Never Be Lonely Again!!

Are you lonely??

Many of us will find that we are lonely sometime during our lifetime. Depending upon the circumstances, you can even feel lonely in a crowded room.
Towards the end of life, many people find themselves in a difficult situation. A spouse dies, the children are grown up and gone, and the golden years ahead appear not golden at all, but a long expanse of loneliness, to be faced with declining health, and sometimes declining finances. Add to all of that, life long friends are dying or in poor health, making things even more difficult.

So what is a solution to loneliness? One can stay active with social clubs, church and other people orientated organizations, that depending upon health and ability to drive and get around, provide a good way to stay in touch with other people and make new friends. However, many of the elderly find that they cannot get out and get involved like they once did. What is the solution to loneliness then??

The simple and common sense answer to that is a PET! A dog or cat, or maybe even a guinea pig!

A dog is usually the first choice in the battle against loneliness, but not always the only choice. It depends upon the ability to care for the animal. It is best to choose a smaller, more calm breed, that is easy to care for. All dogs make wonderful companions, and that includes a mixed breed commonly known as a mutt! And, instead of going to a pet store for a puppy, consider getting a dog from a local shelter that is already house trained. Puppies are cute and wonderful, but they can often present challenges that an older person would be best to avoid. We have adopted many wonderful dogs from the local shelters, they are healthy, often spaded and neutered, and make wonderful companions. Just make sure you have a little extra put aside for vet bills. Dogs should go to the vet at least once a year for a check up and shots.
The next choice for a companion animal is a cat! Cats make wonderful pets. They can be just as loving as a dog. Most cats do well with elderly people. They are also a bit easier to care for than a dog, however a cat box will need to be cleaned out often. It is not something that you can let go. Failure to keep a clean cat box may result in your cat doing its job in some other area. Think about it...is it really the cat’s fault? Cats need to see a vet every year for a check up and shots. It is a good idea to adopt a cat from a local shelter, as a vet has checked to make sure it is healthy. Cats can carry a lot of diseases, so you want to think twice about where you get your cat. Of course, living on a farm, we had a lot of stray cats that city people would drop off. Sometimes, a stray cat chooses you as their new owner. We had many wonderful stray cats that became a part of our family. The trick here is to get that cat to a vet right away for a check up. Cats are susceptible to many diseases, however most are easily treated if caught early.

Another wonderful pet is a guinea pig. At one point I was alone for a period of two years. I lived deep in a pine forest with a dirt road the only way out. It was an isolated and remote place where it would be very easy to feel alone, and maybe even a bit afraid. Enter Miss Molly, my faithful guinea pig!

Miss Molly kept me company, it was wonderful to hear her drink from her water bottle at night. In the morning she would wake me up, begging for a leaf of lettuce. At night we would watch TV together, she would turn and lay her little head on my chest and gurgle with contentment. She made me feel not alone, and unafraid! She was such a little sweetheart, and I miss her.

There is just one problem with a guinea pig and that is their rather short lifespan. Most live to about 31/2 years, although I did have a guinea pig that lived two years longer than that. Other than that, there are very few drawbacks to having a guinea pig for a pet. You can even have several if you wish as they are very sociable animals. A guinea pig does not need much. I use a see through plastic tote box, the biggest I can find, for their home. Guinea pigs need to be cleaned out twice a week, and more often if there are multiple animals. They do not have to go to the vet, unless they become ill for some reason. That is usually not very often as they are very hardy little animals. I tell may elderly people to try out a guinea pig as a pet, and so far it has worked out in a very wonderful way! It is wonderful to see the look of delight as they discuss the antics of their guinea pig.

All in all, loneliness is nothing more than a feeling of being alone and unloved. God in his great wisdom gave us these wonderful animals that we can enjoy at any stage of our lives. I see pets as bundles of love, and I know that people love their pets as much as they love other people, and in some cases maybe even more!
You don’t have to be lonely, it is your choice. Go and visit an animal shelter in your area today and feel the magic! It is there, waiting for you......

