Dancing in Midlife Tune

It’s a leap year, so your birthdate is here! I wanna say,

I know your birthdate seldom comes (once in 4 years), so let me have this chance to greet you. I wish you all the happiness you deserve today and for the coming days. God bless always.

Special mention to Glee, a highschool classmate and college schoolmate. Sya lang kasi alam ko na may bday today.

One of the cool skills in this world that I want to learn is webdesigning or even just plainly wanted to be techy educated. Now I had the chance to browse and read a bit here and there about webdesigning but with my non-techy mind, I feel it is hard to understand. Then today, it seems i found the answer. zMoGo, the have it all community.

What is zMoGo?

Remember that at zMogo, you can find it all >> a blog, forum, and same time earn money directly or indirectly.

A new chain created by Picturing of Life and am just happy to join.

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Friendship tag chain is an easy and fastest way to make your authority technorati explode, increase your google page rank and get More Traffic to Your Blog and the most make you create more friendshiop.

Rules:

1. Copy from STart Copy to End Copy.
2. Put your own blog and link at the end of the list.
3. Tag as many as you can

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1. Picturing of Life. 2. Life is what We Make It 3. Dancing in Midlife Tune

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I am tagging everyone in my blogroll. Come on guys, let’s ride another friendship wagon.

Happy Blogging.

I love the moving motion. And my favorite moment is when am on a moving bus or a train or jeepney. Many times, when I looked out of the window, I can see different people along the way. Some are talking to each other and some are alone. Some is looking near some looks are far away. I wonder what they are thinking. I wonder too if they are wondering what am thinking when they see the way I look at them.

i love running shoes. they are so comfortable to wear in various activities of my life. pls check out my answers on the running shoes or sneakers of my choice. I am not a brand person but if given the chance to wear branded ones I pick them on sale price. hahahaha

I feel i had a long week last week until the week-end. Even my face got long and i have long sad thoughts because of my wordpress blog problem. But today, I feel the hours are getting shorter. Why?

1. My wordpress blog is back. Wordpress support realized that indeed my blog was hacked because they found a mysterious email in there. 2 emails for 1 blog. It can’t be so since they think “sth odd is going on” they gave me a new set of PW and UN. Now, I got in and indeed there’s an email their in the user’s profile that i can’t delete. I really pray that i can have this blog back and it was answered today. am happy.

2. I was away for the week-end. I spent the week-end at Lucille’s home (a highschool classmate). The last time I was there was in 2005 and I was so happy to see changes of improvement. Her kids are big now and they are nice to talk too unlike long time ago she spent most of her time tending her kids coz they cry by and by but now, i had fun talking with her kids. I also spent some time going around her relatives home to say hi and hello. They haven’t seen me and vice versa for several years and they are so happy to see me especially the changes in me. (am so big! they said) hahahaha! I spent also a great Sabbath morning in church and fortunately, met also a long time friend who I met the last time in 2004 in Manila.

3. Turned down a life partnership proposal. Met an old friend (a good one) who suddenly proposed to me out of the blue but i was able to tactfully turned him down letting him understand that a husband or a live-in partner is now the solution of my complicated life. I even didn’t give him any false hopes. I was very frank in a very tactful way. He commented to my friend – my answers or the way I explained my side was too mature for his level. hahahaha

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

Helicobacter Pylori or widely known as H. Pylori. The first time i come across this was when i was enrolled in Microbiology class. H. Pylori sounds cute. Right? Cute but deadly. hahaha. I thought of blogging about this bacteria because several friends of mine are positive with H. Pylori after having done endoscropy and one mom of my friend, it helps her develop stomach cancer. So I hope that with this post, I can share to you abit of the important facts about this bacterium.

WHAT IS H. PYLORI?

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a bacterium that causes chronic inflammation of the inner lining of the stomach (gastritis) in humans. This bacterium also is the most common cause of ulcers worldwide. H. pylori infection is most likely acquired by ingesting contaminated food and water and through person to person contact. Infected individuals usually carry the infection indefinitely unless they are treated with medications to eradicate the bacterium. One out of every six patients with H. pylori infection will develop ulcers of the duodenum or stomach. H. pylori also is associated with stomach cancer and a rare type of lymphocytic tumor of the stomach called MALT lymphoma.

HOW IS IT DIAGNOSED?

1. Blood antibody tests
2. urea breath tests (UBT)
3. stool antigen test
4. endoscropic biopsies

HOW TO TREAT?

H. pylori is difficult to eradicate from the stomach because it is capable of developing resistance to commonly used antibiotics. Therefore, two or more antibiotics usually are given together with a PPI and/or bismuth containing compounds to eradicate the bacterium. (Bismuth and PPIs have anti-H. pylori effects.) Examples of combinations of medications that are effective are:

a PPI, amoxicillin (Amoxil) and clarithromycin (Biaxin)
a PPI, metronidazole (Flagyl), tetracycline and bismuth subsalicylate

These combinations of medications can be expected to cure 70%-90% of infections. However, studies have shown that resistance of H. pylori (failure of antibiotics to eradicate the bacteria) to clarithromycin is common among patients who have prior exposure to clarithromycin or other chemically similar macrolide antibiotics (such as erythromycin). Similarly, H. pylori resistance to metronidazole is common among patients who have had prior exposure to metronidazole. In these patients, doctors have to find other combinations of antibiotics to treat the H. pylori. Antibiotic resistance is another reason why antibiotics should be used carefully and judiciously for the right reasons, and indiscriminate use of antibiotics for improper reasons should be discouraged.

WHY TREAT H. PYLORI?

Chronic infection with H. pylori weakens the natural defenses of the lining of the stomach against the ulcerating action of acid. Medications that neutralize stomach acid (antacids), and medications that decrease the secretion of acid in the stomach (H2-blockers and proton pump inhibitors or PPIs) have been used effectively for many years to treat ulcers.

Foods to avoid for a person with Ulcers:

Spicy Foods
Fried Foods
Coffee
Decaffeinated coffee
Tea
Cola drinks
Carbonated beverages
Citrus fruits
Tomato-based products
Chocolate
Cut down on alcohol and smoking, too

date source: internet
photos: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkyUOZcJHkiUAyK5XNyoA?p=image+of+stomach+ulcer&y=Search&fr=slv8-msgr&ei=UTF-8

When I was away for two days, I can’t forget to always whisper a prayer that Marianne from the support group will send me a positive email for my wordpress blog problem, but sad because as i checked my email this morning, this is what i read:

Until we get a verified email address, we can’t do a manual reset for you. We don’t access email accounts for use. We just use email addresses on file to make sure that the user is the one who owns the blog. Whatever is on file, is what we go by. I’m really sorry for the inconvenience and added frustrations.