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Who am I?

I am an obscure great-great-grandson of Oscar Adolphe Barcelo & Eugenie Beaudry of Montréal.

And I am an equally obscure great-grandson of George Henry Leandre Barcelo & Sarah Anne Bird of Winnipeg (Manitoba) and Langdon (North Dakota).

Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Is Polio Back? │ Castor Oil and Hair Restoration │ Chasteberry (Vitex agnus-castus) for Menopause Relief


It has been four days since my last post here on the 15th, but I have managed to keep each of those days on record in my older and now-private blog.

Due to how my wife and my younger brother have mandate over how I am able to schedule my life, I have yet to work this week on the finalization of the income tax returns for my wife and I ─ despite the fairly substantial and essential refund that will be due her and I.

In addition, since I file a paper return and not an electronic one, it will take a month or so before we receive those refunds once I deliver the returns to the CRA Fraser Valley Tax Services Office (Google map) not ¾ of a mile from here.

But the details relating to all of this are revelations for my private blog.

After my younger brother and I had watched T.V. last evening via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box well into the midnight hour, and then each had gone to his respective bedroom for the night, I don't believe that I was abed a full 2½ hours before being awake enough again to be wondering on the time.

I am never able to be at peace the full night through because I always have work ahead of me for whatever post I may have in progress at one of my six hosted websites.

I am only able to work on my websites very early in the day, for there typically is no time later on.

And so it was that I found myself up before it was yet 3:00 a.m.

My youngest stepson has been suffering a bad cold since late last week, so even he was in bed and not sitting up all night as is his custom.

I stayed with the day's website post content assignment until it had been fulfilled, and then I bedded down here on the floor in front of my computer in the small room next to my bedroom ─ I do this to spare any disruption of my working wife's vital sleep, for her workdays are very long at the Thai restaurant where she works.

It may have been as late as 6:30 a.m. by the time I was bedded down, and my cellphone's alarm was supposed to have been set for 9:59 a.m.

I never sleep especially well here on the floor. But even so, I eventually became curious on the time and made a check (I wear earplugs and a makeshift blindfold, so I tend to have little awareness of happenings within the house).

It was 10:04 a.m. How had my cellphone's alarm not sounded five minutes earlier?

Hastily, I rose and put away my the makings of my crude bed, and exited this room to find that my wife was still shut up in our bedroom ─ she usually tries to be up by around 10:00 a.m. to begin readying for her day, and the rather long drive to the restaurant.

I decided to give her a little more time, and so I went downstairs to boil water for an instant coffee and then join my younger brother in the living room and spare him any further basic cable television programming (for he does not know how to operate our Android TV Box.).

I did check in on my wife at 10:10 a.m., however, and got her excuse that she would be getting up "soon." She was especially tired. 

I likely would have visited her again by 10:20 a.m., but she emerged from the bedroom before then. She had to cut short her preparation time, but I don't think it was much after 10:30 a.m. when she headed out the front door to her car for her sunny drive to work.

And it has indeed been a most sunny day ─ another in a stretch of several such days. If I did not have to waste so much time each day blogging away my afternoons, I could sit outside and soak up some of that sunshine.

Or work on those two tax returns.

But changes are ahead where this sort of blogging is concerned ─ I wrote about it yesterday in my private blog. Changes that will start as of March 26.

Anyway, my brother and I watched some T.V. into the noon-hour, and then he sought some rest in his bedroom before he would be taking off for the afternoon ─ perhaps first to enjoy a park walk somewhere, and then to end up drinking.

I was hungry, so I broke my fast before I also made a return to my proper bed and enjoyed a needed nap. My brother was gone when I finished.

But let's now turn to some health-related topics ─ first off, I wonder if you have ever heard of acute flaccid myelitis?   

The following article by Dr. Allan Spreen will be of especial concern to those of us who grew up when polio was still a health threat:

NorthStarNutritionals.com

Wikipedia ─ ever the bastion of everything 'mainstream' ─ has nothing good to say concerning anything at all that can possibly be identified as relating to alternative medicine and alternative therapies, so I will link to nothing there.

But I just finished doing a Google search for information concerning claims made in that article, and these references are the very first four that resulted ─ I could have gone on and linked to every article on that first Google page, but I felt that I needed to stop somewhere:
Of course, anyone who prefers to believe that the Pharmaceutical Industry are selfless and tireless crusaders only interested in the well-being of humanity, are still perfectly free to ignore any possibility of there being truth in those old reports.

You can research for more on your own if you are interested ─ it's easily enough done. I am only wasting more of my time by doing it for anyone else.

As I often write in my now-private blog, back in my early and mid-20s I had quite long and very full-bodied hair ─ it tended toward being curly and wavy.

Women sometimes expressed envy of my hair.

But by the age of 26, I discovered undeniable proof that I was losing my hair ─ a great blow to my already shaky self-esteem.

If I had read the following article back then, I would definitely have given it a try if I could have afforded a regular supply of the oil:

HSIonline.com

It's far too late for me now at the age of 69, for I do not even remotely believe that something like this could actually restore long-dead (or long-dormant) hair follicles such as mine.

But if you are presently where maybe I was at the age of 26, possibly you may want to give the treatment a try ─ here are a few other articles (the second includes the negative opinions of two so-called 'experts'):
Maybe I should try and generate bushier eyebrows, though?

I did an Amazon search at the top of this post using the term 'castor oil' ─ there is no way that I could afford a regular supply of this oil to use for hair restoration, but perhaps it isn't out of the question for eyebrows!

A last topic I will trot out today is one that has no application to anything I will ever personally experience, but it is something inevitable for all women:

HSIonline.com

Here are some other articles:
An Amazon search I did using just the botanical term Vitex agnus-castus is below this post, should you be curious about the sorts of available products, and their price ranges.

I am finishing this post with numerous photos that were mostly taken by my wife when she and her two sons were in Bali early last year after arranging a small reunion there with five of their Thailand family members.

That is my wife in the first photo ─ the remainder are random photos that she took of plants and such outside of where she must have been staying. My best guess is that all of the photos were taken the morning of February 2, 2018:



















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