Jeremy Herndon

If you know some one that deals with MS then I have a wonderful website for them to check out at allaboutms.com. It is a very user friendly site that talks about many aspects of the Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and is chock full of Multiple Sclerosis News that I think would be beneficial for all people exposed to the horrendous disease.

I think most of us have someone close to us that has some type of serious illness or disability that effects us in numerous ways each day. The Internet is such a powerful tool for us to utilized in gaining some major knowledge that can empower us tremendously in cases just like this.

As with most illnesses there are things that we all can help with such as the much talked about Multiple Sclerosis Diet and the Multiple Sclerosis Exercise that is making such an impact on so many MS patients. You can find out so much information like this and much more at this wonderful website. Read it and pass it on, if you will.

I have always enjoyed eating yogurt and Yoplait gets my vote for the best tasting as well as having the largest variety of flavors to choose from. It depends on what store you shop at as to which flavors you will find, but you can basically expect to find Cherry, Blueberry, Vanilla and Strawberry Banana. Yogurt is one of only a few healthy snacks that I can live with.

If you asked me ten years ago with Mesothelioma was I wouldn’t have been able to give you even a clue.  I remember a co worker talking about her uncle dealing with Mesothelioma Cancer, about ten years ago and she clued me into a good amount about this ever increasing cancer that we are seeing so much about on TV these days. There are several local attorneys that are specializing in Mesothelioma and are advertising heavily these past couple of years on the local channels on cable and satellite alike.

I’ve even seen a few daytime talk show that have discussed this as well as Surviving Mesothelioma and I always remember that particular co worker whose family was morning heavily back then and it makes me wonder what ever happened to her and/or her uncle. All I know is that he had served in the Navy and somehow was exposed to this cancer in the sub that he spend a good amount of time in. I understand that a good amount of men that served on those submarines are now suffering from this same type of Mesothelioma Cancer. That really sucks, serving your country and then dying slowly from it for years and decades long after your service time is up.

More and more people are losing their jobs and homes and the news is full of horrible stories about many of these poor folks that are being forced to leave their homes and are abandoning their pets. That is just wrong. It is just as bad as leaving a pet in a hot car during these hot summer months. Wake up folks!

My wife is very much into fashion sunglasses. She likes to keep a pair in the glove box of her car, as well as a pair in her purse.  I’m always breaking sunglasses – I think I must sit on them by accident.  She was thinking about buying me a new pair of Serengeti polarized sunglasses over the Internet, and she was showing me a few different pairs that she liked. I liked the fact that the sunglasses are flexible. You would not believe how many times I’ve broken my sunglasses! Seems like I go through at least a dozen pairs of sunglasses each year. Maybe if I try these flexible frame sunglasses they’ll last longer.

One of the things that concerns me about the world is how many things are “out there” being used that are really dangerous for us that we don’t know about!  I keep seeing commercials on television about how asbestos can cause Malignant Mesothelioma.  These commercials are usually encouraging the viewer to hire a particular Mesothelioma Lawyer to help them with medical expenses and get some form of restitution.

I think that it is a sad commentary on today’s society that an individual would have to hire a Mesothelioma Attorney to try to get some justice.  Why isn’t the AMA or Uncle Sam taking some large action to stop the production and sale of asbestos and providing free legal help to these people, so that they don’t have to go through the heartache and overwhelming work of the legal process themselves?  Seems to me that there should be an easier way to help these victims out!

I went online a few weeks ago and submitted a claim on the recalled Rolaids.  I have to admit that I was impressed when I opened the mail today and found two coupons for $6.00 off of Rolaids!  I think that was fairly fast, and I appreciate the fact that this company responded the way that they did.  I still haven’t been able to find bottles of Rolaids in the stores yet, but when they return, I will buy them again.  For some reason I think that they work better for me than the other brands do.  Of course I don’t like having to take anything, but when you need something, then you need something!

I don’t know how or why I didn’t hear about the recall on Rolaids! Yesterday my wife went grocery shopping, and I had put Rolaids on the shopping list. I use a lot of Rolaids, and we buy them in the 100 count bottle. The fruit flavor is our favorite. Well when my wife came back from grocery shopping I saw that she didn’t buy a bottle of Rolaids! She had bought a small box that had three rolls in it.

She told me that she had looked for the bottles, but the shelves for the bottles were empty, so she bought what she could find. I didn’t believe her that they would be empty! She told me that there had been a recall on them! Well, I went online and googled “Rolaids recall” and sure enough, there IS a big recall out on the Rolaids! I wonder why I hadn’t heard about it – the recall was announced last month! It MUST have been covered in the news, right? Did any of you out there know about the recall?

I heard that they are now saying that over 200 thousand people have lost their lives due to the earthquake in Haiti. That is an amazingly high number of lives lost due to Mother Nature being pissed of! It is good to hear of all of the money that is being raised to help the victims, people pulling together is always a good thing. We need more of that in our daily lives, we’d all be better off.

My sisters have been taking belly dance classes in Winchester over the past several months. They decided a few months ago that they would give it a try; it seemed like a lot of fun and a good way to get exercise without it actually feeling like exercise!

It took them a while to find out where they could take lessons in belly dance in Winchester, but they found a teacher named Miramar who holds belly dance classes in Winchester and they signed up.

Recently, after much nagging on my part they sent me a photo of them dancing in their costumes! Looks like they were having fun twirling around!

