Healthy Barbs
Barbara Brenner 1951-2013 Posted on May 11, 2013 by bbzinger Barbara Brenner passed away peacefully at home on Friday evening. Funeral services will be held in San Francisco, with burial in Fort Bragg. Arrangements are pending and will be posted Sunday on Barbara’s blog, Healthy Barbs (barbarabrenner.net), our Caring Bridge site (caringbridge.org, barbarabrenner community), and Barbara’s Facebook page. […]
This is ALS
Normal? – Content? – Thankful? Last year, midway through ALS awareness month, I took those three letters and put them under a microscope for a close look. Normal popped up first because it has been fading daily from my world. While coping with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) normal begs to be redefined each morning and […]
Tobii PCEye
The Tobii PCEye is the most advanced stand-alone eye control device on the market for operating a standard PC through eye gaze. Designed to dock under retail PC monitors, it operates with precision and effectively tracks nearly every user regardless of eye color, lighting conditions, environments or head movement. LAS VEGAS, CES 2013 — In […]
Medical Marijuana Introduced
Patient – Advocate raided hours later; On February 27, 2013, shortly after Sen. Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth) filed SB 1250, which would exempt seriously ill Floridians from criminal penalties for using marijuana with their doctors’ recommendations, the bill’s namesake – Cathy Jordan – was raided by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Department. Ms. Jordan cultivates and uses […]
Bitter Pill
“The health care market is not a market at all. It’s a crapshoot. Everyone fares differently based on circumstances they can neither control nor predict. They may have no insurance. They may have insurance, but their employer chooses their insurance plan and it may have a payout limit or not cover a drug or treatment […]
Slip Sliding Away
I Ramble … Whoah God only knows, God makes his plan The information’s unavailable to the mortal man We’re workin’ our jobs, collect our pay Believe we’re gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away
ALS Meditation
Meditation from a Wheelchair Find yourself a fairly quiet location either inside or outside weather permitting. If possible — place your body and chair level to the ground with back, lap, and legs all it 90°. Also rest your neck and head on your head rest. We start this meditation by placing our hands on our thighs, […]
Discretionary Spending – Health 5%
I Ramble … I certainly hope our military gets down-sized – 58% of Discretionary Spending on war is insane. Health, Science, and Veteran benefits need major increases.
Blue Skies & Magic Slates
If you are coping with ALS, and you follow events closely, you obviously heard of a new group that call themselves, Stem Cell Pioneers. These are brave folks who are willing to travel abroad to receive stem cell transplantations. A growing number of them are traveling annually to places such as Mexico, Portugal, China and […]
Medicare to Cover More Home Health Services
Good news for Medicare recipients! Just in time for the New Year 2013! In the past, Medicare recipients were unable to receive home health services such as nursing care and therapies if they had a chronic condition. As a result of a court case that originated in Vermont, that is about to change. Vermont Chief […]
Going Postal – Union vs. Management
Going postal, in American English slang, means becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a post office or other workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public […]
Duh, Second Amendment
This cartoon by Clay Bennett from the Chattanooga Free Times Press relates to the ongoing debate about gun control in the USA following the Tucson shooting. A man is explaining to his neighbour why he has a nuclear missile as well as a rifle in his pickup truck: “The Constitution doesn’t specify what kind of arms I have a right […]
Take Action – HR1364 vs FDA
To the Honorable: FDA regulations prohibit reference to a scientific study by producers of food relating to the health benefits. Violation of this ban can result in FDA declaring common food to be unapproved drugs — this is censorship! The Free Speech about Science Act provides a limited and carefully targeted change to FDA regulations so that […]
I Will Not Prepare to Die!
by Theresa Lee, “I am so grateful for the ALS in my life over the past eleven years. It has taken me on an amazing journey that I would have never thought possible or envisioned. When I received my diagnosis in 2002, it started me on a search into the realms of nutrition, herbal therapies, energetic […]
