-for-nothing friends who are out to ruin him?”

Sadhana gave me a hesitant look, but did not say anything.

But I could sense her desperation deep within that would make her try out anything, any remedy, any cure.

I looked into her eyes and said, “The trick is to wean him away from hard drinking to social drinking. That’s what will happen once he starts enjoying your company. I am telling you again. Be his friend. Spend your evenings with him. Go to the club, sit with him, have a drink. Arun will feel good. He will start liking you. Now drinking is his priority – soon you will be his priority.”

“I don’t know…” Sadhana faltered.

“Trust me. Try it. It will make life easier for both of you. Stop trying to control him. It will never work. I know Arun well. If you nag him you will drive him away from you. Confrontations, threats, arguments – with these he will only get worse. Come on, Sadhana, for Arun’s sake, for your sake, give it a try, I am sure he will respond positively.”

Sadhana looked anxiously at me, nervous, unsure, yet desperate.

I stood up walked to her and gave her a loving hug, “You two are newly married. I want you to be able to laugh, relax, have fun and enjoy life to its fullest!”

She hugged me in return.

“Promise me you’ll give it a try,” I said.

“I will try my best,” she promised.

It worked.

Arun sobered down.

And though he did enjoy his drinks – I never saw him drunk again.

The metamorphosis in Sadhana was truly fascinating.

The way she had transformed herself from a conservative Small Town Girl from the heart of the mofussil into a chic crème-de-la-crème socialite was remarkable, almost unbelievable. I would often see her sipping exotic colourful cocktails rubbing shoulders with the cream of society.

There was a time when Arun was ashamed of showing off his wife; now his heart swelled with pride and admiration as everyone noticed and praised her. They were the toast of society; the crowning glory was when they were crowned the “Made for Each Other Couple” at the New Year Eve Ball at the club.

Their marriage started rocking.

In fact their marriage rocked so much that soon comprehension dawned on me that there cannot be three persons in a marriage and I gracefully withdrew from their lives, changed my job, relocated and, yes, believe it or not, I got married to a nice young man and commenced a blissful married life of my own.

Of course, Arun and Sadhana attended my marriage, and at my wedding reception Sadhana seemed to be in a vivaciously celebratory mood, swinging brightly and dancing wildly, downing glass after glass of Champagne.

My new husband and I honeymooned on a luxury cruise liner, sailing to exotic locales – a wedding gift from Arun and Sadhana.

At first we kept in touch, but with the passage of time, as I settled comfortably in the cocoon of wedded bliss, the communication became less and less, and when we relocated abroad to the States we lost touch altogether.

It was three years before I visited Mumbai again, and the first thing I did after depositing my baggage in the hotel was to head towards Arun’s flat on Marine Drive.

It was early and I wanted to catch him home before he left for work.

Arun and Sadhana were not at home. “Saheb and Memsaheb have gone to the Ashram,” the servants said.

“Ashram?” I said surprised, and asked whether they could give me his mobile number.

They did, and I rang up Arun on his cell phone, “Hey, Arun, what are you two doing in an Ashram – given up the material world and taken up the spiritual path?”

“No. No. It’s not that. This is not really the type of Ashram you are thinking; it’s a nature cure clinic,” Arun said.

“Nature Cure Clinic?”

“Not exactly, you can say it’s a de-addiction centre, a sort of rehab.”

“Rehab? You promised me Arun, you promised me that you’d cut down your drinking…for her sake…poor thing…I hate you Arun…”

“Stop it!” Arun interrupted angrily, “It’s not me. I’ve given up drinking. It’s Sadhana – she’s become an alcoholic.’

“What?” I said, stunned.

“Yes. My wife has become an alcoholic. Thanks to you and your stupid advice. And now will you please leave us alone?” Arun said angrily and disconnected.

I cannot begin to describe the emotion I felt at that moment, but one thing is sure: I have never ever felt so terribly guilty in my life, before or since, till this very day.

VIKRAM KARVE

Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

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The Music Industry Making Strides on World AIDS Day

2009-12-01T20:35:00.000+02:00

Alicia Keys is taking to the stage tonight in an effort to stand up against AIDS. Her World AIDS Day concert is set to take place at the Nokia Theater in New York City on Tuesday December 1 and all of the show’s proceeds will be donated directly to Keep A Child Alive, where Keys is co-founder and Global Ambassador. The organization is committed to “providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.” The concert will be broadcast on Keys’s YouTube channel at 8pm EST.

Keys isn’t the only industry big-name to donate a passion and much-needed funds to the global fight against AIDS and HIV. LiveNation will be supporting the music industry’s HIV/AIDS prevention charity, LIFEbeat, with a portion of proceeds from every concert ticket sold in the United States on December 1, 2009. LiveNation, who stood behind Jay Z’s September 11th tribute concert is “proud to stand alongside LIFEbeat on World AIDS Day to help educate music fans about prevention of this deadly disease.” LIFEbeat is a national non-profit organization dedicated to reaching America’s youth with the message of HIV/AIDS prevention. LIFEbeat mobilizes the talents and resources of the music industry to raise awareness and to provide support to the AIDS community. Visit LiveNation.com to purchase tickets before midnight.

The Sdia music project will be releasing an iTunes exclusive track called “Going All the Way.” Through the month of December a percentage of all downloads of the track will support AVERT, an international AIDS charity organization.

Want to stand up in the fight against AIDS? You can take the first step by getting tested.

If you’d like to do more, donate to any of the charities above. Or if funds are low this year, consider donating your time to AIDS Walk 2010. The Walks take place in 4 cities across the country, round up a team and join the fight.

For AIDS statistics, information on federal resources and how you can stop this disease that infects 1 in 70 New Yorkers every day, visit http://aids.gov/.

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Cure For Infertility - Natural Cure for Genital Herpes

2009-11-15T06:16:00.000+02:00

pregnancy herbal

Is there accustomed cure for animal herpes Animal canker is the best accepted sexually pregnancy herbal transmitted viral disease. It acquired by Canker Simplex Virus HSV blazon . It about affects Pregnancy Herbal in the animal breadth but it additionally can affect the mouth. One you got this virus they will break abide in your assumption of your anatomy until the activate comes to Pregnancy Herbal accomplish an outbreak.

Symptoms of animal canker are apparent by aching baby blisters and sores on the animal area. Animal canker is actual contagious that agency you can calmly advance the virus to an antiseptic accomplice during sex. You can canyon the canker through absolute acquaintance added than animal intercourse such as articulate sex anal sex or skin-to-skin contact. Even you can advance to added places your own body.

There are some tips to anticipate overextension the infection to added bodies or your own body

Abstain affecting the adulterated breadth during Cure For Infertility an outbreak and consistently ablution your easily afterwards you blow the adulterated breadth to abstain advance the virus to added allotment of your body.

Abstain animal acquaintance vaginal oral or anal until canker affection are absolutely gone. If you do animal acquaintance aback the evidence still there you will be the account of overextension the virus to your animal partner.

Consistently accumulate the adulterated breadth apple-pie and dry it will advice pregnancy herbal to anticipate developing from added infections.

Consistently convenance a safe sex all the times use a condom during sex.

Admixture some of baking soda and balmy water. You booty a balmy ablution with this mixture which can advice to abate agog and affliction and dry the afflicted areas with cotton.

Eat a advantageous diet exercise consistently and get abundant blow additionally abate stress so addition your allowed arrangement and abate the outbreaks.

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mit gondolt magában?

2009-11-08T14:15:00.000+02:00

egyszer egy királyfi mit gondolt magában, hihihi hahaha, mit gondolt magában?

ja meg valami apró farmot is akart venni xD

nolám péntek, nem voltam suliban, volt egy kis családi zűr, én idehaza főztem, takarítottam meg minden mivel anya a Kitta boltjában dolgozgatott. majd átjött Zita meg Kari itt voltunk egy darabig aztán go tu dongó ;D előtte mekiben egy rövid kajálás, sajnos Kari még mindig nem igazán tudott enni de nem baj : D megoldották.. aztán beültünk, de Zitát rögtön hívták, hogy elázott a ház menjen takarítson xD jó oké, mi Karival akkor kezdjünk hozzá. mi legyen az első?

tequila_

sok volt és olcsón : D csak csal a kép xD

hülye : D <3

ja majd elmentünk a mcdonald’sba mesélte Kari hogy amikor sokat iszik, reggelente mindig elmegy a mcdonald’sba mcreggelizik és hazamegy : D

ja és persze miért is ne lennének innen is képek? ;D

aztán visszamentünk mert Kari csak éhes volt és vártuk vissza Zitát. rendeltünk még inni és úgy döntöttünk, hogy akkor mi most csocsózni fogunk. ketten és visszavonhatatlanul egymás ellen : D ja amúgy a csocsó ingyé van és a pirosak felé lejt, szóval a kékekkel legyetek ha mentek oda xD aztán odajött két pasi, az egyiket Józsinak hívták xD xD erre emlékszem. a másik lehet Matyi volt, de lehet csak azért hiszem ezt, mert a Józsi meg a Matyi név pont összepasszolnak. játszottunk velük egy menetet. aztán én leültem és odaengedtem Zitát. : D ja meg beraktam egy számot, tök vicces 50.- egy szám és 100.- három : D

ezt kértem

én meg addig elüldögéltem : D

aztán népdalokat énekeltünk én nevettem a semmin xD jóléreztük magunkat legalábbis én biztos : D

tegnap. vagyis szombaton elszabadultak az indulatok, anyám bőgött minden kurva jó volt xD.. de viszont, nagyon fasza pogácsát sütöttem : ) mindenkinek nagyon ízlik.. ;D este átmentem Rékáékhoz, na az oda fele út igazán vicces volt ;D majd’ kiugrott a szívem : D blááfujj. na mindegy által mentem hozzájuk, boroztunk, csillagszületiket néztünk. ja és Peti letölti nekem a tizenhárom című filmet. ^^

szolárium szőkék, meg kávéautomaták, asszem. (?) : D hmm.. laza este volt, kis izgalmakkal.. felkavaró.

na további szép napot, nekem most fáj a hasam, majd megyek át Kerolájnhoz.

és egyelőre nem tudom melyik számot rakjam be. : D mert igazából most legszívesebben beraknék 3 számot, de az sok a jóból ;D asszem ez lesz igen. ez jó lesz. ne az eleje alapján ítélj.. ;D

HEALING FROM CONFUSION

2009-11-05T02:38:00.000+02:00

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HEALING FROM CONFUSION

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There is lots of confusion today about sickness and disease … even about natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. The confusion lies in the “cause” of such things. Even the insurance companies try to “opt out” of liability for such things as “natural disasters” which they refer to in their policy exclusions as “acts of G-d.”

Even in some synagogues and churches it is being taught that everything that comes your way is G-d’s will for you and (in particular) that if you are suffering sickness or disease, G-d is trying to teach you something. However, it is best to let the Word of G-d speak for itself. In the Torah we see in Deuteronomy Chapter 28 that sickness and disease is a curse … NOT a blessing.

When Messiah Yeshua was on earth, He said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” In other words, you have seen the Father’s nature. If you read the Brit Chadashah (the Jewish New Testament), you will quickly see that Yeshua (Jesus) never made anyone sick. As in the Torah, we see that disobedience CAN cause the curse of sickness and disease. Also, because of Adam’s (original) sin in the Garden of Eden, man was separated from G-d. When man was separated from G-d, he was separated from the life source.

