A few years ago a good friend of mine died of some form of cancer. At the time no one told me exactly what the cancer was, but I’m beginning to think it was Malignant Mesothelioma because he ran a cement company. I’m thinking that because I just found out that there is asbestos in insulation, roof shingles, cement, brake linings, flooring products, and textiles. The “textiles” part really worries me – because “textiles” generally refers to fabrics. Does that mean carpets and fabrics?
I really didn’t realize that asbestos was in so many products that we come into contact with on a daily basis! And I just found out that the symptoms often don’t surface until as many as 30 to 50 years after the exposure to the asbestos! With that in mind, I think that there is going to be a growing need for many blue collar workers to hire a Mesothelioma Lawyer in the not too distant future!
With the baby boomers were born, there was a massive housing explosion that created a lot of these products to be put into the general population. I think that the repercussions are yet to be fully seen. Yup, I think that I’m going to be knowing a lot of people who are going to be needing a find and hire a Mesothelioma Attorney in the next decade or so!
I find it interesting to see websites from other countries and I thank the Internet for providing us an insight to what is going on all across the globe. You never know where you are going to land when you start clicking online. Translating can be issue at times, but looking at sites from the U.K. and Australia are the best.
People in the U.K get hurt just as much as we do here in the states and they companies to assist them with their Compensation claims in order to get their just dues. If you get hurt, due to no fault of your own some one has to pay the bills no matter where you live, right?
I’ve been having a little bit of back pain lately and have decided to try one of those Wellpatch pain patches for a backache. Boy that patch sure was cold going on my back! After a short while, though, I could feel the chemical burn on my skin. I’m a skeptic about things like that working, but it does seem to be helping a little bit. Maybe it’s the placebo effect; I don’t know. But I think the next time I have a back ache I’ll give it another try!
My friend Candy and her hubby moved to Arizona about seven years ago. They moved to Arizona because they thought that the climate would be better for her hubby’s health. We keep in touch by email, which is nice. She was telling me that she was going to have some body sculpting done at a local sono bello center to have a Velashape procedure done to remove the cellulite on her thighs. She’s been self-concious about her legs for years! I hope she is happy with the results!
We’ve had a lot of wet weather the past couple of days due to the hurricane. I kept hearing on the television news about a lot of the lowlands and roads flooding. I had to go out a few times to run some errands and totally expected a few of the roads that I use to be flooded out and that I’d have to take some serious detours to get to and from my destinations. So I was quite pleasantly surprised that there didn’t seem to be any flooding at all! It is nice to see the sun come out again today, though. Rainy days make so many people cranky! As I get older I find that the low pressure systems tend to give me a sinus headache! So I’m always much happier when the skies are clear simply because I feel better physically!
We weren’t expecting many trick-or-treaters last night, but we didn’t get any at all. It rained almost all day and into the night, so I would imagine most parents took their kids out to the shopping malls to let them do their trick-or-treating under the safety of lights and under the dry roof.
I think that letting the kids trick-or-treat at the malls is a good idea. You don’t have to worry quite so much about the safety of the children running around in the dark streets, and the likelihood of getting some candy that was tampered with is slimmer.
I can remember in years past that local hospitals used to offer free x-ray screening of Halloween candy to make sure that there were no metal foreing objects in the candy! How sad is that? I haven’t heard of that being done in more recent years, though. Maybe they decided that bombarding candy with X-rays isn’t such a good idea!
I was reading an article about the health benefits of white tea recently. I’ve never tried it before. I’ve tried green tea and didn’t like it, but I think that the next time I’m in a restaurant that offers white tea I’ll give it a try!
One sad fact of life is that so many people that become drug addicts start out as innocent victims of some kind of accident that puts them in a lot of pain. The doctors, in their efforts to relieve that pain give the patients a medicine, such as the very popular vicodin, that is highly effective in controlling pain, but is also highly addictive.
One of the most populat television show characters, House, is addicted to vicodin. On a recent episode we watched House agree to go to vicodin rehab in order to get his medical license back. It was suspended but he was told that if he went to one of the vicodin rehab centers that he would be reinstated after the doctors cleared him. I think that this particular show has shown a lot of good information about how easily one can fall into the life of an addict, and how not all addicts are out in the street mugging people!
