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almost time for the semi-annual haircut

guess ill have to clean extra good behind my ears this week

 

My dog always poops in same spot. Now I tried to teach him to do it behind the and on the concrete. I'd pick it from the grass, put it on the concrete, like a little adore, a notion that that's where I wanted it. It's just so much easier to get from concrete IMO. But no, dog refuses to do this and will always go on the lawn. At the back, then he creeps on down. Sometimes you get those really good days where it'll either freeze from the cold or, the wind dried it out quickly. But then on the other days... But messy and our guy seems to have two poops. The usual, then especially if we are walking half hour after first one he'll always like force and push whatever else he has left. This is never solid and I never ever try and pick it up, no matter who looking there's just zero point, it's not formed it's just a mess. This mainly happens while walking but sometimes too in the yard if he's been running around a lot.

Like yesterday he was chasing a couple of bees. He got stung twice too but nope he kept going after them. And he got one, it got him he spat that out the checked up on it for half an hour. We just watched him. I think I burn energy just watching him chase around. So he would check to see it. It was still moving must have been in agony for half an hour. Then he claws it. Sniffs it. Very weary because he knows these things sting. Then he went after another bee but we know that at least one bee comrade won't be making the journey home. And neither will a fly that I squished. I have good quick hands for flies, just like my grandaddy.

We saw a deer tonight, or three. I think there was three. But could only see one but I just felt three. He went up all eager, but I walked on by them. He could scent them. Probably see them. I walked past. Last thing we need is a family off scared deer bouncing off onto the roads.

It was cold tonight. Spring came and then it went leaving us with winter again. We are actually expecting decent snow fall over the next few days. Back to sub zero temperatures.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6SD65aiA_U

 

I think I should play well tonight at the social comp, if I go. I think I will. I'm feeling it at the moment anyway. But then as I type this... Maybe not?

 

I'm probably not going to go now, since I thought about how much :sifone: would feel. I'll continue to train my 8 ball game up on my own table. I have the routine now so not to get confused. Numerical solids and stripes now = One shot rules
Casino yellows and red now = 8 ball rules.

Playing too much one shot is really having an effect on my 8 ball. Once I'm flourishing in 8 ball play it shouldn't be a problem, but during that learning time... It's difficult to hone a skill when you play by a different rule.

 

Mother's Love, I bet that rat was just an anomoly...and your good little dog got it. Good Job!!!

Irmi, about your boy and the bee, made me remember Mama's German Shepherd, Maggie. She hell-hated bees. In the summer when the bees were full-out, she would jump Way Up High sometimes to get them. I remember thinking it was unreal when she would get to going. For her to be a big dog too.

Maggie was cool. She looked so damn ferocious, and I would have to protect her if someone were to come up. She would't bark unless she didn't know you and she was scared...and I was ALWAYS glad nobody knew that if they had approached her, she would have run. lol

 

Sometimes I have to wonder what the next door neighbors think of us.

For starters when they go to bed I'm just getting up. Always music. Always banging. Always clanging. If it's not me yelling at the dog it's Laura and if we aren't yelling at the dog well we yell at each other because we are both losing our hearing to tinnitus. So WHAT WHAAA?? FARKEN WHAT ****? All day. then the garage must crack a little bit. Music and my pool table. My ceiling exhaust has broke so two weeks blowing weed smoke out the window can only assume they've smelled it at least once?

They must think we are a pack of whackos. I don't even talk to them really I speak more with the family directly across the road than my neighbors.

Sometimes I feel bad because the 6 closest house to us always talk to each other, but not us. Now that's my doing, I'm not interested in socializing and I don't have children for the kids to play with. That probably does come across as rude, but then why waste my time with something I won't enjoy just so my neighbors are happy? I can't work like that in my life and especially not these days. I'm mostly all about just making me happy.

 

The other week one actually came over and asked for some milk. She held a small milk cup in her hand. I could only think to myself "shit, that actually happens?" Lol. Next it'll be my bloody tools won't it! And then in 3 months I'll be looking for those tools and they were never returned and then they say they did and I'll get annoyed.

Pretty sure that's how it works.

