Welllp, today's the last day in Havasu. Goofed off all week, doing nothing but eat and sleep. Oh, yeah, and went to movies. Saw Sherlock Holmes and Avatar. Senior discount made tickets $6 each.

Sis used my computer to check her emails and to do a bit of exploring; along her own interests as well as some of the things we've been discussing this week about personal health. So, she sent me an email (on my own computer which of course I didn't get because I can't send emails to myself - I can move them from my outbox to my inbox, but I can't send...) Weird.

That last pot of coffee lasted 3 days. Not as coffee, but with milk, vanilla, chocolate and sweetner added, then drunk cold. They actually sell this stuff in stores for $1 per 12 oz can and, lemme tell ya, my frappachino tastes way better than the canned stuff. Anyway, made some fresh today - just got into it in the middle of that last paragraph. Strong. Much 'fresher' than what I have at home...

Anyway, getting back to that email, she found a natural health mag that some of youse might be interested in. The http is:

http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/

The headline topics change daily, but you can find articles on how Ritalin is killing children, about the 'pact' between the FDA and 'Big Pharma' to take natural remedies off the market and replace them with high priced medications with numerous side effects, MMS or Sodium Chlorite - the stuff I've been talking about (see 'Fight Section') and numerous other topics.

Anyway, it's fascinating stuff, and I hope some of you take an interest in it.

All caught up. There's only one chapter in book 2. And here I was, all ready for a new adventure. Guess I gotta wait until it comes out of Josie's head and intersperses down through her keyboard.

Got all the stuff I needed - a bag of sodium hydrocholorite, a bag of size '0' gel caps and a cute little thingie that you load up with 24 caps so you don't hav'ta dip each one into the bag. God, that stuff stinks.

Took the first one this morning. Been taking the liquid version for that last week or so, and the gel caps are alot stronger, but at least they don't taste like pool water. Note for reference: Don't take these on an empty stomach. Yeech! Burpies! Also forgot that 2 large glasses of water are supposed to go with these... Will know better next time.

Any changes? Well, it's hard to tell. I didn't feel as hungry at lunch, but that could be because my stomach was still upset. One thing... been having trouble keeping my blood sugars down. One day, it tests normal, the next day, it spikes. Most likely due to the fact that, when it's normal, I don't use as much insulin. On bad days, it takes sometimes 130 units to bring it down. For the last 3 days, though, it's been testing lower. Two days ago, and today, it was actually under 100. Yay! Dunno if the MMS stuff is influencing this, but if anything else occurs, I'll note it here.

For that magnificent argument from my Nemesis, that's what I get for being years out of date on my research. But he should know that I'm not accusing him of being 'evil'. I worked for 20 years at a company that manufactured off-road mining equipment. It was hard work, but at least I found something I was good at. I ignored the fact that the equipment I helped build tore great gouts in the earth in search for coal, iron and other minerals. That didn't bother me, though I use it as an excuse for walking away from a good paying job after giving them 20 years of my life. There were good people working there, raising families and stuff. I have no argument with anyone who works at a drug manufacturing company or even an employee of the FDA any more than I might have had with a Russian farmer back in the Cold War days. Just thought ya might like to know.

Still, there are those in high places who would happily do in the rest of us, and everybody's already heard all the old arguments and made their decisions about what to believe. It's almost like a religion, believing or not believing in 'The Great Conspiracy'. Call me paranoid, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean... and you already know the rest.

Wednesday - am $1500 poorer, but at least the garage is dry again.

Water heater broke. Fuuuuuu.... oh, sorry. It's 10-year warranty expired last August, it seems. So, upgraded from 50 gal to 75 gal tank.

75 Gallons? Wholy Mholy! Whut fer, Davy?

Well, wifey replaced the bathtub in her bathroom a couple of years ago... with this humongous indoor Jacuzzi. Since then, however, she's used it, maybe... 5 times.

Seems she could never get a tubfull of hot water to set her butt down in, so she's been just standing in it to take showers. I'm always poking fun at her for taking baths when we're on vacation, but she always comes back with the same argument - at least I have hot water, here...

I can take a long, 20-minute shower and have plenty of hot water, but she likes to broil her butt to a cute and delightfully bright red color, and if she can't do that, she just showers instead of bathes.

