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There will be an autism awareness event at the Florence Freedom on June 13, 2010. The game starts at 6:05 PM, and the cost of each ticket is $10. The proceeds of each ticket will benefit Generation Rescue’s, Rescue Family grant program, which will be offered to a family in the Northern Kentucky area. Generation Rescue is a “parent founded and parent led” organization boasting Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey as board members. Thanks Sandra Knollman for letting me know about this event. Actually, it’s the revision to the replacement that went oh so wrong. I think that it could have been worse however, that couple inches of scar tissue inside wasn’t helping my yoga, I mean flight attendant, career. Kind of weird when one flight attendant asks the pilots to carry her bags down the stairs and the other asks to carry her down the stairs! It has been two months and I am looking forward to going back to work so I thought taking a flight would be a good idea to see how I do. I was thinking something closer but I suppose why not Switzerland? I would just be sitting down at home or doing exercises that I can easily do from my seat on the airplane. Thank goodness for Thera-bands. Food addictions and binge eating? Isn’t the whole addiction thing just meant for alcohol and drugs? It’s just food, not like a carcinogenic so how could you possibly blame your problems on food? The only problems that I have ever heard of regarding food is Bilemia and Aneorexia. Personally, I could never be one of those! I like food too much to either not eat it at all or eat it and then throw it up. I don’t have a problem, I just love food. I admit that I live to eat and not eat to live like I hear you are suppose to do. Who cares that there are times when I am eating something that tastes so good I will keep eating it long after I am full until I feel like I could vomit? Why is it a problem that I can go to the bakery and get two cookies, one for me and for my son and yet he never even knows I went to the bakery? Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) recently went on record with ABC’s 20/20 saying that he is a food addict. This comes also after writing about his life in a new book where he talks about the issue. Also know as binge eating, people feel that it’s a lack of will people. I can personally tell you that it’s not. Do you think that I really want to see the weight creeping up and up? Without any disrespect to my family, I have my father’s genes when it comes to that and I will gain it all in the lower half, which is not something that I am yet willing to accept. I have a wonderful family and any body shape does not make the person: however, I have serious health issues that I have to keep in mind and extra weight is not something that will fare well to them. So, this is about me and me alone. Actually, it’s about thousands of people out there with a serious problem that is not necessarily recognized yet and I want to help those who suffer in silence. A passage from the book, Crave: Why you Binge Eat and How to Stop, says it well: Regardless, the cravings can seem insatiable. …the binge eater can hardly refuse the cravings…The urges to eat are often as intense as they are spontaneous. Although the book claims that the eating is associated with feelings, I still cannot understand why sometimes one cookie is enough and then there are other times when I will gorge myself on them even though I am not hungry and my stomach is rebelling. As I continue to read this book, please tell you what you can when you eat out of control. I will report back as I read through the book. I started using my new deodorant, Tom’s of Maine natural care. There’s a lot of Latin in the ingredients label but no aluminum so that’s good. I broke down and picked the lavender scent instead of the plain. I also picked the one that says 12 hour long-lasting odor protection. While I like the scent and the creamy solid gel like texture, I am not sure how well it is working. I have been using it for a couple of days now and at one point I felt like I didn’t smell as good as I would prefer (under my arms of course) so I used my other deodorant. Back to the Tom’s, I think that it is working just fine. Not quite as good as the one’s containing aluminum and it’s not even summer yet. Perhaps with continued use though it will work better. I like the fact that I am not introducing even more aluminum into my blood stream as I was so I think that I will continue to use it as long as I do not smell bad again! Have you tried Tom’s deodorant? Okay. After what I researched and discovered yesterday, I went out and bought some Tom’s of Maine deodorant. I paid $3.99 for the product and will begin using it the morning. I did get the scented one even though I should have gotten the unscented but it smelled so good. I picked up the Lavender scented one. Hopefully this works well. Check back and see how it goes. Yesterday I wrote about the aluminum in deodorants and how harmful they are for our bodies. A comment came through talking about Tom’s of Maine and their natural deodorant products. Thanks to this person for giving me more research where I found out some great things! Keep the discussion going. Tom’s of Maine uses Zinc Ricinoleate instead of