 

http://dailyrecords.us/italian-doctor-may-have-found-surprisingly-simple-cure-for-multiple-sclerosis/

MS sufferers, hope on the horizon? what would you do without MS flares?

 

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heres the text:


Italian doctor may have found surprisingly simple cure for Multiple Sclerosis

An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide. In an initial study, Dr. Paolo Zamboni took 65 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, performed a simple operation to unblock restricted bloodflow out of the brain – and two years after the surgery, 73% of the patients had no symptoms. Dr. Zamboni’s thinking could turn the current understanding of MS on its head, and offer many sufferers a complete cure.
Multiple sclerosis, or MS, has long been regarded as a life sentence of debilitating nerve degeneration. More common in females, the disease affects an estimated 2.5 million people around the world, causing physical and mental disabilities that can gradually destroy a patient’s quality of life.
It’s generally accepted that there’s no cure for MS, only treatments that mitigate the symptoms – but a new way of looking at the disease has opened the door to a simple treatment that is causing radical improvements in a small sample of sufferers.
Italian Dr. Paolo Zamboni has put forward the idea that many types of MS are actually caused by a blockage of the pathways that remove excess iron from the brain – and by simply clearing out a couple of major veins to reopen the blood flow, the root cause of the disease can be eliminated.
Dr. Zamboni’s revelations came as part of a very personal mission – to cure his wife as she began a downward spiral after diagnosis. Reading everything he could on the subject, Dr. Zamboni found a number of century-old sources citing excess iron as a possible cause of MS. It happened to dovetail with some research he had been doing previously on how a buildup of iron can damage blood vessels in the legs – could it be that a buildup of iron was somehow damaging blood vessels in the brain?
He immediately took to the ultrasound machine to see if the idea had any merit – and made a staggering discovery. More than 90% of people with MS have some sort of malformation or blockage in the veins that drain blood from the brain. Including, as it turned out, his wife.
He formed a hypothesis on how this could lead to MS: iron builds up in the brain, blocking and damaging these crucial blood vessels. As the vessels rupture, they allow both the iron itself, and immune cells from the bloodstream, to cross the blood-brain barrier into the cerebro-spinal fluid. Once the immune cells have direct access to the immune system, they begin to attack the myelin sheathing of the cerebral nerves – Multiple Sclerosis develops.
He named the problem Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency, or CCSVI.
Zamboni immediately scheduled his wife for a simple operation to unblock the veins – a catheter was threaded up through blood vessels in the groin area, all the way up to the effected area, and then a small balloon was inflated to clear out the blockage. It’s a standard and relatively risk-free operation – and the results were immediate. In the three years since the surgery, Dr. Zamboni’s wife has not had an attack.
Widening out his study, Dr. Zamboni then tried the same operation on a group of 65 MS-sufferers, identifying blood drainage blockages in the brain and unblocking them – and more than 73% of the patients are completely free of the symptoms of MS, two years after the operation.
In some cases, a balloon is not enough to fully open the vein channel, which collapses either as soon as the balloon is removed, or sometime later. In these cases, a metal stent can easily be used, which remains in place holding the vein open permanently.
Dr. Zamboni’s lucky find is yet to be accepted by the medical community, which is traditionally slow to accept revolutionary ideas. Still, most agree that while further study needs to be undertaken before this is looked upon as a cure for MS, the results thus far have been very positive.
Naturally, support groups for MS sufferers are buzzing with the news that a simple operation could free patients from what they have always been told would be a lifelong affliction, and further studies are being undertaken by researchers around the world hoping to confirm the link between CCSVI and MS, and open the door for the treatment to become available for sufferers worldwide.
It’s certainly a very exciting find for MS sufferers, as it represents a possible complete cure, as opposed to an ongoing treatment of symptoms. We wish Dr. Zamboni and the various teams looking further into this issue the best of luck.

 

We just went for a snow flurry walk with the dog. He pulled my partner over though trying to chase something. She definitely wasn't ready for it and she's pretty pissed off about it too. Nothing much I can do but shake head. I could tell her what she's done wrong but that'll just fall on deaf ears like always. I could talk all day about it, she'd never listen to me. Or she'd agree with me but make no changes. Err well, enjoy the dirt I say. If you won't listen.

