Tag Archives: Health

Homeopathy

November 20, 2007 – 9:34 am

Here’s a great article about the nonsense of Homeopathy, the idea that giving people a dilute solution of a substance that causes their symptoms can cure those symptoms. A couple of ideas that hadn’t registered with me before: 1. One of the standard dilutions used is 100C, which translates to 1 in 100100. To translate [...]

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Giving Blood

November 2, 2007 – 7:45 am

I gave blood yesterday. This is something I always struggle with a little, because I’m quite a slow bleeder – something that in general I’m very pleased about – so it can take a while to suck the stuff out of me. That was true yesterday, where after an initial spurt they couldn’t get the [...]

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Knees

October 18, 2007 – 12:45 pm

Had an appointment this morning to check on my knee. I was taken back to my childhood, when I practically glowed in the dark from all the x-rays I had taken. Back then I would turn up for my appointment at 2pm (the same as everyone else – the doctor’s time was more valuable than [...]

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Poor Sickly Me

September 10, 2007 – 3:18 pm

I went to the doctor with a dodgy knee last week, and along with a referral to a special knee doctor he advised that I switch to swimming instead of rowing and cycling. Makes sense, of course, but I hate swimming; it’s boring, I find it almost impossible to remember how many laps I’ve done, [...]

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March 15, 2007 – 10:56 am

Here’s a difficult to read story about dealing with a pregnancy that you know will lead to the death of the child at birth or soon after. I was pointed to it by a friend who is close to one of the families in the story. Unexpectedly I know the other family, as Janel used [...]

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