I had a visit to the podiatrist Friday to have a foot problem checked out. I also let him know about my grade 1 neuropathy. He suggested something called Metanx, and gave me two 5 day sample packs. It’s a Rx only supplement. It actually says, “Medical food” on the box. That [...]
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Tom posted this on the list today.
A Reunion of Friends
Eighteen years ago, Pete Slosberg, of Pete’s Wicked Ale fame, brought Alan Shapiro and Virginia MacLean into his company. While these long-time friends later pursued different professional paths, the news that MacLean had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer, brought them back [...]
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Who give his kids rides on the mower. I have personally known 2 kids who had very serious mower injuries. One was almost killed. One had a partial amputation of a foot. Imagine how easy this kind of injury is to prevent, just by following the rules below.
Change of Season Brings Lawn [...]
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Do you need driving directions to London? Someone at Google has a good sense of humor! Step 31 tells me to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
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I wasn’t aware of a boycott of Horizon and Aurora organic dairy products by the Organic Consumers Association. You can read more here: http://mckatie.blogforgood.org/2007/04/02/all-soy-milk-is-not-organic/
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I have a May 9th appointment to see Dr. Hayman at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I’m looking forward to getting a fresh perspective on my case. In addition, I may get some testing that hasn’t been done before. I’m not sure what all will be done, but I was told [...]
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According to the NIH web site,
Shingles (herpes zoster) is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin that is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox — the varicella-zoster virus. The first sign of shingles is often burning or tingling pain, or sometimes numbness or itch, in one particular location on only one [...]
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I was shocked when I saw a copy of my most recent lab report. My IgA was at 1080 mg/dL! It was just 676 a few weeks ago. The m-spike a few weeks ago (3/20) was 0.7 g/dL. This time, there are two m-spikes. One is 0.44 g/dL and the other [...]
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You know by now that I love blogs. I think they’re great. We just created a company blog for ConnectNC at http://weblog.connectnc.com. The picture in the header is one I took about a month ago at a park nearby. It’s even more beautiful now that the trees and other plants are [...]
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