Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Eggplant parmesan, tossed green salad, and baguette = DINNER!

Now I do know that there is a resurgence of an idea to make Monday’s meatless and today is Tuesday, but what the heck, hmm?

Economically, it is a fine idea to save a few bucks. Especially when fresh, reasonable, produce is readily available this time of year, either from your own garden or the grocery or the Farmer’s Market; where our veggies came from, for this particular meal.

Our menu was simple eggplant parmesan, tossed green salad with a homemade vinaigrette and a baguette.
All in all it was simple and concise and delish, for just the two of us; a bargain, a healthy eat-in meal.

Today, our Skipper had his hair cut and so did Hubby, and our canine pal's is more than three times the cost of Hubby’s, but of course Skipper gets a manicure and a pedicure and full bath, styling and blow dry, along with other private parts expressed…

His groomer is new to him, but he appeared to have a fine time. The other one that he went to for years had a tizzy fit yesterday when Hubby first brought him into there and dropped him off… He said to Hubby we will make him have the Bichon cut if he isn’t too matted, which later the nasty man confessed our little darling wasn’t matted at all!
He also did not check his log very well since he said that Skipper hadn’t been there since November!
And I had it, my proof, in my check book, since they only take checks or cash for eight years we went there, and my proof was that he was there less than three months ago on March 30th! I called this man when Hubby contacted me
from his destination’s parking lot, the barber shop he goes to. I used to cut everyone’s hair from the time we were married, even the boys when small into their teens, but since my hands are not too swift for the last few years Hubby has been going to a BARBER, due to my fear of cutting him instead of his hair.
Any-who, Hubby was the one slightly concerned with the way the man seemed annoyed and so I called him back to let him know that he was mistaken.
And he argued with us that we should be taking him in every six weeks now, but as handsome as a Bichon Skipper is, he is not a show dog and does not compete and financially with our income that would be difficult, at one time we could afford it, but not these days… and so, I felt that we could let his hair grow a bit; after all he was bathed in the interim and brushed so for a while we did wait a month or two longer… but this time it was less than three months! And this was his fourth haircut since last fall, when he won a freebie one and then the November and then March and then…yesterday would have been less than three months but the man was calling me a female dog, yes, the 'b' word on the phone and so I called back Hubby and asked him to pick up Skipper and get him before that man hurt him!
I was shaking, after all no one has spoken to me with that kind of language in a very long time!
I quickly called our vet and asked her receptionist to recommend another groomer and she did and asked me why and I told her and named the place and she confessed that he spoke to her the same way and that’s why she no longer goes there!
It is D & D dog grooming in Port Charlotte and the owner is a nasty mouthed man, who doesn’t seem to care to keep long time customers at all… Now the tech/receptionist, Sherrie, at our vet's office gave me the name of the other she goes to now and I did try calling but there was no answer, and I gave up.
Hubby recalled the one on this side of route forty-one actually much closer than even the other and they even have a kennel if we need be and they are called Paws R US and so today Skipper tried it and liked it and he actually looks great and came home with a big smile on his face with his fluffy

pretty handsome dog for an eight year old, hmm? That’s like fifty-six in our years, and he flaunts his age well!
This new groomer, i.e. for us, also has better scarves, lately the other wasn’t giving them out all of the time, and these are more vibrant colors!
He’s all set for the fourth, early.

Oh last night was a real stinker, sleep wise…
“Up since 2-ish, choking in my sleep, couldn't lie down and so I took Pepcid (antacid) I am told to take two of them a day, guess I forgot one, had already taken my Dexilant (for GERD) after dinner as always and I had two cups of hot green tea in the wee hours, but nothing worked so I played Dominoes, checked emails and everything else. Googled possible help sites, always goes back to MS with lesions, frustrating this throat thingy, neurological due to that.
Some blame it on the hypothyroid, which I also have that too... I really felt like if I didn't get up I would choke in my sleep, scary!”

My usual TMI to ole pal with again an interest in my nocturnal benefits, too kind.

On that bits of this and bits of that, allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I am still waiting on my new total on that medical bill and called again today but no one called back yet…oh well…

Monday, June 18, 2012

Conversations of silliness can lead to BIG mistakes of not getting it!

Most of you have friends from childhood I bet, and when you talk to them you may revert to that child-like behavior of your youth, hmm?