Knee Pain Healed With Hyaluronic Acid!!

If you ever had a sore knee, you know what it is like! Your life is miserable every time you have to walk. My knee did not hurt at first, it simply made a crunching noise when I went down steps. As a child I had injured that knee while tobogganing. By the time I was in my early 40s that knee started to hurt so bad that I needed to wear a tight knee brace just to walk. I went to the doctor and got the bad news that the cartilage in the knee was just about gone, because of injury. You know that did not make much sense to me, and surgery did not either. I know people who got knee replacements, and it is not a fun thing to go through, and being so young, I would have to have numerous knee replacements.
Well, well, because I am vain, I started taking HYALURONIC ACID for my skin. I always had really excellent skin, but I suddenly noticed that no matter what I did, my skin looked very flaky and dull, and when I wore make up, it looked like stucco on my nose and forehead! And, no amount of creams or moisturizers seemed to help, which seemed very odd. I also had very dry flaky skin on my legs! Oh yeah, I was coming apart at the seams!!
About two weeks after taking hyaluronic acid, my skin did not look much different, HOWEVER, after a year of agony, I noticed that my KNEE started feeling much better!! I thought maybe it was a fluke, but I continued with the HA, and after a month my knee pain was GONE. It no longer creaked, and my skin was coming around too!!
To me it was a miracle! I started researching HA online, and sure enough there it was in joint health combinations. I had tried those products before and they never helped, probably because there was not enough HA in it for my kind of a problem.
(I just went to Wal Mart, and bought 30 caps of HA (20mg) and took 4 a day. A bottle of 30 costs about 6.00! A lot less expensive than knee surgery!)
I have been taking HA for about 6 months now, and my knee is great! I do have to say that I am careful with it, I do not jog or jump on it, that would be tempting fate! However, I can walk anywhere and I do not have knee pain and that is like a miracle to me.
I am bracing for another long Wisconsin winter, but this winter I will not have to slick myself up like a Thanksgiving turkey. I will be able to take a shower and dry off with out flakes of skin coming off my legs. I will not have to use a half a bottle of baby oil just to feel human!
If you have a sore knee or even dry skin, give HA a try! I think that the body can heal itself with the correct nutrients. My body was trying to tell me something was wrong when my skin became so dry, but I did heed the warning, and then I started having more serious problems.
Everyday that I walk without knee pain, I am grateful that I found HA, because I KNOW that is what healed my knee.

Save Big Money With This Secret!

You can save a lot of money with this multi- cleaner formula that cleans glass, mirrors, stains of any kind, and will not ruin carpet or fabrics. Plus, because you can make it yourself at home with just two simple ingredients, you will save $$$!!!
First you will need a good sized spray bottle. You can use an old Windex bottle or you can go and buy a spray bottle at Wal Mart for .99. Warning, if you are going to use a bottle that had bleach in it, make sure to rinse that bottle out completely! Failure to do so could cause fumes that could make you very ill. Honestly...it’s nothing to fool around with!
Okay, so now you have your squirt bottle and you are ready to make your cleaner. Pour 1 cup of ammonia into the bottle, any kind of ammonia will work. Then pour 1/2 cup of alcohol into the bottle, and then fill the rest of the bottle to the top with water. Shake gently! You now have the cleaner ready for use.
You are going to be very surprised at the streak free shine you see on your mirrors and windows, and glass of any kind. You will not have to continue wiping and wiping to get rid of streaks....that’s what I like best about this cleaner.
It also works good on any kind of stains. I always have some handy for spills on the carpet. I simply spray several times on the stain, and then I use a small brush. Stains just disappear!
It also works for just about all the cleaning in the bathroom. It gets the scum out of sinks and tubs, and makes the faucets shine! It is also anti-bacterial, so while you are cleaning with it you are also disinfecting too. You can also use it on floors....
You can use it for anything in the kitchen that is greasy. The ammonia in the formula just eats the grease! Your kitchen will sparkle!
I figure that this home made cleaner costs about .50 per bottle to make. Now compare that to a bottle of Windex, and you can see how quickly the dollars add up! This formula is especially good for hotels. Motels, restaurants, any place that has a lot of cleaning needs, the more you use it, the more money you save!
Save money on cleaning products then go out and buy something you really want!
Watch my bog for other make at home recipes that are easy, and that will save you money big time!