But now, she's got her wish... we got a bigger hot water heater to replace the broken, leaky one.

So, did she take a bath in it last night?

No, it was too late (after midnight when we retired), so she just showered.

She's been using MMS spray on her leg where she has this 25-year-old unhealed wound. The doctor won't replace her knee until she gets it all healed up, and she was pretty upset about that, mostly 'cause it's been a difficult part of both our lives for many, many years, and it was finally to a point where there was a deep ridge of scar tissue where the wound (which started out as a spider bite) was finally covered over and not leaking fluid anymore, but the doctor sed that 'healed' means that skin has overgrown the deep scar. And it hasn't. Never has.

After two applications, the scar tissue is breaking up. It was expected, as MMS is a powerful oxidant. But what's gonna happen next? Wifey's very unhappy about this 'new' condition, which seems to be a regression to when she had to keep her leg bandaged all the time so she wouldn't end each day with soaked socks, but we're hoping it will actually heal this time.

I should take pictures. Success or failure, it seems worthwhile to document this. Too bad there's nothing else wrong that we can test this stuff out on. (What? Am I complaining about being TOO healthy?)

Sis called yesterday - she collapsed during a stress test at her chiropractor's office, so she got sent to her doctor. And now she sez she's gonna get an Angioplasty! Gods!

This - after all that bullshite hipe about how superior she is with her physical stamina, always outwalking us old fat bags with a smirky grin on her face, going ahead to buy the tickets so there'll still be seats at the movies for us when we finally drag our poor, tired asses in there...

Plus, she 'knows' all these 'natural' remedies for controlling cholesterol buildup, and, I find out, she's never, never, ever tried any of them. She faked us out, totally, while at the same time, vigorously defending her favorite breakfast of chocolate milk and cheese sticks. (It's not real milk 'cause I'm lactose intolerant, and there's lots of protein in cheese.)

Yeah, right. So what caused that clogged artery? And just how is this little wake-up call gonna change your lifestyle?

God, the stuff she brings down to snack on when she visits... Well, I actually eat healthier than that, and so does she, when she's here - at least, from what I hear when she actually brags about the awful stuff she fixes at home when she's by herself. And I've berated her a couple of times about her eating preferences.

Is she so miserable she's trying to commit suicide by bad diet? Or is she just looking for attention... Plus, she never takes vitamins or mineral supplements. They cost too much money and she stopped doing 'all that stuff' years ago - message delivered in her typical, superior, all-knowing way. I am so mad at her I could spit snake venom!

I would think she'd be scared to death about this Angioplasty thing, but she's actually bragging about the fact that it's an outpatient procedure, and it only takes a couple of hours and she would go home afterward.

Crap. Six o'clock. Gotta go pick up wifey.

Yay for hot water! At home we have a boiler that heats the water as you use it, so no tank and no running out. It's supposed to use less energy too. But it does mean I can take ridiculously long showers, so maybe not...


When you say soaked socks, if this stuff making her bleed? Is more 'fluid' coming out from where the scar tissue has broken away? It sounds kinda scary. *hugs for Marg*
And you should SO take (and post) pictures.


You don't actually need to take vitamin supplements. You're much better getting nutrients from real, varied food. I know she isn't, and you can be angry at her for that (and for the way she treats you), but most of them are a waste of money.

Hi Murray

To answer a few...

Soaked socks are from the clear fluid that leaks from the edges of the wound or what collects beneath it, not blood. Ew, that would be gruesome. The problem she's having now is that the oxidation occurring is dissolving the dead scar tissue (that was expected). It's unpleasant, but she knows how to keep it cleaned out and sanitary. Unfortunately, this wound is so old that a lot of scar tissue has formed deep inside the leg, where it never healed properly. The tablets she's taking causes severe discomfort in that area of her leg as the scar tissue inside is also being oxidized, hopefully to make way for healthy regrowth of tissue. The discomfort lasts less than an hour, though, as calcium hydrocholorite only lasts an hour or so inside the body before it breaks down and becomes inert.

And yes, I am pissed off as sis for doing herself the way she does. Now that I think about it, there is a salad bar/restaurant here called the 'Souplantation', which has a terrific salad bar, as well as a fresh bakery section, a soup section and a pasta bar. Sis didn't take ANY of the salad fixin's, but went immediately to the pasta and fresh bread section. Dessert was chocolate pudding.

