Help For Charlie Gard
This article on the BBC is entitled Charlie Gard: Pope and Trump offer parents support.
I think this Pope is a good man, and I suspect his kind words would be welcome.
But whilst Trummkopf does nothing to abolish the death penalty in the United States, his unwanted comments should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
A Strange Fog
On Monday night, it was hot in the house and I was listening to the radio and typing up a few things for my blog.
The window was open for fresh air and as I often am, I was just wearing a pair of small black briefs for comfort, modesty and to keep cool.
Id been to the vigil by Tower Bridge and I’d had rather a nice ready meal from Marks and Spencer for supper.
I was also drinking heavily, but it was only endless mugs of tea!
So I laid down on the Chinese carpet on the floor and must have dosed off for half-an-hour.
When I awoke and stood up, I found that I couldn’t see very well.
I was worried at first, but after going into my bedroom to the toilet, I found I could see alright in the other room.
I then thought that the living room must be full of smoke or steam like you’d get if you left a saucepan of water on a lighted stove.
But the kettle and stove were cold, all taps in the house were switched off and there was no obvious source of the fog.
I then weighed myself, as I often do before I go to bed and found that I lost a kilo since Sunday night, despite eating well and drinking a lot.
And then it dawned what the fog was.
The temperature and humidity in the room had been such, that it had drawn the water through my skin and I was looking through a fog of my own perspiration.
I should say, that regularly, I lose a kilo overnight.
All very strange, but totally explained by the laws of physics and my extraordinary skin, which baffles medics, as if say they inject me or take blood, I don’t bleed afterwards and don’t need a plaster, despite being on Warfarin.
It’s Cancer Good News Time Again!
These articles have appeared on the BBC in recent days.
Last June this story on the BBC web site entitled ‘Major Win’ In Pancreatic Cancer Fight was published.
It is not unexpected at this time of year, as a big cancer conference takes place around now every year.
There is also another pattern that seems to be happening in all the good news.
Research is key and often the research has been funded by Cancer Research UK and performed in our Universities.
Some techniques like innovative routes of attacking the cancer cells and understanding the action of existing drugs better seem to be more common.
We’ll never win totally against cancer, but we’ll certainly win a few skirmishes.
We should all do our bit for not ourselves, by not smoking!
Will The Broadgate Reconstruction Remove The Smoking Shelter?
Broadgate is reconstructing the building on the South side, which will face the new piazza in front of Liverpool Street station.
This visualisation shows what the entrance to Crossrail will look like in front of Broadgate.
But what are they going to do with the smoking shelter, that sits in the entrance to the main-line station?
The shelter would be shown on the left of the visualisation, if the image had a wider format.
The Globalisation Of Health Care
This article on the BBC is entitled World’s smallest MRI helps tiny babies.
It shows how healthcare is becoming an increasingly global collaboration.
The idea for the machine was developed in the University of Sheffield and the machine was built by the American company; GE Healthcare.
Medical research is like this, with often more than two companies and countries playing their parts in producing a successful breakthrough, often many years after the original idea.
I just wonder how Trump’s America First and tax policies will affect developments like this.
Will his new tax rules, mean that if an American company is involved in a development like this, that the device will have to be manufactured in the United States, when perhaps to manufacture it in the country, that owns the IPR might be better?
I can see researchers not wanting to get involved with American companies, when other countries can offer deals with no nasty strings attached.
There’s only going to be two winners with some of Trumps tax ideas; lawyers and accountants.
Surrey Has A Budget Crisis
This article on the BBC is entitled Conservative-led Surrey County Council plans 15% council tax hike.
This is said.
A Conservative-run council wants to raise its tax by 15% in the next financial year, blaming government cuts and increased demand for social care.
Surrey County Council leader David Hodge said the government had cut its annual grant by £170m since 2010.
Surrey definitely has a budget crisis.
An old friend of mine was a senior executive in a FTSE-listed mining and resources company.