Got Ants, Got Diet Coke??

Got Ants, Got Diet Coke??
Guess what?? The aspartame in that diet Coke and in hundreds of other food items, is an excellent ant killer!!
Personally, I stopped eating or drinking anything with aspartame years ago, right after I found out that it can affect your eye sight, and maybe even your brain function!
It certainly should not be given to children, and I cringe every time I see a young mother giving her children a diet soda.
In the article below it tells you how to get rid of ants using NutraSweet, and guess what?? It works! And, it works well!!
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Aspartame - The World’s Best Ant Poison

We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep them under control but nothing has helped.
So when I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try.
I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than the most deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I simply dump another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again.
Since posting this information I have had many people tell me of their success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else worked.
We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours, usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or something.
Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked the mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the mound up some, and still saw none of them.
How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense of taste so they can’t figure out what is eatable, or smell, so they can’t follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know that for many species of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively.
As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, despite anything the labeling may indicate.
I suspect it will work for other insects such as yellow jackets as well, but have not tested that yet.
More information on this fantastic poison can be found at: www.dorway.com

How Long Fingernails and Kitchen Sinks Can Kill You!!

Are you feeling sick more often than you like, and you can’t figure out why?? Does it seem as if you have an ongoing case of the flu or a cold that you just cannot shake?? Are you feeling great one day and like death the next?? Have you been to the doctor over and over, but you still do not feel well?

Even though we live in one of the cleanest countries on earth, there can still be germs lurking in your environment, and they can make you SICK, they can maybe even kill you!!

Don’t look at your toilet bowl in horror, you won’t find super germs there, unless you are a really bad housekeeper, and even if you don't know the business end of a mop or broom, most toilets do not harbor that much bacteria because we have some very effective cleaners that take care of that, even without the toilet brush. It is also a really good idea to put a bleach tab in the toilet tank once every 3 months.

The places where germs are probably lurking are in your kitchen and bathroom sinks! To be more precise, your kitchen and bathroom sink drains. Before you stop reading this…hold on!! If you do not believe it, just take a piece of thread and dangle it from the drain, leave it there for a week, and then pull it back up and take a look. You will be disgusted, I can guarantee that! Now, if you are washing your dishes by hand, just imagine how close the dishes you eat off are to this source of germs! There is a very easy remedy to this problem, ALWAYS use a dishpan, both to wash and rinse your dishes. You should also pour a small amount of bleach down the drain once a week….but be careful if you have a septic tank, too much bleach could make it stop working. You can do the same with your bathroom sinks, bleach them once a week, and avoid using them, except for brushing teeth, and hand washing. Keep small children away from the open drains. It is almost as bad as playing in a cesspool, and if you don't believe that do the string test if you haven't done it before!!

Next I would like to talk about another source of germs that millions of women have closer at hand than they would ever think! I found out about this when my best friend and her children got sick with a flu symptoms that lingered for months.

My best friend, Nancy (not her real name), got sick with the flu, and no one thought too much of it, because it was the flu season, and lots of people had the flu. Nancy worked at a nursing home, so she got a flu shot every year, but no one thought too much about that either, because the flu can have many variations. Nancy’s young daughters also got the flu, and just when they felt well enough to go back to school or work….they got sick again! This went on for many months and was a mystery. Nancy was a super diligent house keeper, and her house was spotless. We assumed that she was picking up the germs from the nursing home, however the other women who worked there were not getting sick, and even more importantly the nursing home patients were not getting sick.

Nancy wore plastic gloves all the time when she worked at the nursing home, and changed them after each patient, so how could she be bringing germs home??

