Dr Copa

My son showed me this video from UTube that is so funny! He thought I’d like it because we are always teasing each other around the house about not hearing each other! He found it on the failblog.org website. That website is awesome – it shows lots of funny things that they call “Fail.” I thought it was worth sharing with you.

Last night I caught my wife looking on the Internet at some Hydrotherapy pools.  I asked her what she was doing.  She told me that Sally, a good friend of hers had recently bought a Swim spa.  Her friend has fibromyalgia and her doctor suggested that Aquatic therapy would be a good idea for her to get some relief from her condition.

Sally told her that she loved her pool, and that it helped her with her pain enormously.  My wife started to think about getting something like that for our house because we both suffer from arthritis from time to time.  My wife has been reasoning that as we get older our arthritis will probably worsen, and that a hydrotherapy pool would be a good way to slow down the progression of our arthritis.

I was just reading an article about what companies are probably not going to be laying off employees in the coming year. One of the articles mentioned was Colgate, with the reasoning being that even during a recession people are probably going to continue to buy toothpaste. That’s a very good point. And I am thinking that would be a really good reason to buy stock in a company like that (if I had any money to invest!)

Based on reading that particular article, now I’m thinking that companies like Kimberly Clarke, Proctor & Gamble would probably also be good safe bets. They make products like facial tissue, bathroom tissue, disposable diapers, paper towels. People are going to continue to buy products like that too!

I was surprised to read in the Time.com website that underneath this red clay, in the Piedmont section of Virginia (which is where I live) sits a huge deposit of uranium. And, there is talk about mining it, to fuel nuclear reactors to generate electricity. I have a lot of concerns about that. From what I understand nuclear energy still is problematic because there is no good solution for where to put the nuclear waste. And mining uranium can put the environment, and our health at risk. Yeah, I have some concerns about that.

I get so aggravated when someone tells me that they are not an alcoholic, but then they admit that they have a “drinking problem.” Well, as far as I’m concerned, if you have a “drinking problem” then you are an alcoholic. Sometimes people try to sugar coat reality, and I think that is when small problems grow into big problems.  Similarly, I get so angry when people tell me that they are not “drug addicts” but that they are addicted to their pain medicine.  I’m sorry, I understand that is not the same as being addicted to a “recreational drug” and that it is not “their fault” but it is still a drug addiction.

I hope that anyone who finds themselves addicted to their medicines gets the help they need through a drug treatment center once the doctors have finished fixing the problem that was causing the pain. There really is no need to go through the difficulty of drug withdrawal and rehabilitation alone. There are some really good programs available that help people that need and want it. I’m sure that a good drug treatment program is “out there” that would meet the needs of the patient that wants it.