Things got back to normal today. I was able to work out of my office for the majority of the day. I did some catching up on documents that needed sending out to our members. Then there was the normal follow up on magazines and the newest book. There was a minor snafu, but easily fixed.
This afternoon I did some software installation and worked on trying to troubleshoot one of the front computers. The darn thing is having another major breakdown. It won't run Outlook and now it won't even boot properly. That goodness it's under warranty. We're beginning to think it is a memory issue. We'll find out tomorrow.
On the way home I ran by the
Fresh Market to pick up stuff for dinner. It is the wrong place to go just before dinner. So many choices! Oh well, we have dinner here for the next couple of days. I managed to also slip by
Michael's to get tracing paper for my Typography class project. Maybe, just maybe I'll get that darn thing finished this week.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:Flu PrecautionsI received this in my email (not checked on snopes) and thought it was worth passing along. jsThe only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.
While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):
1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).
2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).
3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.
4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*
5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.
6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.
Old Flu Cures..I know onions are very powerful, they saved my mother's life when she was 17. She had the old-fashioned Asian flu with pneumonia and in a coma.
Back then,(1935) doctors made house calls, so when he told my grandmother that he didn't think my mother would live through the night and there was nothing more he could do for her. My grandmother ask if she made an onion politess would it harm her? He told her that at this stage of the illness, nothing would harm her.
My grandmother then ground up onions in her meat grinder and gently fried them in a cast iron frying pan until they were a little soft and the natural juices were coming out. She placed them in two handmade sacks of cloth, placed the onions inside, still hot from the frying pan, then hand stitched a chris-cross basting stitch to keep the onions from clumping together. She tied the sack
with long pieces of cloth she sewed at the top and bottom of these sacks and tied them around my mother's neck and body so that she had one on her chest and the other one on her upper back. Changing them every day for three days.
On the second day when she was changing my mother's politesses, my mother rallied around and ask my grandmother what she was doing.
When the doctor came on the third day, he found my mother sitting up in bed, fever gone, and feeling much better. Her lungs were clearing up and she was able to cough up the infection and by the end of that week she was walking around. From that day on, she swore by onions and whenever we got sick with a bad cold, out came the onions and she was making politeses.
Onions Around the HouseIt is not going to hurt to try it!!!!!
Take those onions from the fridge and hide a couple, when you need to use one, take it from the bowl in the game room, and put a new one in the bowl! Don't worry about the smell, it's not peeled!
Do you know how many people will be unemployed in the flu vaccine business, if this gets out, and it worked! Actually, there is lots of sulphur in an onion.
My Dad always sautéed or fried a large frying pan full on onions when he was coming down with a cold, ate them up & went to bed, & he was better the next day!
Another Story About Onions Fighting the Flu VirusGOOD MORNING...How would you like to try this...it comes from Abbot Peter who lives in Muenster with the Benedictine Monks...Take care.... God Bless.
Keep healthy this winter, the easy way . . .Onions fight flu virus.
OK, it is true. After reading this you will think that I have really lost it. However, this is a true story.
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it and many died.
The Doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the Doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).
The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. (And no, she is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere.
Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case. Whatever, what have you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!
Halloween was almost as disappointing at the new house as at the apartments. There the kids didn't trick-or-treat and here we only had four. Although I did have to real cuties show up from the West End for a special Trick-Or-Treat.
