Stress. Your Friend? or….

I know stress.  It helped cause my heart attack.  I understand.  So, when a couple of new friends and I

struck up a conversation, the talk got around to stress.  I am only an expert due to my annecdotal ex-

perience, but I have some stuff to share.

   In Tom Hopkins’ great book, The Official Guide to Success, he touches on the subject.  “If you’re tense and uptight, it’s because you have stress trapped inside of you.  Most people don’t realize that this matter can be dealt with.  Now do they understand that it MUST be dealt with-the choice for all of us is between succeeding in spite of, or failing because of….tension.

There are 3 choices when you sart feeling the pressure.

1.  Keep your stress botled up.  This is bad, obviously and I would say this choice is he most important of the factors that led to my heart attack 6 and 1/2 years ago.

2.  Let your stress spill out any way it will.  The most primitive part of our mind knows that we have to get rid of our stress somehow.  Some end up drinking, choosing apathy, becoming ill, overeating, abusing drugs and/or alcohol, or talking too much.   Most of these do a poor job if at all, and I highly suggest you get and read Tom’s book to get all the details.

3.  He suggests good options since we must be able to recognize when stress is coming on.  Oce that is achieved, he mentions laughter, sweat (strong physical workouts), taking direct and indirect action to relieve the stress.  A great one is a massage or aqccupuncture.  My wife and I like to go to a silly movie or a blow em up movie, but not so much a documentary or something too heavy.  Our favorite music helps.  I happen to have a strong belief in using sex as a stress reliever.  There are dietary choices, and natural remedies.  How bout Yoga, a sauna, laying out in the sun followed by a dip in the ocean.  Or prayer and/or meditation.  All good.

In any case, get his book and develop a personal plan to defeat stress.

and, while you are at it, watch for my new book, Thank God I, Tales of Inspiration, Vol.3.  My chapter is Thank God I had a Heart Attack.  Stay tuned to get a copy from this blog.

Thank you, Rick Emmerich/to see what else I have written about my heart incident, check out previous blogs.

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Before you order that next Big Mac…

MUST READ ABOUT MCDONALDS

THIS IS A GOOD DECENT MAN WHO TOOK THE TIME TO WRITE THIS AND:

HE SIGNED THE STATEMENT AND: INCLUDED HIS CONTACT INFO:

READ ON


 
I’m sure those of you who aren’t in the cattle business don’t understand
the issues here. But to those of us whose living depends on the cattle market,
selling cattle, raising the best beef possible… This is frustrating.
This will keep us from ever stopping there again, even for a drink.
The original message is from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
American cattle producers are very passionate about this.

McDonald’s claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support

their restaurants. Well, we know that is not so. Our opinion is they are
looking to save money at our expense. The sad thing of it is that the people
of the USA are the ones who made McDonald’s successful in the first place,
but we are not good enough to provide beef.

We personally are no longer eating at McDonald’s, which I am sure does not

make an impact, but if we pass this around maybe there will be an impact felt.

All Americans that sell cows at a livestock auction barn had to sign a paper

stating that we do NOT EVER feed our cows any part of another cow..
South Americans are not required to do this as of yet.

McDonald’s has announced that they are going to start importing much of

their beef from South America . The problem is that South Americans aren’t
under the same regulations as American beef producers, and the regulations
they have are loosely controlled.

They can spray numerous pesticides on their pastures that have been banned

here at home because of residues found in the beef. They can also use various
hormones and growth regulators that we can’t. The American public needs to
be aware of this problem and that they may be putting themselves at risk from
now on by eating at g ood old McDonald’s..

American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is what

Americans deserve to eat. Not beef from countries where quality is loosely
controlled. Therefore, I am proposing a boycott of McDonald’s until they
see the light.

I’m sorry but everything is not always about the bottom line, and when it

comes to jeopardizing my family’s health, that is where I draw the line.
 