Although, when talking long distance on these techno marvels we usually use the aspects of them that we have become most familiar with… for me, sadly it is as simple as using my email or messaging.
For others it may be texting, Skype or Twitter.

Some things are nice to know that albeit we have evolved into these masters of our own universe in the techno wars… We, as individuals all have our limitations on how we decide to communicate, and with that said… My ye ole chum and I send silly and bizarre emails to one another, in fractures of ye ole English and other languages that we had studied or not…using translation apps.
And on and on we go being our youthful fun loving selves…

Little did I realize that our innocent game could cause a miscommunication with an actual not so funny occurrence?

To my dismay and ridiculousness of going on and on about most everything, hey, it’s keeping this gig alive, hmm?

Any-who, when she innocently asked me, “Did you get enough sleep last night? My response was: “More importantly; did sleep get enough of me? :)
With Nocturia, night, relieving of ones bladder, due to having to drink enough liquids to not dehydrate yourself from all the medication that requires one to drink plenty of fluids, other than getting up to NOT flood out the sleeping quarters. I suppose that with those journeys to the toilette with usually a count of three or more nightly episodic motions. Yep, I remained within the environs of my resting horizontal positioning until approximately six of the thirty of the morning of today-ith, huh? TMI, as thee usual...
And how was your sleep upon your bedding of the night of fullfillment or tiredness, duth yours too quenched-ith and resolve that desire of rested? :) Me hope-ess that thee were!”, since the previous one I had gotten up for the day at 3:37 A.M. mostly due to pain… And so with a polite question, of equal concern for her respite of the night…I asked how she had slept, you see with her being a caregiver for her Mom Clara, who did get a great report from her cardiologist that she is doing great! I know that she has quite a bit on her plate… I do believe that sleep could be of concern for her too.

Any-way, today my ole buddy who works for her city still, a few days a week and she did not receive my response to her question until she arrived home, and her response also in the same silly fractured ye ole English as mine, was more disturbing… “Thy repose was not as resplendent as thy would have seeketh or thy wanted but I woke up anyway-ith. Mine eyes were hurtith after I took all of Mom's meds this break of dawn and hied to the loo-ith, stuck my finger down my throat over and over until thy releaseth the stuff. All day long I thought my eyes were going to pop out and hit the wall. Thy will sleepeth better during the darkest hours of tonight-ith. :)”
Now at the time I did not realize that it was a BIG mistake, since I hadn’t seen her in quite some time and I knew that she had been through the deaths of two of her family members, one her husband and the other her sister, and her Mom’s recent heart surgeries adding to those eye diseases causing near blindness for dear sweet Mom…I thought when she wrote: that she took her Mom’s medication and spent the night trying to get them out of her after she realized what she had done, by the only means effective, vomiting…

I bet you too all jumped to the same conclusion, but no, thank heavens; it was a mistake of exhaustion more than anything else! I wrote back asking in non-broken regular English “it was a mistake and are you alright?”

This dumb computer, for some reason, doesn’t always let me know when I have emails and so when I noticed there was no response I called her via landline and then hung up, since once again I did have email but on my welcome screen it did not show that I did! The note was short and to the point, “I'm still ALIVE!
Yes, I would say that was a mistake. There I was, putting all Mom's pills in the little silver cup, just like I do every morning, chatting away, then got myself a glass of water and took them. Needless to say I skipped my own meds after that.”
She had called me in the interim seeing that I had called, probably on her caller I.D. Anyway the main thing is that hearing her voice was a good idea; all in all it was more reassuring than emails will ever be…!

That’ll teach us all… emotion and full understandings are never ever the same as when you hear that person on the other end of that old fashioned cell phone line or landline…!

Disclaimer:
Now, hopefully, I will not anger her, since in reality she is anonymous via her identity never ever being truthfully divulged including her Mom’s, no one knows for sure, but I do have a tendency to change the names to protect the innocent or not so innocent, hmm?
And there are times when I should have, but didn’t, got that?

On those last few words of mass confusion or slight of hand…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Father's Day, Edgar Rice Buroughs, another nice day of enjoyment....

