Tell me, men, what is so hard about wiping any pee you got on the seat?  I shouldn't have to inspect everytime I need to sit on a toilet! When it's the middle of the night I don't want to look (my vision is blurred at that time anyway and I can't tell!), let alone clean it up.

If I hear "You try aiming from standing up and having a little dribble when when you're done" one more time I'll scream. What-that prevents you from having the ability to clean up after yourself?

Notice I put this under the "health" category. That's because I have decreed that anyone who gets caught doing that again has to lick it clean. And that's not healthy.

Am I right, ladies?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/health/ 14hiv.html?bl&ex=1226811600&en=69c9c3988c55907d&ei=5087%0A

Someone in the article says they would rather take the AIDS medication, I can't help but wonder it that person knows what an AIDS patient has to take. The AIDS medications are not as wonderful as most people think, they often have horrible side effects (diarhea, headaches, etc). There are often several pills that need to be taken several times a day and night, some require being taken every 4 hours.

I don't know about the rest of you but I'd take a chance with the bone marrow transplant, AIDS would kill me eventually anyway so why not take a chance for some sort of a normal life?

I'm also surprised that the doctors in the story were so quick to dismiss this! It's almost like they don't want a cure to be found, it must be a money thing. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this is supressed, never to heard about again.

How would you like this to happen to your family?  You have a specialty that is needed in another country, go over there to help and want to bring your family with you only to get denied because your child has a "special" medical condition?  I think that this is discrimination.  I am so angry and upset right now from reading this that I want to write a letter to the government there and give them a good piece of my mind, and then send a letter to the family for my condolences.  I know one thing, this country was on my list to visit before I died…well, not no more!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_residenc y_denied

And not a SINGLE stem cell was used!!!

I hate these kid proof bottles! They can be a bear to open sometimes especially if you have wet hands. I can understand those of you who have young children wanting to have this type of bottle at home but the rest of us don't need it.

I also think the pharmacies should take into account thier customers needs when dispensing prescriptions. Child proof bottles are not senior or handicapped friendly. People with limited motor function or arthritis cannot open these bottles, the pharmacies need to take this into account and offer better solutions. Hell I am normal and have trouble getting the caps off sometimes. I've often wondered how many people have died becuase they could not get the medicine they needed?

Ain't THAT the truth . . . .

Walter Breuning of Great Falls said the secret to living a long life is staying active. And he should know. The retired Great Northern Railway worker celebrated his 112th birthday on Sunday. Breuning said that if "you keep your mind busy and keep your body busy, you're going to be around a long time."

About 60 people helped Breuning celebrate his birthday at the Rainbow Retirement and Assisted Living Community, where he has lived for 30 years.

Rainbow employee Merry Coats was one of them. She said Breuning has a great attitude and always focuses on the positive.

"He wakes up every morning, puts his feet on the ground, and it's a good day," she said.

As of Monday, Breuning was the 27th oldest person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group's Web site. The site lists 115-year-old Edna Parker of Indiana as the oldest.

Breuning was born in Minnesota in 1896 and moved to Montana 90 years ago. He told partygoers about the changes he's seen over the decades, having lived in the days when there was no running water, to modern times when there are "buttons for everything."

Technological breakthroughs such as radio, TV, automobiles and computers make life more pleasant, but "sometimes I wonder if we appreciate what has freely been given to us," he said.

Breuning told the group to love and appreciate their family and friends, and "above all, thank God for the many blessings he's given us throughout the years."

"That is your Sunday sermon — and no collection," he concluded.

I work for a call center, as you may know, I find so many people just plain……simple.

I get a call from a woman who had a filling put in her tooth today and is still in pain. In order to dispatch a call to a Dr I have to ask for the name of the doctor who did the work.  I asked this lady for the name, SHE DIDN'T know! 

How in the heck do you let someone drill holes into your body and not ask thier name? I just don't get how people can be so casual when it comes to thier health, but will spend hours agonizing over what plasma screen TV to buy.  Personally no one touches me till I've seen thier medical degree and I'm sure as hell not letting them touch me till I get a name!  Here's hoping this twit inhales a little too much laughing gas next time!

Marathon hopeful, 101-year-old , training hard

Already Britain's oldest employee, 101-year-old Buster Martin now aims to become the world's oldest marathon runner by completing the London Marathon and celebrating with a pint of beer and a cigarette.

Sprightly and bearded, he completed a half marathon at the weekend in five hours 13 minutes. The former Army physical training instructor works three days a week for a London plumbing firm and says he has trained for the April 13th race in his spare time.