This is WHY G-d sent His Son to earth, to HEAL the separation between G-d and man. The atonement of Yeshua, G-d’s Son, on the cross stake paid for our sins … and purchased our healing (spiritual, mental, and physical) by His BLOOD that was shed. Messiah Yeshua’s blood contained the life of G-d. Messiah was born of a virgin, and therefore His blood did NOT contain the sinful blood from Adam’s seed line. His blood was the one-time FINAL payment for our sins, and brought us into right standing (or, righteousness) with G-d, whereby we have wholeness when we exercise our faith in Messiah’s sacrifice for us.

We see from the scriptures how sickness and disease is from the Evil One, and NOT from the Father G-d. Messiah NEVER refused healing to anyone. “How G-d anointed Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth who went about doing good, and healing ALL that were oppressed of the devil, for G-d was with Him.” (Brit Chadashah: Acts 10:38)

“And Yeshua went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” (Brit Chadashah: Mattiyahu [Matthew] 9:35)

Sickness and disease are from the devil. Healing and health are from G-d. Don’t be confused about the source(s) of sickness and disease … even about natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. I’ll give you something to help you the rest of your life. Put the devil on the left side and Messiah on the right side with this verse from John 10:10 in the Jewish New Testament. Yeshua said, “The thief (the devil) comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy; but I (Messiah) have come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.” Now you will be able to discern where things have their source; how and why they happen.

If you need healing today, or if you need miracles – real miracles – then pray this prayer:

“Father in Heaven, I ask you to reveal to me if Yeshua (Jesus) is my Messiah. I need healing; I need a miracle. Please heal me. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name I pray. Amen.”

I know this teaching will help you. Write and let me know what G-d has done for you. Email to: princehandley@gmail.com

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Prince Handley

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Cure For Infertility - Using All Natural Cure For Acne Treatments

2009-11-03T01:56:00.000+02:00

pregnancy remedy

The bark action accepted as abscess affects individuals of all ages and can be both physically and emotionally painful.

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A abundant another way to bright up your cruddy bark blemishes is to assignment to anticipate the blemishes instead of allowance them up afterwards the fact.

Use a accustomed cure for abscess to anticipate the action and advance absurd skin.

Consider application approved facials application beginning and aces articles to advance your skin s health.

For instance accede application egg whites for a facial masque to apple-pie out your pores and absolve your skin.

If your pores are apple-pie and chargeless from debris you will accouterment abscess from the antecedent and adore glowing advantageous skin.

Also use a admixture of biscuit to use as an exfoliating adjustment to rid your bark of asleep cells.

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Be abiding to alcohol at atomic eight abounding glasses of baptize anniversary day in adjustment to ensure your bark is able-bodied hydrated and glowing.

Also change your diet to absorb added advantageous bistro options including beginning fruits and vegetables.

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How To Cure A Sinus Infection

2009-10-27T15:49:00.000+02:00

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Natural Remedies encyclopedia

2009-10-25T00:52:00.000+02:00

Recently, a loan officer asked his client, “Do you have medical insurance?”

“Yes,” she replied. ” I eat garlic”

In light of the present health care situation, millions, yes, literally millions of people are without health insurance or sufficient financial resource to take care of their medical emergencies. Some of these millions await the passing of national health care by President Obama and his team, while others take the bull by the horns and seek out natural medicine for prevention or cure.

As the world turns natural, more books on the topic of natural medicine are brought to the attention of natural medicine seekers. One such book is Natural Remedies Encyclopedia by Authors Vance Ferrel and Harold M. Cherne MD. Its 908 pages contain over 11,000 simple, practical easy to use home remedies for more than 730 diseases and 234 helpful illustrations, 174 of them in full color.

Natural Remedies Encyclopedia is America’s master book of home remedies. It helps its readers become more in tune with the laws of nature in dealing with all kinds of problems, from sexual ones to a simple headache!

Natural Remedies Encyclopedia is even more potent when it comes with the free gift Stop Whining, Start Praising – for body, mind and spirit.

The human body was made to last for over 70 years with all it parts functioning potently.

Great News

2009-10-08T06:27:00.000+02:00

Portland Firefly has some very good news ….. in fact Portland Firefly has some great news to share with everyone!!!

This week, at my regularly scheduled appointment, my Doctor gave me the option of not having any more Chemo at all or continuing with what is termed ‘maintance Chemotherapy’. In any event I have at least one month without Chemotherapy to think about it. Yea!!!!!

I was so nauseated last session with just one drug, and every time I have Chemo, the side effects become more intense. I am so-o-o-o happy to have the option of not having to put poison into my body for a while.

Right now I would like to think ~and sometimes I do~ that I am cured. But intellectually I know the cold hard facts of this horrible cancer and I know that the possibility of recurrence is very real. The only variable is when…. it decides to come back. I have put myself on the 7 year (or longer) survival plan. I would be so happy with seven more years. But right now I am thrilled with the fact that I’ll most probably definately have the next year!!!

CURE Annual Report

2009-10-06T18:56:00.000+02:00

CURE Childhood Cancer is pleased to present CURE Childhood Cancer’s 2008-2009 Annual Report. We are thrilled and proud to be able to report to you on the progress we made over the past year on behalf of children with cancer as a result of your support.

As you know, finding a cure for cancers that affect children is our highest priority. To that end, your support enabled us to invest nearly $1.2 million in six specific research projects aimed at better understanding the genetic and biological mechanisms through which childhood cancers arrive and further developing therapies aimed at beating these cancers. CURE’s investment paid off last year with an exciting discovery of a new target in cancer cells. Finding a way to attack that new target could lead to improved treatments for children with leukemia and other cancers.

Additionally, CURE funded scientists made significant progress in research relating to medulloblastoma, the most common brain tumor among children. This research uncovered a link between medulloblastoma and high levels of a gene known as wild-type p53-induced phosphatase or WIP1 (pronounced whip one). With CURE’s funding, scientists are working to establish why WIP1 seems to cause medulloblastoma in children and why WIP1 seems to protect cancer cells. A compound has been identified that appears to prevent WIP1 from working and seems to stop the growth of cells in test tubes. Our goal is to determine if the compound will be an effective therapy for children with this devastating form of brain cancer.

Discoveries that result in children’s lives saved take time, but they do happen. Thank you for being a part of significant discoveries that offer hope to children with cancer.

Of course, while working on scientific discoveries, CURE is focused on supporting the children battling cancer today and their families. Our efforts, outlined in the Annual Report, are aimed at addressing the critical and urgent needs of patients and their families because we believe families most need crisis oriented support.

Your generosity makes our work possible. We truly cannot thank you enough.

View the CURE Annual Report

The 12 Steps and Autism

2009-10-04T19:41:00.000+02:00

My family doesn’t just deal with autism on a daily basis. We also deal with alcoholism. So for the last couple years, I’ve been attending Al-anon and ACOA (adult children of alcoholics) meetings. I first sat in the rooms about a month or two after autism was floated as a possibility for G’s difficulties in preschool. My husband had also been in recovery for a month or two (come to think of it, I wonder if autism may have contributed to his recovery – thoughts for another day…) I was full of anger and resentment. All through my life, I was the ‘good girl’ who never broke a rule or stepped out of line. And now my life was completely out of control and I was incredibly pissed off about it. It took me quite awhile, but the first three steps slowly started sinking in.

I admitted I was powerless over alcohol, that my life had become unmanageable.

I came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of my higher power.

This is not as easy as it sounds for me, note the use of ‘higher power’ in place of the more commonly used “god.” I’m an atheist who doesn’t believe in anything if it hasn’t been proven by science. But I was pretty desperate to get help, so I was able to cobble together a pantheistic type theory of a connected universe and the alanon group itself as a knowledge base with answers to common problems that works for me. When I need to ‘turn it over’ I have an image of a helium balloon with my worries tied to its ribbon, and I release it to the universe. (it’s ok, you can laugh. The important thing is I found a way to make it work with my cynicism.)

All my life, I had been a fixer. Control was incredibly important to my sense of well-being so when I ran into a problem, I set myself to fixing it with all my energy, so that my peace and ease could be restored. I fixed my problems, I fixed my husbands problems, I fixed my sibling’s problems. But I could not fix my son’s problems and this was cause for great distress. I did a lot of research into biomedical treatments, causes of autism, vaccines, and the like. I feel my cynical atheistic attitude actually helped me here because I could see that the science behind these aspects was sketchy at best, and nothing I, personally, could trust. But that left me without a way to fix things for G and that was incredibly upsetting to me.

Then, an incredible thing happened. While sitting in the rooms one evening after the holidays, when the transition back to school was particularly stressful and volatile for G, I substituted the word ‘autism’ for ‘alcoholism.’ I suddenly felt a great weight lift from my shoulders. I was powerless over autism. By trying to exert power over autism, I was causing my life to become unmanageable. Believing in a power greater than myself, and greater than autism, could restore me to sanity. I made a decision to turn my will over to my higher power instead of trying to exert my will on autism, and therefore my child.

This doesn’t mean I have given up on my son – I still try to help him in every reasonable way I can so that he may learn coping skills and life skills, and I advocate for him in the community until he is ready to take on the role of advocate for himself. The key word is reasonable. I recognize that I can’t make him be different because his autism is a part of him. I can’t make him learn faster than his own pace. I can’t force change, it has to evolve naturally. And the small steps we take each day toward independence will be more effective than the miracle concoctions, diet changes and assorted cures being sold to me on the internet.

I was able to put my new found theory into practice last month when G started school. It has been one of the most challenging transitions of his school career. (so far) When the parents of classmates started making complaints, I became overwhelmed by the stress of it all. So I consciously sat down and worked my first three steps with autism in mind. And it helped enormously. I was able to focus on doing what I could to help G and to effect change in the attitudes of the people around him. I recognized the things I couldn’t change – specifically that G was going to have to do the work of adjusting on his own. I could support him with checklists for his schedule, snacks to keep him energized and introductory letters to parents, but I couldn’t change G into some kind of model student.

Sometimes when I read other blogs and blog comments, I can hear the anger and frustration in the voice of the parent. I’ve been there. I recognize that feeling and I still struggle from time to time. Finding a mechanism to achieve serenity has made such an incredible difference in our family. Because I’m not as irritable, my family is not as on edge. We’re able to take things as they come and enjoy the good moments more fully.

I’ll close with this final nugget:

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change

The courage to change the things I can

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Love and Mental Health

2009-10-04T13:31:00.000+02:00

If you make a mistake, or many mistakes, you’ll easily lose your mental health, because love plays the most important role in your life and when you are in love you are like a blind slave of the person that imprisons your heart. Therefore you agree to do the most absurd things in order to posses the person you desire and to keep them near you even if they don’t want to, only because you desperately need to be near this person and keep them near you as long as you live.

Love and Mental Health

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Love matters are the first ones that provoke various abnormalities to your conscience and to your behavior.

If you desire to keep your mental health and the person you love near you for life, you have to pay attention to many details you are not considering now.

The details you have to pay attention to are so many that without guidance, you are not going to discover them.

The personality of each person is an entire world. Besides all the characteristics of each one’s psychological type, there are many characteristics that are the result of the imitation of other people’s behavior and several other factors that determine the person’s reactions, which are simply inherited and belong to the cognitive mechanism of the human being, who follows behavior patterns like all animals.

Living with company is not easy.

Sharing your life with someone else is a very delicate question that demands caution and preparation.

Therefore you agree to do the most absurd things in order to posses the person you desire, to keep them near you even if they don’t want to, to block their freedom, to make them love you too, to force various situations to your favor and many things more, only because you desperately need to be near this person and keep them near you as long as you live.

You don’t pay attention to any details and you don’t even want to think logically, because you prefer to fly, involved in the magical feeling that the strong passion brings you when you think about them.

However, when everything goes wrong, you lose the floor under your feet.

You cannot accept to stay far from the person you desire so much, you cannot accept their refusal or the problems that don’t depend on their will and impede you both to be together.

