I'm playing the physician who heals himself again. I've been taking lots of ibuprofen and Naproxen. They have helped a little, but not that much. One of the results of taking the OTC drugs is that that keep me awake at night. They cause insomnia. When I'm in pain I'll try anything. Last night I was watching ABC News and they featured a bit on vitamin D and how not getting enough of it can cause arthritis. I Googled up the program and read what they had on this topic. They got their info from the American Cancer Society. It's an informative article about new findings about what happens to people who don't get enough vitamin D.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Vitamin_D.asp?sitearea=ETO
I went straight to the store and bought a big jar of vitamin D where each pill has 2000 IUs of vitamin D and 111 mg of calcium. I took one last night and another one this morning. Vitamin D is the one you get from sunshine. Admittedly, I haven't been outside as much as I need to. I have been taking some vitamin D pills occasionally. Not that often, and they only had 400 IU. The article states that older people need a lot more than that, hence the 2000 IU pills. Oh, and if I take an overdose, I'll lose weight. Dread the thought!
I'm getting some e-mails from my oldest sister. That's pretty amazing because she's pretty much of a drama queen and an evangelical. She doesn't approve of what I write about. She told me not to write to her anymore about a year ago, so I didn't. At least she sent me a copy of a photograph of my daughter and her prospective husband. I didn't get one from my daughter, but there is no blame in that. It's amazing to me that these people wanna act like I don't know who they came from. That I don't know their people. I'm an embarrassment to them. Ho Hum...
As I've mentioned in the past, I have watched a lot of videos from Google and youtube. I have been seeing some mention of a new video site called Hulu. I went there yesterday and registered so I could see what they have. Commercials for one thing. But, they're not long commercials, just about 15-20 seconds. The commercials don't show up in some of the video clips. The thing I like about Hulu is that they go full screen at the click of a button. They have some full length movies too.
I'm gonna spend some time in the sun today. I'm a desperate man. I'm in some severe pain 24/7 now. It'll be just my luck to live a long time and stay in pain at least this bad if not worse for another 30-40 years. I'm such a baby about hurting, I'm going to change my ways one of these days.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
