Good for Iowa!!

Iowa puts $5 million into autism program http://t.co/f9zpgDMnNj
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 20, 2014

Let's talk toilets.

What the hell is blooming now?

My head is all stuffed up this morning.  Blowing and sniffing with a touch of post nasal drip.  Miserable damn allergies!

I walked to the clinic, this morning, and nearly froze to death.

I got about half way there and started wishing I would have worn my parka.  I see we've got some light snow in the area and I'm not surprised.

By the way, the doctor says I'm in great shape to last another year.  Kidneys are stable.  No worse than they were six months ago.

How "fit" is a fiddle?

These are words to live by.  My "fitness" routine has suffered the past month.  I have, hardly, walked at all.  My doctor won't like that but I'm not Gene Kelly.  I don't like "Walkin' in the rain" and it WILL NOT stop raining!
 

So true! pic.twitter.com/9aoGAe3gEK
— Comic Hypnotist (@RichGuzzi) April 29, 2014

Dr. Dr. Give me the news!!

It's Doctor Day again.  My six month

check-up with the nephrologist...or Kidney Doctor...for those of you who can't remember "nephrologist".

If I remember...which is highly unlikely...I'm going to ask the doctor why they call him a nephrologist.  What the hell does that mean?

A NOTE FROM DONNIE

"I just heard, on TV, that the U.S. population is 5 billion pounds overweight.  That's 2,500,000 tons."

INTERESTING ITEM

Caffeine may help prevent Alzheimer's, study suggests - New York Daily News http://t.co/8hAprHgIWY
— Brain Science new (@BrainSciencenew) April 12, 2014

If you think you might have a problem, this may be the day to do something about it.

WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS

Willard was looking up symptoms of high blood pressure and he found, "A doctor at Gunderson Clinic, La Crosse, is the source for the most high blood presssure info on Google."

BEV

DAVE: "I thought I had better give you guys an update on Bev.  We went to the doctor last Friday and they found the cancer has spread.  She will start a low dose of chemo, hoping to abate the spread.  Time will tell.

NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT

Donnie found a list of the 10 worst cities to live in for spring allergies.  One of the cities, close to the top, is McAllen, Texas.  I never had any problem with allergies while I was living there but have had them, every spring, since I've been back in La Crosse.  Leave it to me to be out of step with the rest of the world.

SOME GOOD HEART INFO

BE PREPARED FOR A HEART ATTACK

Willard sent this:

Subject: Mayo Clinic on Aspirin - !!

Dr. Virend Somers, is a Cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, who is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame.

If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. The reason: Aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life"; therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in your system

Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest for years, when it gets old it smells like vinegar.

Something that we can do to help ourselves - nice to know. Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly on the tongue. They work much faster than the tablets.

There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.

There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.

The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you.

If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water.

Afterwards:
Call 911.
Phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by. Say "heart attack - !!" Say that you have taken 2 Aspirins.  Take a seat on a chair or sofa > near the front door, and wait for their arrival.

DO NOT LIE DOWN - !!

THERE'S A LIMIT TO EVERYTHING

I watched 60 MINUTES, last night, and they had a report on the "evils of sugar".  Apparently, sugar is as bad for you as salt.  Maybe even "badder".

Well, that's it.  I had to give up the salt and I didn't complain....much....but I'll be damned if I'm going to give up sugar too.

SOMETHING'S BLOOMING THAT MY NOSE HATES

I'm so stuffed up I can hardly hear while, at the same time, my nose won't stop running.  I'm going through Puffs like crazy.  I've got a song that fits the situation.

BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

BY

PETER POLLEN MARY

AT LAST! IT'S OVER!

Barring some unforseen problems, no more visits to the clinic again until September.
Today was a check of all the plumbing and it's as good as new.  They've looked me over from head to toe and, except for the kidneys, I'm fit as a fiddle.

I, therefore, am living proof that good clean living has absolutely nothing to do with improving your health.

This could be a death sentence for me...and a lot of others.

Click here to read what the Republicans want to do to Medicare.

IMPORTANT HEALTH MESSAGE

As I was lying in bed, watching the clouds roll by and pondering the problems of the world,
realized I don't really give a rat's ass.  It's the tortoise life for me.

If walking was good for your health the postman would be immortal.

A whale swims all day, eats only fish, drinks water and, yet, is fat.

A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years.

A tortoise doesn't run, in fact, he doesn't do anything and he lives 450 years.

And, you tell me to exercise?  I don't think so.

I'm retired.  Go around me.

GOT A CALL FROM THE HOSPITAL THIS MORNING

It was one of the nurses doing a follow-up to see how I was feeling following the colonoscopy yesterday.  I told her I felt great and, if they had an opening for tomorrow, to put me down and I'd come in and have another one.

She said I made her day.

MY STOMACH IS STILL GURGALING

It won't let me forget the awful liquid I sent down there yesterday.  I sure was glad to hear the doctor say I don't have to go back to see him for another 5 years.