So’s you won’t worry.
I’ve stopped all antibiotic. The Simulasan is providing relief those two don’t and I’m suspicious of them…Tobamycin being a mycin COULD be closer to Neomycin than is safe for me… But the redness persists.
I went off to an appointment with the bank today looking like a mafioso, dark glasses, hat, because I’m out of hair dye—I’ve got to do something about the hair dye for Thursday (eye doc).
We opted to go to a little eatery downtown for lunch—and the hamburger was won-der-ful.
Then I got home and nearly passed out for 3 hours with profound chill. Meat tenderizer. I had it happen in a fancy hotel steak restaurant at that level—I could hardly get back to my room. In this case I wasn’t driving, thank goodness. I don’t know how they can use a product like that without advising you. But that’s exactly what it was. I was semi-conscious all afternoon.
Totally offtopic here, CJ (apologies), but saw this today, and instantly thought of your sublighter history… interactive exploration of the local neighborhood around Sol: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ (intended for use with the Chrome browser – _Very_ cool!)
Neat: it won’t show me all of it because I’ve refused to install CHrome (wait till I get mad enough at one of the others) —it looks really fine, however.
On the to dye/not to dye: I grew mine out last year/early this year and I pretty much liked it, although it was white completely in front. But my 13 year old objected, and so did the headhunter who was helping me get a new job. So I am back to what surely I was meant to look like 🙂 sort of like Jane’s but not quite as pretty. When my child goes to college I’ll try again.
Ay yi yi about the eye, and the meat tenderizer. My sympathies!
I always hated messing with my hair and promised myself that I would stop coloring it when my daughter went to college. At first I was a little taken aback myself at how it grew out (very white in front, much dark in back), but now I’m pretty happy with it.
For all the well-wishes thank you! No polyps and no other surprises. Got a strong family history of colon cancer too. And yes, it was the polyglop with crystal light added to that 8 oz every 15 minute glass. Did discover that way less than half a packet (which is designed for a 16 oz bottle of water) is plenty, but it still is nasty. And was hell on my stomach so when I called for more insight on this all the doc’s office offered was to space out the doses to 30 or 45 minutes I realized I’d be up all night. Forget that –I only got about 2/3 of the 4 liters (!) done but it was enough. I found that hard candy is your friend. Lemonheads and Werthers were essential. And yup, the procedure is a breeze, but just trashed for the rest of the day.
@Ready4more, funny I’m also in a small Arizona town and am having a lousy time finding my color too — try drugstore.com. They tend to have good prices and a pretty good selection with quick turn-around although I might check to see if Amazon prime covers mine.
Excellent! Congrats!
Egad, CJ! The world has certainly been fraught with peril for you lately. Is it papain you’re sensitive to? That’s used in meat tenderizers – There are reports of serious adverse reactions in people using products containing papain including hypersensitivity reactions (low blood pressure and rapid heart rate). People who are allergic to latex can also be allergic to papaya, which is the source of papain.
Glad you’re going to the eye doctor. (We would likely have e-nagged you til you did – LOL!)
Would you believe my mom has been on about wanting me to dye my hair for years — because she’s “too young (88!) to have a grey-haired [sic] daughter.” (I am not grey-haired. When you have light hair to begin with, you don’t go grey — or collect $200 — You go straight to white.) She is a suicide blond herself (dyed by her own hand) and has been for, like, 50 years. I have very fine, fly-away hair and on the few times I’ve caved and colored, the stuff has just whammo’d the cuticle and destroyed the texture of my hair. I’m a long-time member of the WYSIWYG’s. Mr. Rogers likes me just the way I am, and so do I.
I use L’Oreal Feria, one of the most metal-heavy dyes there is, but it also ‘gets’ the only dark brown I can get that doesn’t immediately go a bad-with-my-complexion shade of honky-tonk red when applied to my hair. There’s one other preparation that will do ‘my’ color, and that’s Just For Men plain dark brown. But it’s not as shiny as Feria, so, well, that’s what I end up using.
Good for the eye appointment – I am sure that you would carry on like Milton but you do not need the pain and suffering.
As for the hair – I have learned a long time ago not to comment on a Lady’s hair just as I do not comment on her weight. Do what you feel suits you.
