Category: health

03/05/11 06:21 - ID#53768

Matthew's OK

Well, minus an appendix but he seems good and I ordered him TV so he can have a relaxing night of cable and delaudid.

He still can't drink liquids so they give him these sponges on a stick to wet his mouth.

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Category: health

03/05/11 11:02 - ID#53767

At the hospital with matthew

Matt was throwing up for like 30 hours when he finally decided to go to urgent care on main street at 1pm on friday. It took like 2 hours (not so urgent) to tell him to go to the ER for tests. At 1am on satutday he was getting a catscan. turned out to be his appendix and he is currently awaiting surgery.

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Category: health

02/08/11 12:20 - ID#53568

Finally, one good thing about allergies

Apparently, they help prevemt brain tumors

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Category: health

01/09/11 06:10 - ID#53418

Flouride in the water

This controversy seems like it has been going on forever. I don't think they should add it to the eater but what I want to know is, what does (e:tinypliny) think? Here is a listvof 50 reasons why they should stop the prgram

Floruide is one of the reasons I went reverse osmosis with our water. Sure, it wastes a bunch of water to make our water clear but I think its worth it considering flouride, the industrial chemicals, living down stream from west valley, the hexavalient chromium issue, etc. I mean, I know I am paranoid south stuff like this but we all agree the great lakes water is pretty gross.

tinypliny writes at 10:07:29 01/13/11 - Comment #60205: I believe in water fluoridation for many reasons that I probably need a post to explain it. I will do a detailed post justifying my stance maybe next week... One the surface, some of those 50 reasons sound logical (some of them are really silly!) but many of them are not really based on the principles and practice of epidemiology.

The controversy is when people forget or are not very clear that the concept of "population health" is never the same as "individual risk". The dynamics and statistics operate differently in each group for good reason. If public health measures were based on individual risk, we would never have had vaccines, never had antibiotics, never had any public hygiene... the list would go on. And you can see how widespread the confusion is because there are groups of people who oppose vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization and whatnot - all measures with evidence based benefits for population health.

I really need to make a detailed post about this. I think that would be good point to then agree or disagree with me. Because no science is perfect, I expect people to bring up logical fallacies in my thought and disagree. Should be interesting...

libertad writes at 06:18:01 01/11/11 - Comment #60196: The big question to me is why are we still putting fluoride in the water when there are so many reasons not to? I use the Britta filter but you really do have to change and clean those frequently. I was also thinking of getting a shower filter too. Does anyone have any ideas on those?

heidi writes at 06:47:24 01/09/11 - Comment #60185: I'm not (e:tinypliny), but I'm interested in the topic. I've found that and other lists of reasons before and I've also looked at it in the context of Appalachian dental issues. The mountain range's residents have about the worst teeth in the country. Bad dental health correlates with poverty and rurality. Places with fluoridation don't have lower cavity rates than places without. Seems kinda ridiculous.

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Category: health

08/28/10 04:30 - ID#52598

nothing about that mask

says sleep comfort

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Category: health

06/08/10 05:55 - ID#51827

looking better

now it just looks like a chunk of chickenwing on my arm. still hurts like heck. the peeling skin around it hurts the most. who would have thought walking to work could be so dangerous.

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Category: health

06/01/10 04:33 - ID#51771

ouch

running to work i slipped and fell on a wet puddle. the pavement ate my arm a bit

The worst part was picking the pavement parts out of my elbow and palm.

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Category: health

12/10/09 09:16 - ID#50535

Yeah for domestic partnership

He has health insurance after all!!

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Category: health

12/07/09 10:48 - ID#50497

The end of the world?

It looks like walgreens us getting ready for it. I keep just
imagining hordes of half zombie humans trying to get to the last
remaining supplies.

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Category: health

07/10/09 11:43 - ID#49258

I am sick?

So, I think I am getting sick with a real bad with a sore throat. It feels like the beginning of strep throat which is weird because I can't ever recall being sick at this time of year. It's always march and October. So that terifies me that it is swine flu or something.

I guess (e:enknot) was sick last week and he is not dead yet so let's hope it's all good and just a "summer cold"

The dilema. Because of my unbearable seasonal alergies, I have been on Claritin since the beginnng of may. It is the only thing that works for me. the level of allergies I have is worse than being sick. If I stop taking it I will become sicker than hell with allergies on top of being sick. But if I continue to take it, does it Lowers my immunity by blocking antihistamine production. Seriously, I just need to move away from allergy land.

After some research it seems like you can take claritan while sick so I guess that's good? The whole hing is really a myatey to me.