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Headaches

Date and Time  - May. 8th, 2008, 12:38 pm

Current Mood  - blank blank
Current Music  - budgies and tiels in conference

From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884), posted for [info]xhappyx:

   Headache — new remedy for. — A new remedy for headache has been found by Dr. Haley, an Australian physician, who says that for some years past he has found minimum doses of iodine of potassium of great service in frontal headache; that is, a heavy, dull headache, situated over the brow, and accompanied by languor, chilliness, and a feeling of general discomfort, with distaste for food, which sometimes approaches to nausea, can be completely removed by a two-grain dose dissolved in half a wineglassful of water, and this quietly sipped, the whole quantity being taken in about ten minutes. In many cases, he adds, the effect of these small doses has been simply wonderful, as, for instance, a person, who a quarter of an hour ago was feeling most miserable, and refused all food, wishing only for quietness, would now take a good meal and resume his wonted cheerfulness.

   Headache and Cold Feet. — There are many who suffer from headaches and cold feet. If they would plunge their feet in cold water every morning, and use the flesh-brush every night, it would relieve them both.

   Headache — several cures for. — 1. Coarse brown paper soaked in vinegar and placed on the forehead is good for a sick headache. If the eyelids are gently bathed in cold water the pain in the head is generally allayed.
   2. In Potosi the most violent headaches, so very common there, are cured by putting the feet in hot water.
   3. A mixture of ice and salt in proportion of one to one-half, applied to the head, frequently gives instant relief from acute headache. It should be tied up in a small linen cloth, like a pad, and held as near as possible to the seat of the pain.
   4. We have known some extreme cases of headache cured in half an hour by taking a teaspoonful of finely powdered charcoal in half a tumbler of water. It is an innocent yet powerful alkali.
   5. For sick-headache, take a tumbler two-thirds full of finely crushed ice, the juice of one lemon, and one teacupful of white sugar. The mixture, eaten by degrees, or all at once, will allay the feverish thirst, and quiet the disturbed, qualmish stomach, as it is not sweet enough to be nauseous.
   6. Sick headache can often be greatly relieved, and sometimes entirely cured, by the application of a mustard plaster at the base of the neck. The plaster should not be kept on more than a quarter of an hour.

   Headache (Billious) — cure for. — Dissolve and drink two teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered charcoal in half a tumbler of water; it will relieve in fifteen minutes. Take a seidlitz powder an hour afterward.

   Headache (Nervous) — relief for. — Many persons find speedy relief for nervous headache by washing the hair thoroughly in weak soda water. I have known severe cases almost wholly cured in ten minutes by this simple remedy. A friend finds it the greatest relief in cases of "rare cold," the cold symptoms entirely leaving the eyes and nose after one thorough washing of the hair. The head should be thoroughly dried afterward, and avoid draughts of air for a little while.


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Erythromycin

Date and Time  - Feb. 29th, 2008, 04:21 pm

Current Mood  - uncomfortable uncomfortable
Current Music  - Changelings - Johnny Ether's Great Escape

The erythromycin makes my eyes feel worse than the conjunctivitis did.

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Things to Try

Date and Time  - Oct. 30th, 2007, 02:09 pm

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Current Music  - Mazzy Star - Mary of Silence

From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

   Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.
   Try cranberries for malaria.
   Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.
   Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
   Try clam broth for a weak stomach.
   Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.
   Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.
   Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.
   Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.
   Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.
   Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.
   Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.
   Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.
   Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.
   Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.
   Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.
   Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."
   Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.
   Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.
   Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.


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Not Doing So Well Today

Date and Time  - Jul. 12th, 2007, 12:50 pm

Current Mood  - blah blah
Current Music  - dubbins screeching

Fed the birds. Skye got out while I was feeding her. She's in condition, but as none of the other budgies are out I figured I'd just let her fly around a bit. Not being able to get into any of the cages, she crawls into the tray of the big cage. I had to fish her out then turn off the lights so I could get her back into her cage.

After all that, I sat down at my computer and promptly vomited on my keyboard. I don't feel particularly ill, and I don't know why that happened. Luckily the keyboard still seems to work.