Last month Lillian went to Las Vegas for a week. She was so excited about going; she had been planning the trip for months! All she talked about was the casinos and the shows and the food that she was going to enjoy while she was there. Well, I saw Lillian last week, for the first time since she got back and she asked me if I noticed anything different about her. Well, I didn’t want to be a boorish sterotypical male and tell her that she looked sexier than every, but I did tell her that Las Vegas must agree with her because she looked better than ever!
She laughed with delight and told me that she had seen some Las Vegas Plastic Surgeons while she was there and had a breast augmentation done. She had been planning it the whole time! Well, the difference was subtle, but she looked terrific, so I’m sure she’s pleased with the results. Lillian said that now her clothes fit her much better and she feels good about how she looks. I told her that if she was happy with the way she looked, that’s all that really matters!
My sister emailed me that she is going to be performing in October at an International Children’s Festival. She’s been taking belly dancing classes in Winchester for the past several months now, and her instructor has given her this opportunity to perform in a group at the Festival. She is both nervous and excited about dancing in public. She says that the classes are a lot of fun, and she would like to perform in some area nursing homes if she got the chance. She’s just not quite sure about performing in the Festival. I think she’s afraid that bad weather might ruin it because the performance is in a park and she’s not sure of the stage area. Well, whatever happens, I hope she has a great time!
My sister called me last night to tell me that when she dropped in on Mom she found he sitting in her favorite chair with an ice pack on her hip. She had fallen down again and had stayed on the floor for a couple of hours in pain before she could get up. For the past year I’ve been trying to convince my sister to sign Mom up for a Life Alert service so that when something like that happens the Life Alert service will call for help and she won’t have to be lying there in pain for more than a few minutes.
My sister and mother both have been resisting the idea of subscribing to a Life Alert service. They just don’t want to spend the money. But I know for a fact that my mother can easily afford it; she’s just being cheap! So I’m going to talk to my wife about us subscribing to it on her behalf and paying the fees. Mom’s life and safety is more important than saving a few dollars!
Today I was driving past a house that was completely enclosed in plastic. I knew that the house was marked for demolition, so I was surprised to see it wrapped in plastic like that. Apparently it was determined that as part of the demolition process, there was some asbestos removal that needed to be done. I can remember how upset my parents were when it became public knowledge that exposure to asbestos could cause peritoneal mesothelioma or pleural mesothelioma. Asbestos has been widely used as insulation in a lot of our public buildings, and in homes.
It used to be thought to be a safe product, but so many people who have come into contact with it have later been given a mesothelioma prognosis that it has become evident that it is not a safe product at all! And this is a very serious cancer that has killed many people. I was amazed recently to learn that it is still in production somewhere in Canada! I would have thought that it would have been banned by now!
I have to admit that I’ve been guilty of going to a fast food restaurant around lunch time and just getting a strawberry milkshake instead of a “real lunch.” It has been so hot lately that I don’t really want a hot lunch, and I am usually in a rush when it happens so I don’t want to bother to actually EAT anything. So a strawberry shake is cool, filling, and delicious. I have to be careful though because I know that I’ll pack on the weight if I keep doing that! I wish that these places would sell “good for you” smoothies as a healthy alternative to milkshakes!
I had never had a papaya to eat until this morning. My wife bought a couple at the grocery store, thinking that it would be fun to share them with me. She had eaten one in a restaurant a while ago and thought it was wonderful. So this morning she took one and washed it off, sliced it in half, scooped out the seeds (I wonder if the seeds are poisonous, and if not, what they taste like?) and squirted some fresh lemon juice on them.
It was quite tasty! I was surprised; I was reluctant to try it. I’m glad she bought two of them, we’ll be eating the second one tomorrow morning for breakfast! I’ve heard that they are good for your health to eat.
My 24 year old daughter needs an operation on her knee. She injured it while running. She runs a lot. She is a part time police officer, and running is part of her job. Because she is part time, she gets no benefits. That means no health insurance. This is not the type of injury that hits you immediately, it is something that creeps up on you over time. So we can’t prove that it was work-related and go with worker’s compensation.
