Home Alone

Just as I was entering week two of a kick-in-the gut relapse of my pain condition, Richard needed to travel for a few business meetings. Usually he works at home and conducts business through the vast amalgam of web tools he has harnessed.

So I am hurting, alone. And he is worrying, alone.

But now, we are older and more experienced, and have lived through the darkest days of the pain, and through innumerable bursts of relapses over the past ten years.

Before he left he stocked the refrigerator with apples, and broccoli, and chicken, and Chinese take-out, and even cut up a whole watermelon into chunks. He set up videoconferencing on my laptop (his already had this capability). I made dates with friends to talk to and walk with and have me over for dinner. I upped my meds to dull the sharper edges of the pain.

Richard and I talk and text and tweet each other. It's some comfort. but it's hard on both of us to be hurting and worrying, alone.

How do you manage the daily tasks and find comfort when you and your sweetie are apart?

How to stay younger and live longer

Bee pollen has been used as medicine around the world for thousands of years.Nutritionally,it is so perfectly balanced that, in itself, it represents a complete survival food.
Bee pollen has many medicinal uses including anti-ageing and longevity properties.
Bee pollen has also been found to help the immune system, and thus prevent colds, flu and virus infections. It can also relieve fatigue,improve appetite, increase sexual potency and fertility, alleviate painful menstruation, reduce the hot flushes of menopause for women and alleviate enlarged prostate in men.
Bee pollen is available in larger health food stores.

Medicinal uses of Cayenne red Pepper

Cayenne red pepper is used all over the world in cooking. Cayenne is very hot so should not be given to children under the age of two.
It is widely used in Ayurvedic medicine, and has warming and mucus-relieving qualities.

The fruits, or hot peppers, commonly known as chillis, contain capsaicin, a stimulant that helps control pain and dissolve blood clots. Chillis can stimulate the appetite and digestion, release phlegm and increase sweating thus helping to boost the immune system.
In moderation, powdered chillis can help heal stomach and duodenal ulcers, promoting tissue growth through the release of histamine.

Cayenne pepper is also effective in the treatment of arthritis, asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney infections and respiratory problems.

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Caretaker Stress Affects Health of Partner with Heart Failure

From an article by Nicole Stodard in EmpowerHer

A recent study that appears in the July/August 2009 issue of Heart and Lung affirms in a broad sense what anyone in a committed relationship, particularly a marriage, already knows from experience: one spouse’s mental or physical health ailments can, and often do, tax the other spouse.

This study is particularly concerned with the implications of this dynamic when one spouse has some form of heart failure (HF), a chronic progressive condition that occurs when the heart muscle can’t pump enough blood through the heart to meet the body’s blood and oxygen demand.

The study found that a spouse’s distress had substantially greater impact on the HF patient’s overall health and the course of the patient’s illness than the reverse scenario. Considering the fact that 5.7 million Americans have HF and well over half a million new cases are diagnosed each year, this is concerning.

Natural pain control for cancer and chemortherapy.

A Hungarian doctor, Joseph Beres developed a complex supplement of seventeen minerals claiming to have a dramatic pain-relieving effect on a wide range of conditions, including cancer. It is called Beres Drops plus.
Another controversial but more widely available supplement for cancer is ground shark cartilage. This claims to work over a period of some weeks by inhibiting and reducing the growth of cancer cells.
Cats claw (Uncaria Tomentosa) is a herb that has been hailed in recent years as an immune system booster and has been found to be particularly beneficial in the treatment of cancer and AIDS. The herb is currently being researched in several countries. It is available in health food stores as a tea or in capsule form.

Herbal medicine has a number of other herbs that can control the pain of cancer depending on the symptoms of the individual, these include Jamaican dogwood, Bloodroot, Red clover and Pacific island potato. For the best advice see a qualified herbalist.

The homeopathic remedy Nux vomica 6c taken three time daily for a month is said to relieve the discomfort of chemotherapy, particularly nausea.

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Use antibiotics only if your desperate

The general advice from your doctor will be that you don't need antibiotics for a cold or even flu, unless there are complications, and this is good advice. Antibiotics if overused are not good for you and if you do overuse them they simply will not work.

My wife told me an interesting story yesterday, and this is true. Her friends mother, who is in her early seventies has been lucky enough to have never taken antibiotics in her life. Unfortunately due to a disease she has had to have part of her foot removed. She was given antibiotics to prevent infection, but because she has never had antibiotics before the healing process has been amazing, and she is feeling much better.

S0 the moral to the story is don't take antibiotics unless you are desperate. If you do need to take antibiotics it may be better to eat live yogurt after you have completed the course, as the antibiotics will kill off the good bacteria in your gut as well as the bad.

Simple help for dementia and alzheimer's disease.

The latest news has suggested that coffee may help dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Although we should not drink it to excess. A few cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.
Scientists have uncovered powerful evidence that caffeine not only helps to stave off the disease but can treat it.
They hope soon to follow up the initial results from animal experiments with human patient trials.
US neuroscientist Dr Gary Arendash, who led the research, said: "The new findings provide evidence that caffeine could be a viable 'treatment' for established Alzheimer's disease, and not simply a protective strategy.
"That's important because caffeine is a safe drug for most people. It easily enters the brain, and it appears to directly affect the disease process."
A key aspect of Alzheimer's is sticky clumps of abnormal protein in the brain called beta amyloid plaques.
Mice with a rodent equivalent of the disease showed a 50% reduction in levels of amyloid protein in their brains after scientists spiked their drinking water with caffeine. The change was reflected in their behaviour as the mice developed better memories and quicker thinking.
Dr Arendash's team studied 55 mice genetically engineered to develop dementia symptoms identical to those of Alzheimer's as they aged.
At the age of 18 to 19 months - around 70 in human years - the mice were showing signs of memory impairment. The researchers then gave half the mice drinking water containing caffeine while the other half continued to drink ordinary water.
Humans receiving an equivalent dose for their body weight would be consuming 500 milligrams of caffeine - or five eight ounce cups of ordinary coffee - a day. The same amount of caffeine can be obtained by drinking two cups of strong "coffee shop" coffee, 14 cups of tea, or 20 cola drinks.