The last few weeks have been plagued with technical issues on the work/home front and I'm really starting to think that I'm possessed.
Perhaps my body is giving off some freaky sort of electrical current that screws with my electrical surroundings. Or maybe some technical poltergeist is screwing with my word just because it feels like it.
OR MAYBE I'M JUST BEING STALKED.
Electrical weirdness is surrounding me in the form of light bulbs continually blowing out in my kitchen only a few weeks after being replaced.
My car's oil light suddenly flashing whenever I stepped on the breaks this past Saturday. even though it's a good 800 miles before I needed the oil to be changed.
My faulty mac needed to have its harddrive completely wiped and all new software reinstalled last week, which brought all sorts of inopertune realizations regarding mac's PAGES & NUMBERS programs this week.
These programs are great for me to figure out & use, but aren't so wonderful when trying to email work files to others who are sans mac technology.
And then yesterday I realized (after reinstalling my printerdrive software on Sunday,) that my scanner refused to actually, you know... scan. After googling the issue I found out that I needed to install scangear, which I did - and still, NOTHING HAPPENED. So YES, I'm still unable to scan or fax!
I was ready to throw both my mac & my canon pixma MP500 off a bridge and there may or may not have been some tears she on this end.
I was WORN OUT.
SO I logged on to twitter last night and participated in #DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) twitter chat and was once again reminded just how fantastical the diabetes on-line community makes me feel.
The tweets were flying fast and I didn't feel alone or frustrated. I felt happy and part of the gang! By the time the hour chat (which felt like it was only 10minutes) was up, I was feeling all sorts of chipper and positive!
#DSMA & the DOC helped turn my frown upside down and I'm so grateful for that!
#DSMA/DOV, you brighten my world, continually make me laugh, smile, learn, and I love you!
To learn more about Diabetes Social Media Advocacy, click on the following link! http://diabetessocmed.com/
PS: This morning I was unable to log on to twitter for 6 hours, due to some freaky technical difficulty having to with God knows what. Like I said, I'M BEING STALKED!
D BlogVIlle - YOU ROcK!!
Well, you guys came to bat and put me to shame with DIABETES 36,or should I say DIABETES 56.
I am truly humbled.
Special "shout out" to Naomi for letting me mock her great brain a little! I was only joking sister - YOU ROcK!!
You all "ROcK" for that matter.
I wasn't sure what today's post was going to be about until I wrote the sentence above.
I just want to say THANKS to everyone in D'blogville. I've been writing my blog since November. Never did I think that when I started "Diabetesaliciousness I would meet so many wonderfully talented;funny, smart, informative blokes and I am so grateful that you've all become part of my world.
I love the fact that the folks in D'blogville are so supportive and funny.
I love that we all get one an other's issues regarding the Big D.
AND I love the fact that together, we really are making a difference.
Growing up, Diabetes was dealt with in my family (obviously, 4 of us at our dinner table were type 1's) BUT, to the rest of the world it seemed like it was "Kunik" family problem.
Occasionally, I'd get to meet other t1's and for two weeks, three summers in a row, I got to attend Camp Fire Fly, a diabetic camp in Spring Mountain PA. For those two weeks, I felt completely normal. Then I'd go back to the real world and be the medical oddity known as "Kelly K". I wa sthe girl @ school who shot up insulin (through my clothes when I really wanted to impress) and made her friends laugh about diabetes in order to make them comfortable.
Today, Diabetics are not only loud and proud, we make things happen.
The Diabetes community is making a difference in their OWN treatment and informing the public about OUR disease.
We are the ones who write the letters to any media outlet who spreads miss information to public (i.e. lumping t1 and t2 together), we are the ones "raising our voices," and we are the ones to make changes. We battle insurance companies, movie theaters (Jeff), and idiots annoying comments like "You must have the 'betes" real bad to be on a pump!"
I'm so proud to be part of such a strong community and find strength daily in your blogs, emails, articles, etc. I'm not only a better diabetic because of the D'Blogville, I'm a better PERSON because of being part of said community. I feel empowered by the folks of D'blogville and I hope I make u feel the same.
So THANKS guys, - You Rock!!!