After that, I gave him one big check with the chain and he heeled all the way home for me. Disciplined instilled. This is the problem when one owner has different rules than the other owner. Boy listens to me, because he knows is he doesn't then I'mma do something about it. But he won't listen to my partner, well he won't take her seriously at all. He knows he'll get away with whatever he wants anyway. And you can see it when we walk. If I drag my foot he'll freeze, because that's the sound I make when I'm about to give him a good check up to stop messing about, but he doesn't do this with her. Because he knows her check isn't going to hurt anyway so he just has a jerk face and trots around willynilly knowing full aware that he's taking her for a walk.

I don't know why it bothers me as much as it does, it just does. I glare at him and I say to myself that he's an asshole because he is, he's a stubborn fool but also an asshole and hard headed.

I wish they'd learn. In fact I've been using only about half the lead these last few days as I find when he's trying to pull he can't use all his power if the lead is short. And he don't like it either. He knows he can't power down and take charge. But he'll choke himself this way for a good hour, never learns that if he just holds back a bit he could walk in peace without choking himself and you hear the difference when he does slow down. He's not gasping for air but I'm not going to babysit him. Soon we'll have the pinch collar and I'm looking forward to it. It'll put him in his place hard and fast. Basically a collar that doesn't choke, but pinches. So when he wants to pull there'll be spikes pinching him. This way he's got to learn and he won't be able to do what he didn with my partner this morning unless he wants to be in a great deal of pain for his actions. We've used the pinch once and he didn't like it but he learned in minutes that he couldn't pull. So we are purchasing one very soon.

 

I never knew anything about nsync but back when they started doing their own thing I read an article about something joey fatone was working on. The article didn't say joey though. And joey is the biggest member of any of those boybands. So they just called him fatone. And I thought they were being mean while making a typo. I thought they forgot the space in fat one. I was like....hey I am all for making fun of those cheesy bands but it ain't cool making fun of his weight problem.

 

I am here and alive and sane and I'm not cleaning and worrying about what isn't done...

They came and devoured some of my veg/hamburger soup with cornbread and butter. All is well...we all have an 11am appt tomorrow.

Time waits for no wo/man.

I'm not worth a shit for a disciplinarian, especially working with a dog like y'all are talking about. I mean I'll say no and mean it....but all that other and stuff...bleh. lol I'm not worth a single turd to make something/a creature do or not do something. I might condition them through food or something similar but other than that. I just can't do it.

 

I'm eating some California chocolate dispensary candy, and I must say I'm dingdang fucking impressed.





I gave Mama a wee little taste of some. ha

I really don't think she'd care, especially since she ordered some cannabol oil, or whatever you call it. Hemp oil.

She looks like she's doing pretty good.

 

I don't think I could use one of those pinch collars on my dog. But I think I have the right amount on control over her. Like she will usualy come or sit if I say so which is all I worry about. She still gets stubborn but I can usualy make her listen better then my girlfriend. But the dog also got jealous of the girlfriend and would attempt to wedge herself between us when we first met. From day one there was competition lol.

 

I'm like frothing at the mouth excited to use the pinch collar just to see his reaction of 'damn, she's got me, what do I try now'. but it's more for my partner than me. I just don't seem to have the problems with him and it just bothers me, greatly. I mean it really annoys me and eats me inside.

 

Have you ever looked into the "Gentle Leader" collar to prevent pulling? I got one after I had my hip replacement so that my dog, at that time, would not pull me over. He already was good at walking beside me but I was afraid of falling after the operation. It might be something that could work for your partner when she is walking the dog.

 

Hmm no. I've never heard of such a contrapment. I know harnesses stop them from pulling, but I feel like without anything for him to think about in terms of correction then we are just promoting bad behavior when he does mess up because there's nothing to correct him and make him think, like the slip chain.

 

Ohh the dehydrator just came. It's a lot bigger than I imagine. It's bigger than a microwave. I'm already out of space in my big kitchen to put appliances.