Wound-Care

Non-healing wounds are a severe problem for people with compromised immune or circulatory systems from (common in diabetes, cancer treatment, etc). Treatments to accelerate wound closure after injury in problem patients are rare and usually require special outpatient care- even for seemingly innocuous cuts and scrapes.

I want to throw this out there just for people who are in the know. Has anyone tried, or even heard-of, a poultice of the following products for wound-treatment?

1. Xylitol (100%only)

2. Lactoferrin powder (not Colostrum)

3. Hamamelitannin (i.e. Thayers Organic Unscented Witch Hazel with Aloe Vera Formula)

Have family members that might be helped by this, but don’t feel like making them guinea pigs. Comments encouraged.

 

RANDOM RANT: Where’s my Halloween movies?

 

What a crappy Halloween. Sure, the trick-or-treaters were nice, but what about the television? My wonderful Television?

 

ONE ISSUE: Healthcare

With new healthcare legislation, I feel I must re-publish an entry of mine from almost 2 years ago. Though written for the democratic convention to choose the candidate for the upcoming presidential election, it seems as relevant now as it did then.

 

Vaseline MEN body and face lotion and Glue

I want tough skin, but I don’t want to have to do anything to get it. Like..activity. So I try a bottle of Vaseline MEN body and face lotion . “Fortifies”, “build healthy skin resilience”, “more efficient”- whatever. Getting it home, I squirt a little out. Wife liked the smell, but I found something oddly familiar about. Sticky. Strange. Couldn’t quite place it.

Something from long ago..

from childhood..

..Kindergarten?

 

Incredible Shrinking Eggs

 

For the last 5 months, I’ve been noticing something different in my grocery store.  My eggs seem smaller.

 

No, it’s not a personal problem.

 

The normal “large” size eggs we usually buy seemed to be shrinking every week we’d go shopping. I thought it was just the brand carried by our local Meijer store, until I was mixing-up some batter for a perch-fry at my mom’s house in September. Her Wal-mart extra-large’s seem a bit medium-ish.  An industry trend, or am I just seeing things?

 

Saving Cebuano Language in the Philippines: A project

This isn’t a master’s thesis. Not even an essay for an anthropology magazine. This was just a minor project I undertook to save an entire culture. A day’s research and writing snowballed into something much more.

 

SCAM!

While starting a new business this September, I fell victim to a scam. It was an old scam, but packaged in a brand-new way.

 

“Capitalism: A Love Story” pulled from Erie County Ohio theaters

I like Michael Moore . I believe from his movies that we have similar political views, similar love for videography, similar poor taste in clothes, and I fear, very soon, a similar waistline. But this is not why I enjoyed this film . His current project summarizes what I’ve been ranting throughout this blog, so for me, this 2 hours was nothing new. I enjoyed Capitalism because it’s been a long time since I heard cheering in a movie theater. A long time.

I heard cheering tonight.

 

Justice for All. Someday.

I needed a lawyer. I was being harassed and my job jeopardized. So, I went to get a lawyer. I call a major firm in Cleveland, Ohio. Though I’m not sure how MAJOR they were, but the did run fancy TV commercials.

“Lawfirm of___________. How May I help you today?”

“Yes, I have a possible harassment and discrimination suit against my employer, and would like to talk with a lawyer. “

“No problem. Could I get some information from you now? “

“Of course.”

After giving my name and vitals, she asked me about the particulars of the case. That took a while.

Finally I ask, “Is this something you can handle?”

“We handle these types of cases all the time. Do you have any evidence of these incidents?”

“Yes, I have a timeline including all people involved, documentation supporting all the incidents including some from my employer, witnesses, photographs, lots of things. ” She sounded very receptive, though.. she was supposed to.

“I have a few more basic questions before I confer with our lawyers. Do you rent or own your home? “

“Eh..rent?” That was an odd one.

“What is your monthly salary?”

What the fuck is this? Though I didn’t say that, what I did say changed her mood as if I did. I told her what she wanted to know.

“On moment please”, she droned.

My salary? What did that have to do with…. I didn’t even have time to think the rest of my thought when she returned to the line.

“I’m sorry. We can’t help you with your case at this time. Have a nice day”

“Uh…Than….” My goodby was too slow. She hung-up.

 

Economic Crisis: The 2009 United Nations Summit (and what they should have talked about)

Listening to the lip-service given global warming at the recent global-warming summit of the UN, I realized what a farce it was. Anti-global warming measures have to start locally. In the US, it’s the duty of state and county government’s to set and enforce emission limits in companies. This is where it begins. The rest is macroeconomics. Except from a genuine plea for action from the Maldives (which is about to cease to exist from global warming) , the rest was nothing more than slightly stirring rhetoric. You can’t hash-out a treaty for behavior. But you can make a treaty for something even just as timely and important: the global ECONOMIC crisis that the U.S. created.

Imagine a new “International Financial Services” treaty going something like this…

1. A Glass-Steagall-like directive separating investment banks from consumer banks. We used to have this in the US. Not anymore.

2. A directive prohibiting Credit Default Swap’s and bucket shop financial gaming. We used to have this law too, but we ignored it.

3. Requirement that all signing countries pass and enforce laws in their respective countries that meet these requirements, not just to “work-towards” enactment.

4. Whatever the hell else you think might help.

If we are going to finally scrap all the west’s last isolationist notions and truly embrace a ‘global’ economy, global economic treaties keeping one nation from destroying the rest are a necessity. Everyone now knows that this isn’t just a college economics-class theoretical problem. It’s very real, and so is the need for a treaty like this.