The caffeine might have played a role though…
 by in Health |
So after this, I have been reading more on the condition called Cluster Headaches, and the more I read, the more I recognise. Initially I couldn’t remember being woken up by these headaches, but I have. The memories of more days in agony came back. I even remember the day I had such a headache [...]
So, it wasn’t the caffeine after all…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, “Hey that actually tastes & feels good.“.
Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting up on me after drinking [...]
I’m a freak: I got calculi in my salivary glands
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
I have got calculi in my salivary glands and it sometimes acts up.
You know, if you had biology in school, there are 2 tiny little holes on the floor of your mouth, about where your tongue attaches, where your saliva comes into your mouth.
Basically, what happens is that sometimes — and this is [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
Poisoning the Masses, part 2
| by in Conspiracies, Health |
A few years ago, me and my girlfriend started to become more aware of what food we are eating; specifically noting the various additives the industry puts in them.
As you may have read before we now stay away from products that contain aspartame and have stopped using toothpaste that contains fluoride.
At that time I hadn’t [...]
Her cruddy chin is gone!
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, The Netherlands |
As mentioned earlier, one of our cats had ‘cat acne’, or ‘cruddy chin’ a while back, and my girlfriend came home with two homeopathic fluids, one for internal and one for external use, which we started to apply.
These fluids I guess are only available in the Netherlands, as its home page suggests.
The internal stuff, a [...]
Poor little rabbit :(
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Health |
Last night, at about 22h, we had a scare, again: one of our rabbits wouldn’t eat. Having a history of ‘gastronomic’ problems, we always keep an eye on this lil’ fella and noticed that he couldn’t lie down comfortable — twisting and turning, not being able to find a comfy position.
And it really hurts to [...]
One of our cats has got acne…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Indeed: cat acne (sometimes called ‘chin acne’ or ‘cruddy chin’). Symptoms: weird black spots start appearing on the cats chin.
Although rarely heard of (Google search — at the time of this writing 606 hits) it’s not an entirely uncommon condition though. Iterating through these results I hit this guys experience with the disease which [...]
The fallacy of male birth-control
| by in Health, Random Rantings, Visions |
You might have noticed that I don’t want to have kids (the reasons as to why are beyond the scope of this little blurb though — but I’m sure you’ll believe me when I say that, to sum it all up, it’s really best for the kid). To accomplish this my girlfriend uses some method [...]
To sit upright or to not sit upright…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In my profession, I have always sat behind a computer — I have never done any work that didn’t involve one.
People always noted my sitting position: I was either hanging backwards in my chair (hey the monitor is at eye-height then, too), or I’m sitting behind a desk at a slight angle (i.e. my [...]
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
A first for everything: I passed out
| by in Health, The Netherlands |
Last week I was minding my own business sleeping, only to wake up with a slight irritation in my eye. I vaguely remember trying to get something out of my eye and possibly scratching my eye-ball with my finger-nail. (At least — that’s what I think as I was still a bit drousy.)
I didn’t give [...]
Give up your PIN-code to some criminal holding you at gun-point?
| by in Belegana, Freedom & Repression, Health, Ideas & Concepts, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy, The Netherlands, Visions |
Well, go to jail already! In the Netherlands, the police will label anybody that hands over their PIN-code, as a ’suspect of a criminal act’. Of course, there are things to be said against, and pro…. But, of course, I’m more leaning towards against: I didn’t fucking ask for a fucking banking-card that is protected [...]
Bird-flu: It’s baaaaaaaack..
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
Apparently, bird-flu broke out again (Dutch) here in the Netherlands. While driving home yesterday, I did notice the signs like this, but hadn’t heard any news that day:
Sign that prohibits the transport of mammals, poultry, eggs and manure.
Coming home, I checked the news to find out that a new case of the bird-flu was discovered [...]
This’ll send a mixed signal…
Ironically, some well-known anti-smoking guru called Allen Carr died of was diagnosed with cancer this weekend.
It’s like yelling `Saddam Hussein is an evil man and he harbours terrorists and he has weapons of mass destruction and we need to rid the world of that evil!‘, to find out that he, well, actually didn’t, and [...]