I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at
least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) …and those 300 send it to at l east ten more
(300 x 10 = 3,000) … And so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth
generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!

I’ll bet you didn’t think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you,
please pass this message on..

David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal Science
Texas A&M University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979) 862-3399
2471 TAMU
College Station , TX 77843-2471 

Rick Emmerich supports this cause….

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Standard Amercian Diet Part 1

Food Inc “National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years”

news.yahoo.com

Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report.
Thanks Yahoo and the military for the scoop.  No surprise, though.  This country is ready for a revolution, a FOOD revolution.  How about some more greens, some fresh vegetables and better yet, some vegetables grown within a hundred miles of our homes.
To say nothing of the almost elimination of all Physical Education in schools.  I am not a n expert, but I have heard that there is little PE left.  Kids don’t walk to school like we did.  I see the parents dropping off the kids in the SUVs and BMWs.  I would bet that a mile walk each way every day would do them, some good.
 
A friend of mine is 14 and lives about 3/4 of a mile from High School.  I said “you walk right?” and she turned up her little nose and said “Walk, and get all sweaty?”  (Ummm no, of course not, sorry I asked.)
Kids LOVE McDonalds, and I watch parents giving even babies Doritos and junky cookies, and candy.  Wow.
Kids these days would rather talk/text on their cell phones, or play video games than actually go on a  hike or go to the beach, or ride a bike, or heaven forbid, play a game of basketball or softball.  Not all kids, but a lot of them.
So apparently it will be even harder to field an all-volunteer armed forces with so many obese teens and young adults.
Our diets have to change before we ALL get Diabetes, and hit morbid obesity.  Just sayin’. 

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I Got a Guy….

I’m the I Got a Guy Guy.  Not the original, of course.  But the new I Got a Guy Guy.  The original was Tommy, an Italian guy in Chicago.  Everyone in his family and neighborhood knew he could get something or someone when you were in need.

Another famous I Got a Guy Guy was Radar in M.A.S.H.  Lost a couple of you didn’t I?.  (Tommy was cooler.)

If you needed cable TV, He had a guy.  Want a dish, He had a guy.  Want to know how to rub a steak just right before you grilled it.  He was the guy.

And, when it started snowing in Chicago, He WAS the guy.  He was the one that told the snowplows where to go.  He routed them up and down the streets of the Windy City until the snow was removed.  He was the first one there and often, turned offf the lights when he left.  You could count on Tommy.

I can’t be as good as Tommy.  His legend lives on.  But I am a sorta hybrid I Got a Guy Guy.  I can do some things.  Now, I really want to share that if I don’t know something, or I DON’T got a guy-I will tell you.

But if you want a good restaurant in Honolulu, I got a guy.  You want to hear a story about that lost decade from 1975 to 1985, I can tell a few (true) stories.

Would you like to weigh less?  Alkalize your body, Detox?  Find a natural, healthy replacement for Viagra?  That’s me.  http://www.LivGreenHawaii.com

Lower your golf score, not so much.  Find a golf course on Oahu, THAT I can do.

You need a colonic, or a massage, or some earthworms, or some baby lion-eared bunnies, I got a guy-or gal.

Need a Chiropractor, my wife is the best (Holistic Chiropractic.)  See Dr. Malia/call 808 596-4853.  Honolulu, HI.

Want to get paid to play the Lottery?  Me again.  http://www.LotteryInHawaii.com

Go ahead, put me to the test.  Rick Emmerich

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New Sign of Stroke

INFORMATION EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW…………………..


B
 lood Clots/Stroke – They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue

I will continue to forward this every time it comes around! 

STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters…..S.T.R. 

My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word.  I agree. 

If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.  Seriously.. 

Please read: 

STROKE IDENTIFICATION: 

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered t o call paramedics) she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. 

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening 

Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital – (at 6:00 PM Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. 

It only takes a minute to read this… 

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. 

