Book Board Chat

Well, it WAS morning when I started this.

CASINOKAT - What a bummer. My best vibes to you and PAT. Thought of you the other day. Was watching storage wars wrap up round table discussion. They were asked what odd things they found. They mentioned urns with ashes. Remember that one we found at that big storage auction?

CAROL - Was thinking that myself ..... the question 'have you fallen recently?'. Definitely was not going to call 911. Been watching too many Hoarders shows to let strangers in right now. lol
Told a friend your chicken story. Wray's GS. Did not get where / how they got the chickens. She has five hens and all have names, but none are name JC.

AEG - You should look. It is really an interesting lump, in a bizare way. Especially knowing that the vultures didn't get me.

MYSTERY - I think I like the one of him asleep in Dad's arms a bit better. He is so relaxed. Wonder if his crossed leg pose is a family thing. A friend's child did a similar pose. Just like her dad's though she had never seen him sit that way . He was in the first gulf war and gone for months when she sat like that.
The foot drop thing had been much better the last year. It all stems from the very bad whiplash of whole spine back in 2007 when I was rear-ended at about 30MPH. The nerves have been healing slowly and foot thing is doing much better. But between the big boots and edges which had been under snow I got a bit cavalier in my walking, and it got me.

JIM - Exactly. Very annoying. I will ( have been) on high alert the past three days. Wearing shoes, not boots. LOL
Would love to read a play by play or your trip. What ship, where did you go what did you do. Love the trip Mom took us on in 1998. Small ship, Inland Passage saw much. Seems like yesterday.

JUNE - I got a questionnaire a few weeks ago. Told them I can't sit or do anything for any length of time. I never know how much I can do till I try it. If I have to stop or lie down now, I have to do it now. Not conducive to even attempting jury duty. Have not heard back.

DIANE - Thanks. I am OK with little rugs now. Early on they were a problem. Sorry your foot goes. It is a pain. to watch feet all the time. Here is more about DMSO if your interested.

MORE DMSO INFO

To the best of my knowledge Dr. Jacob ( article below) was the first to research DMSO.

DMSO: Many Uses, Much Controversy
"The history of DMSO as a pharmaceutical began in 1961, when Dr. Jacob was head of the organ transplant program at Oregon Health Sciences University. It all started when he first picked up a bottle of the colorless liquid. While investigating its potential as a preservative for organs, he quickly discovered that it penetrated the skin quickly and deeply without damaging it. He was intrigued. Thus began his lifelong investigation of the drug."
FROM HERE
http://www.dmso.org/articles/information/muir.htm

My first experience with DMSO was in the very early 1970's when my sister's dog had a tooth abcess that would not heal. It had opened on the outside of her face. Antibiotics would seem to heal then it would open again. We went through several courses of antibiotics without complete healing. The vet said lets try this new thing, DMSO, and see if it will help. It did. Swelling went down and it started to dry up, healed from inside out in just a few days and never reoccurred.
Years later I was given some for a horse problem. The the vets used it more and more for the horses and i finally just started keeping it on hand. Sometimes got it on me and I had no problem, though had been cautioned to not get it on my skin as it would be in my blood stream in seconds. Therefore had to be very clean,,,no lotions, chemicals etc in contact area.
That led to I trying it on me when I banged myself and was impressed. I bruise easily but if I got the DMSO on quickly, soon after whatever I had done, I could either stop the bruising or minimize it.
Obviously, I could only approximate the benefit because I was not going to deliberately give my self two identical 'bangs' then treat one but not the other. I just know my body and know how badly something would bruise based on previous incidents

I accidentaly did just that in the early 90's when I burned my hand on a sparkler that flared in a wind gust just as lit. It burned about 70 percent of my palm, the edges and backs of thumb and first two fingers and the back of my hand.
Blistering was instant. I got ice and then thought of the DMSO so used that too. The pain was intense but it lessened as the evening went on. Used the DMSO several times as before bed. The blister was down a bit by midnight-ish. When I woke the next morning the palm was flat and dry and pain free unless I really jabbed it ( yeah I am always testing).
Over the next couple of days the top layer of skin became papery and in 5-6 days that top skin had flaked off leaving new healthy skin underneath. Virtually no pain from the first few hours.

This is where it got interesting. The next morning I discovered that I had not gotten DMSO on all of the burned areas. The areas that I missed were not huge but were very blistered. Even though I then got DMSO on them, which reduced swelling a little, they went through a progression of breaking blisters, oozing, some infection then finally healing. It was about 3-4 weeks (maybe longer) before those missed spots had healed.

That really sold me on using DMSO for many injuries. DMSO can cause a burning feeling to the skin, some people are very sensitive to it and it causes ones breath to smell like oysters or garlic and it can also sweat out through pores so one's body may have DMSO odor. I will take that and the faster healing though.

I had an injured horse, with a badly wrench spine, who was on internal DMSO, through a somach tube, for several weeks. The whole barn smelled of DMSO but he healed and was rideable again in five months.

Now anything that could swell gets DMSO. If you can keep the swelling down, healing is faster, plain and simple. The pain relief is and added benefit.