Learning is an ongoing process; nothing new there, hmm?
Sure everyone knows that and realizes that no one can possibly know everything, and sometimes we even might forget what we knew once before and that it has gotta be stored somewhere in that melon that we call our heads that has an organ, get your minds out of the gutter, in it called the, ‘brain’! Yup, that’s what they call it whether you have an I.Q. barely discernable or one that breaks all the charts skyward, huh?
Yes, why even the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz had one, but didn’t know it.
I suppose with the way the world is some days many also forget that they have one too, hmm?

Now with that said, we as a mass unit of humans, nearly seven billion strong, yep, with a ‘B’ we must call upon our desire to access what this magical organ holds for each and everyone of us or just try to remember what we had been taught as school children from our earliest remembrances…
Yes, perhaps in the womb, sure I spoke to my sons when they were in there, and I do believe that was the last time that they listened to me, bud dump, bum…KIDDING!

Any-who, my point is that we were all taught that Edgar Rice Burroughs, wrote the Tarzan series, but what I cannot recall if I was told that he also wrote the Jack Carter, in Mars one too?
I was fascinated to find that out, since Hubby had chosen the Jack Carter recent movie to see last night, and it is science fiction, yep, of so long ago by this amazing man with an impressive melon if I do say so myself. And to know that he has been gone, OK dead, since a few months before I was born, actually March 19, of 1950, amazing!
He not unlike Jules Verne was a man before his time… and consequently I recommend this movie heartedly!
It was a big wow! And the beginning of Hubby’s journey into today, you see we watched the movie last night.
Today, I served Hubby breakfast, simple but good an egg and toast. And next we set sail, a figure of speech in this case, although we always seem to have power boats not sail ones, but we left via auto… anyway, after breakfast we went down south to our History Park on the corner of Shreve and Henry Streets in Punta Gorda AKA River City.
Every Sunday they have a Farmer’s Market and this time we went prepared with cash and a cooler and made a beeline to the produce, although they were all kinds of vendors there from plants to candles and everything in between. We bought, plum or I should say plom (misspelled by the vendor, PS he also spelled plum, plom), the tomatoes, romaine, an avocado and an eggplant, green onions, radishes, the size of a baby’s head, not really, but almost, and gorgeous peaches; all for $16.50! Healthy stuff and helping the local farmers, a win, win!

There are four houses there now, it has been a slow process but the land has filled in nicely since the acquisition of the two acres back in 1994.
"In May of 1995, a lease was signed between the city of Punta Gorda and Old Punta Gorda (a.k.a. Punta Gorda Historical Society) for a term of 50 years at an annual lease of $1.00 a year." The Park is on city property. Buildings belong to PGHS. The eldest of the lot is the Trabue Land Sales Office circa 1885, next is the Cigar Cottage from the 1890’s, and The Price House circa 1914, and lastly is the one under renovations now and they could used your donations to finish this project which is the Quednau/Hindman ca 1925. The gardens are noteworthy too and try to be historically accurate with the floras chosen to encompass the park.

From there we had lunch at the Fish Market at Fishville AKA Fisherman’s Village, Hubby’s choice.
And from there we went for a drive, feeling not too badly with gas prices plummeting to 3.21.9 a gallon; who would have thunk that would be considered lower, five years ago, hmm?
So we went the scenic route home Bayshore Drive along Charlotte Harbor from there we went over to the Beach Complex where you can temporarily park for free, we can always with our handicap status, but everyone else can right now until they fix their meters, so hurry up and enjoy the freebie!
There we have an Olympic size lifeguard-ed pool for a few bucks you and your friends can enjoy; there is the sandy beach to swim in the harbor and also boat docks and launches too. And don’t forget the tennis courts, basketball and volleyball as well as bocce also. Snack bar and pavilions for families to enjoy with barbecues included bathrooms of course and outdoor showers, holy cow!
Sounds like a great place to go to with friends and family!

Oh that’s right before we came to Port Charlotte where the Beach Complex is we went over to the Ponce De Leon Park in Punta Gorda where the animal preserve is, yes a miniature zoo like place for injured local wildlife… we didn’t go in but if it was cooler than the 91F it said on our car digital info; we might have, since its occupants always change.
At the park there is a small amphitheater for nature classes and there is a walking path/wooden bridge to check things out as well as a pavilion and another little beach.
We drove through all those afore mentioned, but gosh for any of you who want something to do we sure have a lot of choices!
Last stop was Publix for only about a half dozen items and I waited in the car since my blue rider was tapped out battery wise, although Hubby charged it.
It must need a new battery after all…?
We will see…

On that way to much information but in a good way, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all those Daddy’s out there A VERY HAPPY FATHER’S DAY and always kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS our son that we usually see, could not come down, but did call and that was the cherry on top for his daddy!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Spontaneity, looking for the bright side, and trying hard not to punt...