RECOGNIZING A STROKE 

Thank God for the sense to remember the ‘3′ steps, STR . Read and Learn! 

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. 

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: 

S * Ask the individual to SMILE. 
T * 
Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)  (I.e. It is sunny out today) 
R 
Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS. 

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately
and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. 

New Sign of a Stroke ——– Stick out Your Tongue 

NOTE: Another ’sign’ of a stroke is this: Ask the person to ’stick’ out his tongue.. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other
, that is also an indication of a stroke. 

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved. 

I have done my part. Would you?  

 
 

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OBAMA, are you listening?

OK folks, as a former Obama supporter,  (I think he’s brilliant, passionate, mostly fair), but this is just wrong.      Rick Emmerich
This letter appeared in the Indianapolis Star (which is owned by the same people who own the Arizona Republic) and was sent to a very popular Indiana Senator. This just goes to show everyone what pressure these Democrats are currently under, so continue to let them know how you feel about the healthcare bill. Bill Stough—Shock to NBC This morning.

An Indianapolis doctor’s letter to Sen. Bayh about the Bill (Note: Dr. Stephen E. Frazer, MD practices as an anesthesiologist in Indianapolis, IN ) Here is a letter I sent to Senator Bayh.. Feel free to copy it and send it around to all other representatives. — Stephen Fraser

Senator Bayh,

As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.

I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.

Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self-insure!!

Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!

Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC benefits for you. You have no choice!

Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.

Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a ‘National ID Health card’ will be issued!

Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.

Page 65 Sec 164: Is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions & community organizations: (ACORN).

Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the ‘Exchange.’

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans — The Govt will ration your health care!

Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. (Translation: illegal aliens.)

Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups (i.e. ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. (AARP members – your health care WILL be rationed!)
Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. (No choice.)

Page 12 4 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt monopoly.

Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association – The Govt will tell YOU what salary you can make.

Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. (NO choice!)

Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part-time employees ANDtheir families. (Employees shouldn’t get excited about this as employers will be forced to reduce its work force, benefits, and wages/salaries to cover such a huge expense.)

Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option will pay 8% tax on all payroll! (See the last comment in parenthesis.)
Page 150 Lines 9-13: A business with payroll between $251K & $401K who doesn’t provide public option will pay 2-6% tax on all payroll.

Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.

Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay.)

Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of the GOVT HC Admin.. will have access to ALL Americans’ finances and personal records.

Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” (Yes, it really says that!) ( a ‘fee’ instead)
Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors. (Low-income and the poor are affected.)

Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors: It doesn’t matter what specialty you have trained yourself in — you will all be paid the same! (Just TRY to tell me that’s not Socialism!)

Page 253 Line 10-18: The Govt sets the value of a doctor’s time, profession, judgment, etc. (Literally– the value of humans.)

Page 265 Sec 1131: The Govt mandates and controls productivity for “private” HC industries.

Page 268 Sec 1141: The federal Govt regulates the rental and purchase of power driven wheelchairs.

Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS – Cancer patients – welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever the Govt deems preventable (i.e…re-admissions).

Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors: If you treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission — the Govt will penalize you.

Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. (The Govt tells doctors what and how much they can own!)

Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion. (The Govt is mandating that hospitals cannot expand.)
Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have the opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. (Can you say ACORN?)

Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: The Govt mandates establishment of=2 outcome-based measures. (HC the way they want — rationing.)
Page 341 Lines 3-9: The Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. (Forcing people into the Govt plan)

Page 354 Sec 1177: The Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of ’special needs people!’ Unbelievable!

Page 379 Sec 1191: The Govt creates more bureaucracy via a “Tele-Health Advisory Committee.” (Can you say HC by phone?)

Page 425 Lines 4-12: The Govt mandates “Advance-Care Planning Consult.” (Think senior citizens end-of-life patients.)

Page 425 Lines 17-19: The Govt will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. (And it’s mandatory!)
Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: The Govt provides an “approved” list of end-of-life resources; guiding you in death. (Also called ‘assisted suicide.’)(Soylent Green?)