You can even kill someone if your crazy love will dominate you completely, and you’ll believe that this is “the only solution” you have if you want to posses them and live with them forever.

Depression, craziness, despair and suicide attempts will complete your path if you follow this crazy feeling, without paying attention to anything else and without respecting anyone.

This is why love and mental health are strictly connected and if you want to keep both, you have to be serious!

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A Special Thanks from CURE Childhood Cancer

2009-10-01T13:46:00.000+02:00

CURE’s Kid Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time has come to an end and we at CURE wanted to say thank you.

Without all of the brave children and their families this would not have been possible, so thank you for all of your hard work raising awareness for National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and money for CURE Childhood Cancer.

We would also like to thank all of our generous donors who have supported CURE throughout our journey during National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

With all of your help we have been able to raise money to fund the essential research that will hopefully find a cure for childhood cancer. We are still gathering donations so stay tuned for our final total for CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time.

Didn’t get a chance to donate yet? Donate now.

Treatments For Yeast Infections

2009-10-01T06:55:00.000+02:00

Typically, yeast contamination is a consequence of a fungus contamination called Candida Albicans. There are many cures for yeast, ranging from without prescription drugs to prescriptions and holistic remedies. Holistic remedies are those that use herbal and homeopathic healing treatments to heal yeast.

The most essential thing that you had better know about yeast infection remedies is that there are those that heal the contagion on the surface, and not the primary cause. You will discover a yeast medication is not the correct one when you use the medicine and the infection comes up again. Be advised that continuous superficial medication will develop continuing yeast contagion.

In order to get the proper cure for yeast, it is first important to find out the inherent conditions that when improved, will assist to buttress the treatments for yeast. Such fundamental conditions are things like a atrophied body immune system as a result of afflictions such as diabetes, stress or virus infections; and a poor diet lacking indispensable food supplements.

Some of the established holistic remedies for yeast contagions involve taking aloe Vera and covering the affected area on the surface, yarrow, calendula ad goldenseal have also proven to be good herbal remedies for yeast contagions. The last three can be administered through douching or be ingested as tea. Maitake tea can also be ingested, and Pau d’arco, a reputable natural antifungal aids destroy the yeast infection and alleviates one from the itching.

Ingesting a lot of plain yogurt, consuming cranberry juice, applyingdiluted tea tree oil on the contaminated parts, consuming and applying garlic on the contaminated regions have also all proven to begood treatments of yeast.

Contrarily, remedies for yeast contamination can only be efficient if you have the proper interpretation of the condition. There are numerous ailments and contaminations that mimic the symptoms of yeast infections, and diagnosing incorrectly yeast will mean that your yeast will keep coming back.

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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

2009-09-30T19:40:00.000+02:00

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Supreme Hardware is doing its part to help fight breast cancer. According to The American Cancer Society and The Susan G. Komen For The Cure, an estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will occur among women in the United States during 2009. And an estimated 40,170 women will die from breast cancer. Also, about 1,910 men will be diagnosed and 440 men will die of breast cancer during 2009 in the United States. In addition to invasive breast cancer, an estimated 62,280 new cases of in situ breast cancer will occur among women in 2009. If it doesn’t affect you personally, chances are it will affect someone you know.

There any many ways that you can help fight breast cancer. One of the ways is to partake in breast cancer events such as races for the cure. You can find event information by going to the Susan G. Komen For The Cure website http://ww5.komen.org/findarace.aspx. Here you will find race information by state. Another way you can help is by donations. Every bit helps to find a cure for breast cancer so if you can spare any extra money it is greatly appreciated. There are many ways that you can donate and they can be found at The Susan G. Komen For The Cure website http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html.

Supreme Hardware will have the breast cancer awareness theme through October trying to raise awareness of the risk of breast cancer. There are 2 special products that will be sold on Supreme Hardware and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to help find a cure for breast cancer. Below you will find the products, feel free to click on them to learn more about the product and also to purchase the product if you are interested. Remember, every bit counts so join Supreme Hardware and make a difference.

The limited Edition Pink Snuggie blanket not only keeps you warm but also helps in the fight against breast cancer!

$50,000 from the sales of the Pink Snuggie blanket will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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2009-09-29T19:45:00.000+02:00

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Male Thrush

2009-09-28T12:51:00.000+02:00

Male thrush is a type of yeast infection which results from the overgrowth of fungus candida albicans in the body. Typically, the fungus occurs naturally on the individual body, but it is at all times keptundermanageable levels by the presenceof particular bacteria. minorchanges can easily and very swiftly disturb this bacteria balance out, making Candida albicans to multiply, resulting in a male thrush.

Male thrush reveals itself in various spots in the body,placesthat have got optimal environmentfor the fungus to thrive in such as under the nailbeds, in the mouth, on the skinbut mainly in thepelvic regions. This is worsened by the datum that it is easily spread through intercoursal with a female mate affected with thrush.

As soon as male thrush exhibits itself on the areas surrounding the penis, it can easily be perplexedwith other male infections. But suitable diagnosis is crucial to be able to get the exact male thrush cure. Men Tend to delay in seeking male thrush treatment, perhaps owing to the mortification that emanates along with telling some of the indications that influence the condition.

You will understamd you have a male thrush once you start having intermittent reddish spots on the dome of the penis, or on its covers. Also when scratchy red patches foundoccurring in the saidpart. Pain while passing urine and during sexual interaction is another clear sign of male thrush. A cottage cheese-like penile dischargebeneath the epithelium and skin eruptions that cannot be described, foundusually on the scrotal sac and beneath the armpits are other male thrush pointers.

conversely, oral male thrush will reveals itself in the appearance ofextremely viscous, whitish tongue, scratchy wounds and pain while swallowing anything. Male thrush is very irksome and upsetting, and any signs and symptoms of the infection should alarm one to findremedial advice as soon as possible.

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Tunnel carpale: bisturi o cure mediche?

2009-09-25T12:17:00.000+02:00

Se il nervo è intrappolato nel tunnel, vale la pena farselo sbrigliare; ma se si preferisce stare alla larga dai chirurghi, la differenza, alla fine, non è poi così rilevante. È salomonico il verdetto dello studio pubblicato oggi su Lancet. Un gruppo di ricercatori dell’Università di Washington a Seattle ha assegnato casualmente all’intervento chirurgico o a un trattamento di altro tipo un centinaio di persone con sindrome del tunnel carpale.

Si tratta di una condizione frequente, che nelle sue prime fasi si manifesta solo con formicolii e sensazione di gonfiore alle prime tre dita della mano, soprattutto di notte e al mattino, ma che si può evolvere dando un dolore al polso che si irradia a tutto l’avambraccio. Alla fine il nervo intrappolato può cominciare a far fatica a trasmettere i suoi messaggi, e si può osservare una riduzione della forza e della sensibilità. «In questi casi l’intervento diventa di rigore» spiega Jeffrey Jarvik, che ha coordinato il lavoro. «Prima che si arrivi a questo punto, però, si può anche provare a trovare sollievo dai disturbi con fisioterapia e ultrasuoni».

È quello che hanno provato a verificare gli studiosi statunitensi. «In effetti, dopo tre mesi dall’operazione, si osservava un miglioramento dei sintomi e della funzione della mano che si faceva sentire ancora dopo un anno» racconta l’autore, che aggiunge: «Tuttavia, alcune delle persone operate hanno riferito che il loro problema non si era risolto e oltre il 60 per cento di coloro in cui si sono provati altri metodi di cura non ha avuto bisogno, in un secondo tempo, di ricorrere al chirurgo».

Se quindi la chirurgia si conferma utile, non lo è tanto da diventare una scelta obbligata. «Oltre a una valutazione dei costi dei due diversi approcci» commenta Christina Gummesson, dell’Università di Lund, in Svezia, «occorre tener conto anche delle preferenze individuali, che di volta in volta possono cambiare sulla base di motivazioni personali molto diverse tra loro».

Le ragioni che spingono a farsi operare o no sono state indagate in un altro studio effettuato in Corea del Sud su una serie di donne a cui, dopo una diagnosi confermata all’elettromiografia, era stata consigliata una soluzione chirurgica. Il tempo di attesa era di circa un mese e durante questo periodo una trentina di loro ha avuto un ripensamento e si è tirata indietro. «La maggior parte aveva cambiato idea perché nel frattempo i disturbi erano migliorati» dice Moon Sang Chung, chirurgo ortopedico dell’Università di Seul, nella Corea del sud, che ha coordinato il lavoro, «sebbene molte avessero citato anche la paura del dolore, i problemi legati alla temporanea inabilità, i costi dell’operazione».

Allo stesso modo, quelle che invece erano arrivate fino in sala operatoria lo avevano fatto per il disagio e i limiti provocati dalla malattia, non tanto perché il chirurgo della mano glielo avesse prescritto, gli esiti dell’elettromiografia fossero preoccupanti o temessero danni a lungo termine. In altre parole, non c’entrano tanto i risultati più o meno favorevoli degli esami o la paura che la malattia progredisca.

Il criterio con cui le donne decidono di farsi operare per una sindrome del tunnel carpale o, viceversa, preferiscono tenersela, è il più banale del mondo: dipende solo da quanto dà fastidio il nervo mediano intrappolato tra ossa e legamenti a livello del polso. «La conclusione della nostra inchiesta non era però così ovvia» precisa Chung. «Ad altri interventi ci si sottopone sulla base di indagini che mostrano anomalie o per evitare che un problema si possa aggravare». In questo caso, invece, si cerca solo sollievo.

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Jan 22: Pharma-scam

2009-09-25T01:27:00.000+02:00

I have a beef with overpaid people. Like movie stars that earn 20 million per movie. Like pro athletes who have 100 million dollar contracts over 5 years or more, depending on the sport… I just feel like they’re not worth that much – no one is that talented. No one should make the same amount of money in their lifetime as the national debt of a small country. How is that logical? Most of these people never finished school, and all they do is memorize some lines or hit a ball with a bat. It blows my mind.

And all I keep thinking about is what if all those ridiculous celebrity and athlete salaries went to medecine so they can find a cure for diseases already. Mind you, there’s currently a little known conspiracy going on involving pharmaceutical companies. I watched a medical program about a rare form of cancer that affects children. The medical staff interviewed on the show said they have a cure, but since the amount of children that are afflicted with this form of cancer is so low compared to the actual cost of making the cure, the pharmaceutical companies refuse to make it because it’s not profitable. So instead of making the cure at a loss, they choose to not make it and the children are so few that it’s an acceptable loss. True story. It makes me sick.

Haven’t you ever wondered why there was so much progress in the field of medicine, exponential growth really for several decades, with vaccines and cures popping up left and right, vaccines for chicken pox, polio, the measles, mumps, hepatitis, yellow fever, you name it. And then it just stopped? Now we have all kinds of forms of cancer, Aids, and other incurable diseases and they “can’t find a cure”. The truth that they’re not telling us is that selling the meds to allow these people to live a few more years (or many years in some cases) is more profitable for the pharmaceutical companies than curing them. It’s all quite sickening.

Deep thought of the day:

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

AIDS Vaccine

2009-09-24T12:29:00.000+02:00

There are reports that an AIDS vaccine may have been discovered. If this is so then the prayers of millions have been answered and maybe we will see the day when human, plant and animal, diseases, sicknesses, illnesses and ailments are cured, here and everywhere, now and forever, pleasurably and non-regrettably.

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lose 45 lbs in just 30 days easily

2009-09-24T06:28:00.000+02:00

A lady doctor named Dr Suzanne Gudakunst has just release what many are calling the end of the need for potentially harmful weight-loss drugs and designer foods made to help you lose weight.

