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Our Lady of Lourdes was the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary when she appeared in a vision with St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France.
[edit] Origin
Bernadette Soubirous was the daughter of a flour miller in Lourdes, France. When affliction hit their family, they had to move to a former jail house. Bernadette's aunt took her and brought her to another village to do household chores and to study catechism. Being simple and illiterate, she did not learn much. Back in Lourdes, while she was accumulating firewood together with her sister, Antoinette, and Jeanne, her neighbor, they took a road that brought them to an intersection between a river and a mill. Fearing that her asthma would attack, Bernadette slowly took off her socks and crossed the river with her companions who went ahead.
Our Lady appeared to Bernadette in a vision with a strong blast of wind and sparks of light. She looked up towards the grotto. She tried to brush off the image with her rosary. To her astonishment, the Lady brought out her own rosary and prayed along with her. There were 18 apparitions that transpired, each event closely following the other and capturing Bernadette in a trance. Their sequence is as follows:
February 11, 1858 - Bernadette prayed the rosary with Our Lady.
February 14, 1858 - Our Lady came closer to Bernadette to establish her heavenly origins.
February 18, 1858 - Fellowship members came along with Bernadette to validate Our Lady's messages. Our Lady asked Bernadette to come back to the grotto with a lighted candle, promising eternal salvation.
February 19, 1858 (4th to 14th apparitions) - Our Lady asked for prayers, sacrifice and for sinners to repent. She ordered Bernadette dig at the ground, and a spring immediately bubbled up and soon gushed forth. She wished for a chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the grotto. Many ill people came to plunge into the spring water and recovered instantly. Fr. Perymale, Bernadette's pastor, sent her off to ask what the Lady's name was.
March 25, 1858 - Our Lady declared that she was the Immaculate Conception.
April 7, 1858 - During this apparition, Bernadette unknowingly held her hands for hours in the candle without being burned.
The apparitions at Lourdes led the Pope to recognize the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854. According to the dogma, Mary was conceived without original sin.
Bernadette lived with her parents for two years after the apparition before joining the sisters of Charity at Nevers, France. She died of asthma, tuberculosis and bone impairment at the age of thirty five.
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Our Lady of Lourdes is dressed in white with white veil, blue belt and yellow rose on the feet. Three elements of nature are associated with Lourdes. The element of water which was dug up by St. Bernadette, the element of fire from the candle that Mary asked Bernadette to light, and the rocky cave where Our Lady appeared.
[edit] Veneration
The image of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Philippines is venerated all over the country, particularly at the Lourdes Shrine in Quezon City. Another place of devotion is at the Lourdes Grotto in Baguio City with its long flight of steps going up the hill. The country's locally carved Lourdes image was operated by the Order of the Friars Minor Capuchins (OFM Cap) headed by Fr. Bernardo of Cleza. Filipino sculptor, Manuel Flores, carved the statue for the Capuchin's garden grotto, which was later transferred to a side altar inside the Capuchin chapel in Intramuros, Manila. The Confraternity of Lourdes was established in the chapel in May 1893, because the image has attracted a large number of devotees.
In 1894, Fr. Cleza instructed Flores to make a bigger statue of the Virgin. Many miraculous recoveries occurred before the statue. Eventually, the Capuchin chapel was made into a church wherein the image had been installed. The church was gutted by fire during the World War II but the statue of the Virgin was left unharmed.
After the war, the Capuchins bought a new property on Retiro St. Quezon City which became the permanent location of the Lourdes Church in the Philippines. It was blessed on August 15, 1951. It was declared an Archdiocesan Shrine in February 1987. It was declared a National Shrine by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on January 30, 1996.
[edit] The Archonfraternity of Lourdes in The Philippines (Arch-Con)
The Archonfraternity of Lourdes in The Philippines was established at the same time the Lourdes devotion was launched in the 1890s. There are a couple of hundred confraternities under the Arch-con that meet twice a year for the Marian Symposia and once every two years for the national convention. The feast of Lourdes is celebrated every February 11 wherein a grand penitential procession is held at dawn by the devotees holding lighted torches on bare feet while chanting canticles.
Folkloric
· In the Philippines, macerated fresh leaves applied externally to burns.
· Leaves are bruised and applied to centipede and scorpion bites. Also, applied to temples and forehead for headache, help in place by a bandage.
· Leaves in infusion or as syrup used as aromatic and carminative; used for dyspepsia and also as a cure for asthma.
· The Malays used the plant juice or decoction for pains around the areas of the heart or abdomen.
· Decoction of leaves given after childbirth.
· In Indo-China, given for asthma and bronchitis.
· The juice of the leaves for dyspepsia, asthma, chronic coughs, bronchitis, colic, flatulence, rheumatism. The dose is one tablespoonful of the fresh juice every hour for adults and one teaspoonful every two hours, four times daily, for children. As an infusion, 50 to 60 grams to a pint of boiling water, and drink the tea, 4 to 5 glasses a day. For children, 1/2 cup 4 times daily.