A Virtual Ice Cream Request
Today’s the day I get 2 molars extracted. I’ve bitched about said molars for months and a few weeks ago on Twitter I took an informal pole amongst tweets asking if I should get them both extracted at the same time. The answer was a resounding YES that resonated across the Twitterverse from others who’d had similar experiences.
Am I whistling Dixie about having 2 back molars extracted? No indeed I'm not.
Do these two molars need to be removed? Yes indeed they do.
Sidebar: Only I could crack a molar that’s been living under a cap for years and years~
Anyway, I’m a bundle of nerves, but I’m trying to be brave and look at the bright side.
What’s the bright side you ask?
1.These two teeth will no longer be a pain, both literally and figuratively
2. I’ll get to indulge in ice cream and smoothies
3. The gold cap that covers the above mentioned cracked tooth is solid gold and I’ll sell it for more than what I paid for it all those years ago. Yours truly has a small mouth (how ironic is it to type that, let alone read it?) and the dentist couldn’t encapsulate the gold cap in porcelain or it wouldn’t have fit in my mouth, so I got that going for me~
Tomorrow I will be back to blogging about diabetes related issues, but today, it's all about my extraction fear.
Anyway, with me being such a fraidy cat, I’d really appreciate any positive vibes and virtual ice cream you could send my way!
MMR causes Measles!
The MMR vaccine, given to children for measles, can actually cause measles! So is the parental decision to vaccinate or not so difficult?
One case arose in Illinois, USA; where 17 high school student came down with measles even though 99% had received the MMR vaccine.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm
Mumps was described thus in the MacMillan Guide to Family Health, published in 1982.
One case arose in Illinois, USA; where 17 high school student came down with measles even though 99% had received the MMR vaccine.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm
The other case arose in Texas, USA, where 14 students contracted measles after the MMR vaccination.
But the real argument against MMR is not that it can cause the very disease that purports to treat. It is not even that the vaccine does not really work in offering us immunity. Or indeed that the MMR vaccine is strongly associated with serious disease-inducing-effects (DIEs), like Autism. It is because measles is not really a serious disease!
Before drug companies wanted to sell us the MMR vaccine, measles was considered to be a minor, self-limiting childhood disease. Parents actually wanted their children to contract the disease, naturally, in order for them to develop a lifetime immunity to it. Parents actually organised 'measles' parties for their children. But how do drug companies sell a drug, or a vaccine? They demonise the disease, they make parents fearful.
Mumps as another disease that has been demonised - in order to sell the MMR vaccine. This taken from my e-book, The Failure of Conventional Medicine
Mumps was described thus in the MacMillan Guide to Family Health, published in 1982.
"A fairly common risk of mumps is the swelling of testes in a boy or the ovaries in a girl. This is much more common in an adult. Invariably the swelling goes down after a few days leaving no ill effects. It is excessively rare for the swelling to cause sterility. A rare complication is acute pancreatitis which passes within a few days. Mumps is generally a mild disease. The usual outcome is complete recovery within about 10 days".
Compare this to the description in British Medical Association Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia published in 1995.
"Mumps is an acute viral illness mainly of childhood. Serious complications are uncommon. However, in teenage and adult males, mumps can be a highly uncomfortable illness in which one of both testes become inflamed and swollen. Most infections are acquired at school or from infected family members. In the US, where many states required proof of mumps vaccination for school entry, the incidence has dropped markedly over the last 20 years. In the U.K. by contrast, before routine immunisation was introduced in 1988, mumps affected a large proportion of the population at sometime in their lives, usually between the ages of 5 and 10. An occasional complication of mumps is meningitis. A less common complication of mumps is pancreatitis which causes abdominal pain and vomiting. In males after puberty, orchitis (inflammation of the testes) develops in about a quarter of the cases. Subsequently the affected testis may shrink to smaller than normal size. In rare cases, mumps orchitis affects both testes leading to infertility".
The MMR vaccine perhaps one of the biggest Con Tricks yet perpetrated by Conventional Medical Establishment, supported, of course, by the Big Pharma companies.
Why do Mum's kill their kids?
Could this be down to ConMed drugs? This website raised the possibility that antidepressants are implicated in this violence too.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/28/why-do-moms-kill-their-kids.aspx
It must surely be time, now, to ban antidepressant drugs.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/28/why-do-moms-kill-their-kids.aspx
It must surely be time, now, to ban antidepressant drugs.