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Save the Humans

Date and Time  - Feb. 7th, 2007, 11:24 am

Current Mood  - exanimate exanimate
Current Music  - budgies in conference

If humanity is worth saving, it needs to get off this planet. Being limited one world makes humanity vulnerable to global-scale disasters, wars, and diseases. Humans could be wiped out by simple bad luck or by their own doing. The only way to ensure long-term survival is to inhabit more than one world.

However, that still leaves the question "Is humanity is worth saving?".

Poll #922561
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Is humanity worth saving?

View Answers

Yes.
17 (60.7%)

No.
11 (39.3%)



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Even the Not-So-Best Laid Plans

Date and Time  - Jan. 23rd, 2007, 08:36 pm

Current Mood  - blank blank
Current Music  - trains in the distance

I don't seem to be having very good luck with these trips to Saint Thomas. The first time it was far to hot to do anything. All [info]goldmourn and I could do was sit and sweat and play Trouble.

This time [info]goldmourn is sick. And, well, that's not very much fun.

I am still glad I've made these trips, and still enjoy them to a degree. It's obviously not [info]goldmourn's the elements have conspired to foil our plans. I don't regret coming, I just wish I had better luck and I hope [info]goldmourn feels better soon.

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Dark Omens

Date and Time  - Oct. 27th, 2006, 02:03 am

Current Mood  - depressed depressed
Current Music  - silence

Today, a second time, I see the "dirt" of on the wall in the stairwell. I doubted that it was dirt the first time, and now I do even more so. I believe it may be a mould. If it appears a third time, I will be sure of it. The perpetual leaks may have finally sealed our fate. If it is in the walls, we cannot stay. Perhaps this could even explain the sicknesses that trouble us in the [info]house_of_clocks. Where will we go, I do not know. I have thought long this was coming to an end, and eventually it must. Now seems like a time of wind, I can feel it like a dream taking me to the next scene.

This winter will be cold and long. I have met none who doubt.

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Project Schedule - Attempt 3, Week 3, Day 2

Date and Time  - Sep. 19th, 2006, 08:12 pm

Current Mood  - hot hot
Current Music  - budgies gurgling

Project Schedule didn't work out today. Lake was ill and I spent the day with her. I did at the very least get out to vote for Duvall Patrick.

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Voice Post:

Date and Time  - Aug. 4th, 2006, 11:18 pm


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“Greetings! I am on the bus, sitting at the station in Buffalo, New York. As I crossed the border to the U.S., I saw them shooting off fireworks! I guess they were excited I was coming back!

The trip here to Buffalo was nice, that I got a got a ride from Aleriel and Cait, but I kind of... got... sick on the way. It wasn't very pleasant. We had to pull over on the side of the road, and then again at a rest stop, and it was kind of miserable. But I ended up feeling better, and was feeling pretty good by the time we actually got here. It wasn't that bad, and I'm very grateful to Aleriel and Cait for giving me a ride.

I did forget one thing, which is natural: I forgot my camera battery back in Saint Thomas. *chuckles* Of course; cant' leave ---- something. And I did a double check and a triple check, to see if I forgot anything. But, alas, the camera battery is just a little black flat thing, and I guess I just missed it. I noticed it when I pulled the camera out to take a picture, that it was lighter and it didn't have the battery in it, but I figured it was just in the bag... but, alas, not. I had forgotten it. So, I guess I will ask Amber if she can send it to me. I hate to be a pain, but...

She's been so nice, it was so great seeing here. I know she doesn't feel that the trip went well, sometimes, because, y'know, it was too hot to do much, but I enjoyed just being around her and meeting her, and it was really cool, and I had a lot of fun! And, as I said before, if I knew that the trip was going to be as hot as it was, I would have still gone. And the last two days weren't hot, and I got out several times. And I went into town, and looked around the shops, and, generally, I liked the area. It was pleasant, relaxing, and I feel like I got a much-needed break. And I got to meet Amber in the process, which was excellent and wonderful!

And, I'm heading back home, which is also good, because I get to see Lake, and Anthea, and John, and Mazzy, and Lia, and Jymi, and everyone! And, it'll be great! And, I will be home soon! I get at home at 9:45 in the morning, I will be sleeping on the bus. Just a straight stop from Buffalo to Boston, you know, a couple stops, but no changing the bus.