Being able to be flexible for doing things, (get your mind out of the gutter) at the drop of a hat; is called, being spontaneous or being not involved in anything else therefore being available for whatever anyone has in mind that you might be interested in doing or that they might talk you into doing, okay, ‘spontaneity’! Got that?

I enjoy being spontaneous as any other gal would or should, but lately those choices have gotten smaller… go out, stay in, go here, go there, go into the pool or stay out of the pool, blinds up, blinds down, watch the rain or keep the sun out…you got that?

What has happened to MY spontaneity in MY life?
The craziest thing I have done lately is order sweet and sour chicken off the China King menu, instead of anything with shrimp.

Adventures, where are my adventures?
I can’t be tapped all out, can I be?
Yes, I do realize that I have limitations with my challenges the PC thingy I am supposed to call my inability to walk only with an aid or see only half of the world with one eye functioning, but hey, I’m good! All smiles, martyr here, can you see my wide grin?

Life is a laugh a minute, especially when I do those gyrations in the pool without any music, oh you thought I was talking about spasms, nah they have been renamed to make you all feel more comfortable…
One of the organizations that care for this particular fun filled laugh a minute ill has requested that we with this particular joyous disease that has no cure to date, but can be maintained with a boatload of medications. They, this organizations send out a newsletter and magazine and they actually requested for us who have this thing, that some do not call it as it is, they have asked for us to write about the positives of dealing with this albatross or should that be a dove around our proverbial necks, nah a dove is too small the latter was correct, called Multiple Sclerosis and its upside?

How dare they!
Do they think that most people can manage this disease with grace and dignity?
I suppose many do.
But are those too good to be true people in denial or have they felt that that is the only way others will associate with them?
Sure, I wonder what tact to take, whining is not flattering, but is going the other way honest?
Of course we all must find a happy medium, but not be made to feel worse when we SAY THAT WE ARE DOWN and need to feel the love; not be ignored.

Many illnesses are respected for what they can lay claim to.
Tell someone you have cancer and people rally around you waiting to see how it will all turn out…until you are in remission then they say Geez you beat it, no more pity parties for you! Not out loud, but inside they sometimes do; I hope not.
Sure, you’re a survivor, and that should count for something…If you horribly don’t survive at least they were there, hmm?
Everyone feels great about that, no regrets all around.
But have a chronic disease that lingers and boy, sympathy, try and get some after the initial inaugural of the pronouncement… well, besides being asked how you are when seen by them or phone calls or emails…silence if you say alright and gotta go; if you are honest… sadly true.

Oh, you say it's because I have a tendency to go on, and you are definitely right!
Getting a life in this condition is not as easy as many may think, but I am working on that with my big move back into something I love, volunteering, at that free clinic, once a week, as a patient advocate.

Reading used to be my outlet for discussion with people but with these eyes not working too well that joy has diminished and books on tape are for people who know how to listen well; still working on that one.
I do love DIY projects, but Hubby is put into action too much with my ideas, so I have to cut back a bit.
Crafts are fun too.
Perusing museums are limited in our last few years to a ten mile radius of our home, but I am hopeful that time and creativity may change that…our county that I am referring to, that is.
The desire is there, I have heard it being discussed.

And if Mote Marine builds their aquarium here, in Punta Gorda that would be wonderful and we would definitely go to that and a water park here in Port Charlotte, but no, we would not go to that, but others would.
At one time someone wanted to donate property for a botanic garden on the Peace River, but I haven’t heard anymore about that one, if that came into being, yep, I would go to that one too, on a cool day that is.

So the potential is there in my ten mile radius I just have to wait it out and then they will come? HA!
See, a positive thought about what I would like to do, and so much more… we used to have an antique mall that Hurricane Charley took away that would be great to rebuild it where it had been, right on this side of bridge, right alongside the Peace River again, so much potential and so many ideas…

Oh, that is for our area and for me too!
I suppose you could say that like everything else we are all works in progress, hmm?

On that upside of what life could and should be, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages an we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, June 15, 2012

Easy breezy, sort of day...

