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Spent the weekend with Jake, Caren their two roommates and the five dogs. Jake’s been looking for a church for a while and it just so happened they decided on a church to visit while Sonny and I were there. I think with all the churches open now and Easter coming up he got serious about taking his...
Q: Why are nicotinamide, niacinamide, niacin and nicotinic acid names for the same thing, vitamin B3? It’s confusing
How did one vitamin get so many names? Vitamin B3 is two closely related compounds, niacin and niacinamide, with each version having two different official titles.
When vitamin B was...
I was making Ruben sandwiches for Grandma, Grandpa, and I this week. As I sliced up the Swiss cheese the holes reminded me of an old saying Grandma Lydia uses every now and then… She says, “Wow, that’s a hole you could drive a Mack truck through.”
Mack is an old brand. It’s a company that builds...
Q: My medicine is upsetting my stomach. What can I do about that?
You are not alone. The most common side effects of medications are stomach irritation or gastritis. Gastritis describes any of these symptoms: queasiness, stomach pain, stomach cramping, stomach burning, loose stools, or nausea....
I was in the driver’s seat heading down the road with Grandpa Truman on the passenger’s side of the car when he noticed the dense fog overhead. He said, “If that fog settled, we’d need radar.”
“Or at least a compass and a good map,” I said remembering the classes he once taught to high schoolers on...
Q: After my knee replacement surgery, my surgeon recommended I take a stool softener for a couple of weeks to prevent constipation from my pain medicine. How does that work?
Many surgeons advise their patients to take a stool softener while taking pain medication during the first couple of weeks...
Our oldest child keeps chickens, and she brought a dozen home to Grandma and me. Grandma has been having a bit of a time eating lately so I decided to make a batch of chicken and noodles for dinner. While I was busy making homemade noodles. I remembered making noodles for my grandpa’s mother,...
If you have heart disease or diabetes in addition to elevated “bad” cholesterol, taking a "statin" medicine, like atorvastatin or simvastatin, can reduce your risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Although the first "statin" medication you were prescribed made you tired, there is no guarantee that you...
Well, it happened. After the windstorm took out the electricity; the light in the well house didn’t come back on when the electricity came back on line; the most vulnerable pipe on the place froze; no water for four days. Being Grandma’s daughter we had some cases of bottled water for drinking, a...
In the United States, help for a poisoning emergency is a toll-free phone call away. In 2021, someone in the United States called a Poison Control center every 15 seconds. In 2021, 55 U.S. Poison Centers responded to over 2 million human poisonings. Over 90% of poisonings occurred at home, 75% were...
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