What have you learnt today?

That I like having friends and being a nice person.

You can use dandelion roots to make a drink that people say is similar to coffee but without the bitterness. Learned that yesterday... lol

Oh my ....yikes thats scary

I am glad you are Ok. I presume locally there is quick treatment for bites? It must happen occasionally.

Bites can be deadly but usually are not. They are very painful and the only thing that can be done is the use of anti-venom.

Just a follow up. We have a serpentarium in town that extracts venom for use in making the anti-venom.

www.reptileworldserpentarium.com/
 

I would love, and hate going there....

A friend of mine was bitten by an adder twice. He was rather elderly, and my friend thinks it was what gave him a stroke, and his eventual death.

Karen the snake hunter. It does have a certain ring to it...

Hi Rebecca, when my son was a freshman in college, he came home for the holidays and told me he thought he had ADD, he told me his friend had it and was prescribed Vyvanse. His friend gave him a pill, he took it and felt better and it helped clear his head.

I took him to the doctor, the doctor refused to prescribe him anything, my son was upset. This friend graduated the following term and moved back to Australia so I knew he could not take his friend's pill. He was also on my policy so I knew what he was taking and his doctor knew he was not taking anything he should not. Quite a few doctors would draw that conclusion when the patients are absent-minded or can't focus. My son was the same, he was good with anything he was interested in but he did not care about anything else until he understood that it was his responsibility to do everything at least decently. Well, my son graduated from one of the top schools in the US with a degree in Computer Science Engineering at 21 and has been doing very well. It has been 5 years since he graduated from college and is still at the same organization, already three significant promotions.

What I would like to say is that you should get at least 2, 3 opinions, don't count on the first doctor who gave them that diagnosis. My father was a medical doctor, so are my two brothers and also my sister's son so we all get an earful on medical matters. Even if they really have ADD, do not enable them to use that as an excuse for not doing what they suppose to do, limitations are only become obvious if we keep reminding ourselves of them.

 

Learned today that one of my patients died last week in hospital. He wasn't that old, about 72 I would guess.

He has had a dodgy heart for some years now, and the doctor could not decide what the problem really was.

I didn't take to him at first, but over the years I got quite fond...

I am sorry Cherry, it's a life cycle we all will be facing someday.

Sorry to hear this Cherry. 

I learned more about drainage and sewer systems than I really wanted to but it was helpful and informative.