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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
MY RECENT SYMPTOMS OF A HEART ATTACK
Whenever someone gets
seriously ill, I often ask what the symptoms were. Not that I am a hypochondriac, let’s just say
I am curious.
From the symptoms of
people I knew, mainly men, their heart attacks were fatal. They clutched their chest, were full of sweat
and sometimes knew it was the end.
Other men disregarded
their symptoms of feeling lethargic, having indigestion, nausea, and mild
chest and arm pain. The pains were
equated with too much exercise, not enough exercise, too much bad food,
etc. They will make a doctor’s
appointment when their schedule works out for them. Sometimes this attitude can
be fatal.
On the other hand a woman’s
symptoms are a little different. In very
rare cases it can be too late to know she had a heart attack, as she would be
in pain clutching her chest. The norm as I experienced, can be very deceiving. Many
medical doctors are just learning of the many different symptoms a woman can
have. A few years ago, I experienced gas pains.
I’ve had them all my life on and off so I did not take too much
attention to it. But when the discomfort came and went every few hours like
contractions before giving birth, I became concerned. Each time it returned the indigestion got
worse. Then the magic symptom came which was my jaw and teeth radiating. My arm started to feel pressure, like a very
slight pain.
Because the pain was
not severe in my chest, I thought there was no need for an ambulance. Thus my
husband drove me to the hospital for tests.
It was revealed I had a heart attack and received two stents on the left
arteries
Interestingly, when we
think heart attack, we think “ouch” severe pain to the chest.
When an artery is
clogged blood cannot flow to the heart and if not repaired within 12 hours it
could be fatal or at least severe heart damage.
My second attack was
different from the first. I had no
indigestion, just pressure on my chest, shoulder and arm. It came and went every few minutes like my
previous attack. However the jaw and arm discomfort was the sign to get to my
primary doctor. He gave me a cardiogram which
did not look good and advised me to go to the hospital. Since there was no bad pain only a discomfort
I asked to take blood work to see if I had cardiac disease. While waiting for a lab tech to take blood,
the discomfort was coming faster than I expected. I made my husband drive to the emergency as
quickly as possible.
Later, I learned never
to drive to the emergency but to call an ambulance. My heart attack was a bad one at the
RCA(Right Coronary Artery) I was told if
I waited up to 12 hours I may not have lived
In both cases I did not
panic nor took my heart attack too seriously because I was not in severe pain.
Had I waited for the pain it might have been too late
PUPPY SCAMS
With broken hearts over
losing our eleven in a half year old Maltese, we started looking for another puppy about a year go. At first I felt disloyal to our beloved little
Mindy, however, I had to stop our heartache and sobbing. People advised us to look at animal shelters.
Years ago we did and adopted a cute puppy which worked out well. Another time
we adopted an adorable Schnoodle that just came in, but we had to sign a
statement that if the dog owner claims the dog within a certain time, we had to
release it to the rightful owner. That day came when we had to give her back.
Among the newspaper
listings was a Ft. Lauderdale pet store. They directed us to their web site
where we chose adorable Mayla. She was all white with black points. (nose and
eyes). We rushed to the store on a very hot Fourth of July. Impressed with the upscale store, we couldn’t
wait to meet her...
The sales person whom
we spoke on the phone showed us a white and tan puppy stinking with bad
perfume. We told him that was not the puppy we saw on his web site.. He scratched his head and led us into another
room with tiny puppies sleeping on their backs as if all drugged. While soft music
was playing, we were told to be very quiet. “Wake them up” I said.” We are here
to buy a puppy” The salesman escorted us to another room with about eight to
ten puppies all awake in one cage about two feet by two feet. Because it was shocking
to see them cramped, we stormed out saying they should be ashamed.
Breeders were our next
choice, or are they really breeders? Some advertised saying they were breeders
or kennels, but they were really brokers. I was unaware of puppy brokers at that time and soon learned to ask questions about the puppy's parents and to request to see them in person. None were available and they were indignant about offering me their
last name. When I asked for their home address it wound up off a highway, at a
supermarket, or they said they will meet me half way.
We were impressed with
beautiful airbrushed professional photographs of the puppies, only to find out
puppy brokers stole those pictures by putting them on their own websites or
they text it to me making us believe that was the puppy they are selling.