Dr Suzanne’s discovery allows anyone regardless of their particular diet to do “just one simple thing” and instantly start shedding anywhere from 15 lbs to as much as 200 lbs of unwanted and dangerous fat!

Typical results average 45 lbs in just the first 30 days alone for most people just starting out using her new secret.

The reason this is so is because her secret (aptly titled: “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret”) operates on an entirely different approach in the battle against the ever-increasing “bulge.”

Dr Suzanne discovered that harmful crusty “plaque” builds up over the years in all of us – and which is the direct result of harmful chemicals, preservatives, pesticides, etc. deliberately placed in perhaps every food on the market (much of which is now suspected as being carefully and intentionally done so that people will continue to get fatter and thus sicker, and in order to make the food & drug companies richer!)

The result: This harmful plaque is responsible for your weight gain because is BLOCKS your body’s natural ability to absorb proper nutrition – and which causes two (2) chief things to occur:

>> Your body starves no matter how much you eat – so by not

feeling satisfied you continue to stuff your face and get very

very fat (and eventually at the permanent cost of your

health!)

>> Your body thinks it’s starving so your ‘hypothalamus’

adjusts your metabolism to burn food much, much slower in

an effort to store food – thus making you even more and

more fatter than even before!

So it makes sense that if and when you REMOVE this unwanted “garbage” from lacing your ‘insides,’ you will naturally start dissolving the fat and “stored chunks of lard” that disfigure an otherwise more attractive and healthier frame and sexier body.

As if this ‘plaque’ goop weren’t enough, Dr Suzanne identified multitudes of specific species of “parasites” (i.e., little worm-like “critters” – some which have ‘fangs’ but no eyes) living inside nearly 99.964% of all people’s small and large intestines in the United States alone, and about 92.36% of people on average worldwide.

These parasites excrete (meaning they take a CRAP inside YOU!) a jelly-like “SLUDGE” they coats your insides and which is very, very harmful and extremely TOXIC!

Additionally, much like the plaque, they often steal your nutrition which in turn again causes your body to believe it’s starving, and as a defense you continue even more just to get FATTER and FATTER!

These parasites usually end up dying (but not before laying millions of eggs!) — and once they die they fossilize forming a coral-like barrier preventing your even further from absorbing the correct amounts of proper nutrition.

When these parasites are FLUSHED from your guts, you end up magically losing tons of fat and extra weight – and even WITHOUT making one slight change to your diet or how much you eat!

SHOCKINGLY, these same “little critters (as Dr Suzanne calls them) actually release chemical “messengers” that make you crave foods that you are not even supposed to eat at all!

People who get rid of the parasites, therefore, suddenly find that they no longer even desire the Cheetos, pork rinds, jelly-filled treats, and 10,000’s of other equally deadly so-called “foods.”

In the past 6 years alone Dr Suzanne has tested her amazing new discovery and “TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret” privately with a select group of volunteers, and seen results that fall nothing short of the truly FANTASTIC!

For instance, a Chicago woman who weighed until recently a whopping 587 lbs and who had even been visited by a living-legendary diet and fitness guru (name withheld by request), but who after much direct assistance from him (the guru) was not able to shed even 1 lb, suddenly dropped 449 lbs from her body weight in under 5 months using Dr Suzanne’s SECRET! — and she didn’t change or reduce one thing she regularly ate in her diet!

Now the woman weighs just 138 lbs, looks like a completely different woman altogether — and as if that weren’t enough, she became a swimsuit model for a well-known company! (But most importantly, this woman added who knows how many years to her life as a direct result of using Dr Suzanne’s “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret!”)

Another equally tearfully-joyous account was of a woman named Lisa Stephens from Ohio who was told her diabetes could “never” be cured or reversed — and this by countless doctors.

After shedding over 156 lbs in just 91 days of having used this same amazing revolutionary breakthrough secret discovered by Dr Suzanne, her diabetes is gone completely and she no longer depends on insulin just to be able to survive!

These kinds of results are flooding Dr Suzanne’s email each and everyday from all over the world (not just from North America — which has by far the fattest population as a group).

And even though you like me recognize these results as both newsworthy and for the common good of humanity as a whole, there are some who are literally out to get the good lady doctor.

Recently investigators began carefully keeping an extra protective eye on Dr Suzanne after she received death threats from “individuals” purportedly connected to the vast drug empires and weight-loss food manufacturing companies.

It would appear on the face of it that Dr Suzanne’s “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret” must really work, because if it didn’t no one would care to bring her harm.

This would be akin to an inventor discovering how to make a car that runs on water instead of gas assassinated by the major auto manufacturers!

Investigators insist that the reason she received threats is largely because what she is doing may actually make people healthier, leaner, sexier and trimmer, as well as make them live longer fuller lives — and as a result they stand to lose lots of money (possibly BILLIONS of dollars!!)

The BEST part of her secret is that it’s nothing difficult to do, and it doesn’t require a major change in either your lifestyle or diet.

In fact, “Nature’s actually on our side” according to Dr Suzanne, as her solution to the arduous ills of fat and obesity is simply the ingestion of Nature’s own ‘protections’ against both the harmful death-causing/obesity-causing plaque as well as the nasty little critters living in your bowels!

Anyone with anywhere from just a few extra pounds to those 100 lbs or more overweight must as a rule now secure for themselves Dr Suzanne’s “TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret” (and before someone tries to lobby against you ever discovering what’s truly in it!)

I recognize a great thing when I see one — and THIS SECRET is definitely the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

We all know that people are just getting fatter and fatter, and more and more UNHEALTHY – so this is a secret whose time is long overdue.

While many people may tell you to just stick to your diet, exercise to the point of exhaustion, etc, the naysayers will definitely be disappointed when they find out that Dr Suzanne’s cure to obesity is completely NATURAL!

If you want the good doctor’s secret for yourself and so that no one can ever take it away from you or steal out of your hands, then all you need to do is grab your own PDF copy here:

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1. Pay processors are already struggling to keep up with orders as this SECRET is now one of the most sought after things anywhere online! (So if you put off, don’t be surprised to find you can’t even place your order, and may not receive notice as to when order-taking may resume.)

2. Dr Suzanne in an effort to get people to get off their butts and to take action for their own good, is making it available at nearly HALF OFF just for people getting over there TODAY through the next 48 hours only — after that, the low price now nearly DOUBLES! (So you’d best beat the crowds over there NOW!)

So if you’re wise, and want to grab her secret before something unforeseen forever prevents you from doing so, then you’d best do what I did and go secure it now at:

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How many times have you seen sudden “breakthroughs” of such great controversy potentially come along and cause a woman doctor to actually get death threats for her secret ‘know-how?’ — You’re right … very, very few.

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A cure for fevers?

2009-09-23T19:11:00.000+02:00

A cure for fevers? Absurd! Well, maybe not. I had a fever (and various other symptoms) today. I drank like 3 glasses of sweet tea (with some artificial sweeter. They never put enough sugar in that bottled stuff!) to perk me up a bit; I didn’t want to fall asleep on the couch. Anyway, my mom took my temp. a few minutes before I drank the tea, and a few minutes after I drank it (purely coincidental) and it went from 101.5 to exactly 98.6! I only did it that one time so it could be just me. To make it more accrate, next time you have a fever, take your temperature, drink a few glasses of tea, and take your temp. again. Then post your results here in a comment and I’ll post the results! Yay science!

Intensità di cure

2009-09-23T07:17:00.000+02:00

Sovigliana di Vinci.24 settembre 2009, dalle ore 8.30 alle ore 13.30, nell’aula magna dell’Agenzia per la formazione dell’Asl 11, in via Oberdan n. 13/19 dopo l’introduzione ai lavori a cura del direttore generale dell’Asl 11 Eugenio Porfido, seguirà l’intervento di Federico Lega dell’università “Bocconi” di Milano centrato su “L’ospedale del futuro, il futuro dell’ospedale”. Alle ore 10 Gian Franco Gensini, preside della facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia dell’università di Firenze parlerà de “L’intensità di cure: vincolo od opportunità?”. Seguiranno gli interventi di Antonio Panti, presidente dell’ordine dei medici di Firenze, e di Annalisa Silvestro, presidente della federazione nazionale IPAVSI, su “Le professioni davanti a nuove esigenze di cura”. Alle ore 11 Renato Colombai, direttore della rete ospedaliera dell’Asl 11, illustrerà la situazione territoriale “Dal paradigma ai modelli: le scelte organizzative” e, dopo la pausa, prenderanno la parola Chiara Gherardeschi, direttore sanitario dell’Asl 3 di Pistoia, che affronterà il tema del “Primary Care come modello di risposta alla complessità assistenziale: Ausl 3 Pistoia” e Roberto Tramalloni, direttore sanitario ospedali Galliera di Genova che parlerà dell’”Ospedale lean per intensità di cure: l’esperienza dell’ospedale Galliera di Genova”. Alle ore 12 l’intensità di cure sarà vista dalla parte del cittadino grazie all’intervento di Elisabetta Confaloni del Comitato Etico Locale di Empoli, cui seguirà “Un network regionale per l’intensità di cure” di Mario Cecchi, responsabile dell’Osservatorio permanente dell’ospedale per intensità di cure della Regione Toscana. Al termine del dibattito le conclusioni saranno affidate a Valtere Giovannini, responsabile dell’Area di coordinamento sanità della Regione Toscana.

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2009-09-20T19:20:00.000+02:00

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Prevention & Battling Diabetes

2009-09-20T12:55:00.000+02:00

GoodnewsEverybody.com: Health-Diabetes

My (Sal) reason for creating this website is because I’ve been “directly” affected by this health issue. Diabetes has been a health issue in my family for generations, which I personally need to take some precautions to fight this health battle in my genes-of course, with the help of my Lord-Amen?

I love sugar since day 1. I love sweets, which I would seek and find around the kitchen back at home. Since I’ve come to a personal relationship with Christ, I’ve been educated from the Word to keep my “…body as a living sacrifice to God, holly and pleasing to Him!” (Romans 12:1).

It’s not easy to stay from sweets and not get tempted as your body physically urges it! However, I’ve learned that fasting and staying in the Word; focussing on Jesus, all things are possible!

You must take charge! (Wednesday, September 3rd of 2008)

About 4 years ago I had a routine check-up from my doctor. He then came out to warn me that I have a chance of getting diabetes as I’m close to “border-line” diabetic unless I change my eating habits. It freaked me out when I heard it as I’ve had some knowledge of past family history. I decided to research and find what causes diabetes? I found out my diet of eating too much rice, pop years ago (quit drinking too much of it years ago), etc.. was the “culprit”! I started cutting down or even stop eating white rice (brown rice instead; In fact, wheat-bread, noodles, etc.. is a lot better than “white”). A year later, my doctor told me I was “no-longer” close to borderline diabetic! Halleluah! Yes, we can ask others for prayer and God for healing, but we need to also ask God for “wisdom” and “knowledge” on what we can “individually” do about our health circumstances or situations!

How My Aunt’s Death Can Help You “Cure” Type 2 Diabetes I

“Not only is type 2 diabetes completely preventable, but it is virtually curable for anyone who is willing to put in the hard time and work and recovering their insulin and leptin sensitivity. “

What steps/tips have you made preventing, managing, curing, etc.. diabetes?

more..

http://health.goodnewseverybody.com/diabetes.html

Tre feste (e un calendario) per i 10 anni dell'Associazione Tumori Toscana.

2009-09-18T11:56:00.000+02:00

foto "Regina Schrecker & Alessandro Benvenuti per A.T.T." by Gianni Ugolini (dalla pagina di A.T.T. su facebook)

L’Associazione Tumori Toscana compie 10 anni e per l’occasione pubblica un calendario 24 mesi (da Novembre 2009 a Ottobre 2011) intitolato “INSIEME nelle scelte più difficili” che sarà in vendita a 12€ e i cui proventi serviranno per sostenere le Cure Domiciliari Oncologiche (C.D.O.) che sono fornite gratuitamente, tutti i giorni dell’anno e 24 ore su 24 , ai malati di tumore della Toscana.