"I've said I'll attempt it," he told Reuters by telephone from his workplace at Pimlico Plumbers. "I haven't said I'll complete it. If I do make it, all the better. I hadn't thought of doing it before but someone asked me and the money goes to charity so why not?"

His sponsorship money will go to the Rhys Daniels Trust, which provides temporary accommodation for families of patients in specialist children's hospitals.

Martin, who had 17 children and returned to work at the age of 99 saying he was bored after two years of retirement, would beat the previous record for world's oldest marathon runner by eight years.

"If I finish, I'll do what I always do and have a pint and a fag," he said. "People ask what is my secret but I haven't got one. They say fags and booze are bad for you — but I'm still here, aren't I?"

and I was in the ER at Ochsner hosp for 3 1/2 hrs!  I'm such a 'tard.  my freezer in my laundry room needed to be cleaned and I had just gone to Sam's to stock it up again but before I put anything in it, I wanted to wipe it down on the inside.  it wasn't as dirty as my fridge that I cleaned last night, but there was some "drippage" from oozing stuff that had melted when the power was out.  so I was kinda going fast to hurry up to put the groceries in there and as I was squeezing the towel towards the back of the freezer trying to get in a tight crack where I was some mess, my fingers also kinda squeezed in there with it BUT it was my left MIDDLE finger that caught the brunt of the "attack" as I went to pull out my hand cuz it was such a tight fit it started to hurt me.  instead of "sliding" my hand BACK the way it came from, I YANKED it out and BAM!! and this was PLASTIC that cut me like this!  I had flesh flapping and blood squirting!!!  it looked just like some CSI crap!  I thought I'd NEVER stop bleeding! and MAN did that SH!T HURT!!  my finger was THROBBING!  I honestly thought I ripped it down to the bone!  this was about 7pm tonight.  the stupid after hours urgent care place was closing at 8:00 and it was already 7:30 by the time I was able to calm down and see that I needed serious help for this.  so we HAD to go to the ER.  got there about 8:oo and it was 10:00 before I was called in the back, another 1/2 hour before anyone came in there and then he did my stitches (4 of them) and that shot of novacaine HURT cuz he stuck me several time all AROUND my cut!! and it BURNED as it went in my finger each time!  I never had stitches before. then, I was done about 11:15.  THEN he said to wait for the nurse to tell me instructions and give me my script.  ok, simple right…NOT!  I sat there til 11:45 and STILL NOBODY CAME!!  so I see about 4-5 nurses sitting there and ask if anyone was gonna come cuz I had been finished for about a half hour.  then I see her get up and pull my chart from RIGHT IN FRONT of her and bring it to me!!!!  ALL THAT TIME WASTED!!!  for NOTHING!  I was watching them sit at the desk PLAY on the computer the WHOLE time!!!  meanwhile, I could have been home resting and David has to work tomorrow so he was tired and needed to get to sleep!!  he never usu. works Saturdays, but with all this hurricane crap, they're working tomorrow!

the bright side in all this is I can give a MEAN middle finger "bird" to anyone! 

OOHHHH LORDY!!!  I was SO NOT ready but I can't deny it anymore!

David and I have been trying to decide what to do AND where to go, but we just don't know where to go YET til about Sunday.  we are going to put all the things we aren't bringing with us in the attic, since that was the only "safe" spot last time.  I just hope that we DON'T flood again.  I don't mind the hurricanes and bad weather, I just don't want water in my house.  and even though this computer ISN'T a laptop, I'M BRINGING IT!!  I lost too much last time to make the same mistakes again.  so I'll hopefully still be able to keep in touch with ya'll.  I'll email you guys my cell # so you can text or call me.  I'll let you know my plans as we figure them out.

It was about some 'new' drug that is being recalled. That part I understand, but the WORDING in the end said, and I am NOT kidding, 'If YOU or someone you know has DIED, give us a call as you MAY be entitled to money.'

So, am I to understand that IF I DIED from said drug, I could be PAID!?!?!?! And How would I get said compensation? Would the money be BURIED with me? Wasn't ANYONE PROOFREADING this copy?

 In addition to being disabling, Migraines can be life-threatening. To put this in perspective, more people died from Migrainous Stroke last year than were murdered with handguns.

"They are common neurobiological and often life-long conditions occurring throughout the world that affect men, women and children. They have been shown to cause a huge burden of disability. WHO ranks Migraine as one of the top twenty causes of years of healthy life lost to disability.

Celebrities and historical figures with the Migraine disease include, among many, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Virginia Wolfe, Lewis Carroll, Mary Todd Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, and beloved American President John F. Kennedy just to name a few.