Aluminum. So, of course the first thing that I did was to check the toxic information on the Zinc Ricinoleate. I found out that it binds to stinky chemicals in the sweat, making them hard to sense, whereas Aluminum blocks your pores by causing them to swell and trap the sweat and bacteria inside when it’s meant to come out! It is recommended to purchase a fragrance free version so that the perfumed ingredients do not interfere with the Zinc Ricinoleate’s odor fighting capacity. So this is great that is traps the odor in a little “bubble” (that’s what I picture) but what about the reason behind the odor? Sweat itself doesn’t have an odor until it is fermented by bacteria . It’s the bacteria that smells bad. Tom’s of Maine in particular uses hops. Yes, that’s right. Hops is not just used for beer! What it does is inhibits the growth of odor causing bacteria. Another reason not to use a deodorant containing aluminum is that the aluminum is the culprit for those nasty yellow stains. I’ve noticed that some of my shirts that I finally just threw out smelled horrible under that arms! It was a very harsh chemical smell that would make my nose burn and would not come out even with bleach and detergent. I have to wonder if it was the fabric of the garment mixed with the aluminum and sweat because I would smell it and yet my underarms did not smell bad. Very disturbing! One more great thing about this product is that only two of their products contain gluten, the hand soap and body wash, making the other products safe to use for those with a gluten intolerance. Yeah! “Tom’s of Maine products are alcohol-free and do not contain casein or caseinate, MSG, wheat, oats, barley, rye, malt, spelt, kamut, HPP, or HVP” (as of 4/23/2007). Now, unfortunately, just because they use natural ingredients and safe salts in there products, this does not mean that everyone would be able to use them. Whenever you have a product that uses nature there will be those who are allergic. Reports of burning where the product is applied (under arms in this case) have been reported. Have you ever walked outside while something was blooming and your eyes began to burn? Fortunately this does not mean that you are doomed to use an aluminum based product. Just use caution and read the ingredients. I just looked up products and came across a natural stone product that says it contains no aluminum and yet it list alum, which is just another form of the salt. Is there a product that you have tried that doesn’t contain aluminum in any form and did not cause an allergic reaction? Thanks for your valuable time is giving your thoughts! When you are old enough to sweat [and stink], a person begins using deodorant. It’s just something that is done, hopefully. Of course, the same product that is supposed to be for hygiene could be killing us. Standard every day deodorants that you find on your grocery store shelves contain a metal called Aluminum. Why would a personal hygiene product contain metal? Aluminum is used in deodorant due to its ability to clog or plug the sweat glands. The goal is to keep the sweat from coming out and to use perfumes to cover up the odor. There are deodorants that claim to be aluminum free however, you must use caution and check the ingredients. Alum, Aluminum chlorohydrate, aluminum sulfate or even natural mineral salts are all forms of aluminum. This morning I was looking at the ingredients in one of those clinical strength deodorants only to see that on the warning label said not to use if you had kidney disease! It is claimed to cause bone and brain diseases from excess aluminum. The aluminum in deodorant is also claimed to cause Alzheimer’s but there is no proof of this apparently. While I cannot guarantee it, I found an Asian deodorant (Mu Shang Aluminum-Free Herbal Deodorant) that is completely aluminum free and uses herbs that are anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. Instead of blocking the sweat glands, they clean them and fight the source of the problem instead of covering it up. Wouldn’t that be great! Have you ever tried a product like this? I would love to have something great going on before summer hits so please let us know what natural aluminum free deodorant you use. Have you ever heard that laughing is actually good for you? It is a proven fact that watching comedy’s and laughing is a great cure for illnesses. Cincinnati’s Natural Awakenings has a total edition almost totally dedicated to the issue. Pg 9 Children Playing Outside Laugh More Pg 12 Laugh More~Why feeling tickled is good for us Pg14 Yoga Laughter Exercises~Catalyst for laughing alone Pg 21 Ten Ways To Create Humor In Your Life Pg 22 Good Humor~Foods that make us smile Pg24 may I Have Your Tension, Please?! On page 12, Enda Junkins writes, LAUGH TO: Relieve Stree Resolve Conflict Enhance Communications Enrich Relationships Have Fun Why is that once we become adults, we feel like we can no longer play and laugh? It’s childish or not professional. Worried about what others may think or that you may not be taken seriously? You may just worry yourself right into illness and despair. Are there times when one needs to be serious? Sure. It doesn’t have to be all of the time though even at work! Every day stresses cause different hormones and stress chemicals to get into our blood stream causing problems