L’Associazione Tumori Toscana è composta da 9 medici, 3 psicologi, 6 infermieri professionali, 6 operatori socio sanitari ed un fisiatra. A questi si aggiungono i 10 collaboratori dedicati alla gestione dei prelievi ematici e presidi sanitari, alla raccolta fondi, alla gestione delle segreterie, all’amministrazione, alle relazioni con enti ed istituzioni. In questi 10 anni sono state curate a domicilio 5.000 persone con una media di 300 pazienti assistiti ogni giorno e una spesa totale di oltre 5.000.000 di Euro.

Il calendario ospita personaggi famosi che si spendono attivamente per la solidarietà, ritratti insieme “a due a due”, tra cui: Cesare Prandelli, Irene Grandi, Piero Pelù, Margherita Hack, Santo Versace, Ferruccio Ferragamo, Cesare Bocci, Petra Magoni, Ferruccio Spinetti, Sergio Staino, Ginevra di Marco, Daniela Morozzi, Stefano Cocco Cantini, Cristina De Pin, Giancarlo Antognoni, Barbara Enrichi, Erriquez Greppi, Marcelo Segundo, Anna Meacci, Fabio Canino, Katia Beni, Alessandro Benvenuti, Simone Pianigiani, Regina Schrecker, Saturnino, Micol Barsanti, Maria Cassi, Carla Braccialini, Fabio Picchi, Brunetto Salvini, Graziano Staino, Gianni De Magistris, Monica Scattini, Alessandro Haber, Marco Masini, Sebastian Frey, Paolo Hendel, Angela Finocchiaro, Andrea Agresti, Andrea Muzzi, Aceto, Lorenzo Martinicca Boison, Rosita Celentano, Soldano d’Asburgo Lorena, Ermanno Scervino, Jury Chechi, la Fata Milano 25, Shaun Stonerook.

Domani 19 Settembre 2009 si terranno tre feste in altrettante Piazze toscane dove saranno allestiti dei gazebo nei quali i volontari festeggeranno i 10 anni dell’Associazione brindando con il pubblico e dove alcuni fra i personaggi ritratti nel calendario autograferanno le copie vendute. Appuntamento a:

Firenze - Piazza della Repubblica
Prato - Piazza Duomo dalle 10 alle 12,30 e dalle 15,30 alle 18,00
Siena – retro della Chiesa Madonna delle Nevi dalle 16,00 alle 19,00

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Cure palliative, sì unanime alla legge

2009-09-17T07:33:00.000+02:00

Le cure palliative escono dall’ombra e diventano diritto di tutti i cittadini, dal Piemonte alla Sicilia. Dovranno essere assicurate in ogni Regione, con criteri uniformi, sostenute da un finanziamento proprio. In tutto 150 milioni presi in parte dal Fondo sanitario nazionale (100), il resto dall’ultimo decreto anti crisi. Semplificate in modo permanente le procedure per i farmaci antidolorifici. L’introduzione del ricettario ordinario, il passaggio di alcuni derivati della cannabis (e alcuni oppiacei) per uso terapeutico dalla tabella A alla B e l’esclusione automatica dall’elenco degli stupefacenti erano previsti da un decreto a scadenza annuale del viceministro al Welfare, Ferruccio Fazio. Nasce una rete di hospice e centri ospedalieri.

Sono alcuni dei passaggi salienti della legge di iniziativa parlamentare approvata ieri dalla Camera (ora tocca al Senato). Tempi record, due sole sedute, unanimità. Non era mai successo che maggioranza e opposizione fossero in perfetto accordo. Per Livia Turco, ex ministro della salute, Pd, è una soddisfazione, anche personale: «La legge ha rischiato di andare avanti senza un euro. Noi abbiamo ingaggiato un ostruzionismo pesante e i soldi sono stati trovati. Ora è una cosa seria, che aiuta i malati in modo concreto. Bella prova di dialogo».

Secondo Fazio «viene colmato un grosso vuoto». Per Dorina Bianchi, Pd «è la prova che si può avviare una discussione costruttiva». Un augurio per il prossimo lavoro, molto più difficile sul piano politico. Il testo sul testamento biologico, all’esame della commissione affari sociali della Camera. L’armonia appare un miraggio specialmente alla luce l’ultimo richiamo di Gianfranco Fini sull’«obbligo delle istituzioni di essere laiche» e la replica gelida del Pdl: «Non accettiamo lezioni».

Il testo da discutere non è ancora stato presentato dal relatore Nino Di Virgilio (Pdl) e non è scontato che si tratti di quello passato in Senato, scritto da Raffaele Calabrò. Eugenia Roccella, sottosegretario al Welfare individua gli unici spazi di manovra: «Correzioni? Sempre nell’ambito della posizione del governo. Se come da noi proposto la legge fosse allargata non solo agli stati vegetativi ma anche ai pazienti con perdita di coscienza duratura, si potrebbe accettare la sospensione di idratazione e alimentazione artificiale quando assumono il carattere di accanimento terapeutico».

Queste due modifiche erano in due emendamenti presentati al Senato rispettivamente da maggioranza e opposizione, entrambi bocciati. Resta in piedi la prospettiva delineata dal ministro Maurizio Sacconi. Estrapolare dalla legge Calabrò la parte che ricalca sostanzialmente il disegno di legge cosiddetto salva-Eluana varato all’unanimità dal Consiglio dei ministri per evitare che le venissero sospese le cure così come era stato deciso dai giudici. «Il Parlamento è sovrano di valutare questa opportunità se i tempi della discussione delle norme del fine vita si allungassero», dice il ministro.

Margherita De Bac – Fonte: www.corriere.it

Comparing Malaria Solutions

2009-09-16T23:54:00.000+02:00

“Damn, I can’t believe I got malaria again!”

That’s what I was thinking last week when I recognized the symptoms: fatigue, nausea, headache, pain at the base of the spine and lower back. I flashed back to 1991 when I first got the disease in the Congo and spent 2 weeks on my back with IV needles in my arm to force fluids into my body. “I’m so thirsty I could die.” Literally.

Apparently the high-voltage mosquito-blasting tennis racket I’ve been using didn’t manage to zap all the little bastards! So wondering what 2 decades of drug research has yielded I asked my UNPeacekeeper friends in Liberiawhatthe standard expat cure is these days. The answer was a loud and resounding “Artemisinin!” Apparently this centuries-old Chinese herbal medicine has been keeping SouthEast Asians alive for many years but was relatively unknown in the west until recently. Or perhaps we can’t believe in anything that doesn’t come from Big Pharma?

I picked up a 3-day dose for $12 from the local pharmacy, immediately popped 2 of the 12 pills, and went to bed wondering if I could sleep with this horribly throbbing headache and seemingly compressed spine. 8 hours later I woke up feeling completely normal, rested, and ready to fight my way into a Monrovian taxi! I can’t tell you how different this experience was from the one in Congo in 1991. My first thought was how Big Pharma is missing a real opportunity here, but my friend Talli educated me how the Gates Foundation, UC Berkeley, and Big Pharma have a project underway to create a synthetic version of the drug for pennies per dose. Malaria is the #1 killer in the world, far surpassing HIV-Aids, with 500 million infections annually annually.

I can tell you that Artemisinin works better than both Fansidar and Electric Liberian Tennis Rackets!

Read more about the Artemisinin Project here

Jummah Khutba: Read Kuran

2009-09-16T01:18:00.000+02:00

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, May 16, 2008 (Jumad Awal 10, 1429)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that those who read the book of Allah continuously, who keep their 5 daily prayers and who share from the favors that have been given to them with others, they should expect and wait for good results. For safety and for inner peace, read more Quran (murids should be reading 1 juz of Quran every day or reciting Ikhlas 100 times); keep your wird, and read hadith (Sheykh Efendi recommends reading 3 hadith a day and applying it to your life). Don’t speak so much of what you think you know.

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Herbs and Foods May Lead to Complications

2009-09-15T07:45:00.000+02:00

Many people have the mistaken notion that, being natural, all herbs and foods are safe. This is not so. Very often, herbs and foods may interact with medications you normally take that result in serious side reactions. It is always a good practice to tell your doctor or health practitioners what you are taking so that they can advise you of possible complications, if there is any. You should also keep an eye for unusual symptoms. Very often, this may foretell the symptoms of a drug interaction.

Experts suggest that natural does not mean it is completely safe. Everything you put in your mouth has the potential to interact with something else. The medication that is taken by mouth travels through the digestive system in much the same way as food and herbs taken orally do. So, when a drug is mixed with food or another herb, each can alter the way the body metabolizes the other. Some drugs interfere with the body’s ability to absorb nutrients. Similarly, some herbs and foods can lessen or increase the impact of a drug.

Alcohol is a drug that interacts with almost every medication, especially antidepressants and other drugs that affect the brain and nervous system.

Some dietary components increase the risk of side effects. Theophylline, a medication administered to treat asthma, contains xanthines, which are also found in tea, coffee, chocolate, and other sources of caffeine. Consuming large amounts of these substances while taking theophylline increases the risk of drug toxicity.

Certain vitamins and minerals impact on medications too. Large amounts of broccoli, spinach, and other green leafy vegetables high in vitamin K, which promotes the formation of blood clots, can counteract the effects of heparin, warfarin, and other drugs given to prevent clotting.

Dietary fiber also affects drug absorption. Pectin and other soluble fibers slow down the absorption of acetaminophen, a popular painkiller. Bran and other insoluble fibers have a similar effect on digoxin, a major heart medication.

As more and more people discover new herbs, there is more and more potential for the abuse of these herbs and the patients may end up in serious problems.

I was attending an herb meeting a few weeks ago and a person came to the speaker and told her that she had very good luck with St. John’s Wort to control her depression. St. John’s Wort has been shown to have great potential to control minor depression. The National Institutes of Health is conducting a clinical study to determine the effect of St. John’s Wort scientifically. This person, however, continued saying that she is now trying St. John’s Wort for her OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Now, this is getting into unproven uncharted territory. If you are taking prescription medication for this disorder, you can get into trouble due to drug interaction. As shown under the discussion on St. John’s Wort, the herb can be quite dangerous, as it acts similar to MAO inhibitors. They have severe side reactions, and if not careful, can even lead to death.

High-risk patients, such as the elderly, patients taking three or more medications for chronic conditions, patients suffering from diabetes, hypertension, depression, high cholesterol or congestive heart failure, should be especially on the lookout for such side reactions.

The following are the examples of known interaction between popular herbs, foods, and prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

Hawthorn, touted as effective in reducing angina attacks by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, should never be taken with Lanoxin (digoxin), the medication prescribed for most for heart ailments. The mix can lower your heart rate too much, causing blood to pool, bringing on possible heart failure.

Ginseng, according to research, can increase blood pressure, making it dangerous for those trying to keep their blood pressure under control. Ginseng, garlic or supplements containing ginger, when taken with the blood-thinning drug, Coumadin, can cause bleeding episodes. Coumadin is a very powerful drug that leaves little room for error, and patients taking it should never take any medication or otherwise before consulting a qualified health professional. In rare cases, ginseng may overstimulate resulting in insomnia. Consuming caffeine with ginseng increases the risk of overstimulation and gastrointestinal upset. Long tern use of ginseng may cause menstrual abnormalities and breast tenderness in some women. Ginseng is not recommended for pregnant or lactating women.