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment.
It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, just [...]
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
So it’s my holiday…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, General, Health, Sad Stuff |
…and as with every start of a holiday, some shit happens to one of our animals. Every year it’s the same story, but with a different animal each time. We got four in total, 2 cats and 2 rabbits.
So we were sleeping and in the middle of the night, last friday, we heared a *bang*, [...]
I’m drinking some sage-tea at the moment…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History |
I am an alternative medicine nut. Well, actually I just distrust commercial pharmaceutical industry — but nowadays it seems one must either with or against something and I think I can only make myself worthy of happiness if I place myself in this position.
My girlfriend is basically with me on this and she has got [...]
On the Belgium kidnapping…
| by in Health, Security & Privacy |
So, a couple of days ago, a couple of young girls went missing in Belgium. Immediately, it was all over the media that some pedophile or whatever may have taken them.
The moment I heard that I was thinking: and they jump to this conclusion because… ? The guy’s missing? Cellular phone data implicated him in [...]
Chernobyl: 20 years later…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History, Space & Beyond |
BBC NEWS reported yesterday about wildlife defying the radiation still there after the disaster with the, now infamous, Chernobyl nuclear facility in ‘86.
“Animals don’t seem to sense radiation and will occupy an area regardless of the radiation condition,” says radioecologist Sergey Gaschak.
“A lot of birds are nesting inside the sarcophagus,” he adds, referring to the [...]
Ice-caps melting faster than forecast
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links |
According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
[..]
The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert [...]
Nice way to start the spring..
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
If there’s one thing us humans can do, collectively, it must be fucking up this planet. The Register also reported it yesterday, and in case you missed it, the UN released a report on how recent human activity has messed-up the planet we live and depend on. To quote The Register:
As much as 80 per [...]
Peppers kill cancer
| by in Animals & Nature, Health |
The Telegraph reports on chillies having a substance that is able to kill cancer-cells:
The substance in chillies that causes the tongue to burn also drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, according to research that could pave the way for new treatments. The pepper component capsaicin makes the cells undergo programmed cell death or apoptosis, [...]
German bird-flu fears cause people to get rid of their cats
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Apparently, because of the fears of the bird-flu going around and the fact one dead cat was found suffering from it, German cat-owners are massively dropping their cats at animal-shelters, causing those to overload.
What kind of pet-owners are these people?
I mean, when those people were sick, their cat probably kept them company the whole [...]
Cat has had her drains removed — and the labresults are in…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
OK getting her in a travelling-basket, or a box, or anything was a nightmare. Because of the stupid collar around her neck she panics when we close it and starts twisting and shaking to get out.
Not nice to look at, so quickly opened the basket again. Cat totally stressed out, as one can imagine.
We [...]
Cat has to go for a check-up later today…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Later today, our recovering cat, Mimi, has to go to the vet again for a check-up. They’re gonna check if it is all healing OK.
Additionally, they are going to remove the drain that stick out of the stitch. (Apparently, these drains are there to prevent the wound from closing up, so that any pus and [...]
Cat’s had something to drink now, too.
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
Yay — she finally had something to drink late last night.
I tried giving her some water before, yesterday simply by shoving my wet finger in her face so she was forced to lick it. So at least a bit of fresh water in her system.
Catfood, from a can, usually has this juicy, fatty fluid in [...]
Living on the edge…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health |
After having my finger seriously bitten into by my cat I didn’t really take it no mind.
Hell, I’ve seen people bitten by even dirtier animals and they survived without going to the doctor.
For fun, I just started Googling a bit. On familydoctor.org I found this:
You have a cat bite. Cat bites often cause infection. [...]
UK: Smoking banned in public places
Today a lot of talk about the UK ban on smoking in public places.
The anti-smoking lobby will be happy — and a lot of those nagging mofo’s as well. And only a matter of time because those health-zealots find something wrong with some other product that they’re too big a pussy to handle to want [...]
