Diabetes Symptoms Weblog

I am in the library using the computer right now;
thought I’d take the opportunity to wish everyone a
wonderful holiday and to tell you all how much I’ve missed
you.<br
of my life (LOL)<br

I am leaving this afternoon to fly back to
Illinois for the Easter holiday. Will be returning late on
the 21st. Everyone have a wonderful Easter; but
please leave the chocolate bunnies alone!
:D<br
steps.<br
riches, for being held in high esteen is better than
having silver or gold.<br
today whom you will serve.<br
double minded man is unstable in all his ways.<br
1:8, KIV)<br

It’s amazing how sophisticated kids have become.
Two six-year-olds were talking. One said, “Let’s play
doctor. You operate. I’ll sue!”<br
seen and not heard have just done something
awful.<br
energy.<br
— and belong to someone else.<br
nothing thirstier than a child who has just gone to
bed.<br
the piano instead of the violin is that it’s harder
to lose a piano.<br
but they’re still taxing.<br
dealing successfully with a child is not to be its
parent. (MELL LAZARUS)<br
children, what do you do for aggravation? (CAROL
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the
determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your
goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable
you to attain the success you seek.<br
ANDRETTI)<br
stay awake and do them.<br
failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and
doing a thing exactly right.<br
SIMMONS)<br
ultimate in performance.<br
self-portrait of the person who did it.<br
with excellence.<br
man but as the reward of labor.<br
REYNOLDS)<br
way.<br
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The “Western medicine” described yesterday, as
barbaric as it sounds, was not some slapdash approach
concocted by one sadistic doctor. It was part of a
“kill-or-cure Frankish system known in time as Heroic
medicine,” according to FLOWERS IN THE BLOOD by Dean Latimer
and Jeff Goldberg.<br
rooted in the notion that the way to exorcise one set of
afflictions from a patient’s body was to subject it to a
considerably more violent set of afflictions. The heroics were
entirely on the part of the patient: for even the mildest
ailments, one could expect to be bled, leeched, cupped,
blistered, amputated, sweated, trepanned, scourged, purged
and flayed to a fare-thee-well…… In most cases,
it was useless, of course, and downright lethal in
many, yet its tenets remained broadly accepted for
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Happiness is a thing to be practices; like the
violin. (JOHN LUBBOCK)<br
happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have
caught up. (R.H. GRENVILLE)<br
doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You
have to catch up to it yourself (BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN)<br
reach.<br
cause greater than yourself. <br
admission: “I’m happy to live in a free country where a man
can do whatever his wife pleases.”<br
is hiring a baby-sitter who is on a
diet.<br
but never taught or bought.<br
the groom: “My boy, you’re the second hapiest man in
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In times of sickness, crusaders would often first
pray to a saint’s toenail or some other body part to
get well. Relics were a prime cure-all, and each
saint had his or her specialty; Saint Blaise for bones
stuck in the throat; Saint Agatha to soothe sore
breasts.<br
Listen to this eyewitness account by a 12th-century Arab
doctor called in to consult with a European colleague.
(Remember that Arabs, who had preserved much Greek and
Roman scholarship, were far superior in medicine and
science at the time.)<br
Arab doctor) to see a knight who had an abscess on his
leg, and a woman with consumption. I applied a
poultice to the leg and the abscess opened and began to
heal. I prescribed a cleansing and refreshing diet for
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To put it bluntly, the underlying theory on which
much of Western medicine was based for almost a
thousand years was pure bunk. The vastly influential
Salerno School of Medicine, a genuinely MEDIEVAL academy
flourishing around 1,000 A.D., borrowed from the Greeks the
concept that just as the world contained four elements
(fire, air, water, earth), so the body contained four
corresponding humors: blood (fire), phlegm (earth), black bile
(water) and yellow bile (air).<br
became the art of maintaining a humoral balance. Someone
coughing up phlegm, which is cold earth, would need to
ingest an excess of “hot” foods, such as peppery foods
or even animal blood to counterbalance the
cold.<br
complicated when they discovered that each person already had
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INCOMPETENCE:<br
by the vast majority of doctors right up through the
Victorian era was as likely to have no effect, harm you, or
even kill you as to cure you. Patients often healed in
spite of treatments.<br
breakthroughs of medical science in the 20th century, we
forget, just how abysmal medical treatments sometimes
were in the past.<br
reputable Renaissance doctors; enemas and blood-letting
topped the list of treatments by American doctors at the
time of the Americal Revolution; the completely
ludicrous theory of the body’s four humors (black bile,
yellow bile, etc.) was the most accepted theory of
health through the l800s, when cell pathology was
discovered. Many medieval doctors deemed “water-casting”
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MEAT THAN EVER!<br
eating less beef these days and more of what is being
called “the other red meat” — horse!<br
Mad Cow disease have turned people to horsemeat in
record numbers,” says butcher Remy Gautier, who is
selling ground horse as fast as he can get
it.<br
it delicious.”<br
horsemeat has jumped by 60% in the past l2 months
alone.<br
Gautier says. “And lots of health experts say it is a
great source of protein and good for you. The flavor is
described between pork and beef.<br
tougher than beef or pork, horsemeat is considered to be
juicier. Its texture, by all accounts, is
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