Page 427 Lines 15-24: The Govt mandates a program for orders on “end-of-life.” (The Govt has a say in how your life ends!)

Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced-care planning consultant” will be used frequently as a patient’s health deteriorates.

Page 429 Lines 10-12: An “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end-of-life plans.. (AN ORDER TO DIE FROM THE GOVERNMENT?!?)

Page 429 Lines 13-25: The GOVT will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order.. (I wouldn’t want to stand before God after getting paid for THAT job!)

Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end-of-life! (Again — no choice!)

Page 469: Community-Based Home Medical Services = Non-Profit Organizations. (Hello? ACORN Medical Services here!?!)

Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover marriage and family therapy. (Which means Govt will insert itself into your marriage even.)

Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, and rationing those services.

Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.

Furthermore, if you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor-patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.

Respectfully,

Stephen E. Fraser, MD

Dear Reader,

I urge you to use the power that you were born with (and the power that may soon be taken away) and circulate this email to as many people as you can reach. The Power of the People can stop this from happening to us, our parents, our grandparents, our children, and to following generations

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Pregnant Women and the H1N1 Vaccine-be very afraid!

I am simply forwarding this becuse it is SO important.  I have been saying LOUDLY to anyone who will isten NOT to get any vaccines.  My normal resonse when a (sweet, well-intended, entry-level) Pharmacy girl says “Can we give you your flu shot today?” is to look at them in horror and say “NO, don’t poison me” and walk away fast.”  It’s kinda fun, anyway.  Rick Emmerich  
Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Subject: Fw: TIME SENSITIVE IMPORTANT: from Eileen Dannemann on ABORTAFACIENT H1N1 VACCINE
To: ***Mary
While everyone should be discouraged from taking the H1N1 vaccine, pregnant women especially should not take it.  There are many cases of miscarriages from taking this vaccination.  It has been proven that the vaccine doesn’t keep people from getting the H1N1 flu.  But it is likely to give it to people.  It has definitely caused many side effects and disabilities.  M.
 
——-Original Message——-
 
Date: 1/23/2010 1:05:38 PM
Subject: TIME SENSITIVE IMPORTANT: from Eileen Dannemann on ABORTAFACIENT H1N1 VACCINE
 
Getting the word out on miscarriage caused by the H1N1 vaccine

We updated the Public Service Announcement (attached)  because we are finding that some women miscarry a few weeks after getting the H1N1 but the sonograms are showing that the  baby stopped growing within a week of the shot. 

Joyce, an RN who had a miscarriage… and I are doing as many radio shows as we can to get the word out to alert women all over the country to call us.  We need more women call us to prove the harmful effects to pregnant women of the H1N1.

http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/miscarriage-cases.htm  Click this to see the cases we have collected and their sad stories.  We have 68 so far and VAERS (Vaccine adverse Events reporting system) has 110 and that is just for a few months with most doctors NOT reporting the event because they refuse to associate it with a vaccine. We need women to call us and to collect the data grassroots.

The PSA gives my email and my phone number.  Ncowmal@gmail.com  917 804-0786

PLEASE WIDELY POST ON ANY WEBSITE YOUR ARE CONNECTED TO:

If you have any friends or colleagues that are INTERNET COMMUNITY BUFFS.,,please have them viral this PSA widely on Facebook, Twitter, Inform Pro-life organizations, My space…. (Attached)  ASAP while the authorities are still vaccinating pregnant women.  We may be able to save a few with tA wide alert!  And feel free to book us on your favorite public and community radio shows!

You can send the newspaper or the radio show the attached Public Service Announcement and the following as the issue for the show.


We have nearly 200 case of H1N1 related miscarriages just for Oct-Dec. alone without doing a PSA to the public. http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/H1N1-RELATED%20miscarriages.htm

If he reads some of the sad short stories on the link below…he will see “Joyce” who is an RN.   I am asking her to join me on the other shows.She is one of the ladies who had a miscarriage and before she did she “advised” her pregnant friends to get the shot too….and she is really dealing with her complicity. 