Garlic capsules combined with diabetes medication can cause a dangerous decrease in blood sugars. Some people who are sensitive to garlic may experience heartburn and flatulence. Garlic has anti-clotting properties. You should check with your doctor if you are taking anticoagulant drugs.

Goldenseal is used for coughs, stomach upsets, menstrual problems and even arthritis. However, the plant’s active ingredient will raise blood pressure, complicating treatment for those taking antihypertensive medications, especially beta-blockers. For patients taking medication to control diabetes or kidney disease, this herb can cause dangerous electrolyte imbalance. High amount of consumption can lead to gastrointestinal distress and possible nervous system effects. Not recommended for pregnant or lactating women.

Feverfew, believed to be the natural remedy for migraine headaches, should never be taken with Imitrex or other migraine medications. It can result in the patient’s heart rate and blood pressure to rise dangerous levels.

Guarana, an alternative remedy being used as a stimulant and diet aid, contains 3 percent to 5 percent more caffeine than a cup of coffee. So, if you are taking any medication that advises you against taking any drink with caffeine, you should avoid taking this stimulant. It may cause insomnia, trembling, anxiety, palpitations, urinary frequency, and hyperactivity. Avoid during pregnancy and lactation period. Long term use of Guarana may lead to decreased fertility, cardiovascular disease, and several forms of cancer.

Kava, a herb that has antianxiety, pain relieving, muscle relaxing and anticonvulsant effects, should not be taken together with substances that also act on the central nervous system, such as alcohol, barbiturates, anti depressants, and antipsychotic drugs.

St. John’s Wort is a popular herb used for the treatment of mild depression.

The active ingredient of St. John’s Wort is hypericin. Hypericin is believed to exert a similar influence on the brain as the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors such as the one in major antidepressants. Mixing MAO inhibitors with foods high in tyramine, an amino acid, produces one of the most dramatic and dangerous food-drug interactions. Symptoms, which can occur within minutes of ingesting such foods while taking an MAO inhibitor, include rapid rise in blood pressure, a severe headache, and perhaps collapse and even death. Foods high in tyramine include aged cheese, chicken liver, Chianti (and certain other red wines), yeast extracts, bologna (and other processed meats), dried or pickled fish, legumes, soy sauce, ale, and beer.

Some patients report that Saint Johns Wort caused excessive stimulation and sometimes dizziness, agitation and confusion when taken with other antidepressants or over-the-counter medications like Maximum Strength Dexatrim and Acutrim. It also caused their blood pressure to shoot up.

White Willow, an herb traditionally used for fever, headache, pain, and rheumatic complaints may lead to gastrointestinal irritation, if used for a long time. It exhibits similar reactions as aspirin (aspirin is derived from white willow). Long term use may lead to stomach ulcers.

Drug Interaction and Food

Drug interaction risk isn’t limited to herbal supplements. Certain foods can interact with medications.

People taking digoxin should avoid Black licorice (which contains the ingredient glycyrhizin). Together, they can produce irregular heart rhythms and cardiac arrest; licorice and diuretics will produce dangerously low potassium levels, putting a patient at risk for numbing weakness, muscle pain and even paralysis. Licorice can also interact with blood pressure medication or any calcium channel blockers.

Aged cheese (brie, parmesan, cheddar and Roquefort), fava beans, sauerkraut, Italian green beans, some beers, red wine, pepperoni and overly ripe avocados should be avoided by people taking MAO antidepressants. The interaction can cause a potentially fatal rise in blood pressure.

And because Saint Johns Wort contains the same properties as these MAO antidepressants, it stands to reason that people ingesting the herb should avoid these same foods.

Grapefruit juice interacts with calcium channel blockers (including Calan, Procardia, Nifedipine, and Verapamil), cholesterol control medications, some psychiatric medications, estrogen, oral contraceptives and many allergy medications (Seldane, Hismanal). The juice modifies the body’s way of metabolizing the medication, affecting the liver’s ability to work the drug through a person’s system. More Information.

Orange juice shouldn’t be consumed with antacids containing aluminum. ‘The juice increases the absorption of the aluminum. Orange Juice and milk should be avoided when taking antibiotics. The juice’s acidity decreases the effectiveness of antibiotics, as does milk.

Milk also doesn’t mix with laxatives containing bisacodyl (Correctol and Dulcolax). You might find the laxative works a little “too well” in the morning.

Large amounts of oatmeal and other high-fiber cereals should not be eaten when taking digoxin. The fiber can interfere with the absorption of the drug, making the act of swallowing the pill a waste of time.

However, don’t stop eating your cereal right away, because that could cause digoxin levels in your system to soar to toxic levels. A professional should make the dietary changes after carefully examining the digoxin levels.

Leafy green vegetables, high in vitamin K, should not be taken in great quantities while taking Coumadin. These vegetables could totally negate the affects of the drug and cause blood clotting.

Caffeinated beverages and asthma drugs taken together can cause excessive excitability. Those taking Tagament (Simetidine), quinolone antibiotics (Cipro, Penetrex, Noroxin) and even oral contraceptives should be aware these drugs may cause their cup of coffee to give them more of a Java jolt than they expected.

Grilled meat can lead to problems for those on asthma medications containing theophyllines. The chemical compounds formed when meat is grilled somehow prevent this type of medication from working effectively, increasing the possibility of an unmanageable asthma attack.

Regularly consuming a diet high in fat while taking anti-inflammatory and arthritis medications can cause kidney damage and can leave the patient feeling, drowsy and sedated.

Alcoholic beverages tend to increase the depressive effects of medications such as benzodiazepines, antihistamines, antidepressants, antipsychotics, muscle relaxants, narcotics, or any drug with sedative actions.

It’s a good idea to not consume any alcoholic beverages, or at least scale way back, when taking prescription medications. Antioxidant and beta-carotene intensify alcohol’s effect on the liver.

Other commonly used over-the-counter medications can cause interaction problems also.

Aspirin can modify the effectiveness of arthritis medications, strong prescription steroids and diuretics. Combining aspirin with diabetic medications can drop blood sugars to dangerous levels. Aspirin can also cause toxicity when taken with glaucoma and anticonvulsant (anti-seizure) drugs and cause bleeding episodes when combined with a blood thinner, like Coumadin.

Acetaminophen can also cause interaction complications when overused. Heavy drinkers who take acetaminophen for hangover relief risk liver damage. Taking high doses of acetaminophen with Coumadin can cause bleeding episodes.

Antacids taken with antibiotics, heart and blood pressure or thyroid medications can decrease drug absorption by up to 90 percent.

Over-the-counter antihistamines – sold under the names Actifed, Theraflu, Dimetapp, Benadryl and Comtrex should be avoided if you are taking antianxiety or antidepressant medications.

Oral contraceptives are less effective when taken with barbiturates, antibiotics, anti-fungal or tuberculosis drugs.

Turnips contain two goitrogenic substances, progoitrin and gluconasturtin, which can interfere with the thyroid gland’s ability to make its hormones. Although moderate consumption of goitrogens is not a hazard for healthy people, they can promote development of a goiter (an enlarged thyroid) in persons with thyroid disease.

Tomato contains small quantities of a toxic substance known as solanine that may trigger headaches in susceptible people. They are also a relatively common cause of allergies. An unidentified substance in tomatoes and tomato-based products can cause acid reflux, leading to indigestion and heartburn. Individuals who often have digestive upsets should try eliminating tomatoes for 2 to 3 weeks to see if there is any improvement.

Strawberries, Raspberries, Spinach, and Rhubarb: These contain oxalic acid, which can aggravate kidney and bladder stones in susceptible people, and reduce body’s ability to absorb iron and calcium.

Raspberries contain a natural salicylate that can cause an allergic reaction in aspirin sensitive people.

The seeds from fruits such as Apple, apricot, and Quinces contain amygdalin, a compound that turns into Hydrogen Cyanide in the stomach. Eating large amount of seeds can result in cyanide poisoning.

Potatoes: Avoid potatoes with a green tint to the skin, and remove any sprouts; they will taste bitter and may contain solanine, a toxic substance that can cause diarrhea, cramps, and fatigue.

Plums, Peaches, Apricots, and Cherries: These fruits may produce allergic reaction in individuals with confirmed allergies to apricots, almonds, peaches, and cherries. People who are allergic to aspirin may also encounter problems after they have eaten plums or peaches as they contain salicylates. The pits of plums, peaches and apricots contain a compound called amygdalin. When consumed in large amounts, amygdalin breaks down into hydrogen cyanide, a poison.

Horseradish: Very high doses of horseradish can cause vomiting or excessive sweating. Avoid if you have hypothyroidism.

Turmeric: Should be avoided by persons with symptoms from gallstones.

IQBAL AND ABU BAKR SIDDIQ

2009-09-15T01:16:00.000+02:00

In his poem, “The mystries of Selflessness”, iqbal says that one night he saw Hazrat Abu Bakr in a dream. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq was the most generous of mankind. He was the first to believe in Islam. He shared the cave with the Holy Prophet peace be upon him when they escaped from Mecca, and was referred to in the Holy Quran as “the second of the two”. In the battle of Badr, he stood guard over the Holy Prophet peace be upon him. When he died he had the honour of being buried by the side of the tomb of the Holy Prophet peace be upon him.

Seeing the great patriarch, Iqbal said, ” Respected Sir you set new standards of love, you established the fabric of our Commonwealth on a firm basis; please prescribe some remedy for the woes that plauge us”.

Thereupon Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq said:

“Get guidance from ‘Surah Ikhlas’ in the Holy Quran. The remedy for all your maladies lies in holding fast to the doctrine of the Unity of God. God wanted all the Muslims to be one ‘Millat’(community), but you have created divisions amongst youselves, and labelled yourselves as Afghans, Iranians, Turks and so on. By such divisons you have undermined your own strength. You are like the fruit that has fallen unripe from the tree. The remedy of your woes is that you should discard these divisons. The Muslims should be integrated into one community, and should thus be a manifestation of the Unity of God. It is no use paying lip service to the doctrine of the Unity of God, when you do not observe it in spirit and resist divisive tendencies. Faith is purposeless without action, and that faith is a dead creed which is not put into practice.”

The message highlighted in this story is the message of Tauhid— Oneness, One God, One Prophet, One Holy Quran, and One Muslim Community. Under the impact of nationalism, the Muslims have come to group thenselves as Afghans, Iranians and Turks. This is repugnant to Islam. Islam demands of us that all the Muslims throughout the world should regard themselves as one Community regardless of considerations of countries or colours.

Source: Stories and Biographies From Iqbal By Prof. Masud-Ul-Hasan

Detixifying program before start of university school year

2009-09-14T12:33:00.000+02:00

Hello there, reader! As you probably figured out already from the About page, my name is Mich, and I’m 21 years old. I’m just an ordinary person, with hope that some day I will be a writer. Of course I know this isn’t an easy path but I will keep trying.

But for now, I’m going to write for fun and try to improve my skills as much as I can in as many subjects as I can. I’ll start with the beginning, and try to get my body in a more healthy state.

I have always been a little to relaxed about the well-being of my own body, and I want that to change. Time is passing by and it can’t be reversed for anyone or anything. So I want to feel better every day.

I’m starting with a kind of detoxifying cure. But mainly I am just going to change some things in my diet. And here are the things that with a little effort, can make me feel a lot better:

I always keep a bottle of 2 liters of fresh water with lemon juice in it, and I try to drink it all in one day.
I thought of replacing the water with herbal tea, each day another flavor, so I won’t get sick so soon of them.
I try to eat in the morning a little, and reduce the quantity of coffee I usually drink. I’m still in a holiday from the university so I can afford less coffee.
The food I eat is with less fats. If I’m in the mood for meat, I eat chicken or fish. And I also eat lots of cheese. Maybe I should take some vitamins with all this but I can’t afford them…I’m just a poor college student after all.
I’m also trying to take my meals at a regular time, in anticipation of the school schedule so I won’t be all messed up when it starts.

