I can’t see well enough to read a paperback book without some kind of glasses. The big questions is whether I should get a new pair of glasses with bifocal lenses? Or should I wear contacts for distance vision and start carrying around a pair of reading glasses for just when I need to read?
Health Category
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Mashed potatoes
I love potatoes with my supper. I love them just about any way you can fix them, boiled, baked, nuked, mashed, fried. Whatever you do, don’t try to take my potatoes away from me! For several years now I’ve been relying on the instant dehydrated potato flakes to make mashed potatoes for supper. They were fine with butter and gravy. Recently I got a coupon to buy Bob Evans brand of mashed potatoes (not the instant flakes) and I gave them a try. I have to tell you that I liked them so much it will be very hard to go back to ever using the flakes again! Boy, were they yummy!
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Patch or Pill?
My first exposure to administering drugs into the body using an adhesive patch (rather than a pill or a shot) was back in the early 1990’s when my son was very sick. He needed help with pain killers and his body couldn’t tolerate any more more abuse of his digestive tract. So he was prescribed a state-of-the-art pain patch. It looked like a large square band aid that you peeled off a backing and stuck onto your arm or shoulder area. The medicine is absorbed through the skin instead of through the stomach.
Now they have patches for many different types of medicines and many types of conditions, from anti-smoking to birth control to motion sickness. This is one of the great but mostly unheralded advances of modern medicine. It made a tremendous difference in the care and quality of life of my son and I know it has helped millions since then.
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Weight Surgery in Tampa
My aunt moved to Tampa a few years ago, to be closer to her kids. They moved there a few years before then, and my aunt just could not bear to be so far apart from them, so she finally packed up her things and moved there too. I just got an email from her that she is going to look into having some weight surgery done. She is thinking about the lap-band procedure. She found a doctor to go talk to about it by looking up “lap-band tampa” in a search engine on the Internet. I hope she does some thorough research on the subject before making any decisions!