Joyce 1/2010

Attached PSA

Joyce is an RN, working in the medical profession. She was in her second trimester and was strongly encouraged by her work place to get the flu shot… (H1N1) Novartis on Oct. 21st,  at 12 weeks into her pregnancy.  The next day she started to get flu symptoms. The baby died inside of her about a month later. She had to deliver a stillbirth at 20 ½ weeks on January 14th, but the baby measured only 18 weeks and 4 days

 

 MISCARRIAGES/H1N1    

HIN1 AS AN ABORTIFACIENT

Attached Public Service Announcement

http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/miscarriage-cases.htm  The Data

We also produced this video below, for your information,  Vaccine Primer: Doctors Speak Out.
A month ago it was #75 most viewed in the world on youtube in the category of News/Politics; #47 most favorite in the world; #8 most view in UK and #6 most favorite in UK.  The second video is a one minute flash…of symtoms of vaccine injury with websites at the end:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw43QDiaDnE  VACCINE PRIMER

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhLDthbjwM  Symptoms of Vaccine Injury



Attached is the Public Service Announcement
that we need to get it out to the public in order to collect the data that VAERS fails to do.  .  Our problem is a lack of public awareness to contact us….hence, if we could get the word out virally, it would go a long way in serving our purpose of evidence based scientific statistics.

As long as VAERS fails to collect the correct statistics the CDC can continue to say the vaccine is safe for pregnant women.  We have 68 anecdotal stories and 110 VAERS miscarriages.


Regards,

Eileen Dannemann
Standing director, National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW)
www.ProgressiveConvergence.com
917 804-0786

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Thank God I

   Thank God I had a heart attack.  It changed my life, and I have a life now, of immeasureable gratitude.  My goal is to be grateful every day and express that to God and to others.  This arena helps, of course.

   Whati is your Thank God experience?  What can you add at the end of that little phrase that is real for you and you can share with the world?  John Demarrtin ihas taken me through the Breakthrough Experience several times where we ‘confront’ and process situations in our lives that were challenging and that shaped our current situation.

   Many are not pretty.  Many of us became victims, and were quite ready to tell eveyone how bad the world was treating us.  I could see and sense my impoending doom and ‘knew’ that my health was in danger 5 years ago.  It took the heart attack to shock me into change.  Now, I am not 100% where I want to be.  I am a work in progress for sure.  But lots has happened, and Lots CAN happen when we get disatisfied with where we have brought our lives.

   Go from Victim to Victor.  John’s books share his teachings and his magnificent and intense Breatkthrough Weekends may be coming to a metropolitan area near you.; He loves to come to Honolulu, but it’s not what you think, or what I had thoought.  Since his mission or purpose it to travel the world speaking to as many as possible and to get paid handsomel;y for it, this guy never seems to enjoy the scenery when he’s here. It’s work work work.

   But that’s his passion.  What is yours?  Or what would it be if you could do anything you wanted?

   Thank God I is a community of like-minded people and authors, (not that we have any non-people authors.)  Anyone can visit and I especially urge those who have the talent to write to share your experiences.  Heck, you may even be a part of a book one of these days.  John Castagnini, the founder of Thank God I (no relation to John Demartini :) has the passion to share this project and help empower others and enlighten thousands in the process.

   Npw this is not the right place to give you an in-depth sudy of Dr. John’s techings, it’s much too small to do them justice.  Nor have I devoted enough time to really tell about Thank God I, but you can research both, and I recommend that.  John says a few things that I repeat often and here they are;  “I am perfect the way I am”  “Whoever I am and what ever I have done, I am worthy of love.”  (I may have paraphrased that one.)  “I do what I love, and I love what I do”

   The idea is that we can stand up and scream “Thank God I” and then fill in the blank with that terrible thing that happened, the pain that we have had for years, or the situation tha was up-til now holding us back.