This little changes should make me feel better and healthier than before. I started all this because I always felt heavy and restless. I have a very bad habit of eating when I’m nervous or sad, or when watching movies & anime or reading manga, so to keep that from happening, I am now writing everything down before I eat. And when night comes, if I eat too much, when I want to eat again, and I open the notebook, it makes me remember that I have eaten enough for he day, and stops me from going into the kitchen again just because of boredom.

I also started to make some physical exercises but since I stayed so long without doing any sports, I am now rusty and it’s hard to all of a sudden do pretty intense exercises. So every morning I do just how much I can do, without forcing my body after strict numbers. If i can do just 3 or 4 instead of 10, I do them. It’s still better than nothing, and I don’t get bored with them. Sometimes I wish I had an Elliptical but like I already said, I’m too poor to even dream of having one.

The first exercise I do is:

The Hundred — Lie on your back with your knees above your chest and extend your arms at your sides. Now lift your chin and chest slightly, so you’re up on your shoulder blades and raise your legs upward. Lift your arms 6 inches and quickly pump them up and down five times while exhaling . Now inhale, pumping your arms five times. Repeat 10 times to make 100 pumps.

Then I rest for a while, relaxing my muscles.

After that comes a series of very interesting exercises which I found surfing the net. Of course I can’t do them all, they are intense and even if they look relatively easy, I first need to get slimmer and more resistant to effort. But I do as many as I can and every day, not only once a week as it says in the video. I will do them only once a week when I will be able to do them all correctly.

I still have around three weeks before school starts so I’m going to keep following this set of rules and see how much of a difference it can make. I started only yesterday but even thought I’m experiencing muscle soreness at the moment, I already did my morning exercises and only had a light meal in the morning with a cup of coffee with milk. Tell me what you think of this program, I’ll keep you posted on the results and if I’m feeling any changes.

Male Yeast Infection Treatment

2009-09-12T13:07:00.000+02:00

A typical male yeast infection have to be straight forwardly treated and swiftly eradicated bythe majority of the medications existing. Within no time, the much terrible and aggravatingsoreness and itchinessshould vanish. Apoint to always think of is that for these cures to function efficiently, and be able to get free of your yeast infection forever, it is at all times sensible to buttress themedications with a good, well balanced food free of yeast and sugar. Goodsalubrious behavior have to be embraced as well.

Recurrent showering, use of hygienic undergarments,predominantly throughout summer time when the heat is greatly will go along way to reinforce the consequence of these medications. Majority of the males when infected with yeast infection are challenged with a jock itch. This can be delimited by use of antifungal lotions, readily obtainable as OTCs and need no professional treatment. Ointments such as clotrimazole, butoconazole, miconazole and terconazole areidentified to effectively tackle the jock itch and other common yeast infection symptoms.

Nystatin and oral cures such as lamisil and fluconazole are only administered when the male yeast infection endures to unbearable stages and fight the above-mentionbed antifungal medications. If the males agonize urinary yeast infections, it may intend togo through a process that will remove and/or change the tube. Bladder irrigations are other methods of treating male infections. This uses custommedication such as intravenous or oral fluconazole or amphotericin B.

Any of these medicationsshouldcure a male yeast infection but incase the patient has a weak resistant system, or an underlying illness, yeast infection is bound to recur hence further, powerfultreatments should be practiced through the advice of a specialized doctor. By and large|In general, an successful male yeast infection treatment is one that will dispose of all likely toxins in the body, and combat the overgrowth and advancement of yeast.

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Panic Attacks are scary. Do you suffer from them?

2009-09-12T01:29:00.000+02:00

Panic Attacks can be very scary. Especially the first one. After your first panic attack it is always in the back of your mind that you may have another one. This can then bring on an attack for no reason. This is no way live life. Believe me I know, I have suffered from many panic attacks. You never know when you are going to suffer an attack and this makes it worse. The feeling is of helplessness and can stop you from living life the way you should. The attacks can stop you from doing the things you love because you are afraid of having a panic attack. I am so glad that I don’t have to live like this any more as I can now enjoy life to the full without being scared. If you are not sure whether you have panic attacks then you need to find out what the symptoms are so that you can control them or stop them completely.

Are you suddenly hit by a great fear that you are going to die and find it hard to breath?
Do you feel like you are going to pass out?

If you said yes then you may be having a panic attack.

Panic attacks are not life threatening, but they are scary. If there is no medical reason for the feelings you are having then the likely hood is that you are having a panic attack.

Panic attacks can hit when you least expect it and thinking about maybe having an attack can bring one on.

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Hot sweats. Heart Palpitations. Finding it hard to breath. The more you think about it, the worse it gets…Chances are you are having a panic attack. Once you have one the chances are you will have another. It is very hard to not think about it, and the more you do, the more chance you have of having another attack. they won’t kill you but it does scare you and they are constantly on your mind, which can then trigger another attack. These and other similar uncomfortable sensations are all too common but the truth is you do not have to ever suffer from another panic attack or anxiety attack again . Read one of several testimonials of people who have been cured. “I have never written in response to a program that I have ordered but I wanted to let you know that in 3 days I feel better than I ever have after months of therapy and some other online programs.” Eric Read more testimonials by clicking on the site below. http://www.panicaway.com/index?hop=paulie65 Don’ t live with panic attacks!!!!!!!!! Live a fear free life. Find out how. Don’t wait. Click Here! http://sites.google.com/site/easyincomeonlinebiz/health-beauty-1

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Cincinnati Race for the Cure--Sept 12th

2009-09-11T18:06:00.000+02:00

Don’t forget to sign up for the Cincinnati Race for the Cure tomorrow! You have many different places to sign up to walk in the race that is being held at Great American Ballpark.

Even if not in Cincinnati and want to find a Race you can here.

Also to support the Komen Organization:

Q102 is also holding the Bras Across the Bridge throughout the rest of the month check out their website for more details. One of the great things about Bras Across the Bridge is that Cincinnati Tan has offered to donate a $1 for every bra donated up to $5,000!

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Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute Dr. Benjamin Neel

2009-09-11T01:25:00.000+02:00

Date of lunch:

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The company:

Dr. Benjamin Neel is the director of the Ontario Cancer Institute, at the University Health Network and Princess Margaret Hospital. He has been in this post for about 3 years, coming from Boston where he had been working for over twenty years. Specifically, Dr. Neel is the senior scientist in the Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, studying stem signaling, looking for a cure for all types of cancer. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had cancer affect a person that they love so I really was interested in speaking with someone on the front lines. I checked out the Princess Margaret Hospital online and requested a lunch with Dr. Neel through the site. This lunch has been about three months in the making – as Dr. Neel is extremely busy – so I was really glad to finally sit down and chat.

The food:

We ate at Mercatto at College and Elizabeth. It’s a nice place, great patio. I had a wild mushroom pappardelle and Dr. Neel had the daily soup (it was mushroom) and a tomato crostini. We both drank water. My meal was delicious. My one complaint about this place is that the ceiling is really high and with a busy lunch crowd, it was very loud and difficult to hear and have a conversation. But all in all, I will definitely be back, this time on the patio. The bill was $34 with tax.

The lunch lesson:

It was great for me to hear that a big part of Dr. Neel’s life is collaborating with other researchers around the world. In the next few weeks, he is going to Switzerland and Germany. He says people think it’s super competitive between researchers but really, there is strong collaboration. He said there are things he can do that they can’t do in Switzerland and vice versa. So they work together and learn from each other. Of course, there is a level of competition, which is a good thing because it often forces people to do better – but I was glad to hear that researchers around the world are not all working in isolation. The more minds we have together on a problem, the faster, I think, a solution will come to be.

The lunch:

Before I begin to write about this lunch, I have to admit up front that I know nothing about medical research. I mean I read the paper and listen to news about new treatments but I don’t know a lot about the findings along the way, which as Dr. Neel pointed out, is usually how these things work. So this was a huge learning experience for me.

Dr. Neel talked about how there is a real misconception in the public that research is about big breakthroughs in the lab. What it’s really about is building upon findings over the course of years and even decades. Something that was discovered in the eighties, built upon in the nineties could then be built on again this year and provide a new clue or treatment. If we do go back a few decades, Dr. Neel pointed out, huge steps have been made. Cancers such as childhood leukemia used to be nearly universally fatal and today are nearly universally curable. But it’s other cancers where progress has been slower such as breast, lung and brain. It is these cancers that perhaps in 10-15 years we will see more advances.

When I get stressed out, I often say to myself “I’m not saving lives here” just to put my stress level in perspective, calm down a bit and in the end be more efficient. But as Dr. Neel was explaining his extremely hectic schedule, I couldn’t help but think that him saying that might not work as well.

Dr. Neel also pointed something out to me that I never knew. He said that, for example, a breast tumor that is 1 cm in diameter is one billion cells. So if the growth is slow and they start from a single cell, the tumor can be growing for ten years before it is even noticed. I don’t know if this information is practical for me in any way considering I worry about everything (I may have said in the middle of our lunch “so I could have it right now”), but I just never had known that before.

I left this lunch thinking how admirable it is that there are people in the world that dedicate their entire lives to discovering a cure for something like cancer that causes so much pain in so many lives. It was really nice meeting Dr. Neel and learning a bit about the research being done at Princess Margaret. I hope that one day Dr. Neel’s job is obsolete but in the meantime, I am glad we have people like him and his colleagues in the labs trying to get us there.

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A plant that offers swine flu cure!

2009-09-10T07:04:00.000+02:00

A plant that offers swine flu cure!

Chinese scientists have found that the roots of a plant have powerful natural substances that can kill the H1N1 virus.

Researchers Fang-Rong Chang and Yang-Chang Wu identified chemicals in the extracts of the “Dung of the Devil” plant, which were more effective against the H1N1 virus than the antiviral drug currently available for the flu.

The report will be published in the Sept. 25 issue of ACS’ Journal of Natural Products.

The plant biologically called ferula assa-foetida, is found in Iran, Afghanistan and mainland China.

The authors say: “Overall, the present study has determined that sesquiterpene coumarins from F. assa-foetida may serve as promising lead components for new drug development against influenza A (H1N1) viral infection.”

The plant was also used as a remedy during the1918 Spanish flu that took a toll of nearly 100 million lives.

However, the antiviral capacity of the plant was not fully confirmed until now.

bron: timesofindia.indiatimes.com [10-9-2009]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

2009-09-09T01:13:00.000+02:00

As many of you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I try to design a t-shirt every year for CafePress. This year I designed two. The first shirt is a re-work of my Cruising with My Peeps design… now you can Cruise with your Pink Peeps. The second is word art about Breast Cancer.

I went through my own little scare this year with my mammogram. I am very lucky that 1. I have medical insurance, and that insurance pays for yearly mammograms; and 2. The “spots” on my mammogram have disappears and I do not have tumors.

If you are over 40, please get a mammogram. Whatever age… donate to Breast Cancer Awareness with your time, a walk, a click, a story… anything you can give.

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Clinical breast exam controversy

2009-09-04T19:44:00.000+02:00

A recent study discusses the “controversy about whether adding clinical breast examination (CBE) to mammography improves the accuracy of breast screening.” The study was published online on August 31, 2009 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The study of women in the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) discusses the rise in false positives when women have a clinical breast exam at the same time as the mammography exam. The conclusion of the study is that “women should be informed of the benefits and risks of having a CBE in addition to mammography for breast screening.”

