February 10, 2012

New technologies for back pain

I have tried about everything for back pain. I have read over a hundred articles about back pain. Try this, try that, do this, do that… it seems like a lot of this is just a load of crap. Finally went to the doctor the other day, he asked me if I had tried a certain type of patch on my back; I said yes, I use those all the time, they are not all that great. They say they are supposed to last 8 hours but they only seem to last me about 4 hours. It wore off. I would go and put another one on.

Fortunately, another person I knew, a relative, had a ton of these patches and was able to give me a couple of dozen extras. As you know; everything is expensive today! I didn’t tell the doctor that I was putting two on a day! But I did mention the lasting effect or lack thereof, he scratched his head for a second and said “I’ve got something new, I guarantee you’ll like these, they do work!” And he gave me a sample.

I tried them they really did work good! They are supposed to last for up to 12 hours then you throw it away. It doesn’t say that you can or can’t put another one on, it just says remove after 12 hours. I don’t really care; because I’m getting 8 hours out of this patch and I’m quite satisfied with the exception of the price! They are extremely expensive! And nobody has any extra ones of these!

January 31, 2012

A new mattress

Filed under: Family,General Living,Health,Money and/or Finances,Shopping — Copa @ 10:35 am

Our mattress simply is not as comfortable as it used to be; my wife has been complaining a lot lately about a backache, and that is not normal at all. We’ve turned the mattress and still her back hurts. Seems like it was just a couple of years ago when we bought it, but when we think about it, we realized that we bought it over ten years ago!

So we have agreed to keep our eyes open for a good mattress sale to try to get a good price on a new mattress. We’ve always slept on a king mattress, and even though our family and friends can’t seem to understand why we can’t seem to sleep on a smaller bed, we just know from experience that we just don’t sleep well on anything less. We’ve found that finding a king mattress sale can be challenging; it seems to us that more queen and double beds seem to go on sale than king size. So it may be a while, but it is important to get a new one as soon as we can.

January 26, 2012

Address Signs Are Important

Filed under: Health,Home Improvement,Travel — Copa @ 7:10 pm

My kid sister has been giving me some grief lately concerning my current address sign that is older than dirt at this point. She’s been saying that she saw a show on TV which was discussing that our emergency personnel are really having a difficult time finding the right place to respond to – when they are called and needed for assistance – because of the issue of  a growing number of unreadable address signs. You can only imagine  that at night it would be even more of a challenge.

With this being said she is urging me to get off of it and start looking around online and look at the large variety of address plaques and numbers that are on today’s market. She sent me the link to justaddressplaques.com the other day and I’ve spent some time looking around and seeing what is out there that might just float my boat. I never realized how many varieties of house address plaques there are these days.

It only makes sense to get a quality and easy to read address plaque. There are times when I call one of the Chinese Restaurants or the local Domino’s Pizza to be delivered and I do like my food nice and hot. Better chance of getting it hot if they delivery person can read the address plaque.

January 22, 2012

Trying To Lose Weight

I am interested in finding a good weight loss program.  It seems that every time I go to the doctor’s office they weigh me and I’ve gained weight.  I think that the insulin that the doctor put me on for my diabetes is responsible for some of the weight gain; I’ve tried hard to lose weight by eating less high calorie foods and eating more salads.

My wife told me to go to the Internet and look at the Weight Loss Diet Help website.  It reviews many of the commercial weight loss programs that are available to today’s consumer.  It lists and compares the features and costs of the different programs, and it provides links that lead you to offers of discount coupons and offers to many of the programs.  The diets I’ve already heard about are the South Beach Diet, Medifast, Nutrisystem and WeightWatchers.  They also talk about a couple of diets that I’ve never heard of before.

What I found even more interesting about the website was that it had several interesting articles about the subject – it had an article about healthy weight loss and an article about the benefits of gym workouts that I found most informative.

January 21, 2012

ADT Home Security Systems

For so many years both of my parents thought that their beloved German Shepard was the best type of Home Security Systems around hands down. He always made for good company and always made them feel safe in their own home. But these days there is such a huge increase in home break ins that they are now giving second thoughts about only relying on their guard dog. It’s unfortunately gotten so bad that we are now seeing more and more of the signs in people’s yards announcing that they have had the installation of a well known Home Alarm System company, ADT. There are more of these types of signs than the For Sale and Foreclosure signs that have been placed in so many people’s front yards.

My folks have gotten very proficient on using the Internet. They are not the type of seniors that are known for shying away from today’s technology. They are embracing it and using to the best of the abilities. I’m so proud of them for being that way. They have taken their time and taught several of their senior friends on how to use the Internet in many ways. So my mom was looking for tips on how to keep their home and property safe and they have decided to go ahead and have ADT Home Security come out and install a good quality security system for them. I’m so  glad to hear it and I really hope that it makes them have more peace of mind so that they can spend their “golden years” having fun in the sun and on the water rather than worrying about some jerk breaking in and possibly hurting them while trying to steel all of the things that they have worked so hard to get.