- Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Vacation Update ... and a Little Rant (for good measure)
Happy Tuesday. Vacation is going well; I feel rested, to say the least, although I did wake up much earlier than I had planned this morning.I am staying with friends, a family of my friend, his wife, and their four year old. They are all continuing to go to work and school for the first part of the week, and later in the week they will take a few days off. This morning, I awoke to the little girl yelling, "Daaaaaaadyyyyy!" (after a few times, I got up and followed the voice to the living room.
She looked at me and said, "I want my daddy. I'm cold." I asked her where her daddy was, and she told me he was in the shower.
"He cannot hear you if he is in the shower, but there is a blanket behind you on the couch."
Now I am drinking coffee, and watching the TODAY show, where they are finally-FINALLY admitting that all of the disinfecting and antibacterial/antimicrobial products are affecting our immune systems. I've been saying this for years. I've been telling people -- or at least trying to tell them that some germ exposure is GOOD, and taking antibiotics for everything (or simply too often) is not good.
They have also pointed out that doctors are now exposing children to very small amounts of foods to which they have allergies. (DO NOT JUST RUN OUT AND TRY THIS YOURSELF... CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR.) For example, children with peanut allergies are being given small amounts of peanut dust/powder in other foods in order to expose them to peanuts and allow their bodies to (SLOWLY) develop a resistance to it. This is also something I have been (preaching) talking about for years.
My (ex)wife's sister has a daughter with an allergy to milk. Well, at least, the child had a problem with it as an INFANT. Now, the girl is eleven, and if you simply (lie to her and) tell her that what she just ate had milk in it, she "feels sick" about an hour later. Years ago (when the kid was around four years old), I attempted to make the suggestion to (that entire family) that it might be a good idea to expose her to small amounts of milk, since her body reacted fairly mildly and simply made her have excess mucus and congestion, and suggested that they might want to consult her pediatrician about it to see if s/he agreed with the theory.
My (ex)wife and (ex)sister-in-law, both being LPNs, argued with my theory, and stated that I was crazy. It would never work. She could DIE. Yet, they allow her to have small amounts of milk product (such as whipped cream on her strawberries or ice cream,) but to let her start drinking real milk instead of soy? "CRAZY." "STUPID.", "RISKY."
As it turns out -- I may be right. (I may be crazy).
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pero @ 5:41 AM | œ | 0 comments
I am Not a Crook
(This is a comment on the post below, titled: "minor ethical delimma". Like before I italicized any editing I have made to the original text.)
Pero,
All I can say is that this is going to seem weird to you.
You were in my dream last night! I went to my bank website, and there was a message that (read) "Pero has made an illegal entrance into your bank balance." Then I looked at my bank balance and it was $-7 !! You had stolen all my money!!
In my dream I was going to make a posting on my blog that you were an evil criminal. Yeah, like that would have alerted many people. LOL
I hope you're not offended but I had to share this as it was soooo bizarre. It's just random firing
-Jim
-- OFFENDED? ME? I wanted to make sure that it got the attention it desrved. That is just funny.
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pero @ 11:48 AM | œ | 0 comments