This is an interesting study with a worthwhile conclusion. My concern with any controversy is that it adds to the confusion felt by some women, who may throw up their hands and stay away from screening altogether. I hope this won’t be the case as I believe that women, and men, should be tuned in to the importance of the early detection of cancer.

I understand the fear that women experience when they’re recalled for follow up after a mammogram or when a lump is found on a clinical exam. I was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 1986 because screening mammography was not available and my doctor refused to order a mammogram. This resulted in a greater load on the health care system than if it had been detected earlier since it involved surgery, chemotherapy, and longer follow up. There was also a much larger fear factor for my self and my family than if the cancer had been found sooner.

I think we need to do more to help women get through “false positives” without fear and anxiety. The point remains that it’s better to find cancer earlier than later, and to reassure women that it’s better to go through a false positive diagnostic process than to take a chance on letting an unfound cancer grow larger.

There are a couple of basic issues which contribute to false positive mammograms. As a mammographer, I have explained to many women about the challenges of reading mammograms. Breast tissue is formed in branches like grapes so that if the branches are on top of each other in the images, then it’s difficult to tell what’s there; women may be asked to return for further X-rays, either coned, a different angle, or ultrasound. This does not mean there is something wrong with the tissue, but that the radiologist needs more information to make an accurate diagnosis. Similarly, looking at images of dense breast tissue is more challenging as it’s like looking through a tree full of leaves in the summer. As women age, the dense tissue turns to fat and mammograms are much easier to read as they are more like looking through a tree in the winter.

If women are educated to know that the early stages of a mammography work up are a matter of gathering information, then it will relieve some anxiety. False positives from CBE’s are usually from feeling a lump or thickening. Since 80% of breast lumps are benign, it makes sense that they can be viewed calmly if they can be viewed as probable cysts or normal breast lumps, not cancerous growths.

Breast self examinations (BSE) are often not recommended due to the fear factor of false positives, and I hope that CBE’s will not be viewed in the same light. Mammograms are the gold standard in the detection of breast cancer; however, they are not perfect and I believe it’s in everyone’s best interest to continue to do both monthly BSE’s and annual CBE’s with a health professional.

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Systemic Yeast Infection

2009-09-04T13:28:00.000+02:00

Systemic Yeast Infection can also be referred to as systemic Candidiasis or opportunistic infection. Candidiasis, the main culprit of yeast infection is classified into three levels depending on the extent of severity; occasional yeast infection such as vaginal Candidiasis or oral rush, recurring or chronic Candidiasis and systemic yeast infection.

Systemic yeast infection is considered a very severe status where Fungus Candida infiltrates or permeates into the deep inner parts of the body. The condition comes about when Fungus Candida explodes from its standard yeast state to a farmful type of fungus. Typically, Candida occurs naturally in humid area, warm portions of the human body like the mouth, intestines and vagina.

When the body’s immune system is unable to check the multiplication of Candida .i.e. like when the human body is constrained to leverage sugar/acid balance and/or toxins in the intestine, a yeast infection will aggravate to a systemic one. As a result, Candida will spread in almost all human body parts such as the eyes, esophagus, liver, skin, the blood, and the respiratory and digestive systems.

Compared to other types of yeast infections affecting only the areas in question, a systemic yeast infection affects the entire body. Also, it exacerbates symptoms like lethargy, fatigue, debilitation, migraine, dizziness, muscular pain, sensory disorders, breathing disorders, rectal itching and other gastrointestinal complications such as diarrhea, thrush and constipation.

There is no specific culprit linked to systemic yeast infection but it has proven to get developed thru various things like body internal conditions like deficiency in white blood corpuscles, unhealthy immune system, unhealthy diet and lifestyle, loss of benevolent bacteria and an ignored mild yeast infection.

To deal with systemic yeast infection, patients are advised to look into their dietary program and to seek medication specifically customized to aid the body return back to balance and treatment that will fight excess Candida and flash toxins out of the body.

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Miles for Melanoma of Delaware, September 20, 2009

2009-09-02T12:33:00.000+02:00

I created a Team Smitty for the 5K run/walk. Last year, John, Nathaniel, I did the 5K walk

The Smith Family, Mary, John, & Nathaniel

We were also joined by the O’Rourkes

O'Rourkes at 2008 Miles for Melanoma 5k. Samantha, Wendy, & James

So… if you’re interested in running or walking we’d love to have you on Team Smitty. If you’d like to donate… every dollar helps…

Here’s the registration page – http://www.firstgiving.com/teamsmitty

More info on the race can be found here- http://www.miles4melanomade.org/

The funds raised from the Miles for Melanoma of DE go directly to the Melanoma Research Foundation. The Melanoma Research Foundation has 3 goals- to research, to educate, & to advocate. Their research description explains why I support their cause, “To support medical research for finding effective treatments and eventually a cure for melanoma.” What I wouldn’t have given for a cure… sigh… I can tell you that I used their bulletin board to gain more information about melanoma and treatment options available. I can also say that Anna Marie Farrow, co-founder for Miles of Melanoma has been such a wonderful support to me during and after John’s illness.

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No Cure for Love

2009-09-02T01:02:00.000+02:00

Doctor says no cure for love, you’re healed by necessity in the fullness of time. Small relief for big suffering. I am a victim of Peace of Mind.

Big boat to the car mechanic. Healed by a loving touch. Twenty-five car years is 100 people years. Maybe it was spark in those old plugs. The car purrs.

There was no warriors’ meditation, no bike ride in the high meadows between the Olympics and the Cascades. It is peace in non accomplishment. That which rises twice in brightness by honoring what is right.

Uber trainer to the stars suggests we skip swimming in the morning, as well. I thought he said swimming and drowning and told him emphatically no. It’s settled. A minor deviation in routine is no cause to crumble.

Solidly flexible here. Healed, not cured. Week Eight. Eighty-Six weeks to go on the Port Gamble to Talkeetna trail.

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CURE Childhood Cancer Honors Avery Schroeder

2009-09-01T02:00:00.000+02:00

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Join us today, September 1, 2009 as CURE Childhood Cancer honors CURE Kid Avery Schroeder. Join our fight as CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time. Donate to Avery’s Fund.

Avery Schroeder’s Story:

I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphatic Leukemia on April 8, 2005, I was 11. My symptoms were back and leg aches. They started in January 2005. It was not daily that my back and legs hurt, it was every now and then. In March 2005, at the spring parent-teacher conference my teacher Mrs. Brown advised my mom to have full blood work on me, because my coloring wasn’t always right. My mom thought I was just being 11.

On April 7, 2005 I went to the pediatrician for blood work, when I got there the doctor also thought I was just being 11. So they just did a finger prick. A normal hemoglobin count is between 12-14, mine was an 8. They decided to do full blood work. The next day the pediatrician called and said that my blood had “coagulated” and they needed another sample, but this time at Scottish Rite. My mom and I remained unphased. We went to the hospital and got the blood drawn, my mom asked how long it would be before we knew the results, the Dr. said within the hour, there was a runner in the room. We went home and my mom started cooking dinner (fish and broccoli because she thought I had an iron deficiency) there were 9 minutes left on the timer, and the phone rang it was the Pediatrician, she said, “pack Avery a bag and bring her to the ER”. We both were still clueless. As soon as we arrived, they rushed us into a room and began preparing my hands for an IV. The nurse, who was doing this, told me that I either had Anemia, Leukemia, or some other disease with a very long name. I asked what leukemia was, because I didn’t know. She told me it was a blood cancer. After they left I asked my mom if she thought I had cancer, and she said, “Not in my wildest dreams!” Just after that, Dr. Allen Anderson came in and asked my mom to step out of the room, I told him, “No you tell me right here.” So he came over to me, knelt by my bed and told me that I had Pre B Acute Lymphatic Leukemia. I was in total shock, I don’t even know what my initial reaction was, but my first question to him was, “Am I going to die, when?” He told me not to worry, and that I had a very good chance of surviving.

My treatment lasted 27 months. I spent 48 nights in the hospital, 25 spinal taps, 8 blood transfusions, 3 platelet transfusions, 5 different types of chemo, and 75 + clinic visits. On August 1, 2007 I finished treatment and I am now an official cancer survivor.

My story might sound challenging and hard to endure but I survived. In the past 4 years I have lost 11 friends to cancer and have countless friends battling this terrible disease. What is surprising is that not one of my chemos was made specifically for children, most chemos are designed for adults and pediatric oncologists hope they will have the similar effects on children. So here we are children most of whom are under the age of 16, who have barely had time to live life, let alone be kids. For someone who has battled childhood cancer and who has lost many friends to this horrendous disease, this is hard to understand. We need to make a change and start saving all of the fighters!

In her own words: Avery Schroeder

About September & CURE’S Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time:

September is recognized as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This September, CURE Childhood Cancer has committed to raising awareness and raising money to help find a cure for childhood cancer in our lifetime and put an end to this terrible disease through a special program CURE’s Kids Conquer Cancer One Day at a Time!

Please help us in our goal of raising $30,000 in the month of September while honoring special CURE kids each day of the month who have been affected by childhood cancer.

For more information, please click here

About CURE Childhood Cancer:

Founded in 1975, CURE Childhood Cancer is dedicated to conquering childhood cancer through research, education and support of patients and their families. Since its establishment as a grass-roots organization, CURE has focused its efforts on improving the care, quality of life, and survival rate of children with cancer.

The founders, parents and a dedicated pediatric oncologist, joined forces to support laboratory research that would translate into immediate care for children with cancer.

Since that time, CURE has raised millions of dollars to fund cutting edge research at the Aflac Cancer Center Blood Disorders Service at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine.

Through innovative programming, CURE also provides support for stricken families, providing them comfort and support during their time of devastating need.

Donate to Avery’s Fund

Visit us online at www.curechildhoodcancer.org for more information.

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If you have epilepsy, you must read this…

2009-08-31T16:14:00.000+02:00

Although epilepsy in America is as common as breast cancer and takes as many lives, it is still considered an “orphan” disease, according to NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases.) Yet, more than 3 million Americans are affected by it—more than multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and Parkinson’s disease combined. My guess is you are too…or someone you love.

But there is hope on the horizon…

Susan Axelrod’s organization: CURE: (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy.) is as good as it’s name implies. It’s a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for epilepsy by raising funds for research and by increasing awareness of the prevalence and devastation of this disease. Their purpose is to support research with the goals of “no seizures, no side effects,” along with advancing the search for a cure, elimination of treatment side effects; and the reversal of damage caused by frequent seizures. So far, CURE has helped raise federal expenditures for epilepsy research from $68 million in 1998 to over $100 million through the National Institute of Health.

The Epilepsy Foundation of America®is a national voluntary agency dedicated solely to the welfare of those with epilepsy in the U.S. and their families. They have education, awareness and support programs and a dedication to ensuring that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; to improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued in society; and to promote research for a cure. If you go to http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/ you can find a local chapter in your area.

Epilepsy.com provides in-depth information and a community for people living with epilepsy. The mission of epilepsy.com is to inform and empower patients and families facing newly diagnosed epilepsy or those struggling with epilepsy that has resisted treatment. It is also the home of the Epilepsy Therapy Project whose mission is to create a powerful resource for everyone involved in caring for, or treating, those with epilepsy. So far, the Epilepsy Therapy Project has raised more than $6 million towards its mission.

I’m sure you can find even more resources on the web, but personally, these are my favorite three.

However, for this education, awareness, support and research to happen, funding is imperative. Therefore, you need to educate those around you so that they become informed — rather than misinformed — about epilepsy. Take epilepsy out of the “orphan disease” category and make it a condition that people understand instead of fear.

Turn the tables today and become an advocate. You’ll feel a whole lot better about yourself. I know that I do.

Resources:

www.cureepilepsy.org/

www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

www.epilepsy.com/

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