Migraine is disease, a headache is only a symptom. Migraine pain is caused by vasodilation in the cranial blood vessels (expansion of the blood vessels), while headache pain is caused by vasoconstriction (narrowing of the blood vessels). During a migraine, inflammation of the tissue surrounding the brain, i.e., neurogenic inflammation, exacerbates the pain. Therefore, medicine often prescribed to treat a headache, such as beta-blockers, dilate the blood vessels and therefore can make a Migraine worse.

      Unlike a headache, the Migraine disease has many symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, auras (light spots), sensitivity to light and sound, numbness, difficulty in speech, and severe semihemispherical head pain. One Migraine attack alone can last for eight hours, several days, or even weeks.

 Migraine is a genetically-based disease

 Migraine is a true organic neurological disease. A Migraine is caused when a physiological (not psychological) trigger or triggers cause vasodilatation in the cranial blood vessels, which triggers nerve endings to release chemical substances called neurotransmitters, of which the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HTT) is an important factor in the development of Migrain

Migraine is absolutely a biologically-based disorder with the same validity as other medical disorders including hypertension, angina, asthma, epilepsy, etc. Unfortunately, there have been many myths perpetrated in regard to this disorder. The most destructive of which are 'It is all in your head,' 'You have to learn to live with it,' and 'Stress is the major cause.

 A good example of an uncontrollable Migraine trigger is weather patterns. Another common uncontrollable trigger is the menstrual cycle. Controllable triggers, on the other hand, include bright light, chemical smells, second-hand smoke, particular alcohols such as red wine and some hard alcohols such as scotch, foods that are known vasodilator such as fish, some chocolate, aged cheese, and foods which contain nitrates and/or the radical vasodilator MSG.

MYTH: MIGRAINE IS NOT LIFE THREATENING, JUST ANNOYING.

REALITY: MIGRAINE CAN BE LIFE THREATENING, INDUCING SUCH CONDITIONS AS STROKE AND COMA.

      Migraine can induce a host of serious physical conditions: strokes, aneurysms, permanent visual loss, severe dental problems, coma and even death.

Twenty-seven percent of all strokes suffered by persons under the age of 45 are caused by Migraine. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in this country. In addition, twenty-five percent of all incidents of cerebral infarction were associated with Migraines, according to the Mayo clinic.

 Not only can the Migraine disease be life threatening, but it can have a devastating and disruptive effect on normal living. Migraine sufferers experience not only excruciating pain, but social ostracism, job loss, disruption to personal relationships, and prejudices in the workplace.

      Oftentimes people think that those with Migraines just can't handle life, or, in reality, are drug addicts or alcoholics. Such perception can be formed when, for example, people see a Migraineur wearing sun glasses indoors (photo sensitive), lying in a dark and silent room (photo and sound sensitive), making frequent trips to the rest room (nausea and vomiting), leaving early, working late, slurred speech, all what they may think is erratic behavior.

MYTH: ANY DOCTOR WILL RECOGNIZE AND PROPERLY TREAT MIGRAINE.

REALITY: MIGRAINE IS ONE OF THE MOST MISDIAGNOSED, MISTREATED AND LEAST UNDERSTOOD DISEASES.

      The fact that so many doctors don't take Migraine seriously can be as disabling to the Migraineur as the disability itself. The leading doctors in the areas of neurology and head pain have themselves stated that this disease is grossly misunderstood and misdiagnosed. In fact, 60% of women and 70% of men with Migraine have never been diagnosed with this disease. This medical ignorance and corresponding inaccurate writings unfortunately perpetuate the myths and misunderstandings about Migraine and convey this to the general public.

And if you are not a Migraine sufferer, then remember the next time you offer advice to the person in your life that suffers from Migraines, make sure it's not toxic (i.e., you need to avoid stress, cheer up, don't drink Coke, or other well-meaning but emotionally debilitating statements). Rather, offer to turn down the lights and the TV, and let them know you understand. Remember: Migraine is an "invisible" disorder. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "But a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!" Like Alice's Cheshire-Cat who sat in a tree revealing himself only to Alice, he nonetheless had great impact on her daily travels, as Migraines do on individuals who suffer from them. 

Did any of you see this last night on ABC?  I just saw the commercials for it, and decided I couldn't watch it.  So of course today I had to look it up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5535375&page=1

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news=325471&GT1=28103

she's younger than me!!  this disease HAS to be stopped!!

but luckily it was caught early and she should be ok.

I was talking to my cousin who works at a hospital as an accountant and something that I did not know was this.

If person goes in for an operation under Medicare for a Gall Bladder operation and they find a hernia they cannot operate on the hernia. If they do they eat it. They have to finish the operation then get authorization for the hernia and operate again costing tax payers twice as much then just a about a fourth of the amount more then if they operated on it right then and there.