Good Luck,
I look like a piebald horse when I don’t color my hair. I found it was distracting to others in business meetings, so it was easier to keep it colored. I’m keeping this color through the holidays and while I’m visiting the in-laws in January, then when I no longer need to be vain during retirement, I’ll let it revert to my natural color.
Too bad they weren’t professional enough to ignore the hair and focus on the person and what you were saying, ready….I’ve found that all too often, in job interviews, they say one thing, but they’re looking at my gray hair and deciding that I’m too old. They aren’t allowed to say that, or even imply it, but when they say, “We’ll be in touch” and don’t contact me again, well, what should I think?
I let a friend put a rinse on my hair some years back only to discover she had bought permanent color. It did convince me that since my hair has gotten so thin (age and meds) I almost look bald without some color. Finding the right one is the hard part. So many browns turn red with time. I don’t need heavy duty color, just something close to the natural color. The latest stuff I’ve bought is staying dark, but the color is too dark. Gotta take something with me to get the next lighter shade next time.
Well, Just For Men basic brown is a pretty good no-nonsense 5 minute color. And that brand doesn’t tend to go red. WHich is why it’s my fall-back.
SiL is mad at me (and so is DH, tongue in cheek) because despite being the oldest of the 3 of us, I also have the least gray. I don’t think I will color, unless I decide I want to go auburn-red; I’m lucky enough to have hair going distinguished-silvery, not gray or white. Maybe I can pass myself off as a magician of some type.
I don’t even put color in my beard, so maybe it makes me look OLD! I just don’t see the reasoning for myself. I understand that women look at it differently and for completely valid reasons, IMHO. I’m just not impressed by guys who dye their hair, or wear a wig, or get hair transplants. I am who I am, and that’s all that I am……
Just like Popeye, eh, Joe? I think it’s a personal choice: if color makes you happy, wear it, if not, meh. I think you look perfectly fine with grey. A Joe with dark color would be different, for sure, but men who commit to color a beard are really sinking some effort into the look, because it grows out so fast; it’d be an every-few-days operation. Hair at least doesn’t show its roots until a couple of weeks.
Egg-zackly! Thank you for the vote of confidence on my gray locks.
I don’t colour mine and it was a light-medium brown, now a sort of grey-brown colour. When the light shines on it a certain way it’s very grey. My sister, poor soul, has extremely thin hair and quite white.
CJ, saw the word “antibiotic” and, if you haven’t spotted my posts on FB about anibiotics… chow those probiotics about three hours after you take an antibiotic. I took anti’s for a root canal back in the spring and ended up with a case of c-diff, which 80% people recover from but others keep getting it over and over again… it’s horrible and takes about a year or so to recover from. (it also kills about 30,000 a year in the US)
So… take those probiotics!!!
Sable: Exactly! I lost my father to c-diff and couldn’t get any info from the hospital about whether they used probiotics. Since I was in WA and he was in Florida, it was hard for me to monitor the situation. He lost kidney function, hated dialysis and things went downhill from there. I know that each and every time I get prescribed an antibiotic, I’m doing probiotic tea and live-culture yogurt from day 1.
WE always have yogurt on hand; and while your eyes are a bit of a ‘sealed system’ I am a believer in maintaining your flora and fauna, for sure. Had a cat, my dear old Hector, who had to have a lot of work done—he got very sick and wouldn’t eat; but they gave him fauna-pills, and he bounced right back and was with me for many, many years. I learned from that, and I figure what fixed Heck would be a good idea for me.
haika: I am so very very sorry about your father. I have a dear friend who just lost his mother to c-diff. My doctor tells me I dodged a big bullet. I’m on a few c-diff sites and a FB page so there is lots of information and many of us are extremely pro-active in getting the word out. It used to be people thought of this as something from only hospitals and nursing homes. But now there are people on the site with 18 month old babies who have contracted it!
Mostly a lot of it is due to over use of antibiotics. My thought is that yogurt isn’t enough if you’re on antibiotics, you MUST take probiotics to, but be judicial with the dosage. You can over do those too.
this affects over a half million people a year and kills over 30,000. They’re not sure of the exact amount because they’re only going on information that is given to the CDC via hospitals and organizations, not be individual doctors etc. And often in nursing homes “heart failure” covers a great many other issues.