She can’t work now because she can’t run. The operation is going to cost about $8500, which she can’t afford (and neither can we) because she isn’t working and has no health insurance. She can’t get a job now because of her injury, and she can’t get it fixed because she doesn’t have the money because she doesn’t have a job. Does this sound like a vicious cycle to you? Very frustrating. She’s looking for another job right now, but as I’m sure you well know the job market is pretty tough out there!
As I’m sure you can imagine, I sure would like to have a better system out there to help people like this!
In our attempts to keep our electric bill as low as possible, we have been thinking about installing ceiling fans throughout the house. I’d like to have one in every room except for the bathrooms. Keeping the air circulating will allow us to raise the temperature on the thermostat but still be comfortable. And of course, using less electricity helps the environment! It might also help my wife’s dry skin problem I mentioned in my previous post – less air conditioning will lessen the dryness of the air.
Last month I installed two Hunter ceiling fans in our living room. I chose them because they have the reputation of being quiet, and I don’t want to have to turn up the television any higher to hear it over the noise of anything mechanical!
I’d also like to install a couple of outdoor Minka aire fans on our porch. Having the air moving out there while we are sitting outside would make the porch a much more pleasant spot to sit and socialize. Especially for my wife, who loves to sit outside and look at the flower bed and watch the dogs playing with each other.
I think that one of the most ironic things about summertime is the fact that it is so hot and humid outside that we run an air conditioner (and fans) day and night to help keep the house cooler so we are more comfortable. But the air conditioners do also act as dehumidifiers, so the air inside the house is so dry that we have to run humidifiers to keep our skin from drying out too much! My poor wife’s skin is so dry that her fingertips are cracked! I think we should buy stock in the hand-cream business! She sure has to use a lot of it!
I would really like to see some Celebrity Speakers start to speak out about how this country needs to get its act together and fix our country’s healthcare system. I think it is simply inexcusable for us to be allowing our legal, law-abiding taxpaying citizens die horrible deaths simply because they can’t afford the healthcare that they need.
I would love to be hearing about large conventions and meetings with Keynote Speakers that are focused on getting the job done. I would really like it if they had the info right there to answer any questions and assuage their doubts. I’m getting really tired of hearing so many people trying to use scare tactics against improving our healthcare system. We need to take action; there are too many people out there that need help and can’t wait much longer for us to do the right thing. And I’ve noticed that more often than not, getting celebrities involved in causes helps those causes to succeed.
Yesterday I decided to stop by a store that I’ve been wanting to go to for a long time. I don’t know why I never stopped there before; just never seemed to find the time. But yesterday I was driving past and I knew I had a few minutes to spare so I decided to pull in. There was an elderly woman sitting at a picnic bench right outside the front door, folding T-shirts. I decided to just sit down beside her and chat. I don’t know why, I just did!
So we sat there chatting, her folding her T-shirts, me just enjoying the nice weather and the conversation. The talk turned to family, and the passings of loved ones. Seems she lost her hubby about three years ago to cancer. He had been sick for months and ran up huge hospital bills. She’s convinced that if they had been able to afford health insurance to help with his fight against cancer, he would still be alive today. That is such a very sad story. Certainly one that makes me wish that this country took better care of the health needs of its citizens.
Nick had hip replacement surgery a few years ago. Since he was fairly young and athletic, his doctor recommended using Zimmer Metasul Durom hip replacement cups for the surgery. These were specially designed for younger people who are likely to outlive a conventional hip prosthesis. Since then we’ve been hearing that there are a lot of medical and legal issues on zimmer durom cup. Apparently there is a significant failure rate that was unexpected!
Well, of course there has been a lot of scrambling going on by Zimmer, trying to get releases signed by the patients, to release them from any liability if anything should happen to the cup down the road. Zimmer is trying to lay the blame of the durom cups failures on surgeon error. Nick told me that he is going to get as much information as he can about the issues and find a durom lawyer to represent him in the event that he needs to file a durom lawsuit.
Automotive, Business and work, Education and Personal Growth, General life, Health | Dean | 
April 3, 2010 10:32 am | 
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