Easy Breezy! Was the answer to my ole northern school chum when asked how my training on the computer went today?
After two hours of online lessons with my password appropriated, I called Hubby to pick me up and we went out to lunch at The Cultural Center's Midtown Cafe, and then perused their shops, trash or treasure and clothing shop, around the corner in the facility. I found a neat, different waterfront photo under glass, almost as if it was a porthole with a brass frame, twelve inches in diameter, and it was only $7.50 but on sale for half price would you believe?

And a long denim dress and go-with blouse, bluish and a wee bit floral, for five bucks for both, BOGO free! I would send you a picture of them,(I told her) but they are still in the dryer after being washed...thrift shop and all… bargains are great but gotta do that if you don’t want more than you bargained for, really!

How I love finding things at bargain prices.
I started thrifting way back in the 1980’s for clothes for another job, but a paying one and I had budget concerns with two young sons and that’s when I found designer clothes at amazing prices and I was hooked!
Almost as fulfilling as helping people dressing well and looking great for minimal bucks!
Nah, helping people wins that one ten times over.

Any-who, it was a pleasant day and even dinner went on without a hassle with last night’s leftovers that Hubby enjoyed and actually requested, what was it that I made that caused the encore presentation?
Well, some may think ordinary but I jazz things up a bit when I make it from scratch, tuna noodle casserole.
Yep, I make my own cheese sauce with different cheeses this time it was Monterey Jack, Mozzarella, and Swiss, fat free milk, butter and flour… and even homemade mushroom soup from frozen mushrooms, fresh onion, fresh garlic, chicken bouillon, and a dash of sherry and thyme. (Now, I use light cheeses, and no sodium bouillon, but real sweet butter, just a bit and a wee bit of extra virgin olive oil to cancel the butter’s adverse affects, but allowing for the flavor) With no salt you can add some and Mrs. Dash’s table blend helps too!
Carrots, peas, corn, (pre-cooked veggies) cooked elbow macaroni, canned tuna flaked, mix all together, sprinkle with parmesan and bake at 350 for about a half an hour then two minutes or watch to decide how long it should go under the broiler for.

On that hodgepodge of this and that’s; we are expecting heavy storm weather soon coming in with a heavy storm warning, please allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, June 14, 2012

I really thought that today I would be sitting here or in front of the TV most of the day...

But thankfully my UPS delivery of my Copaxone arrived before eleven A.M., whew! This sounds so possessive but I am the only one in the household who takes Copaxone and for that I am grateful. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone else, i.e MS!


That alone allowed me the right to go out of our back door and enjoy another swim in the pool today, hooray!
You see, even though I have had life saving and taught Aquacize for years… these days Hubby is my life guard, just in case something happens to me, so he watches me in the pool. I am not in that bad shape except when I go into spasms even after I take my Baclofen during breakfast before I go in, my first dose then is ingested for the day with other medications too. But on occasion those spasms can cause havoc with my ability to get back to the ladder or steps; so far so good.

Any-who, I felt great in the very warm water, warmer than it has been in a long time… 88 degrees!
But for some reason to me it was still refreshing, it’s gotta be that lower body temperature thing from my hypothyroid condition, hmm?

Whatever the cause, it has been giving me the daily option to go in if the weather holds or if we don’t have any other plans to go out.

Not only did I swim on and off today, I felt the energy to do some touch up painting to the trim under the sunroom window here. Hubby got the equipment for me, paint, newspaper, brush and wet towel for drips and between a little collapsible outdoor table and my rolling walker I managed to get the job done. Oh yes, we have that garden one that holds tools and rolls with a seat on it, but this worked just fine.
While in the pool I have also noticed for a while that the gutter along the back of the house looking dirty. We oddly enough only installed one gutter after the hurricane in the back of the house for it to go directly into our rain barrels. And so, Hubby was kind enough to set me up once again, this time with a bucket with commercial grade cleaner and water but all natural and an extendible handled brush that reached up very nicely to the gutters. I also used the same cleaner on the lattice on the shed where we have another Pandora vine and ground plantings too, Wandering Jews and Mother-in-law’s tongue. The white fence too got a cleaning touch up around the pretty red Hibiscus growing against it.

I felt quite accomplished and had my last dip after. During the time I was in there, the pool, Skipper joined me once again, so all in all it was a very pleasant late morning, early afternoon exercise plan…Ta da! Perhaps there is hope for me after all, hmm?