While I agree that most vitamin and mineral consumption is excessive and unnecessary, that is true mostly if a person actually eats stuff that's good for them, which sis doesn't. Also, she's let us know that she's been being told she has an 'irregular heartbeat' for several years, now, and she's simply ignored it. When she first found out, she could've tried some natural remedies for reducing cholesterol buildup before she started having these (I found out this has happened on several occasions) fainting spells.

So, anyway, that's what's going on here. Thanks for your concern about wifey's condition. I'll pass on your well wishes.

Bye4Now

Did wifey ever have the spider bite tested and verified as a spider bite?
It sounds a lot like a MRSA infection. If that is the case, it really does need to be completely healed before any sort of surgery happens.

This is a link to my recent bout with MRSA. I believe that without the proper antibiotics and topical stuff it would still be active. As it is, I have a lump of scar tissue that occasionally pains me. http://mamma-miller.livejournal.com/94213.html

When she told her knee specialist how she originally received the wound, she says she had the dead spider in a plastic bag to show the ER, and they confirmed it was a brown recluse.

Our family doctor told her several years ago that the wound won't heal because of failing lymph nodes, due to poor circulation. However, it's healing, now.

The depth of the wound is only half of what it was 3 weeks ago, mostly due to being spritzed daily with a powerful oxidant called sodium hypoclorite, which is allowed to set for a couple of minutes, then thoroughly rinsed off, as it will burn the skin if left on for a period of time. Internally, she is also taking calcium hypoclorite which I put into size 0 jell-caps. She tells me she can feel hypoclorite working on the wound inside her leg within a half-hour of taking it. The hypoclorite only lasts an hour or so in the body before it goes inert, breaking down into hypocloric acid which can be used by the immune system to fight anaerobic pathogens, so it is completely safe.

So whether or not it is (at this period in time) a spider bite that, over the years, became a case of MRSA, we've found something that counteracts the condition. I'm pretty sure it will be completely healed by our next visit to the doctor in a few months.

Also, in her ever-curious quest for new medical technology, she bought a hand-held Class 1 laser - this, after having had her wound lasered a couple of times by my chiropractor and noticing some change. So now, she treats her wound to a dose from her new Q-10 for 2-3 minutes every night. It seems to be speeding up the healing process, as I can see more progress in this last week than I noted in the previous two weeks of just treating it with hypoclorite.

===== 15 min break - wifey wanted to read your post and my reply

Wifey sez thanks for the .html page - she just now read it (she just read it out loud to me, and it seems Mamma Miller has a sense of humor very similar to wifey's), and sez thanks for your worries, too. But she caught the spider that did it, she sez (I don't actually remember that part, but my memory comes in bits and pieces and I've forgotten a lot of stuff), and over the years since 1983, her wound has been tested for 'staph' and other possible causes by several doctors to whom she has brought it to their attention. No doctor has ever been able to get her wound to heal despite all the huge 'know-how' of modern 'medicine'.

Only after we sought out unconventional Alternative Solutions did we find something that seems to work. We even tried a few modern religious procedures based on beliefs first practiced in Ancient China, which, despite being civilized 5,000 years longer than the rest of us, didn't even touch it. Neither Qi nor Theta helped, whether directed by acupuncture needles or fingers.

So as you may surmise, we've been searching for a long time, ready and eager to abandon our view of whatever, in favor of something that works. As a result, neither me nor wifey think like the rest of the people around us, as we recognize the fact that we are surrounded by lies and deceit, told to us and to others by 'good-hearted' people who devoutly believe what they say, even as they watch their loved ones die from 'incurable' diseases that have had the true cures viciously suppressed by those who would control and own us. But now, I'm getting a bit off the track of our original communication. I simply wish I could state the truth and be believed, but too much of the truth flies in the face of what all the 'good-hearted' people believe.

Anyway, Sam, thanks for your concern, and if you get the urge, look up sodium hypoclorite (MMS1) and calcium hypoclorite (MMS2) and see for yourself a tiny bit of the battle being waged between the big money makers and simple, inexpensive, workable solutions to many people's physical problems. And maybe once we have some of mankind's medical challenges conquered, we can begin to work on the spiritual ones... the petty sins, the lies and belittling we commit against each other that keeps us from being able to trust...