Cat’s recovering now, kinda…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Holy cow — yesterday was a terrible day. The cat went to the vet for some heavy cancer-surgery thing and we got her back with a big fat stitch across her belly with 2 tubes sticking out, so that excessive fluid can leave her body. The big fat stitch is there because her milk-glands, nipples [...]
Cat’s back from the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
And *gulp* does she look shitty.
Big fat stitch across her belly, almost from armpit to her hind-legs, a drain in it which drips some fluid and blood every now and then.
Not a pretty sight at all…
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery, Cancer
Cat’s at the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
So, the cat is at the vet now for the big surgery-thing to remove half of her milk-gland tissue stuff from her belly where the tumours are growing.
I hope the procedure’ll be a breeze for the vet and she’ll be OK in 2 hours.
Hang in there, Mimi.
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery
Low-fat diet doesn’t decrease chances of cancer or heart-diseases
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
It is official — low fat diets do not decrease the chances of one getting cancer or any heart-related diseases.
In other news: Smoking itself doesn’t cause cancer, only the constant nagging about it does.
Smoking, Cancer, Fat, Diet
The long-term effects of short-term short-sighted selfishness
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
OK, so we have two cats, a male and a female. The male has been neutered for quite some time. The female wasn’t spayed because me and the girlfriend thought we’d like to have kittens at some certain point in life.
The female of our two cats, Mimi.
The Cat Pill
So we did give her the ‘cat-pill’, [...]
So AIDS is man made after all…
| by in Conspiracies, Health, History, Interesting Links |
Reading around in the Guerrillafunk Though Box archive I was rather amazed by the article entitled “AIDS man made origins”. (There’s a lot of other juicy stuff there but for now we’ll focus on this.)
I heard this theory before that the US might have been behind it, but any substantial references were always lacking. (And [...]
Health: Who’s responsible if you choose for alternative medicine?
| by in Health, On The Road..., The Netherlands |
In The Netherlands we had this row a couple of years ago when some ‘famous’ Dutch TV-person got diagnosed with breast-cancer and she went to a ‘medium’ (i.e. a psychic healer) to cure her, in stead of letting a real doctor lead the cure-process.
Anyways, this medium had a leading role and advised the doctors that [...]
No-weed-smoking-signs already stolen
| by in Health, Humour, The Netherlands |
As reported last month, new signs were going to be placed in the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in order to prevent that people are smoking marijuana in public, as the smell of it may be a nuisance to some people:
They were placed yesterday, but already stolen. Now that doesn’t really come as a surprise [...]
Check Your Testicles!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
If you still need reasons to play with yourself, all over Dutch media passed couple of days the following advice:
Men, after their puberty, should regularly check their testicles for weird lumps, et cetera, as that might be an indication of cancer.
So there…
Cancer, Testicles, Men
Uranium run on 25th January 2006
| by in Health, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff, Space & Beyond, The Netherlands |
On Indymedia there’s an article explaining how, on the 25th of January this month, a train will be shipping Uranium Hexafluaride (UF6) from Germany to The Netherlands, and from there to Russia:
German and Dutch nuclear opponents plan to disrupt a consignment of depleted uranium hexafluoride they say is due to run Wednesday, 25 [...]
Pets offer health benefits, even robotic ones
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Interesting Links |
As also noted on Slashdot today, the Star-Telegram reports that Robotic pets offer health benefits, too:
In a recent study at the University of Missouri, for example, levels of the stress hormone cortisol dropped among adults who, for several minutes, petted AIBO, Sony’s dog-shaped robot that responds when stroked, chases a ball and perks up when [...]
Dogs save life of diabetic owner
| by in Animals & Nature, Health |
Cool, another one of those animal-hero stories: Dogs save life of diabetic owner.
A sheriff was on a rural road when he spotted a light shining from the brush. He found Butch was holding a flashlight in his mouth like a bone. Meanwhile, Dusty was stretched across Bill, keeping him warm.
Animals, Pets, Dogs
Concrete kills!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In local news, it is reported that a guy died after a big piece of concrete fell on top of him.
Well, it could’ve been worse — they could’ve left the body there and continue the work.
Pretty sick stuff…
Concrete Kills