He was telling me under private insurance they can operate on the Hernia and save them money. Another government abuse with out tax money. 

That was just one example he gave me but he says if they find anything else while operating they have to get authorization to work on it. They cannot work on it while they have the patient already opened.

But, it IS a Medical Journal of Scientist but it does go against the 'grain' so to speak. . .

"Drink 8-8oz. glasses of water a day". 

"Only eat certain kinds of fish (and a certain amount) because of mercury".

"Soy is good for you".

What do these sentences have in common?

These are what health officials have told us. Now they are saying they aren't true. They even changed the food pyramid! Make up your minds! "I'm so confused" :::Vinnie Barbarino voice:::

I spoke to my doctor about that and he told me bodies aren't interchangeable so work we with my needs, but STILL…

At least I can have good ol' eggs again.

Picture yourself walking down a nice quiet path in the woods, you can hear birds chirping, but they are in the distance. Picture hearing a bubbling brook up ahead, you are calm, you are calm, you walk on. . . .

Now just picture yourself next to this brook, or maybe a stream, you are calm as you listen to the water running by, you are calm, you are calm.

Now picture yourself holding that <enter name here>'s head under the water, you are calm, he WILL stop struggling soon, you are calm, you are calm. Now there is nothing but silence, you can’t even hear the birds, only sound now is the stream as it carries your disruptions away, because you STAYED CALM, YOU STAYED CALM. (C:}

DALLAS — What do "black hole," "angel food cake," and "devil's food cake" have in common?

They're all racist terms, says a Dallas County, Texas, official.

A county commissioners' meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county's collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.

"It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole," Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.

One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.

(by the way, take a look at the ad on that page, do you think it was a coincidence?

I don't think it should be possible. And being up here is such a hot spot for tourism, we get LOTS of interesting bugs going around. Summer is when the guys I work with travel LOTS (for weeks at a time) and they usually come back with something. 

Some of them have this head cold thing. Sounds rough, but I'm thinking I'd like it right now. My one coworker says to me today "Oh, you have the rumbling gut I had last week" and I knew who was to blame. I spent all day yesterday in the bathroom, and left work early today to spend some more time there. I did get a short nap, but I think that nap just helped set it in more. 

Thank god tomorrow is Friday.

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is an unpleasant experience for many nonsmokers, and for decades was considered a nuisance. But the idea that it might actually cause disease in nonsmokers has been around only since the 1970s.

Recent surveys show more than 80 percent of Americans now believe secondhand smoke is harmful to nonsmokers.

I will take 'responsiblity' for smoking caused illnesses (not that I have nor will ever have any) in MY body, but there is NO WAY it is causing any more disease than Channel #5 in someone NOT smoking!!!

This might bring some entertainment to you

http://www.li b.uiowa.edu/HARDIN/MD/lymediseasepictures.html

I took the kids down to my grandmother's house for the 4th weekend. My grandmother is looking to get her mom in a nursing home, because she is 96 and has demensia (sp?). Well, I use that to my advantage and toy with her because she is so fun to get worked up, then she forgets what was going on and it is like nothing happened. It's great!

We were sitting at the table, and I felt a little playful, so I start teasing Nanny, "I didn't know you had a tattoo!" She really doesn't, but it was just somethinng to get her worked up. She said "I don't! Who wants those nasty little things covering up beautiful skin?!" I turn my leg, and show her one that I have on my ankle. "Nanny, YOU took me to get this one, after we went dancing!" "Good Baptist Women DO NOT dance, and certainly DO NOT get tattoos!" She fired back. "Nanny, we went dancing and you met a nice man at the bar! Don't you remember? He gave us a ride to the tattoo parlor, you said you liked his tattoos, and that you wanted one!" Shit hit the fan! "I never talk to strange men, expecially ones with tattoos, what would my husband say to this?" (He has been dead for over 20 years–she doesn't remeber that either) At this point she is leaning in twards the table fussing at me, so I am leaning in too. "Nanny, I got this one, when you go the rose on your hiney!" Wrong move, Mandy. She starts in yelling, and I mean YELLING! I lean back in my chair and I am laughing. She stops for a minute, and there is silence. I don't say anything else, cause she is worked up enough. She leans back in her chair, and looks at me. I am still laughing. My mom walks in asking what the yelling was about. I say, Nanny was telling me a joke, and it is hilarious! So poor Nanny had already forgot the taunting that I was doing and starts laughing. "I forget how funny I am sometimes." was all she said.   