We were having lunch and he said that of all the areas in the UK, Surrey was the most likely to find a sizeable oil-field.
He also said, that Oil Exploration would be transformed if there was a Local Extraction Tax.
So why aren’t Surrey encouraging the Oil Companies to foind the black gold to pay for all those services that the County needs?
In fact, if you type “fracking Surrey” into Google, you’ll find nothing but hostility..
After all they’ve already found one sizeable field recently at Horse Hill, as I wrote about inThe Oil Find That Will Settle The Result Of The Election.
I’m afraid, you can’t have your cake and eat it!
A Personal Vitamin D Tester
I’ve thought that the ability to purchase one of these over-the-counter in your local Boots, Superdrug or any or the umpteen pharmacies, would be very worthwhile for some time. But I’ve nver found anything on the web.
Tonight I found this article on the Natural News web site, which is entitled Over-the-counter vitamin D tester would be a boon to public health, cancer prevention.
The writer makes some good points and would be very in favour of the sale of such a device.
Read the article and see what you think.
With my engineering hat on, I can only think that no-one has come up with a simple method akin to the one I use to test my INR.
I also believe there are a lot of doctors, who believe patients doing their own testing is a no-no! Possibly becuase it blows a hole in his staff needs and therefor reduces their budget. Nurses doing lots of testing gives the feel-good factor of a busy surgery.
But then the Healthcare Industry all over the World, is the last one to start using Twentieth Century managenment methods. In private medicine, it is a sensible way to inflate the bill and in the NHS, it means you don’t have to make unnecessary staff redundant.
Vitamin D Problems
I found this post in the MedHelp web site.
Under a heading of Huge Problems With Vision, this is said.
Hi at all,
at first sorry for my english. – I´m from Germany and will try my best! I go diagnosesed with a low vitamin D level from 20 and I´m glad to found this forum because I never thought that all theses symptomse could be yust because of a low Vitamin D level. I´m taking 50.000 iU once a week since 3 weeks now. I have most of the symtomse the most of you have like,– tick with the eye,
-consistently feeling dizzy, like I’ve shifted a couple of inches one direction or the other, without really moving at all – short on air.
-Muscle pain in both sides of the rib area,
-Problems swallowing,
-Joints in my feet and legs were very painful, making it very hard to walk up and down stairs
-Constant buzzing sensation on the souls of my feet now
– Cramps in my legs
– not sleeping well
– sweating during the night
– cant concentrate or even thinking
– allmost dizzy all the timeWhat bothered me the most right know is my vision. I can´t drive or do my grocery anymore. I´m allmost at home now for over 2 month. Dos somebody else has problems with their vision too? Do you know how long i takes to get better?
They could be describing my problems.
After my stroke, I had my eyes tested and was banned from driving. As I’d been in hospital for a couple of months, I suspect my vitamin D levels were rock bottom.
I Can’t Go On Like This
I am feeling absolutely dreadful, but I don’t think it is the cold I’ve picked up.
I’m coughing and sneezing like mad because of a dry throat and I can remember times like this as a child, when I had days and weeks off school.
But in some ways it all changed, hen my parents bought a second house in Felixstowe, so I was taken away for most weekends, thus getting away from the London smog.
Now, I find that if I get some sun, I feel a lot better/ But since I went to Madeira a month ago, I’ve seen precious little sun.
I think my problem is that my gut doesn’t absorb vitamin B12 and D, so I only get vitamin D through the sun.
Going gluten-free obviously didn’t work for me.
It’s funny, but if I have a walk of a mile of so in the sun, it cures all my problems.
Why All The Hypocrisy About The Deaths Of George Michael And Carrie Fisher?
Not one celebrity has raised the questionable lifestyle of these two stars.
On BBC Breakfast this morning they are highlighting a story that eighty percent of us are overweight.
You only have one chance of life and good health!
So don’t do anything to comproimise it!