No complaining from me today, oh wait a little… the wonderful doctor apparently called me back yesterday on my ancient cell phone and left a message stating that perhaps he could give me a senior discount. I had no idea he called, I do carry that phone around in my walker seat, but for some reason it never rang. Lately it has been doing that more often than not. I called his two possible locations and left messages on both of his voice mails.
Without thinking I said yes to the offer forgetting asking about why the bill was so high! Another mistake that I will be paying dearly for I suspect… oh well…

On that fallibility blunder of stupidity of not thinking before acting…allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

When do scientific theories become scientific fact?

I know when they, the scientists, in this case prove it to be so.
But still, as consumers counting on the FDA, here in the states, which to non Americans is our Food and Drug Administration: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), veterinary products, and cosmetics.”
As per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA
So when dealing with possible charlatans we as citizens of these fine United States of America have the right, before purchasing from anyone, even decent reputable vendors, we are entitled to full disclosure relating to said items and all their side affects that we may consider in our needs or in our family’s needs to use.
Commonly many don’t realize that this right should be exercised not only with a car, but with doctor or with medication or even supplements that will be ingested by you or someone you love.

Now here is where the iffy part comes into effect when you interview the perspective executor of the product that you desire and hit a brick wall with not receiving any answers, RED LIGHT!
And so was my yesterday interview with a woman who has a weight loss supplement company online via Facebook.
I made the appointment for the free session to find out about her product that would help me finally to lose the weight I have discussed over and over again here too many times to recall an exact number.
I even filled out her questionnaire that was enclosed in her email to me, and yet with all my true and honest desire to do something finally, she would not answer three questions of mine that I felt were simple enough to determine if what her company had to offer me was going to be my answer.
And so I tried calling her number that had been enclosed in the email and it was nearly an hour prior to our arranged time for the free offer to begin. I only felt it fair if she could answer my three little questions then I would more than likely be willing to proceed and we would be coach and willing client to become my old thinner healthy self.
My questions were simple and concise:
1. How much do you charge?
2. Did you check to see if my medications would interact with your supplement? ( I had sent her the list)
3. Do you have FDA approval?

She chose not to call me back prior to our allotted appointment which I called her business number at 9:47 A.M. and her outgoing message stated that her business hours started at 8:A.M. When she did call it was two minutes later than our agreed upon time, stickler, you betcha! Ten forty-five, we had made the appointment for and when a professional doesn’t show on or before their time that alone is a red light to me!
Not one question was answered that gave me confidence to proceed and we terminated the conversation.
When I asked the first one, she said I determine what the price is as we go on, or some such thing; not verbatim, but close.
The second one about checking if her supplement was compatible with what I am already ingesting daily, fifteen pills and one injection, the answer was no, she had not; dangerous!
The third question about FDA approval was, no too.
Although, I do know that many supplements are not considered controlled substances many an interaction with prescribed medications has caused a persons death!
Perhaps, many think that I was too harsh and not flexible enough when dealing with someone who truly wanted to help me change me for the better…, hmm?
I found over my many years on this planet whenever it sounds too good to be true it usually is and I am more than sure that you have too.
Legitimate businesses should always have set or available price lists for products, not vague, if it goes this way or that pricing, is another red flag!
Answering other legitimate concerns when dealing with people with chronic illnesses is something that any weight loss Guru’s should be more careful with too.
Far as having affiliation with government agencies that approve or disapprove of ingested medications or foods is only a possible reliability; since we have all heard many horrors of recalls… but unregulated consumed products should always be checked out thoroughly to be safe, and that is all I am saying here…
It could be that I was too worried with being taken, since it has happened to me even with all my cautions to others. Why I am human and have been known to also be too trusting and that is when I was taken!
So think of tonight’s rant as being a cautionary tale to be used for whatever you care to do…
Don’t ever be shy about asking questions, and too bad if they don’t like them or act as if you insulted them… over the phone they aren’t likely to spit in your face, food, or shoes, and no never ever happened to me… but who knows what my future may bring, since I do have a most inquisitive inquiring mind and it appears to be all I got these days!
On that trying to help make the world a better place for all of us beings, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all you overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS in the end I felt it best to unfriend her on Facebook, but you know what she beat me to it, by this much...

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