The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

Just caught DD's cat on our kitchen counter, never saw her up there ever, licking a stick of butter...was not too happy. In the garbage. Then I got thinking, wonder how many times she's done that and we didn't know?

 

[Cookiness]

I think I'm lucky that my doc sent me for a mammography at my age. Tmi...I know...lol.

Always trying to outmaneuver the big c.

Mammography does not "outmaneuver" i.e., prevent cancer. At best it detects it.

The glorified hype of the medical industry has inculcated the pubic with the false belief that mammograms prevent breast cancer.

 

[pennyJo1960]

It does allow many to be detected or ruled out and I believe that is all
wicked was talking about

 

[Alaskan]

Yep...what penny said.

Really with cancer we just wanna detect it as early as possible.

Earlier is so much better.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yay Friday

Anyone have fun weekend plans?

 

[chickadoodles]

I would spend the money and talk to a dietician. It's a bit complicated. But an important piece of it is exercise, and I'm not talking you have to Sweat to the Oldies, but a nice brisk walk after dinner (or even a nice slow walk working your way up to faster/longer) will go a long way to helping you process glucose better. Lifting weights (and again, I'm not talking huge weights, just get a set of 3, 5, 8 lb dumbbells) also helps you burn fat and process glucose better.


Just looked at my extended forecast, it looks fab:


This reminds me of a few summers ago when all it did was rain and I began growing mushrooms in the grout in my bathroom.

Thanks Scg I will start walking on the treadmill more and work with some weights. I'll ask about seeing a dietician.
Sorry your getting so much rain.
We are getting rain every 2-3 days and lot's of it! 4-5" the last two storms. Poor Missouri.

Quote: Wow chicki you have it going all the time. I'm so sorry.

Thanks for the vote for keeping my coffee y'all.

 

[jtn42248]

Thanks Scg I will start walking on the treadmill more and work with some weights. I'll ask about seeing a dietician.
Sorry your getting so much rain.
We are getting rain every 2-3 days and lot's of it! 4-5" the last two storms. Poor Missouri.

Ask your doctor for a referral to a Diabetic Nutritionist. Most hospitals and large clinics have them now and they have a lot of really good information. And, at least for Medicare and most large plans, it is free.

 

[microchick]

you and I microchick are labeled the same mine brought on by graves disease
PAT Paroxysmal Atrial tachycardia mine spiked at 162 with an iv of Atenolol
flowing into me could not slow it then boom 2 hours later slowed I am ultra aware
was taking high doses of 50 mg Atenolol 3 and 4 a day now down to 1 a day

YIKES! I take Atenolol also but just 50mg daily. I could probably take 25 for my PAT but they want my BP to stay low so 50 it is. I really hate the beta blockers. Being a competitive cyclist in the recent past, I could never get my heart rate up to a level that let me put out any real energy.

As for mammograms I think they are a double edged sword. Yes, they catch a lot of cancer, but 11 years ago my then local hospital ran one on me and before I knew what was happening, they were marking me up with marking pens because the 'saw' something and wanted me to go up to the Komen center for an in depth study. Three days later I was there getting another Mammogram done and anxiously awaiting their findings. The good thing about Komen centers is that they are doing and they give you the results while you wait. The nurse came in and hugged me and said. "You're fine. We couldn't find anything. What the other hospital saw was an old calcification from an injury that has been on your studies since day one". I was pretty upset. This wasn't the first time this was done to me but by far the most stressful. I refused to get any more mammograms after that. I told the doctor why, told him I do regular...like weekly....checks and I know what is normal for me far better than anybody else does. Every time the hospital misread my studies it cost me almost 1000.00 dollars not to mention a lot of sleepless nights and anxiety filled days. Happily the doctor agreed with me.

Point being that they get a lot of false positives on their readings. I hear that the new digital scans are better. I hope so. No woman needs to have happen to her what happened to me.

 

[Cookiness]

It does allow many to be detected or ruled out and I believe that is all
wicked was talking about

Right. Again: detection isn't prevention. And re the "ruled out" or "outmaneuvered" notion.... this is again indoctrinated medical marketing language speaking because the "ruling out"/"outmaneuvering" isn't scientific or reliable at all.

Much of what the test detects as cancer isn't cancer yet the medical business treats these non-cancers at an astronomical cost for really healthy women (maiming, death).

Contrary to the official narrative (which is based on medical business-fabricated pro-mammogram "scientific" data), there is marginal, if any, reliable evidence that mammography, both conventional and digital (3D), reduces mortality from breast cancer in a significant way in any age bracket but a lot of solid evidence shows the procedure does provide more serious harm than serious benefit (read the books: 'Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy' by Peter Gotzsche and 'The Mammogram Myth' by Rolf Hefti (author's summary at The Actual Truth about Mammograms).

IF........ women (and men) at large were to examine the mammogram data above and beyond the information of the mammogram business cartel (eg American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Komen), they'd also find that it is almost exclusively the big profiteers of the test, ie. the "experts," (eg radiologists, oncologists, medical trade associations, breast cancer "charities" etc) who promote the mass use of the test and that most pro-mammogram "research" is conducted by people with massive vested interests tied to the mammogram industry.

Most women are fooled by the misleading medical mantra that early detection by mammography saves lives simply because the public has been fed ("educated" or rather brainwashed) with a very one-sided biased pro-mammogram set of information circulated by the big business of mainstream medicine. The above mentioned two independent investigative works show that early detection does not mean that there is less breast cancer mortality.

Because of this one-sided promotion and marketing of the test by the medical business, women have been obstructed from making an "informed choice" about its benefits and risks which have been inaccurately depicted by the medical industry, favoring their business interests.

Operating and reasoning based on this false body of information is the reason why very few women understand, for example, that a lot of breast cancer survivors are victims of harm instead of receivers of benefit. Therefore, almost all breast cancer "survivors" and the general public blindly repeat the official medical hype and nonsense.

But that's too much truthful reality for most people to handle. So they go into denial mode (as if that changes anything about the truth)...

 

[Beer can]

Weekend. I need to or someone does, mow the lawn, neighbors have twice already. Need to process a few birds so I can find room for new chicks soon. Have to move the two garden coops runs so I can cut down a huge maple tree next to garden before it leaves out any more.
Rototill garden again.
Or I probably might not get much of anything done beings it's rain here also SCG