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Friday, 13 November 2009
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Overdoing it with clean?
I am a big one for being clean, I have to be being diabetic. Cuts and wounds, as well as tattoos and piercings take longer to heal for me, and as they take longer I am more prone to infections. I wash my hands after using the bathroom, before and after handling most food, and several other times a day. I carry hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial wipes with me, as well as alcohol wipes with my test kit. I have neosporin and band-aides as well. I would say I am pretty typical with my hand washing and care, especially being diabetic.
I was out at a major sporting event, can't remember if it was baseball or football, and saw a woman wash her hands with soap and water and then use hand sanitizer. Now once your hands are clean they are clean, you can't make them extra clean! And this bathroom had faucets that shut off, so no touching after your hands where clean, automatic paper towels, so no touching with clean hands and NO DOORS, so no touching, and what I think is the funniest part, the hand sanitizer was INSIDE the bathroom, so even if she had had to open a door the sanitizer wouldn't have worked. I know some people get all stupid and paranoid about touching things with clean hands in public because what if someone else didn't wash their hands? That is why I think she went overboard, this bathroom was made with those types in mind, things were automatic and no door so nothing to touch.
I have to be careful with some soaps in bathrooms in public, the soap used at the grocery store I worked in a while back was one that I was allergic to and if I used it, I would start itching and my hands would get a rash. I could never "wash" my hands in the bathrooms at work. I had to use hand sanitizer only. I can now tell which soaps are that one, which places use it, so I can use my sanitizer instead.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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My thoughts on Surviving Thanksgiving with Acid Reflux
Surviving Thanksgiving with Acid Reflux | healthkicker
I came across the above article on Healthkicker, and because I have acid reflux, was diagnosed when I was 15, I thought maybe I'd learn something I didn't know. I am a picky eater so many things listed I wouldn't know about whether they affect acid reflux or not. And for me, I have it so bad that it really doesn't matter what I eat I get it anyway unless I take my medicine. When I take that I can pretty much eat whatever I want and have little or no problem, may have to take a few rolaids or drink a small glass of milk (eww!) to settle my stomach and I'm good. A few times a year I have a few very serious bouts of it, where nothing helps and I have the grossest taste in my mouth, and the only way to understand is to have it or be around someone who does when they have it (I'm sorry) and really bad burps.
So the is article ends with this line: Do you suffer from acid reflux? Are there certain foods you have to avoid during the holidays because of disease or allergies?
Now as someone who suffers from this I personally feel that by asking about OTHER DISEASES AND ALLERGIES it downplays acid reflux and makes it less of a disease then it is. I have other problems that cause me to have issue with food, but I don't feel they should be clumped together.
I mentions this on the blog, and the original writer let me know that she didn't add it, the editors of HEALTHKICKER did.
Why did anything else, any other disease need to be brought up and try to be introduced?
Thursday, 05 November 2009
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Snooping! Never OKAY, so stop!
Snooping! To me it's just plan wrong and there really isn't anyway to justify looking through someone else's private things including their phone/text messages, myspace/facebook messages. I do say that if you have strong suspicions that your partner is cheating on you, then you have the right to look for CLUES and more INFO as to whether or not they are cheating in an attempt to prevent getting PHYSICALLY hurt by them possibly getting an STD and bringing it home to you. But full on snooping, no matter the reason is not excusable, no matter what.
People who snoop are USUALLY, just immature, jealous, insecure little sneaks who can't handle that they don't know everything about their partner, want to be the ONLY person they have in their live and freak out if they talk to someone else or what ONE night away automatically means cheating in their insecure little heads.
My partner and I have all the passwords to any and all accounts, except this one. I have told him that if he wants to know what is on it, come to me and I will show him, don't just look for it. He knows this is my ONE private thing, I tell him about things I write about on here and leave it signed in when I leave and he is here alone. I'm not hiding anything, but we don't read each others messages. His closest friend right now is a girl he works with, I know he talks to her about our problems, yet I would still NEVER pick up his phone and read a text from her, even though I know that most of the time it is a JOKE text and nothing more or her bitching about her husband and kids or the place they work. We log in to each others accounts and see messages from other people and NEVER click on them, pick up phones with messages on them and don't read them. We are able to, because we trust each other, but the message may be private, not private between me and him, but from the sender to us. Their is still a thing called PRIVACY!
I would love to know what goes through someones head when they can sit there and say that snooping is okay. So help me, if you or someone you know is a snoop, tell me how you justify it.
Saturday, 17 October 2009
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I'm pretty, I'm thin, I'm smart...
I come across blogs and questions on various sites where you have some girl listing all these "qualities" about herself, and then ask why don't men like her or why doesn't she have any friends. Are you really that stupid? Nobody cares in the end how pretty, thin, smart, attractive, sexy, witty, fun, outgoing, you THINK you are, if you are posting all this stuff about yourself and whining online about it, I would guess either you aren't as great as you think you are or your attitude sucks so badly that nobody cares to be around you.
There is a difference between being confident and cocky.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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Gone too far
When DJ AM died, I didn't care , the man survived a plan crash and then a year later OD'ed, how fucking stupid can you get? I know he was an addict, I am in recovery and have been for years. I started using when I was 13, first pills, pot and alcohol, then harder drugs and MORE drinking, by the time I was 16 I couldn't get up without some kind of Upper, couldn't sleep without some kind of downer unless I crashed or passed out. I missed so much school in one semester that they kicked me out! My parents got me back in, and I was on academic probation for the rest of the year.
I didn't go to college right out of high school because I didn't know HOW I would get my drugs and that was the most important thing in my life!
So I fully know what it's like to be an addict, you are never fully recovered because ANYTHING can set you back and cause you to use again. I wish I could make stupid people who throw around the words "addict" and "addiction" actually understand what it is like and NOT EVERYTHING is an addiction. I have heard lately how "anorexics and bulimics are addicted to FOOD, lol. One, I don't know that you can actually call either of those addicts but they surely aren't addicted to FOOD, especially anorexics, if you want to classify them as anything it would be addicted to CONTROL. Overeaters are addicted to FOOD.
Addicts have NO CONTROL over their addiction, many want to stop, it's very painful, both physically and mentally to be an addict, when you want to get sober.
And any treatment centers I was every involved with, you first worked with your own addiction one on one with councilors and group with people with the same or similar addictions, then a mix of them. I have worked with alcoholics, drug addicts, gamblers, and one sex addict, even overeaters, but never anorexics or bulimics they had their own "world" because they aren't addicts, at least not in the same sense.
So DJ AM died, supposedly because he felt guilty that he lived when others died, and that caused his addiction to be worse. But before his death he worked with MTV to help get other addicts clean, I saw the promo for it today, and finally felt empathy for him. I still think he was stupid, but I understand the life of an addict, and I saw how he TRIED to help others even if he couldn't help himself.
The show started airing on Oct. 12, I just hope, in light of his death now maybe he can truly reach those addicts.
Here is the link to a promo for the show: http://bit.ly/16ixJC
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