DanK

Ok, I give up - no way am I gonna make it 40 days with no blogging. (Just kidding, but it makes for an excuse to be 'absent' for a time...)

Lots of techy stuff been happening here - wifey installed two (not one, but holy crap! TWO) 1 terabite disk drives into our computer system. Then spent the next three days trying to get our various computers to talk to 'em! And to each other, as well. The one we call 'Pokey' ('cause it's so slow it's no longer internet compatible) took one look at those humongous drives and simply shut down. Haven't been able to even get it to boot up. (Haven't tried the 'backup' 5 1/4" floppy boot disk that came with it, but will - if I ever find it...)

The 'new' computer (only 6 yrs old now) reformatted itself automatically, as it was set to do, taking its lead from the vast size of the disk drive it was trying to access - and shut down. Took almost the entire two days and a bad case of hysteric nerves before wifey remembered something from the first year after we bought it.

What'd she remember? Well, it only works at one speed: 10 mbps at half-baud. You can set it to 100 mbps, but at that speed, it simply refuses to communicate with any external attachments - like the router that connects it to the internet - or to the other computers in our house. Bummer.

Anyway, managed to use up 1/4 of one terabite just backing up my music videos. (I have another external drive for my 'naughty' stuff.) So now I have all our music files backed up - one on what I call DasD-1 (a term used by main-frame computer people that means Disk Access Storage Device. A real DasD is the size of a rainbow type vacuum cleaner and has a hundred huge disks inside, each with its own read-write head and some incredibly impossible huge storage capacity way beyond anything available for home use. DasDs are what they use now instead of those big-ass tape machines you see in old James Bond movies.)

And I found out s/t about my little Toshiba laptop: It has a slot for an S/D card. Whee! No more making sure I have a USB port card adapter to download pics from my video camera or the car-cam when we're on vacation!

Also tech-wise - wifey bought a hand-held laser device (another reason she shouldn't be permitted to browse the web...). But in this case, she had good reason for the $900 purchase: She's using it to help heal the ulcer on her leg.

What with the rapid changes in the status of her wound with the advent of hypoclorite usage, she wanted to find something that works even faster. So she talked to our chiropractor, and he told her about a new laser device with a very reasonable price tag (compared to some of the monsters available on the internet). This is a small, hand-held multiple 6 laser unit enhanced with 4 infrared LEDs. The 6 lasers are tuned to various frequencies that reverberate to create what the inventor calls 'solitron' waves, which I already knew about from my background in radar. Only with the laser, the idea is to CREATE them instead of preventing them from occurring (In a radar unit, solitron waves create 'hot spots' in the conduit that can melt through and prevent the radar from receiving signals. When I learned about all this stuff, transistors were just becoming popular and radio waves for radar were conducted through square conduits which had to be very exactly lined up so as to prevent multiple-frequency buildup, but with the hand-held laser unit, the multiple-frequency buildup helps to penetrate deeper into the body.)

Anyway, now that you've skipped all that junk in the above para, I'd like to say that wifey's very happy at the results she's getting from the combination of these two 'alternative' solutions (though to tell the truth, as soon as she noticed results from applying the laser to her leg on a daily basis, it's getting increasingly difficult to get her to take those vile, chlorinated pills (a solution I've found for the taste is to encase the already encased in a size-0 capsule hydrocholorite in a capsule the next size up (size-00) just before she takes it. No smell, no vile taste - unless you burp after swallowing, then it's all there for your gastronomical pleasure, along with a bit of stomach gas. uug.)

A book that came with the laser has a whole bunch of information in it about acupressure points and places to put the laser for various bodily conditions. One that I've found works really well is the acupressure points for sleep and relaxation - on the cheek just in front of the ears. By the time I get the second side lasered, I can barely keep my eyes open. There's also a point on the lower-left-side of my back, just above that bottom rib, and if I laser that, my blood-sugar is about 30 points lower the next morning. Seems that the laser stimulates my pancreas to actually get off its fat, buried duff and produce some natural insulin. Also, we both use it on any achy arthritic joints, and it helps better than indomethicin or even Vicodin. Not sure about the spelling, as MWord doesn't recognize these terms, but it don't matter nohow.