So my mom and grandmother need to go to the store, so I said I would stay with Nanny. So Nanny and I are sitting in the living room watching T.V., and E.T. was on. I haven't seen this movie is years, so I decided to watch it. Nanny, who frequently takes naps where ever she is sitting, is asleep sitting on the couch. She wakes up, and starts in with: "Change this mess. I don't want to watch this!" I tell her o.k., and flip through all the channels, and head right back to E.T. She already forgot. So within about 5 min, she starts in again. "I don't want to watch this mess!" So again, I flip through all the channels, and land back on E.T. Well this happens 4 more times! The 5th time, she starts in again with the I don't want to watch this mess, so I looked at her and I told her, "Nanny, you said you wanted to watch this! You said this was your favorite movie!" To which she replys, "Oh, This is my favorite part!" I smile, and go about with my movie……..just to repeat this battle a few more times before E.T. went home.

She knows and somehow remembers that we are trying to get her in a home with an apartment feel to it. She has lived with my grandmother for 6 years now, and keeps forgetting where she is, who's house it is and the like. I go in to check on her and she is packing her bags. "What are you doing?" I asked her. "Leaving! I don't like this horrid room!" So I say o.k., and walk out. A while later, she is walking out of her room, and she wants me to help "load up her bags"–she thinks she is leaving. I ask her "Where are you going?" She tells me she is moving to her new apartment. So I shrug my shoulders, and grab her bags. While I am putting them in the back of my truck, I am going on and on about how I am going to miss her and I will come and visit everytime I get a chance. Jaxson is at my grandmother's house, and the kids are down for a nap, so I tell him that I will be back in a little bit. So I load her up in the car, and she asked about her walker, and I told her that her apartment furnishes one and it will be at the door when she gets there. So we drive a couple of blocks, and go back to my grandmothers house. "Oh, it's beautiful!" she said looking at the outside of the house we just left. I just smile and unload her. She opens the door, and I tell her "See, Nanny, there is your new walker like I told you!" She doesn't remeber leaving it there when she was walking to my truck 10 min. before. I walk her back to her bedroom, and she says "This room is SO lovely, I know I will be so happy here!" I bring her bags in, and place them on her bed, and walk out of the room. I am in the kitchen fixing lunch when my mom and grandmother walk in from the store. As we are unloading the groceries, Nanny comes back out of her room. She said "Oh, I didn't realize we lived in such close quarters! I don't want to disturb you!" and walked back to her room. My grandmother looks at me, I shrug my shoulders and walk off……She'd beat me if she knew I was toying with my great grandmother so much! How she can remember she is supposed to go to a home, I'll never know, because she always tells my grandmother, "You are not Patsy! My daughter is much younger than you!" Oh, I can't wait to go back. 

My mom says "Shoot me when I get that old if I turn out like Nanny!" I always tell her no, because how am I going to have any fun with her if she is gone?

I hike a lot, and on Friday I found a tick on my stomach. Of course I freaked out and thought I could get Lyme's Disease.  I started doing some web research, and it might be too early, but I do not think I have it, but I came across this slide show that I think Conanabanana would like.

http:/ /www.medicinenet.com/bad-bugs-pictures-slideshow/article.htm

Alright, this is an honest question regardless of who is asking, so give me honest answers -

Is it true that when women live together, they eventually are all visited at the same time by 'Aunt Flo'? 

If this is true, is there a limit? What I mean is, do these women have to live in the same house/apartment or is just the same building enough? 

I was wondering because what a 'nightmare' for a building supervisor if his twelve story apartment building had every female occupant all cramping and what have you at the same time!

Or, is it 'time put in'? Meaning, does this phenomenon happen in offices as well? Afterall, a lot of those office workers are together for 8+ hours a day? Does that count?  

Remember, this is an actual question from someone that doesn't have them (although from someone MARRIED to someone that has them and is therefore loath to ask her for love of MY life!)

So, thoughts? Insights? 

'All' they had to do was to ask ANY teenager!!!!

Therefore, I ask now, what 'obvious' things can we all get some School or other agency to 'waste' money on us 'studying' this obviousness???

I will start; How about a study 'proving' that chicken soup is what cures the common cold? Since I have also heard that tequila and a blanket also cures it, how m,ujch money do you think we can get for THAT study?

I have lived in Los Angeles for 22 years, and have never seen a dead crow.  I saw a dead crow in front of my house over the weekend.  Now I just saw one when I was walking back from lunch. Gees, I just thought, is this the beginning of the bird flu???

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25123570

it may have been a little harsh for the kids, BUT maybe that's what they needed to make them realize the seriousness of the situation!

I got this link in an email…

http://aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf