I've heard that this can happen but never actually heard anyone dying from their tooth being infected. I know it affects the health and that's why it is so important to have dental care. But for so many who have nothing, it is such a horrible situation! It's horrible that in our country there has to be a choice between deciding whether to eat or go to the doctor, or get your health taken care of . Some people are likely to blame the mother as to why her child die. From what I've r...

Sneezing....so many times.......nose dripping....frustrating.........sniff, sniff....blow...wipe.....{like you really needed to read that uh?!} Eyes are swollen, itchy, red.....rub...rub...rub....til they hurt...hurt...hurt! Headache.....my head hurts! I can barely open my eyes and the sun is coming through my window...glaring at me.....wondering what I"m doing at the computer instead of being out in the sunshine! Allergies.....that's why!!! The SOB is back and it's gott...

Binge computing.....that's when you sit in front of your computer for hours on end, without moving, without physical activities. Who amongst us can say they are not guilty of this? I can honestly say that I have done it, time and again. Just sit there at my desk, at work or home, my eyes glued to the computer screen. That is not good at all. At home my hubby would get on my case, or the kids, cause they do it too, telling us how bad just sitting in one position for more than three hours ...

I had a big smile on my face when I saw this ABC News Good Morning America video report! The foundation of Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana, are making great progress in helping people with spinal chord injury walk again. This video showed the story of a little boy, Chase and also a lady (I forgot her name), who are both walking because of the help they have received from the Reeves foundation. They both didn't live long enough to see this, but I'm sure they would be absolutely ha...

I did the required blood work on Monday. It seemed so long ago that I went for my physical but it was two or three weeks prior to that. I got the call from my doctor that everything was ok! I was glad to hear that the fear I had about being diabetic was for naught. Just because my dad had it doesn’t mean I have to as long as I take good care of myself. My thyroid is fine which good news it is to hear too. At my age you hope to hear that your body is not as bad as you think it is! ...

After taking a shower, a warm one to iron out the kinks in my body and wake me up, I dried off and stepped out onto the mat. I didn’t have the hot water on too much yet my mirrors were quite fuzzy and I could only see the outline of my body and face. I took a closer look and realized you know, if I could only look like that I would be drop dead gorgeous! I’m curvy and all I saw were curves in all the right places!LOL! I didn’t’ see the belly fat, or the cellulites or the rolls in m...

I can't tell you how many times I'm up late because of one reason or another. Most times it's because it's the only time I do get to myself to really unwind and catch up on a few things I need to catch up on. There's peace and quite, or at least the lull of snores throughout my home! After awhile though I'm kaput and it's time for me to catch some Zzzzs. I will admit that I'm a night owl, thus I usually don't go to bed too early. I also am not a morning person, unless I have to be, it ...

I am. I'm feeling quite weird and I'm not sure why. I might just be tired. After all it's late and I'm up again. But that's not it. I feel it and I'm feeling weird. I mentioned to my hubby that I didn't like how I was feeling this evening. He put it down to me over doing it yesterday with cleaning up the kitchen. I'm usually the one on his case a lot about his health if he is taking care of himself or not. He's pretty nonchalant about it. For me I take my health seriously. Except ...

The other thing that happened from my walk today was my hands swelling up! My hands were swollen, my fingers were swollen so much so I couldn't get my wedding rings off! It scared me abit because I was wondering what the heck...?! My hubby asked me if I had eaten anything that could have caused that, I said no. I drank a cup of tea and had a slice of bread with peanut butter before I went out in the morning, that's it. Apart from some water during my walk nothng else! He then mention...

It was very interesting to see this news article online from Reuters on Yahoonews.com , given a recent article I did on body image and our young girls; Link . Two points in the article I'm posting below stood out very clearly to me on why what they’re doing in Italy is a good thing. 1: "Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that young girls and women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders". 2: " O...

Journal entry for August 5 On Saturday I decided to go to the gym after not being there for about a year now. I was in the mood for a good work out! When I got there it was closed but I didn’t go back home. I decided I would walk for a bit and then come back to check if they would be open later. I walked for 30 minute at a good strong pace. It was going to be a hot day but since it was so early it wasn’t that hot yet, thank heavens! When I got back to the gym it was open so I...

Yep, as the saying goes, sick as a dog, that's me and it's not pretty. I've been out from work and everything else in between. Even my kids are sick. They gave it to me and I've been fighting it for weeks but suddenly it was like a hurricane that rebounded and held me down, knocking me over and I had no clue I would be this sick! Racking, hacking coughing, none stop, head ache, belly ache, light headedness, feeling like there's an alien trying to possess my body and wondering how in th...

I bumped into this website recently, which was so coincidental too since I’m learning to “think” more freely. Apparently it’s a new type of fitness that is becoming popular with a lot of folks. It’s called Mental Yoga ! You do things to exercise the brain. They featured an article written by Phyllis DeBlanche of the San Diego Magazine about the practice of mental yoga. It’s all about the way you think! I’ve already come to this deduction by myself but it was great reading the...