Larry’s Log

I was sitting in my hotel room this morning, listening to the noon news, waiting for my time to go into a 1430-0030 shift at my customer’s plant. I sort of heard a health report that suddenly had me listening intently. Researchers are involved in human trials for a gene therapy treatment for Duchenne Muscular […]

In light of current events I just want to put it right here in the record that it is my wish that should I ever become incapacitated my wife shall have sole discretion as to what medical treatment I shall and shall not receive. I don’t want to be kept alive in a persistant vegetative […]

If a doctor tells you he can relieve all of these problems:

Alzheimer’s
Anxiety and nervousness
Arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism
Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, hyperactivity and other learning disabilities
Autism
Cerebral palsy
Concussion and other head injuries
Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder
Down’s Syndrome
Dystonia
Ear infection and deafness
Glaucoma, double vision and other vision problems
Headaches, head pressure, migraines
Insomnia
Low energy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
Muscle spasms, neck and shoulder pain
Organ functioning
Orthodontic stress […]

Considering what I told y’all yesterday, I may have to look into this vegetarian diet. This will be difficult since Gerri and I both really enjoy meat dishes. I think I can find a substitute for the Metamucil, though.

Dutch and Swedish researchers think that women who seek breast enlargement surgery may be “extremely vulnerable psychologically” and are three times more likely to commit sucide than women not seeking the surgery. They came to this by studying 3,521 Swedish women who had had cosmetic breast implants between 1965-93. There was a 44 percent higher […]