Dean Barlow » Health

I think it is more widespread than previously imagined

Dean — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:32:35 +0000

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!

Show Me The Money In Any Language

Dean — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:16 +0000

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?

Pain patches work pretty well

Dean — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:52:51 +0000

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!

Got an email from Candy

Dean — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:06:35 +0000

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!

Didn’t see any flooding

Dean — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:47:10 +0000

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!

Wet Halloween

Dean — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:56 +0000

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!

Tea flavors

Dean — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:16:40 +0000

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!

Addiction to pain medicine

Dean — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:42:11 +0000

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!

There was something different about Lillian

Dean — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:06:09 +0000

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’s going to perform

Dean — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:32:06 +0000

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!