Leisure Special

The moment the doctor said that hubby has acute appendicitis, I couldn’t help ask why. What’s the reason behind that? I am really dumbfounded about the fact that we are still very happy shopping the day before his operation. And just out of nowhere, he is already scheduled for operation, just like that.

Well, I found an insight of what might cause appendicitis. According to the researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) appendicitis may in fact be caused by a viral infection of some sort. The condition refers to the inflammation of the appendix, a protuberance in the gut that is believed to be holding a safety cache of bacteria to repopulate the intestines if the need arises. Common knowledge has it that inflammation in the appendix needs to be treated immediately via surgery and removal, but the new study questions whether this is truly the case.

After the appendix was first identified in 1886, doctors started extracting it at the first sign of trouble because the operation was relatively simple and uncomplicated. In addition, a burst appendix causes a lot more problems, and such an incident is generally considered to be an emergency. Therefore, throughout the 20th century, this became a standard medical practice.

Dr. Livingston is suggesting that non-perforated appendicitis could be resolved without surgery. He and his team base their statement on cases of sailors or other people with no immediate access to doctors, and on children. In some children hospitals, removing the appendix when the first troubles appear is not treated as an emergency, and surgery is generally avoided. In their investigations of hospital admission records, the researchers noticed a strong hint to the idea that appendicitis might be caused by a viral agent, such as the flu virus that caused influenza.

Upon surfing the net I found something that is worth sharing. Would you believe this? It’s all up to you.

It is a fact that we are raised to think of cow’s milk as a perfect food. Most of the advertisement said that “milk is natural” and if you don’t drink milk, they will tell you that your bones will become brittle and your strength will fade due to a lack of calcium. Out of fear we make dairy products a staple of our diets. Knowledge is a killer of fear. The more you know the less you fear. Drinking milk will not make you big and strong, nor will it prevent osteoporosis.

Cows do not drink cow’s milk! Calves stop drinking cow’s milk between the ages of six to eight months. Humans are the only species that drink the milk of another animal. You will never see kitten drink milk from a goat, or a doe drink milk from a bear. However, we have been conditioned to think that we must drink milk from cows. We are told that we must drink cow’s milk for the rest of our lives, isn’t it? No adult animal continues to drink milk after they are weaned. But humans drink milk from an adult animal that do not drink their own milk after they reach 7 months of age. Would you drink milk from lactating women? Read the rest of this entry »

Many people with sight loss participate in a wide variety of sports activities – from bowls to cricket, and from water-skiing to tandem riding.

Some of these activities may require modest adaptations of rules and equipment to make them accessible – for example playing cricket with a size 4 audible ball, or using a sighted or audio guide to help guide you to the tee in golf. There are also sports such as “goalball”, which are played by blind and partially sighted people only.

Most of the country governs most competition from local to international level. There is a sporting structure for competition in most sports. Blind and partially sighted people can gain the same enjoyment and benefits as anyone else; feeling good in mind and body, reduction in body fat and reduced risk of heart disease or stroke. Above all, fun and enjoyment!

Here is the continuation of the information that I posted last week. These are the facts of About Men. So, guys check this out and more of this in the later postings.

1. The way a man looks at himself in the mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.
2. Don’t try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to KNOW.
3. Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps.
4. All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. I sleep with one under my pillow instead of a gun.
5. A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
6. Men love watches with multiple functions. Thus, one of that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.
7. All men hate to hear “We need to talk.” No matter what the subject is, these seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Norman Schwarzkopf.
8. Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log doesn’t burn, he will take it personally.
9. Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
10. All men think they’re nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

1. Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.
2. Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
3. If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. The early films might end with a scream and a flush.
4. Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of “rich” usually cancels out the “nice” of bald.
5. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
6. Men are very confident people. Confident that when they watches sports on television, they thinks that if they concentrates really hard, they can help their team. If their team is in trouble, they coaches the players from the living room. If they are really in trouble, Might get off the phone in case they call him.
7. If it’s attention you want, don’t get involved with a man during play-off season.
8. Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.
9. Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.
10. All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.

Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest broadband

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books – with the world’s fastest internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed. But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council’s network arm, has arranged the connection.

This is more than just a demonstration, as a network owner we’re trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. Peter wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances. She will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. The secret behind Sigbritt’s ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.

According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited – there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place. Peter want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has, who now works at Cisco. The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC. Wow! That’s really amazing; better yet find a higher ram for my PC. Just to feel the rush that old women do!