After much thought, we started wondering if anything changed that would be causing all these problems. Nancy had excellent personal habits, she always washed her hands after going to the bathroom or when handling food. She used antibacterial hand soap and dish soap. Her daughters were young, but they were also very good with their personal habits…. Just as we were ready to give up, something dawned on me. Nancy had been wearing long acrylic nails for the last few months!! Because her own nails failed to grow she was very happy with this alternative, but I started to wonder if the artificial nails could be the source of the sickness that plagued Nancy and her daughters for months.

Nancy had the standard acrylic nails, not too long, not too short, but her boyfriend would often joke and ask her how she wiped her butt with such long fingernails?? The thought had entered my mind, but because Nancy was such a neat freak, and a serious hand washer, I never thought that long fingernails could be the problem…BUT THEY WERE!!

A friend of ours who worked at a lab tested under Nancy’s nails, (after a good hand washing), and we were all horrified to find what was under there!! The lab found both staff and ecoli germs, and even super germs that can easily kill people!! It was a good thing that Nancy wore plastic gloves at work, because she could have killed some of her patients who had a weakened immune system!! Nancy and her daughters were in excellent health, their immune systems were fighting most of these germs off, but if this had gone on longer, it could have turned deadly.

To say the least, we were all stunned and the tests were done again at a different lab with the same results!!

Nancy had the nails removed, and was tested again, that test came back negative. Nancy and her daughters recovered within a week, with no relapses.

After Nancy's experience with her fingernails, it has become standard practice for all employees to have short nails, and no acrylic nails at all. They were also required to use a nail brush during hand washes.

With Nancy being such a clean person, I would have never believed that she would have super germs under her nails. She even did dishes several times a day by hand…and still those germs were still lurking under her nails.

I used to think that long beautiful nails were so sexy and sophisticated, now I doubt that I will ever have long nails again, unless I get the stick on fingernails for a special occasion.

I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but I noticed that Oprah stopped wearing long fingernails years ago. Hmmm, makes you wonder if she just got sick of them, or if they really did make her sick!

No Drug Nail Fungus Cure

OK, you know who you are!! You are the people who are afraid to show your feet to the world. It's summer and you are not wearing sandals, you would not be caught dead going barefoot, because you have toenails that look deformed and ugly due to nail fungus.

You have probably tried something over the counter, and that just ended up being a big waste of time and money, because nail fungus, whether toenail, or fingernail, is very, very difficult to get rid of. And, here is the bad news, the older you get, the easier it is to get nail fungus.

If you talked to your doctor, or watched TV commercials, there are drugs out there that are used to eradicate nail fungus, but there is a down side. You have to take that drug for 6 months straight, plus the drugs used to treat nail fungus can damage your liver. And if that is not bad enough, the fungus often comes back, even after numerous treatments!! Plus, it is costly.

So what do you do?? Go around hiding your feet or hands forever?

No way!! There is a way to get rid of that ugly nail fungus and keep it away. And...it will cost less than 3.00!! It is all natural, and you can use it as long as you want with no side effects at all!!

What is it?? APPLE CIDER VINEGAR!! Yes!! All you do is soak your feet or hands for 5 minutes a day, and within two weeks you are going to notice a dramatic improvement. Within a few months, the fungus should be gone! To keep it away forever, soak your nails for 5 minutes once a week.

Here are detailed directions:
Go to the grocery store and get the cheap apple cider vinegar in the plastic jug. DO NOT buy the fancy kind you get at a health food store, with the mother, because that kind does not work for this purpose.
Find a container that you can get your hand or foot in, pour enough vinegar in the container to submerge your hand or foot. ( This is also an excellent cure for athlete's foot!) You can re use the same vinegar, change it every two weeks.
Now you are ready...just soak the affected nails for 5 minutes once a day. You will be the best judge to decide how many weeks you need to soak. You want to make sure there is no sign of the fungus before you stop the daily soak. Most people's fungus is gone after two months of daily soaking.
After that, soak once a week for 5 minutes as a preventative.

Just give it a try, what do you have to lose? So far, everyone I know who has tried this simple remedy had excellent results!
Good Luck!! Keep Soaking!! It Works!!