So, I guess... that's the post! And I will be back in Boston very soon!”

Transcribed by: multiple users


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Late Night Thoughts on Therapy

Date and Time  - May. 15th, 2006, 02:01 am

Current Mood  - groggy groggy
Current Music  - silence

Waking up and posting in the middle of the night I am after being sick most of the day. Although I tend to love the rain, I think the cold steady drizzle finally got me.

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Tomorrow I see my therapist for the first time in 5 weeks. There will be a two month gap coming up when I go to Ontario for July and she is on vacation for August. At this point, the gaps do not bother me. I seem to get along just fine without therapy, and am still questioning the point of even continuing it.

My skepticism about therapy at this point has nothing to do with my current therapist, who is the best that I've found to date. My skepticism is simply due to the fact my doubt that the asymmetrical relationship offered by therapy is able to provide me with benefit at this point.

I have many people in my life that I'm on a more even standing with whom I can talk freely with, and I trust their advice and insight more simply because we have two-sided relationships. I know them more. I know their biases, backgrounds, and beliefs. I know them at all, in fact. The vary nature of the relationship with a therapist prevents that level of trust and understanding.

The one-sidedness of the relationship with a therapist can be incredibly useful for some people in some situations, and I've found it helpful at points in the past. However, for me here and now, I don't think it's working. It may be time to move on.

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Now I go back to bed.

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Where's George Pays Off

Date and Time  - Jan. 27th, 2006, 08:12 am

Current Mood  - groggy groggy
Current Music  - space heater

Using a popular internet game that traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country. This model is considered a breakthrough in the field.

"We were confident that we could learn a lot from the data collected at the www.wheresgeorge.com bill-tracking website, but the results turned out far beyond our expectations," said Lars Hufnagel, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-author of an article describing the research in the January 26 issue of the journal Nature.

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Historical pandemics, like the 14th-century plague, moved slowly in waves across geographical areas, because in the Middle Ages people could typically only travel a few kilometers a day. The speed with which epidemics could spread was thus kept in check. It took the plague three years to move up the European continent, south to north, with an average rate of spread of about two kilometers a day.

"But today people move great distances in short time periods, as well as short distances, and they use variable means of transportation," said Hufnagel. "Thus we can expect that future pandemics will spread according to other rules, and more quickly. The rapid worldwide spread of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) has already demonstrated this."

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"Since we can't track people with tracking devices, like we do animals, we needed to get data that provided us with millions of movements of individuals," explained Hufnagel. Scientists are already familiar with similar scaling laws from physical and biological systems. "What is amazing about these particular scaling laws is the fact that they are determined by two universal parameters only. This result surprised us all."

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Potentially Good Bird Flu News

Date and Time  - Jan. 26th, 2006, 11:44 pm

Current Mood  - sleepy sleepy
Current Music  - silence

University of Pittsburgh researchers announced they have genetically engineered an avian flu vaccine from the critical components of the deadly H5N1 virus that completely protected mice and chickens from infection. Avian flu has devastated bird populations in Southeast Asia and Europe and so far has killed more than 80 people.

Because this vaccine contains a live virus, it may be more immune-activating than avian flu vaccines prepared by traditional methods, say the researchers. Furthermore, because it is grown in cells, it can be produced much more quickly than traditional vaccines, making it an extremely attractive candidate for preventing the spread of the virus in domestic livestock populations and, potentially, in humans, according to the study, published in the Feb 15 issue of the Journal of Virology and made available early online.

"The results of this animal trial are very promising, not only because our vaccine completely protected animals that otherwise would have died, but also because we found that one form of the vaccine stimulates several lines of immunity against H5N1," said Andrea Gambotto, M.D., assistant professor in the departments of surgery and molecular genetics and biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and lead author of the study.

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Bird Flu's Scary Numbers

Date and Time  - Oct. 16th, 2005, 03:21 am

Current Mood  - gloomy gloomy
Current Music  - silence

Doing the math on bird flu I come up with something a little scarier than what I've seen in the media and from the politically responsive WHO, which under pressure revised it's worst-case scenario down to 7 million dead from 150 million.

