and even MORE Stuff....

Several of you were amazed at the old wives tale about the nose bleed and the keys, well, I just got this in the email from Sue Wylie...

AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto. The blockage will be almost instantly removed.

2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.

3. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.

4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.

5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.

7. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you will forget about the toothache.

Sometimes, we just need to remember what the rules of life really are:
You only need two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.

Remember:
Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
Never pass up an opportunity to go to the bathroom.
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.

And finally, be really nice to your family and friends; you never know when you might need them to empty your bedpan.


I have been trying to write something really profound and seem to have gotten stuck on NOTHING!! I have a horrible rash on my belly and my arms that is driving me to distraction. I itch like mad, and have welts all over my tummy. It is really hard to concentrate when you have to stop tyoing and scratch!!

I took my brother in for a endoscope of his stomach yesterday, He was to be sedated, so I had to be there to take him home and watch him. He has been vomitting and losing weight for about two months now, and last week when they took an xray of his stomach it was shaped like an hour glass. They were afraid he might have a tumor, or a constriction of some type. Doc Z siad his Procedure yesterday was alarmingly normal. So now the next drill is an upper CT scan of his abdomen. He is thinking that MAYBE Pancriatitis or a cyst something or other on his Pancreas. I sure hope they find something, but nothing that cant be fixed. He is my baby brother, and I practically raised him. I am 10 years older than he is.

Monday I get to take Bob into the Base Hospital for an endoscope on the OTHER end. and the same drill, I will have to bring him home and watch him because he does not remember things when he comes out of it.

And then Tuesday I get to take Phyllis in to the Hospital for an epidural cordizone shot in her spine.

Ambulance service anyone?

That is afterall what family is for...and when there are three of us all living alone and Mike's wife has to work, someone has to be the driver. I know that I will get my turn at the riding before long.

Bob is starting his liquid diet tomorrow, so tonite he is staying home. I will stay away from him tomorrow too, because he will not be fun to be around. Like all men, he gets really NASTY when he is sick. WHy are they that way? Gads, Maybe that is why God made females MOTHERS! Can you just HEAR them in the LABOR ROOM!!!!