with our biochemistry functions. According to Donna Eden (Pg 24), “We are left feeling more fearful or anxious or angry or aggressive than the situation warrants.” I know this for a fact in my own experiences and that of those around me. I used to make myself sick and stay awake all night thinking about it until I started to tell myself “there’s nothing I can do about it right now”. Set aside time to think about it, write it down and make a plan and then let that be that! Here’s a good one for you. Dr. William Fry at Stanford University, found that laughing 200 times burns off the same amount of calories as 10 minutes on a rowing machine! So what if you went to see a really funny movie that lasts around 90 minutes? Perhaps you could even have a small theatre popcorn? Laughing can lower blood pressure, relax your muscles and work your major bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory and immune system). There is a website dedicated to researching laughing and how it effects illness and pain. Dr. Lee Berk of California…says laughter makes the immune system grow stronger-it’s like your internal army. It’s a fact of life that once you get a transplant, mine being a kidney, that you will need to take medication for the rest of it’s life so that your own body doesn’t reject it. The medications used for this fall under one of the following categories: Basilizimab~ Simulext, manufactured by Novartis Cyclosporine~Neoral, manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceudicals Sandimmune, manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceudicals Muromanab-CD3~Zenapax, manufactured by Roche Laboratory Inc. Mycophenolic Acid~myfortic®, manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Mycophenolate Mofetil~CellCept, manufactured by Roche Laboratories Inc. Prednisone~Deltasone, manufactured by Upjohn Meticorten, manufactured by Schering Orasone, manufactured by Solvay Sirolimus~Rapamune, manufactured by Wyeth Tacrolimus~Prograf, manufactured by Astellas Pharma US, Inc. Writing this post, I have actually learned a lot about the medicines that I am taking. It’s amazing how long I have been taking some of these meds and am just now finding this out. Shame on me! I take Prograf, Cellcept and Prednisone (for the Lupus). The Predisone I have taken for many years, even quite a few years prior to the transplant. The Prograf and Cellcept are new since the transplant. I am so excited that my nephrologist has dropped the amount of Prograf that I am taking again to two in the morning and two in the evening. I wish that he would drop the Cellcept because those are really big pills compared to the Prograf. Here’s my confusion though. I was diagnosed with SLE when I was 17 and have spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals since then. Over the past year, I find that this may be “simply” an intolerance to gluten. I do believe this to an extent because if I stay away from the stuff, I feel better, have a lot less headaches, pain and strange bathroom experiences. Now the kicker…I read the list of side effects (yes, the lovely side effects) of the transplant medications I am on and they list the same stuff as the gluten intolerance list. Cellcept Side Effects Gluten Intollerance
What’s a girl to believe? Personally I go for results. If I stop eating gluten and feel better then why wouldn’t I so just that? Since I have been told that I will have to take this medication for the rest of my kidney’s life, I might as well just do what I can to diminish the side effects. What do you do to have a better quality of life while taking these medications? Let’s be honest here. These days with everything that is going on in this world, it would take an incredible person to not be depressed at least some times. Add in some serious health problems that one has dealt with for over half of their life and it’s almost a guarantee. I decided a while ago that I wanted some help even if it was only for a short time. My physician had prescribed Paxil. I was only on it for a few months before I finally realized I had gained 12 pounds. I was actually eating better so how is it possible that I was gaining weight? After much research and talking to others who had taken or were taking Paxil, the weight gain was a given. This anti-depressant was not for me! Another one of my doctors wanted me to keep taking it for another month. The only problem is that I was not going to fit into my work pants if I stayed on it for any longer since I already couldn’t breath. I weaned myself off of it. This is NOT something that I recommend for just anyone! The first full day that I wasn’t on it, I felt as if I could pass out at any time on and off throughout the day. I went from crying over a commercial to hitting myself in the head in fits of rage. Needless to say, I couldn’t stand to be in my own skin. Paxil is one of the worst anti-depressants to come off of once you have been taking it, with vicious side effects that could affect everyone in a different way so do so with caution. I still think it was worth it since it really wasn’t doing it’s job anyway. Now, I am taking Cymbalta and I could notice a difference almost immediately. No more ups and downs . Even my family can notice a difference and say it’s like night and day. |
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