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Would you get liposuction done?

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Did I ever tell you that the cosmetic surgeon that I worked for did liposuction? Guess who got to put the fat sucked out of people into bio hazard containers? Yeah me! Fun stuff huh?

I always felt more than a little bit sorry for the patients as they left the recovery room after their procedures. I knew they were going to be in some pain for a little while. However, when they’d come back in for follow up appointments you could really see how well the liposuction had worked for them.

I’m not sure that I would ever get this procedure done. Not that I think there’s anything wrong with it, it’s just not for me.

However I’m wondering how many of my readers have had this procedure done? Or if you are considering it? And if you have had liposuction did you like the results?





Weird things happen to me

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Last Thursday evening I was sitting on the couch. My husband and I had just eaten dinner and I was talking to him. I can’t remember what I was talking about – what was on TV perhaps? Anyway, at the end of whatever I was saying I made a weird noise that involved me sticking out my tongue or twisting it around and moving my head to the side at the same time. It was supposed to be a funny sound to punctuate whatever I was talking about I guess.

Yes, you know I’m weird, don’t look at me that way!

Right after I did that I had extreme pain under my jaw on the right side. The pain traveled to the back of my throat, the top of my head. WTF? It hurt to swallow. OMG what did I just do to myself? And how? All I did was make a funny sound. People do that every day don’t they? Why the hell was it hurting so much?

I must have pulled a muscle in the base of my tongue or some muscle just under my jaw. Now who does that? No one! No one but super klutzy me that is. I hoped the pain would ease off in a few minutes. You know like when you hit your elbow. It hurts like crazy when you bang your elbow but five minutes later you can barely remember that you hit it. It took until the next day before it didn’t hurt or feel funny.

I’m shaking my head. You’d think that if I was going to pull a muscle in my tongue or jaw that I’d at least be doing something interesting or erotic when it happened.

The guide to buying a house humidifier

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I love Autumn – the fall colours, and the crisp cool air, but unfortunately when it starts to get cooler and cooler the furnace soon comes on. Once the air outside gets cooler and the furnace starts going on several times a day I find the air inside the house becomes very dry. My skin gets drier so I have to use more hand creams and body lotions, and when the air is really dry I even get a slightly sore throat.

The first few years that we owned our house this wasn’t so much of a problem. We have a humidifier built into the furnace. All we had to do was remember to turn on the water supply once the cool weather hit, and clean the tray and uh roller/filter regularly, and the air in the whole house was much more comfortable. Unfortunately one of the sides of the piece that holds the filter in our furnace humidifier broke last year and we couldn’t find a replacement.

The air was so dry in the house that it affected my eyes! One morning I woke up and my left eye felt like someone had punched me right in the eyeball. It hurt so bad I ended up in emerg a day or so later, and the doctor there got me an emergency ophthalmologist visit for the following day because he thought the pressure was elevated in my eye.

If the pressure had been raised in my eye during the ER visit it wasn’t by the time I saw the ophthalmologist. He diagnosed me with dry eye which as I’ve described can be a very painful condition. He even tried suggesting I get something inserted into my tear ducts to help me create more tears to soothe my eyes.

Uh huh. I opted to go out and get a humidifier. It helped a lot! Unfortunately it’s only big enough to humidify one floor of our house, so we have it upstairs right now.

Now I’d like to find a new humidifier that will humidify the main floor of our house, or even the whole house. I was looking around on the web for some information on humidifiers and I found the complete guide to buying a house humidifier. This seems to be a pretty good site if you are having trouble figuring out just what kind of humidifier you need for your home.

The section of the guide that talks about the optimum humidity levels for your home was very helpful. As were many of the other section. Now I think I know what type of humidifier I want to get for our house, all I have to do is get out there and get one.

My right had is numb

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I don’t know what I did but since midnight or Sunday night/ early Monday morning the outer part of my right hand has been numb. I’m left handed so you’d think this would have happened to my left hand, but I guess not.

The numbness isn’t as bad now as it was last night but it’s still there.

Do you think maybe I’ve been writing too much lately? Uh yeah, I think I might be. Believe it or not I didn’t write very much today. Honest. I only wrote 8 posts (plus answering email of course). That’s not too bad. Yesterday though, I made a number of back up posts – maybe 20 back up posts plus wrote at least 15 that got posted. No wonder my hand went numb huh?

I’m going to let my hand have a rest now. Hopefully it will it be better later today!

Oh I almost forgot, Neil Crespi wanted me to look at his site – I like this site design for a blogger blog, and the site has potential, but it needs more posts. I’d be happy to help you work on your design if you contact me. You’re about me descriptions pretty interesting.

Rate your doctor and get 5 free songs

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Hey folks. I think I told you about Vimo before. It’s a site that lets individuals or small businesses shop for and compare health insurance plans, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), doctors and dentists in a side-by-side format.

You can even comparison-shop for surgical procedures if you’d like.

Right now, Vimo is offering a coupon to any consumers who go to their site and rate their doctor. With this coupon you’ll be able to get 5 free songs at emusic.com. The songs are MP3’s so you’ll be able to play them on your ipods or whatever music player you have. Even better- if you have more than one doctor that you’d like to rate you’ll get a coupon code for each doctor. In other words, if you rate two doctors you’ll be entitled to 10 free songs.

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