For the third consecutive Saturday evening, my younger brother showed up here instead of spending the night at his girlfriend Bev's home.
He used to regularly spend that night with her, but I guess now that the fourplex or quadruplex (or whatever the building is) has become less and less amenable to 'creature comforts,' he is preferring the comfort of our home.
Bev has to be moved out by the end of March because the building has been sold and is probably going to be demolished, and she is the last remaining tenant. Thus, the owner has no interest in repairs that are needed.
The place is very cold, and there is lots of water damage from a recently burst water pipe.
Yet my brother claims he offered her the chance to spend the night here last night, but she made excuses.
Anyway, he showed up around 9:30 p.m. ─ just early enough to catch me up. And so I ended up operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box until well into the midnight hour instead of getting to bed early as I had hoped I would be doing.
In fact, it was a minute or two past 1:00 a.m. before I was into my bed.
I got to sleep, but was awake enough well ahead of 4:00 a.m. to rise just so I could turn on and log into my computer to have it all warmed up for later use.
I had at least a couple more bouts of sleep before checking the time and deciding to rise in the neighbourhood of 7:00 a.m.
The day was to be a blend of lots of blue stretches of sky, and vast expanses of drifting clouds.
I applied myself at discharging the day's content assignment for the post I have in development at one of my six hosted websites. And although my brother never emerged from his bedroom until long past 9:00 a.m., I was kept busy until probably around 10:00 a.m. or awhile later.
Since my brother was still downstairs occupied with coffee and the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I subscribe to, I was able to return to bed.
During the week when there is no morning newspaper, the first thing my brother does is turn on the T.V. And since we only have limited viewing choices because of subscribing to basic cable alone, I always feel obligated to use our Android TV box to fetch up entertainment if the morning is at least as advanced as 10:00 a.m.
My brother doesn't understand how to operate the Android TV Box.
I napped, but it was in two segments. When the first segment finished and I was barely conscious, I confusedly believed that it was early morning and I still had that website content assignment to deal with.
Fortunately reason prevailed, and I did not become too excited and thus unable to return to sleep.
In all, I likely was not abed for 90 minutes; and I rose to find that my brother was shut up into his own bedroom.
This was to afford me an early opportunity to have some exercises out in the backyard tool-shed, for I got out there just before the noon hour struck.
It also meant that I would be able to have my first meal of the day earlier than I generally do. When I have any tool-shed exercising scheduled, I do not like to have eaten aught beforehand because the pull-ups session of those exercises is too burdensome overall.
I was expecting that my brother would be wanting to watch some T.V. once he came back downstairs, but I was wrong ─ he was already all set to take off for the afternoon. And by 12:42 p.m. at latest, he was away.
Maybe for a change I can finish blogging earlier in the afternoon than I customarily manage to do.
I have my share enough of physical problems, but at least fibromyalgia is not one of them. Perhaps that is why I am unsure if I have ever heard of an intravenous therapy using what is known as Myers' cocktail.
According to the following article, it is known to bring relief to perhaps 80% of the fibromyalgia sufferers who undergo the treatment:
HSIonline.com
Mainstream medicine scoffs at the therapy, yet a Google search using a phrase like "Myers' cocktail brings relief to most fibromyalgia sufferers" turns up no shortage of articles claiming just that ─ it can indeed help many sufferers.
Wikipedia ─ ever the antagonist of holistic and alternative medicine ─ quite naturally impugns the value of the Myers' cocktail with this statement:
Medical experts warn that intravenous vitamins, such as the Myers' cocktail, do not have any benefits and should be considered modern-day snake oil.
"Medical experts"? Do any of those "experts" themselves suffer from the condition? ─ is that why they are so "expert" as to be able to speak with authority?
I get so bloody sick of reading and hearing about "medical experts" ─ the pompous pricks.
Oh, I've got to move on and change the subject!
Here's another topic that I am thankful that I have no experience with ─ urinary tract infection (UTI).
Or at least, I don't think that I suffer from fibromyalgia or a UTI ─ I suppose that it's always possible for someone to have subclinical manifestations of either condition, and therefore the pathology simply is not recognized for what it is.
According to the following article, chronic UTI sufferers ought to gain considerable relief with a plant known by various names including bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi):
HSIonline.com
There are no shortage of other articles about the plant's efficacy that you can find for yourself, but I will link to three ─ and please pay heed to the cautions if you choose to give it a try:
I did a search at Amazon at the top of this blog post using the scientific name Arctostaphylos uva-ursi just to see what would result, and to get an idea on pricing ─ there were even berries and seeds on offer for any gardeners, I suppose.
Anyway, please don't forget the other suggestions offered at the end of the HSIonline.com article if you do suffer from chronic urinary tract infections and plan to give this plant a shot.
These three websites are a sampling of some that give information on what to expect if you tried your hand at growing the shrub:
- PFAF.org: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi - (L.)Spreng.
- TheSpruce.com: Growing the Bearberry in the Home Garden
- Plants.GardenWorks.ca: Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
I rather like the idea that it could be used as a ground cover.
I want to include the following article for your popular interest because it tells why you should never take an NSAID like ibuprofen, naxproxen, or even aspirin for at least a week prior to any known hospitalization you may be facing:
DrMicozzi.com
Who knew, eh? I bet your doctor doesn't!
The last topic I wish to broach in this section concerns fish oil, and why few of us are actually taking as much as we probably need.
The following three reports tell of the most recent study into this:
JacksDailyDose.com
BrainMDHealth.com
News-Medical.net
This finding is not all that new. For instance, an article published on July 11 (2018) at at Omega3Innovations.com expounded the same thing: Why Everybody Should Get Their Omega-3 Index Measured.
And an April 2017 .pdf document from The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc. serving as a sample report of a John Doe's omega-3 index found his 7.71% to be unacceptably below the recommended 8% - 12% range: Omega-3 Index Report.
The document went into considerable detail.
I confess that I am not taking 1,000 mgs. of EPA / DHA daily. The fish oil capsules I take have 300 mgs. of those two fatty acids, but I only take two of them a day.
I feel confident mine are fairly good quality ─ they are from Webber Naturals, and each 1,000 mg. capsule of 100% wild Alaskan salmon & fish oil (anchovy, sardine and / or mackerel) have 180 mgs. of EPA and 120 mgs. of DHA.
I typically only have two meals a day, and I take one capsule with each of those meals. I could double up, but the stuff is rather dear in cost, and I am an old age pensioner lacking anything like a ready and disposable income.
Some photos now ─ Google Photos created the following collage today to commemorate the same day (February 24) back in 2014. The photos used in the collage were selected from an old Google Photos album of mine:
We still have a couple or more inches of snow that fell earlier this month, but it's not looking as fresh as does the stuff in that collage.
Here are those original photos, beginning with the left column which depicts a pair of shots taken while looking out from the front of our house toward the cul-de-sac we live in:
The second column shows the backyard tool-shed I exercised in earlier this afternoon; and then from the tool-shed, a shot was taken of the back of the house:
With that, I am going to call it quits for today ─ I still have to create a post at my long-established private blog.
I just want to say that the afternoon has become remarkably sunny.
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