I think that one of the hardest addictions to kick is the caffeine addiction! I love my morning cup of joe! I just can’t seem to get started without it! My doctor says I really should cut down on caffeine, that too much is unhealthy for me. So I have been slowly cutting back. I’m down to only one cup of joe a day. I’m pretty proud of that accomplishment! I’ve tried to switch to decaf for that one cup, but I get a terrible caffeine withdrawal headache that just does not go away – even when I take headache medicine! My wife tells me that every time she has tried to quit drinking tea that the withdrawal headache lasted for two weeks! I don’t think I can deal with that for two weeks and still go to work! Wish there was an easier way!

My wife has signed up for some ballet classes that start in a couple of weeks.  She used to take ballet when she was a young child growing up.  She’s been going crazy the last couple of days trying to find a local place that sells Capezio Dance Supplies because she wants to buy a Capezio leotard to wear to class.  She hasn’t had to buy a leotard ever before because her parents used to buy them for her.  After all, she was just a little girl!  So she’s been looking around and can’t find adult size leotards anywhere in town!  So it looks like she is going to have to buy them off of the Internet and hope they fit her.

My sister is on her feet all day long. She has been trying out many different types of shoes to make her feet more comfortable. Her doctor told her to try those ugly looking “croc” things that he says doctors wear but she said that they are just too ugly, and according to a fashion Internet website she reads those things are officially “out of style” so she doesn’t want to wear them

So, I’ve suggested that she try a nice pair of lightweight hiking shoes. Made to be comfortable for people who are on their feet all day long, I think that hiking shoes just might be the answer for her shoe dilemma.  She looked at me like I had three heads, but I told her that I thought if she ordered her hiking shoes through Zappos.com she had nothing to lose because Zappos pays for shipping both ways.

I’ve heard that the Zimmer company has manufactured some defective Durom hip replacement cups that are causing some of the recipients of the cup troubles.  Because of these issues on zimmer durom cup, the Zimmer legal department is contacting recipients of the cup and asking the patients to sign a release of liability agreement.  There are many durom lawsuits going on right now over the defective cup, and the durom lawyers are advising anyone who receives such a request from Zimmer to NOT sign the release.

They say that signing the release would prevent you from having any recourse should the cup fail in the future.  You might also be opening yourself up to being sued by Medicare or your health insurance.  So, folks out there in the audience who might be reading this should take note of this – if you have one of these cups, do NOT sign the release!

Have you ever even heard of “shelf stable milk?”  I hadn’t until I ordered a box of food from Angel Food Ministries.  Part of their basic box of food includes a small carton of “shelf stable milk.”  It is real 2% milk that is sealed in a wax type of container that does not need to be refrigerated until it is opened.  The expiration date on it is many months away; it keeps just fine until opened.  Puts me in mind of the canned sweetened and/or condensed evaporated milk. 

My grandparents tell me that during the “Great Depression” they would buy canned condensed evaporated milk because it was inexpensive and did not need to be refrigerated.  They told me that they didn’t even refrigerate it after opening it, they would just put it on the kitchen counter and cover the opening with foil to keep bugs out.  I don’t know what the “safety rules” are for refrigerating canned condensed evaporated milk, but seems to me that it should be refrigerated after opening.  What do you think?

Today I was driving around and noticing that spring really seems to have arrived. The grass is greening up; the daffodils, forsythias, tulip trees are in full bloom. It won’t be long before everyone I see is sneezing and blowing their noses and complaining about their spring allergies! It really is a shame that so many people suffer from the pollen floating in the air from the trees and flowers. This would be a good time, though to own stock in allergy products and facial tissue!

Ever since I’ve lived in this house I’ve been wanting to fix up a room in the basement as a fitness room. I live too far away from a commercial gym for me to want to sign up for any kind of gym membership. I know that I would never go there. But I also know that if I had my own treadmill or elliptical machine in my basement in my own fitness room that it would get used every day.  Especially if I installed a spa tub in the room, and a television!

I am sure that I could get a really good deal on exercise machine combinations when I’m ready to buy them.  I just need to get my friends and relatives to give me a couple days of their time to help me build the room!  I’ve measured out the dimensions and am putting together a supply list now.  I can hardly wait to get it done!

Tonight is the night that we put our clocks ahead one hour when we go to bed.  I like having extra daylight in the evening, but I don’t like having the extra darkness in the morning.  I was hearing on the news that there is a significant increase in heart attacks in the general population when we change the clocks back and forth.  I think we ought to just pick one time and stick to it.  I don’t like trying to get my body to adjust to a new sleeping and eating schedule.

Seth tod me that he has found a fun way to get involved in charity fundraising for his favorite charity.  He has a couple of different non profit charity organizations that he is very fond of.  One being the Locks of Love charity because one of his nieces has cancer and has lost her hair.

The Locks of Love charity takes donated hair and turns them into wigs to give to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.  Anyway, Seth has found a program that encourages donation to charity by getting involved in making and fulfilling dares and collecting money from pledges from other people related to the dares.  The participants can pick the charity of their choice for the fundraising efforts.  The details of this program can be found at the daredealer.com website.

Many people have addictive personalities and don’t even realize it.  There are many kinds of addiction, but several of the types are not deemed to be a problem to society.  For example, there are “work-a-holics” that just can’t relax; they have to keep busy doing something productive all of the time.  A vacation where they are forced to relax drives them crazy! That kind of addiction may cause a problem for the addicts family, but not to society in general; that kind of addiction does not normally lead to crime and/or violence!

Because the economy is in such a bad spot right now, I think that more people are going to be turning to drugs and alcohol as a stress relief mechanism.  This is going to be a problem in the long run because it is going to generate a lot more addicts that will be in need of alcohol rehab or a drug treatment program down the road.  And before these people realize that they need help a lot of families will be destroyed because of the addiction problems.  Yes, we live in a dangerous time, that is for sure!