My bedtime was into the latter half of the midnight hour last night, thanks to my younger brother managing to hold onto his consciousness throughout the evening after he was home from wherever he had been drinking.
I had sat up operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box, fetching episodes of series we follow. We actually ended the evening with two episodes of a series we had never before seen ─ the BBC's WPC 56.
The series is set in 1956, and tells of the very first woman police constable (i.e., WPC) to join the fictitious Brinford Constabulary.
Actress Jennie Jacques does a superb job playing the very cute brunette policewoman, Gina Dawson. I'll have to see about tuning in some of the actress's other projects.
I enjoyed two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in stock, but that won't have had anything to do with how possessed I was of sleep overnight ─ there was no rising after just a few hours to get to work on today's content assignment at the post I should finally have completed and published tomorrow at one of my six hosted websites.
I cannot now recall just when it was that I did rise this sunny morning ─ whether it was shortly after 7:00 a.m. or an hour later than that.
That wretched content assignment was more than I anticipated. By the time I was half finished, I wanted to return to bed. I was so drowsy, I couldn't imagine sitting up and finishing it.
But I did...even though I believe I broached the noon-hour. My brother didn't emerge from his bedroom until after 10:00 a.m.
After I returned to bed, I napped deeply. And upon rising, I thought that I might be hearing my eldest stepson about to drive off...but it was my brother. And it was not yet close to 2:00 p.m.
I hope he doesn't get started with his drinking too early this afternoon.
Despite my nap, I felt sapped. I even worried that I might not find the physical resources to handle today's scheduled exercising with my 43½-pound dumbbell.
Ultimately, I managed.
I also got in some sunning in the backyard after a fairly light meal. Beginning at 3:25 p.m., I put in just over a half hour sunning my front; and then just over another half hour sunning my back.
And here I am as I type these words at 5:13 p.m.
I sometimes have concerns about my wife's breast implants. She got them in Thailand sometime between my return to Canada in June 2005 upon the completion of my third and final visit to her country (that visit was in order to marry her), and her immigration here to Canada in May 2006.
She had this surgery without ever letting me know...until of course I first saw her in the Vancouver International Airport when my brother and I went to pick her up and bring here home.
Since when did my wife acquire an actual bosom, I wondered? She had been as flat-chested as a boy.
I know nothing of the type of implants she received, but my understanding is that implants are not generally considered to be lifelong. Yet she's had hers for what must be around 13½ years.
I bring this up because of an article I read today concerning a type of breast implant still being used here in Canada and the States ─ the so-called textured implant ─ that is implicated in the development of cancer in subjects who have received the implant.
And just what is a textured breast implant?
Textured breast implants have a rough surface that is sometimes compared to sandpaper. Unlike smooth-surfaced implants, their surface adheres to the tissue that surrounds them, preventing them from moving around within the implant pocket created by the surgeon. This is especially beneficial for implants that are not round but tear-drop shaped, because movement or rotation of these implants would cause the patient’s chest to appear misshapen.
That quote is taken from an ICIJ.org article titled What are textured breast implants and are they safe?
Here are some recent articles about that cancer risk:
JacksDailyDose.com
MayoClinic.org
GlobalNews.ca
TheStar.com
The Mayo Clinic (second article) is very tempered ─ especially compared to the first article. But keep in mind that the Mayo Clinic performs breast augmentation surgeries, so they have a stake in them!
Also, as the last article states by way of a quote from a Toronto plastic surgeon:
“The companies have a lot of money invested in the development and propagation of these implants. And there are surgeons who have staked their reputations on the advantages of these implants.”
So don't expect something like the Mayo Clinic to be other than very measured concerning what they will say on this topic.
As for my wife, I doubt that she has the remotest idea what kind of implants she received over in Thailand. One of her sisters actually talked her into it, and I think she even paid half or all of the surgical cost because she wanted to see what the results looked like ─ the sister was considering having the surgery on herself one day.
My wife did suffer terribly afterward, she said. It took her a long time to get over the pain and the overall physical reaction to the surgery ─ I think she was even feverish and bedridden for a few days.
As for breast cancer, I found this recent article to be both curious and interesting:
HSIonline.com
I cannot say that I have ever heard of Dr. Johanna Budwig, so I did some research concerning her flaxseed protocol ─ if breast cancer is a topic of strong concern to you, then here are some good articles on Dr. Johanna Budwig and her flaxseed diet:
- MossReports.com: The Budwig Diet and Cancer— Separating Flax from Fiction.
- MedicalNewsToday.com: What is the Budwig diet protocol?
- TheTruthAboutCancer.com: How the Budwig Diet Protocol for Cancer Works
- DrAxe.com: Budwig Diet Protocol For Cancer + My Recipe │ 7 Budwig Diet Benefits for Cancer Prevention + More
If I had a cancer diagnosis, I would certainly give this a shot.
As for the naysayers who claim that there is no solid proof that this is effective against cancer, that is of course true. But it is only true ─ as two or three of the above articles do present ─ because no entity in the Cancer Industry is willing to find out by doing the research to prove it one way or the other!
Since no profit-driven organization can make any money from the treatment if it really does work, then none of them have any intention of doing any such research. And this allows them to smugly assert that the "Budwig Diet Protocol" has no substantiation.
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are where the profits lie.
I have to finish this post ─ the time is already deep into my evening, and I have no idea if my brother will be coming home or staying overnight at the home of his girlfriend Bev.
I conclude with some more photos taken last year when my wife visited her sister who basically lives over in Italy.
The camera's metadata indicates that the photos were taken on June 6. However, the digital camera's date setting had never been adjusted for that trip.
This is my wife's nephew ─ son of my wife's sister:
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