So, now, I've started using the laser for about 40 minutes every night, using it on a tooth while waiting for a new cap, a chipped tooth (different one), my plugged-up ear that I've had for 3 years that the doctor wants to poke a hole in (and the attached, painfully swollen sinus right inside that area), my kidneys, my liver, my achy shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, and (with wifey's help) the bottoms of my feets. I'm even trying it on the back of me widdle punkin head (there's a spot of 'no-hair' there that I'd like to get rid of, but I've not got me hopes up, much, yet).

So far, I feel a bit better, but that could be that dastardly 'placebo' effect caused by the idea that I'm doing anything at all about my condition.

Just read Josie's blog, so now I'm worried about her as well. I have 'blackout' periods while watching tv and get really annoyed when I'm watching something and -suddenly - its over and I missed the end of it. So far, haven't had any blackouts when I'm actually doing something - like driving!?! For me, it has something to do with, I think, my interest level in whatever it is I'm doing, and whether or not I'm physically using my body or just watching TV or playing on the computer. Also has a lot to due with whether or not I've eaten recently - high blood sugar and all that will put me out like a light. But that don't sound much like whatever's happening to Josie.

Wifey's not been getting around well recently, so I've been spending a lot of time here at home, not going anywhere like - grocery shopping or to the gym at the chiropractor's... Got two exercise periods of about 1/2 hour each in so far this week, and I can immediately tell the difference - especially when I try to get up out of my easy chair. Funny thing - the exercise which effects the most change in me is: standing with the front half of my feet on the little square frame of one of the exercisers and working my heels up and down to stretch the tendons in the back of my legs. When I do that, my feet won't hurt for 3-4 days afterwards. Very worthwhile 3 minutes of time well spent. Another is simply standing up, then sitting back down. 10 times. Also takes about 3 minutes (do it twice, with a break after the first 10). Sometimes, those 2 exercises, along with 10 minutes on the Exercycle is the only workout I do. Just those keep me carcass fluid enough to continue functioning.

Aaaannnnd... it's raining again! Wut's wit all dis wet stuff anywho? This is California - land of surf and sun! These days, though, the surf is dribbling down from the sky and the sun is loong gone now, like in the song. Am extremely happy about being able to weather all this, um, weather. Used to be my joints'd lock up at the first hint of rain. These days, though, all I get is a mild discomfort, which I immediately attack with an array of beautiful flashing lights. Yay for modern technology.

Am glad, though, that we bought a house in a flat neighborhood - no sliding hills, no valleys with fiery whirlwinds roaring through and destroying everything in sight; nothing but mundane, boring trees that'll turn a beautiful shade of purple in another month or so, lining a row of boring slab houses (sorry, they're called 'ranch-style' now) with various common vehicles parked alongside - some drivable, some not. Can't remember the last time I saw a police car on our street, or a fire truck, or anything other than...

Oh, yeah. Contractors. Had TWO holes in the roof, which the recent storms quite happily pointed out (with the collapse of the ceiling in the spare bedroom). But it's all fixed now. Nice to have a nice Mexican guy living next door who has his own contracting service. He only had to drive next door. Now I guess I can't complain about him always parking his trucks in front of my house anymore, huh...

Wow, didn't know I was typing a book, here. Better stop and copy all this before trying to submit it; sometimes the browser times out when I spent too much time in one thread...

c-ya,
DanK

So I got:

The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.

in a pretty red typeface.

Stupid machine… (grumbling smiley goes here)

Aaaaand...

Another month has gone by, and it's birthday time for some of us here, Josie and me, anyway. Don't remember who else...

So, Happy birthday, gal. Didn't getcha anything. Didn't get me anything, either, as we decided not to celebrate since I get stuff all the time, so I can pick whatever I got in the last few weeks and call it me b-day present.

Kind've reminds me of the lyrics from a song I heard on an independent radio station last Xmas.

"Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, I didn't get you squat this year..."


Well, it was funny when I heard it.

Anyway, getting back to more mundane things...