   If you are intrigued, go to http://www.thankgodi.com/184.html   In early 2010 Thank God I will have our 3rd book on the shelves and I expect to be one of the authors.  Also some previews are at http://rickemmerich.com

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More Heart Health from @hearthealthguy

At this moment I am not going to rehash my heart attack, even though it is out there, and in the rolls of this blog, of course. “Thank God I Had a Heart Attack” HOWEVER, based on the fact that I did most things right the second I became aware of the heart attack, I do recommend this one. Among other things I grabbed 1 or 2 aspirins from my desk and took them before I moved myself out to the front area of the office I was in.

HEART ATTACK ~ THE NEW ASPIRIN

Something that we can do to help ourselves. Nice to know.

Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve under the tongue. They work much faster than the tablets.

Why keep aspirin by your bedside?

About Heart Attacks

There are other symptoms of an heart attack besides the pain on the left arm.
One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating, however these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack. The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.

If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water.

Afterwards:
- phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by
- say “heart attack!”
- say that you have taken 2 aspirins..
- take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and…
~ do NOT lie down ~

A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life can be saved!

I have already shared the information- – What about you?

Do forward this message; it may save lives!

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Do you love your pharmacist?

   I certainly take the many forwarded letters I get with a grain of salt.  Those who know me understand that having married a Dr. of Chiropractic, I am already suspicious of the onslaught of the billions of dollars of prescriptions that are handed out each year.

   Then, of course, we march in, hand it to the Pharmacist, and ‘take it like a man’ with a grimace when we hear the cost.  Sometimes we have insurance coverage and sometimes we utter a weak “Is there a generic for that?”  In either case top dollars are being paid for little pills that have been cranked out in dizzying numbers at their plants.

   I will save the alternative medicine side of things for another time.  And, for the record I AM a card-carrying member of Costco.

 

 

Costco – Unbelievable!

 Make sure you read to the end. You will be amazed.
                          Let’s hear it for Costco! (This is just mind-boggling!)Make sure you read all the way past the list of the drugs. The woman that signed below is a Budget Analyst out of federal Washington , DC offices.

Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America . 


Celebrex:100 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
Percent markup: 21,712%



Claritin:
10 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
Percent markup: 30,306%



Keflex:
250 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
Percent markup: 8,372%



Lipitor:
20 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
Percent markup: 4,696%



Norvasc:
10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
Percent markup: 134,493%



Paxil:
20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
Percent markup: 2,898%



Prevacid:
30 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
Percent markup: 34,136%



Prilosec
: 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
Percent markup: 69,417%



Prozac:
20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
Percent markup: 224,973%



Tenormin:
50 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
Percent markup: 80,362%



Vasotec:
10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
Percent markup: 51,185%



Xanax:
1 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
Percent markup: 569,958%



Zestril:
20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89
Cost of general active ingredients $3.20
Percent markup: 2,809%



Zithromax:
600 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19
Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
Percent markup: 7,892%



Zocor:
40 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
Percent markup: 4,059%


Zoloft:50 mg
Consumer price: $206.87
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
Percent markup: 11,821%



Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone should know about this. 
It pays to shop around! This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can afford to put a Walgreen’s on every corner. On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit , did a story on generic drug prices gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. So often we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves. For example if you had to buy a prescription drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills.
The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you are saving $20. What the pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10!

Sharon L. Davis
Budget Analyst
U.S. Department of Commerce
Room 6839
Office Ph: 202-482-4458
Office Fax: 202-482-5480
E-mail Address:sdavis@doc.gov

 

 

 

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.

I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience I had to use the drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.

I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.

I would like to mention, that although Costco is a ‘membership’ type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in. 

I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to everyone you know with an e-mail address.

DON’T THINK. DON’T SPEAK. MOVE!


 

 

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