Virtually every person alive in 1918 and 1919 is believed to have been exposed to Spanish Influenza. Half of those people fell ill. Spanish Influenza had a mortality rate of 5%. The population of the world was approximately 2 billion. Approximately 50 million died.

There are approximately 6.4 billion people on earth now. If Bird Flu is as successful at spreading as Spanish Influenza was, all 6.4 billion people will be exposed. With modern travel habits, this is likely in a potential human pandemic. If the infection rate of Bird Flu is also similar to that of Spanish Influenza, and we have no reason to believe it won't be, that means approximately half those exposed, or 3.2 billion people, will become sick. With the current Bird Flu mortality rate of 50%, the result is 1.6 billion people dead.

1.6 billion people is a lot.

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Up then Down

Date and Time  - Oct. 2nd, 2004, 11:50 pm

Current Mood  - sick sick
Current Music  - traffic

Went to the chocolate party tonight. My taste buds had a lot of fun. However my stomach is does not agree with my taste buds on the joyousness of the evening. I feel hot and ill. I'm only have one Prevacid left so I took some ranitidine and am waiting for it to kick in. Hopefully I'll feel better enough to get some sleep. I need to get myself to the doctor to get more Prevacid, but that involves dealing with overdue medical bills that I don't feel like dealing with at this time, so I'll probably put it off and suffer. It's too bad there's not a black market for Prevacid, because I'd definitely purchase some.

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Mitt Romney Strikes Again

Date and Time  - May. 5th, 2004, 01:41 pm

Current Mood  - angry angry
Current Music  - traffic

I saw my pdoc today. She hadn't gotten my message about having to get pre-approval on my Celexa because she's been out sick. So I still haven't gotten my Celexa. I still haven't gotten my prescription antacid as well, need to call my primary care doctor and see what's up with the pre-approval on that. Today my pdoc gave me a prescription for Provigil. Something I really need as my other meds sap my energy. Well, as it turns out, under Romney Masshealth won't cover my prescription for Provigil, period. Pre-approval or not. And I can't afford to get it on my own. I hate Mitt Romney so much right now. He just squeaked by in a very close election. We're stuck with him for another 2 years.

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Violated Muse

Date and Time  - Mar. 3rd, 2004, 04:28 am


Violated Muse

drugged and electrocuted
the violated muse fell ill
trust swept away
one last look at splendor

call it hate
the psychotic part is like that
just beyond the dream
lies the nightmare

opaque and one-dimensional
zombie surgeon takes his knife
oh, is this subjective?
i didn't know


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Negative Divination

Date and Time  - Jan. 22nd, 2004, 08:21 pm


Negative Divination

are you looking to function?
first, understand the surface
the shape of an old smoke screen
often belies what is underneath

long days euthanize hope
passing by faded photographs and sick cats
finding that the differences determine meaning
nothing results in nothing

circumstances crystallize in fine grains
everyday evil walks across the platform
and mulberry wine drips slowly from a glass
can you interpret the signs?


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Satan's Highway

Date and Time  - Jan. 22nd, 2004, 05:36 pm


Satan's Highway

devils in september
united from bone
god was not successful

drive into the muddy river
earth's tidings incomplete
here illness is security

a new environmentally friendly hell
waiting outside
every year still poorer

what will be your limit
marx whispers from the grave
never suspect us you wrenched fools

find your favorite SCUD missile
and test your cognition Tuesday
i enjoy the stress

worship the dog
and love the night
they were you once

there is no moral here
no promise of peace
the window is forever cracked


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I Feel Good

Date and Time  - Dec. 23rd, 2003, 02:53 am

Current Mood  - happy happy
Current Music  - silence

I feel better than I have in a week. No more flu. Back on Geodon. I missed seeing Return of the King with [info]purpleglitter and [info]zarthon last night. [info]zarthon said he'd take me to see it when he got back from Kentucky. I'm at [info]purpleglitter's apartment. She bought me lots of yummy healthy food to eat while I'm here. Things are looking up.

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Slow

Date and Time  - Dec. 21st, 2003, 04:16 pm

Current Mood  - distressed distressed
Current Music  - traffic

the seroquel has failed to knock me out
it has just made me very groggy and slow
i am moving through molasses.
it is very had to type this
i don't feel good
i'm going to take some klonopin in hopes of achieving sleep