Decided to fix the old computer that crashed a few weeks ago. S'not the first time for that old machine. Reloading Windows was fun... (Not!) and we're missing some files from... god knows where they came from. Windows works pretty much ok, but somewhere the files for networking are not there, so still got stuff to work on. Surprised the hell out'a me when I went into the computer room (read: spare bedroom where all the old tower jobs set collecting dust) and found wifey at 3 in the morning determined to get my old machine working on my birthday (so, really, that's my present - mostly because of the gigawads of games I'd collected over the years that don't work on the newer machines 'cause, well... we've all lost favored stuff to the 'advancement' of computer tech.)

Was thinking of fixing something special for lunch, today - chicken salad. I used to make tuna salad a lot, years ago when tuna was .79 a can and before there was dolphins and mercury and a lot less water in it, then I started saving leftover chicken (white meat, as leg meat don't make good salad fixin's, dunno why) and grinding it up, adding mayonnaise, a scrambled egg and some pickle relish. Haven't made any for several years, now.

And ended up adding mayonnaise to the grocery list, instead. Fooey.

Wifey's leg is coming along nicely. She wishes it would heal faster, but I'm relieved that it's healing at all. Ya know, if anything happened to her - like if she disappeared or something - I'd be the prime suspect on account of all the blood spackles in the bedroom and on the mattress. Be nice to buy a new mattress and carpet after she's all healed up. Gonna hav'ta learn not to spill stuff on it, though. Soda don't clean up very well and always comes back as speckles of ugly black spots no matter how well you think you cleaned it up.

Finally catching up on all the tv watching - i.e. the Olympics have been over for a week, now, and we're finally watching the closing ceremonies, today. Kind of like watching the New Year's day parade in the middle of January. Wait. We already did that.

Yay, Vancouver. 'The drought is over.' The fun part is fast forwarding through all those tiresome announcers who love the sounds of their own voices. Yammer, yammer, yammer, swwippe - Gone! Faster than the commercials.

Funnest events: the ski jumping and the downhill whatever where the skiers raced madly down, following the blue painted road as best they could. Really great crashes. Liked the ladie's ice skating, too - especially those sexy costumes. Wifey seemed to really like the luge events, with the guys in those goofy costumes racing along pushing their sleds to get them going as fast as they could then jumping in and rushing down that icy chute. I don't get it; you win because your country built the fastest sled? She also liked the men's ice skating. I didn't; those weird outfits are too 'homo' for me, but I sat through it.

Dullest event: Gotta be cross-country skiing, with everybody wonking along like a party of clown-foot penguins. Next after that was racing around a track on ice skates. Oh, yeah. What was with those guys racing down a hill on snowboards, all lined up one right after the other - I guess they were racing, obviously, but it was like watching a little choo-choo train trundling down the hill. Inside tracks were obviously the fastest, so why were positions 1 & 4 even used? Don't seem fair, somehow.

Anyhoo, nothin' much goin' on here... just sittin' and typin' and watchin' tv while tiring little sprinkles of raindrops paint droll designs down the sliding doors, mocking the cold, unused pool still visible in the dark evening light. Oh, well... mebbe in another month it'll be warm enough...

456.

That's how many months it's been since I said, "I do."

That's divisible by 12, by the way, so this is an anniversary as well as a month-a-versary. So... anything special we're doing?

Well... no. Just sitting around and watching game shows on the TV. Yesterday, we went to Tony Roma's and stuffed ourselves full of ribs. I think wifey may have had plans for today, but when she checked her blood sugar levels, she changed her mind. I don't mind not celebrating by going out to a fancy restaurant - I'm never hungry, anyway. I generally eat when she does and since one of my house-husbandy jobs is fixing food, she lets me know when I'm falling down on the job.

Planning on going out tomorrow, though. Hey, they just announced there are 9 Hooter's Girls on "1 vs 100", one of wifey's favorite shows. Hey, my computer just started reading what I'd typed when I tried to underline that "9" by pressing "CTRL"+"U". Weird. I never knew it could do that!

Anyway, just sitting back and hangin' tonight. Hope everyone else is doing as well.

Happy Annual Nursery!

What do you mean it started reading what you typed?

And, of course, yay for you and your wife.

I think he means the autocorrect which underlines things in red if it thinks you've spelled them wrong.

No! It starting TALKING to me, VOCALIZING what I'd typed. I didn't know it could do that, and I don't know how to get it to do it again.

But there's obviously some special set of special function keys that I punched...

Oh, and thanks for the yay's.