Other red flags are lower
priced puppy ads, free shipping from God knows where, only to find a dead or
dying puppy or one that was not what they prepaid for. Someone told me her mother prepaid for a
particular breed. On arrival the dog was
not what she ordered. She could not get her money back and after time got
attached to it. Some breeders take nonrefundable deposits for puppies before
they are born.
There have been
warnings regarding purchasing pets from pet stores as they usually come from
puppy mills. I am afraid puppy brokers are included. Besides the Maltese in pet
stores cost as much money as the private breeders only you are not getting the
pick of the litter.
Thus our choices are to
pay big money to well-known breeders or go to the animal shelters.
MY SPIRIT THEORY
One late evening, I recently got spooked out of my mind.
For the past sixteen years I have always enjoyed sitting at my glass dinette
table researching on my lap top computer. A week earlier I remember getting
interrupted by my religious young aunt, reminding me to light a Yahrtzeit candle
for my mother. It was the anniversary of her passing.
It was just last week while typing, my glass top slid off
the table base as though someone pushed it off.
The glass naturally crashed on the floor leaving tons of broken glass
everywhere. My computer and vase fell on top of the glass, miraculously leaving
both unbroken.
Flabbergasted, I could not figure how that could
happen. I knew my glass top was a little
unsteady lately but it was impossible for a heavy glass top to just push its
way off the base and crash. For the past years we applied cyclone disks under
the glass which usually worked well, but noticed it had not worked well for
months
It took hours of picking up the glass, sweeping, vacuuming
and mopping. We took out another heavy
round glass top from the garage which we luckily saved from another piece of
furniture and placed it on the table base. The following day, I attempted to
continue working on my computer at the same table when I noticed the glass, in
slow motion, sliding off the table falling on to the floor again. At that
point, how do I tell my husband who was happily enjoying himself at the gym
what had occurred. “Guess what”, I said. “You’re never going to believe this”.
To my astonishment, the glass did not break nor chip. My computer and vase was unharmed. Should I
have remembered to buy that Yahrzeit candle for my mother? Was she angry with me? Was her spirit talking to me? Do Spirts really exist? Crazy things were
going in my mind.
The following day it dawned on me what might have
happened. I recently hired a cleaning
lady who is marvelous. I watched her
pick up the heavy glass to shine it. I
did not know where this little young woman got her strength.
She also polished the steel base with furniture polishl to shine and
preserve it. It never occurred to me
that she lifted the glass much higher to shine the top of the base. That was why the cyclone disks did not stuck
on the glass and the oil caused the slippery glass to move
To satisfy my theory, I used ammonia on top of the base and
glass, washing and wiping them thoroughly.
After placing the glass top on the base, we found it difficult to move. When I heard a squeak, it meant it no longer
was slippery. Did this mean it may be the
end of my Spirit theory?
MY EXPERIENCE AS PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR
Never in my wildest dreams did I
ever expect to enjoy the experience of becoming a producer and director of a
show. As a young
child most little girls like me dreamed of acting and becoming an Oscar winner.
As I matured and continued my adult life, those dreams totally faded away.
Living in
an active adult community in Florida, I
was a bystander enjoying other leaders of the community creating entertainment
and improving our community. I’ve complained and applauded various events like
most of our residents. It never dawned on me that I too would make a small
contribution.
Joining our
entertainment committee fascinated me and I loved going to the Show Cases. Taking part of a vote to decide which
entertainers would best be enjoyed by our residents gave me a sense of
importance.
Hardly volunteering in
anything worthwhile other than setting up tables before an event, a question
was asked by our co chair lady of our committee. “What can we give back to the community that
will cost nothing and yet be entertaining?”
Looking around the
room, with no hands raised, I suggested a Talent Show. “Let’s see who comes out of the woodwork that
has talent.” Our co chairs were not receptive at first, as they believed in
professional talent. Due to our democratic process in our committee, a vote was
taken and it was decided we have one. I was picked to run it since it was my
idea. “This was going to be a piece of cake.” I thought.
To my disappointment
not too many people came forward from our flyers. Calling many folks whom I knew had talent,
just seemed it was not the right time to perform. Therefore I decided to make up my own skits,
researching on line. They included music and dancing. The problem with dancing was we had to use
our arms, and legs together with our hips.
One complained it was difficult to raise one arm, while the other
complained their other arm was difficult. Bending was out and so were
cartwheels.
We chuckled about our
bodies not being able to do what we used to do and tried our best to move the
parts that still work.
