Posted on 01/18/2008 4:54:24 PM PST by WFTR
That’s an interesting thought. Does he take the garlic only when he feels a sickness coming or does he take garlic at all times? If he’s taking the garlic always, maybe garlic would boost my immune system.
I remember when I lived in Louisville, Kentucky and used to drive home to East Tennessee for holidays. I'd always leave after work on whatever day preceded the holiday and not arrive home until about midnight. At that time, I listened mostly to gospel music, but if I was tired of my tapes and couldn't find a gospel station on FM, I'd scan the AM dial. At night, I'd get all kinds of stations. I mostly remember trips in the winter when darkness would come quickly. I'd be driving for home around seven o'clock eastern time, but I'd sometimes catch a Chicago station that was still giving traffic reports. The Chicago stations have refined the whole thing to the extent that they seem to be talking in code to anyone unfamiliar with how their traffic reports are given. I had no idea what they were saying, but I always found listening to be interesting for a little bit. Catching hockey games from New York or Boston was always interesting as well. Again, there wasn't the same sense of strangeness that one gets from the after midnight talk show people, but the whole experience of driving in the darkness and hearing those strange stations from far away was interesting.
Bill
I suspect that a monogamous sexual relationship would be much more pleasant that picking one's nose and eating the boogers.
I always remember that God said, "It is not good for man to be alone." That quote didn't come from a secular psychologist, Playboy magazine, or a lukewarm, backslid, social gospel preaching pastor. I don't know whether the study was conducted well or whether the researchers simply had another agenda. I do lean towards the belief that most people are intended to have partners. If that belief is true, then I can believe that most people are going to be healthier in that marriage relationship than they would be either being celibate or having multiple partners. Of course, one must still exercise wisdom in choosing a partner and choosing the time to enter that relationship. I believe that my immune system would have been stronger if I had found the right person.
I don't know whether my nephew gave me a cold. He was fighting something when I visited, but my dad caught something as well. I've heard people talk about their children bringing home all kinds of things.
Actually, the bathroom thing shouldn't be all that connected to colds. The germs that cause respiratory infections have nothing to do with going to the bathroom. I'm pretty picky about washing my hands, but when I do, I'm worried about a different set of germs.
It's funny, but I use hand sanitizer a great deal when dealing with my reptiles. When all is said and done, there's very little that I can catch from them. Humans and reptiles don't respond to the same bacteria or viruses, so they can't pass much to me. I should worry more about hand sanitization when dealing with other people.
I've heard that most respiratory bugs actually enter our bodies through our ears. The article that made that claim suggested dripping a little hydrogen peroxide into the ears every day during the cold and flu season.
Bill
I’m single, not a a monk. ;-)
I do believe that children carry more colds than adults. They are constantly in contact with others -- in school -- and their immune systems are often being introduced to new germs for the first time and so have not yet developed immunity. As we grow to adulthood, we develop more and more immunities.
Travelling definitely puts one in contact with new organisms, with the likelihood that there are some we haven't yet developed immunities to. I addition, today's travel often involves being closed in (as in an airplane) with numbers of strangers, thus exposure to new organisms.
As it happens, I'll be getting on an airplane this week, with a compromised immune system due to chemotherapy. I'll be carrying surgical masks as a precaution.
I would echo that, snugs. Additionally, my daughter, who likes Sunny D, and is also trying to lose weight, read the ingredients list, and noted that the second highest ingredient is added sugar.
I have had that, but it began after esophageal surgery. It's been six months, now, and the surgeon is concerned. I also have had anemia for more than a year now. I took a video barium swallow, but don't have the results yet.
... Myth Busters usually makes for some good recreational/lazy watching. Or perhaps Jeeves and Wooster.
I, too, watch Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch, etc. -- as you say, "lazy watching." But I would love some Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. P.G. Wodehouse has long been one of my favorites. Where do you find them?
Colds aren't the only thing contagious. I attended a house party, and went to the bathroom. When I lifted the seat, it was obvious that someone in the house had (as my Mother used to call it) "the dire rear." Washing didn't help. I wound up in the hospital for five days due to dehydration.
1: Drink lots of water. It helps to flush out the stone.
2: Get a urine strainer to capture the stone. You'll also need to either urinate through the strainer or urinate into a container and then pour it through the strainer. If you see something that looks like a grain of sand, save it in a container and take it to your PCP or a urologist for analysis.
The best weapons against kidney stone-related pain are dilaudid and toradol. Awesome stuff.
When all else fails, come to the ER. Gunner
But he didn't say that books are the ONLY sure friends!
;-)
Good luck on your trip. I hated air travel and have stopped taking air trips. The masks are a good idea, but I wonder whether security people are going to find an excuse to give you grief about them.
My first husband finally started watching and after a while, I started calling him Jerrry and he started calling me Elaine. Even our sons get it.
You have to understand that it is a "show about nothing" and that they pretty much show us the quirkiness of the variety of personalitied that people posess through little "nothing" funny situations.
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