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Skriven 2008-07-17 15:51:16 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 10629 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: coffee or tea?                                           [1]
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Hi Janis,

>> - if for some reason I just can't get it done like when I was on those
>> pills.. would have made it impossible to do anything of consequence.

 JK> > I can see why. (G)

 JK> Well, it wasn't supposed to do that to me (grin).

We never expect adverse reactions but they do pop up from time to time.
(G)

 JK> > we move. It's easier to get someone to clean to military specs than
 JK> to > do it myself with my limitations.

 JK> I can understand that..

And it's well worth the cost! I have problems with a number of cleaning
products (fumes) that are needed for reallly heavy cleaning.
Surprisingly, very few strong cooking odors bother me--some do but not
as many as I'd expect.

 JK> hours.  I got some > heavy duty meds. When I saw my regular doctor a
 JK> few days later, he said > that he'd have put me in the hospital if I'd
 JK> seen him initially.  By

 JK> No doubt.. :(

 JK> > then I was cleared up enough to function, albeit at a greatly
 JK> reduced > pace for a few weeks.

 JK> Well, at least you weren't worse.

I knew better and basically down on everything that wasn't neccessary.
The meals were either simple or Steve cooked; Thanksgiving dinner was a
pot luck at a camp ground. We'd planned to go camping with the group but
ended up going just for part of the day. Steve smoked a turkey. I'd
volunteered for pre meal munchies; it was the first time I ever bought
pre done carrot & celery sticks. Had those with 2 kinds each of pickles
and olives & crackers.


>> Two different litters from different breeders, both in from Louisville

 JK> > OK, that clears things up,

 JK> Yes, and no.. they are the same breed.. different parents of course.
 JK> You'd expect their coats to be somewhat similar, but they are
 JK> different..

Different DNA in them.

>> dog is very square. Toby is a 'block head' lab (in MORE ways than one

 JK> > Like our Sam--he was AKC registered but it didn't register in his
 JK> head.

 JK> Lol :)  Yes, definitely.

It's usually dogs tht are dumber'n dirt but I've encountered some cats
that way too.


>> hahaha).  You'll see the difference when you see Priscilla.
 JK> > Not that much longer now.
 JK> Yep :)

So now I'm doing Fido on the EEEPC--and it's going slower--until i get
used to it.


>> According to the 'expert of the day' (wikipedia), it is tea that has
>> the higher amount... :)

 JK> > Never would have thought it.

 JK> When you think about how many times you were given tea when you had a
 JK> cold when you were younger? :)

Honestly, never. My folks had other remedies and they were coffee
drinkers. Tea was not in the house; I had my first cup at a neighbor's
place when we came in from playing in the snow.

>> been treating her for
>> bronchitis/asthma when this one particular night, my daughter did
>> literally turn gray from not being able to breathe.

 JK> > Even a steam tent wouldn't have worked?
 JK> No, it didn't help.

That was a bad attack!


 JK> >I guess if it's a dry cold, it
 JK> > would have been good but a damp cold..............

 JK> This was a frigid night.. no humidity to speak of that I remember.

Good that the night was so cold. Probably below 0; I've experienced many
of those.


>> only time she got bronchitis (which would then run into asthma very
>> often) was if she'd gotten a cold passed on by someone else.  I think

 JK> > Some years ago I stopped getting colds and have just gotten
 JK> bronchitis. > But, it has been triggered from somebody else's cold,
 JK> like your
 JK> > daughter.  Another trigger in AZ was whenever we'd visit my sister;
 JK> > she's a heavy smoker. I'd always come home either with bronchitis or

 JK> Things should go ok here I think.

As long as I'm not confined to a room where there are a lot of smokers,
I should be OK. I've asked for a non rainy weather report for the week
end. (G)


>> asthma drugs which we were instructed to give her at the first sign of
>> a runny nose.. to keep it from turning into bronchitis/asthma.  Who

 JK> > Is she a tea drinker today?

 JK> Most certainly.  That's all she drank for years.. a year or so ago she
 JK> felt she really needed to start drinking coffee to keep up with work
 JK> (she is a sales and marketing manager), the kids, home-schooling her
 JK> 12 year-old, and another job she does (with Midwives) - but finally
 JK> she decided to not continue drinking it at all.. it made her too
 JK> irritable. So now she's back to only tea.

After years of drinking coffee, Steve switched to green tea a few years
ago.  He will have coffee now & then but not like he used to.

>> they have so many more drugs available.. if I remember correctly, drug
 JK> > Still, are they safe at pediatric levels?

 JK> I haven't kept up with what drugs are used for children, since none of
 JK> her kids have asthma which is great.. but yes, that aspect is scarey.
 JK> It bothered me giving her theophylline when she was so young (it was
 JK> liquid) but it did the job.

Sometimes you have to pray tat the benefits will outweigh the harm andgo
with a drug, like it or not.

>> researchers were even able to create drugs that dilated only the
>> lungs, not the rest of the body, like theophylline did? (boy did she
>> hate that medication, and I couldn't blame her :( ).

 JK> > I remember some friends who's one kid hated it too. I had it in the
 JK> pill


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