Meanwhile people took
bets we would not have enough time for a show, as we began two months prior to
the opening with only three good performers signed on.. It took only one month
to rehearse the dances plus more performers stepped up to the plate. During
those few weeks, the performers each had their own agendas at separate times
and were missing for full rehearsals. But in the end they did great
Producing and directing
the show, which I loved, brought back memories of my earlier years. I created
beautiful jewelry which was loved by all the buyers in department stores and
boutiques across the county. My mind was active again and I felt very alive.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
ALL POLICE & SECURITY OFFICERS MUST WEAR CAMERAS
The case of Musician,
Corey Jones death by officer, Nouman Raja, stuns kin, as reported in the Pam Beach Post
Tuesday October 20, stuns all of us as well.
Here is a young black man from a respected loving family doing all the
right things and admired by all. Getting
paid in cash and coming home late from gigs with expensive drums in his car,
his licensed gun was his protection. Unfortunately he
might not have been experienced in using it, or perhaps he was too fearful that
fateful morning.
Along comes this plain clothes
man cop, Raja, who approached this young frightened man stranded off the
road about 3 AM waiting for a tow truck to help with his disabled vehicle. Raja
had no badge on him to show this frightened young man he was safe. Instead, with no witnesses, nor cameras, the
young man was shot by the cop about 100 feet away from
his car.
Now let’s evaluate the
situation. The plain clothes man cop was
originally employed by the police department and had previous incidents of
failing to obey by the rules. He was
demoted to the Palm Beach Gardens department with a $10,000 reduction in pay to
do surveillance work. Two comments were contradictory.
The officer at first said he approached Jones vehicle thinking it was
abandoned. Then he said Jones approached
the cop. Does that make sense?
Now the FBI is getting involved.
It is like a boxing match with a 160LB man fighting with a 250LB heavy weight
and the referee is making the decision as to who won.
The bottom line is, new
laws must be made that all police officers including plain clothes men and security
guards, must wear cameras whether they carry a gun or not.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
WHY DONALD TRUMP IS RIGHT ON IMMIGRATION
In the Palm Beach Post on
September 14, I read the article by Benjamin Powell, director of the Free
Market Institute disapproving Donald Trump immigration issue. He mentioned the researching of immigration by so called “social
scientists.” Who are they, I wondered?
Mr. Powell summarized that the “social scientists” are the public. Which
public does he refer to?” The Liberal
scholars, I assumed. Actually, Liberals are great peace loving people. They
want to save the world and our planet. Unfortunately in doing so, we as a
nation became weaker.’’
Social Scientists claim illegal immigration is good for our country. They provide goods and services directly to other immigrants and I assume to Americans as well. He writes that some legal and illegal immigrants pay sales tax on what they spent which helps the economy and some pay income tax. However he does not mention the cost of food stamps, housing, health care and education. We may see some benefits in about 10-20 years if the immigrants remain in our country.
Our economy is not booming. I see empty stores in shopping centers,
Departments stores are closing some stores, businesses are cutting down, and some employees are being laid off. Because of the present economy jobs are scarce. When the illegal
immigrants show up for jobs they usually work off the books, therefore no tax
revenue. With the minimum wage going up,
it may make it difficult for Americans to compete for some jobs.
Trump understands all this as he
too has business advisers and accountants to document that we can no longer
afford illegal immigrants. I like his
issue on closing the borders until such time as we can afford to support more
immigrants again. But we must be careful who we allow in our country. Years ago a relative had to a sponsor an immigrant. They had to be free of disease with no criminal records. We must make sure that many who are fleeing in countries including ours do not overtake our freedom, laws, culture and our way of life including voting at the polls.
Before 1935 there were no welfare
and before 1939 there were no food stamps. Illegal & legal immigrants were
on their own when they came into our country.
They lived with relatives or friends, learned our language and found
jobs immediately. They were poor but they came with trades, education and culture. They enhanced and contributed to America. Many became self- made millionaires.
As for Trump’s issue on
deportation, I disapprove deporting illegal immigrants who have anchor babies
here and who are working and paying taxes.
I agree on deportation if the illegals are criminals, even one offense,
have no jobs, and trouble makers. Although Trump tells it like it is, he must
try to refrain from making nasty comments to interviewers and his opponents running against him in an unsophisticated manor if it is not to his liking. Trump needs a little more sophistication if he truly wants to be our president.
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