· For otalgia (ear aches), pour the fresh, pure juice into the ear for 10 minutes.
· For carbuncles, boils, sprains, felons, painful swellings: Apply the poultice of leaves to the affected area, four times daily.
· For sore throats, a decoction of two tablespoonfuls of dried leaves to a pint of boiling water, taken one hour before or after meals.
· In India, leaves are used traditionally for bronchitis, asthma, diarrhea, epilepsy, nephro-cystolithiasis, fever, indigestion and cough. Also used for malarial fever, hepatopathy, renal and vesicle calculi, hiccup, helminthiasis, colic, and convulsions.
· The Chinese used the juice of leaves with sugar, for cough in children, asthma and bronchitis, epilepsy and convulsive disorders.
· Leaves are applied to cracks at the corners of the mouth, for thrush, headaches; against fever as a massage or as a wash.
· Used for bladder and urinary afflictions, and vaginal discharges.
· Used as carminative, given to children for colic.
· In Bengal, used for coli and dyspepsia.
· Expressed juice applied around the orbit to relieve conjunctival pain.
source: wikipedia
A antique stereoview. No info on the back.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (/ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt;[b] October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as the 25th vice president under William McKinley from March to September 1901, and as the 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. Having assumed the presidency after McKinley's assassination, Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
Roosevelt was a sickly child with debilitating asthma but partly overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle. He integrated his exuberant personality, a vast range of interests and achievements into a "cowboy" persona defined by robust masculinity. He was home-schooled and began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard. His book The Naval War of 1812 (1882) established his reputation as a learned historian and popular writer. Upon entering politics, he became the leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state legislature. His wife and mother both died in the same night and he was psychologically devastated. He recuperated by buying and operating a cattle ranch in the Dakotas. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley and in 1898 helped plan the highly successful naval war against Spain. He resigned to help form and lead the Rough Riders, a unit that fought the Spanish army in Cuba to great publicity. Returning a war hero, he was elected governor of New York in 1898. The New York state party leadership disliked his ambitious agenda and convinced McKinley to make Roosevelt his running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously, and the McKinley–Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a platform of victory, peace and prosperity.
Roosevelt assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement and championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. He prioritized conservation and established national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America where he began construction of the Panama Canal. He expanded the Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to project American naval power. His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies. He groomed his close friend William Howard Taft to succeed him in the 1908 presidential election.
Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's brand of conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the Progressive Party. He ran in the 1912 presidential election and the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election. Following the defeat, Roosevelt led a two-year expedition to the Amazon basin where he nearly died of tropical disease. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the country out of the war; his offer to lead volunteers to France was rejected. He considered running for president again in 1920, but his health continued to deteriorate. He died in 1919. He is generally ranked in polls of historians and political scientists as one of the five best presidents.
In recognition of World Asthma Day, here is ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst preparing to take preflight measurements for the Airway Monitoring experiment, which looks into inflammation of the airway.
Developed by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the Airway Monitoring experiment measures astronauts’ breath to determine the health of their lungs. The potential findings will go towards developing better diagnostic tools for airway disease in patients on Earth.
How does the experiment work? The analyser measures the amount of nitric oxide in exhaled air. Too much nitric oxide suggests inflammation. Causes can be environmental, like dust or pollution, or clinical, such as asthma – at least on Earth, but what happens in space?
To find out, astronauts breathe into an analyser at normal pressure and then in the reduced pressure of the Quest airlock, which simulates the pressure of future habitats on Mars and lunar colonies. The measurements are then compared to the same reduced and ambient pressure data taken before flight to understand the effects of weightlessness on airway health.
Can you spot the gloves hanging from the ceiling? They are handy low-tech visual indicators of air pressure. “The gloves give simple, low-tech feedback on the surrounding pressure and grow with increased altitude/reduced pressure," explains Principal Investigator Lars Karlsson.
In space, astronauts are essentially fish out of water. Understanding how to track, diagnose and treat lung inflammation is important for their safety.
The experiment draws on a study of airway inflammation that ran on the Station from 2005 to 2008. Preliminary results have been surprising. As expected, nitric oxide levels were lower when astronauts were in space, but they found that the levels initially decreased just before flight. Researchers are not yet sure why this is the case.
If what is considered a normal level of nitric oxide in humans on Earth could, in fact, be a sign of airway inflammation for astronauts in space, then researchers have a more accurate standard to conduct further research on lung health in space.
This information is key to ensuring the health and safety of astronauts on long missions taking them further from Earth.
The experiment began with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristofretti’s 2015 mission and measurements have been gathered by eight astronauts so far, including ESA astronaut Tim Peake, and soon Alexander.
Alexander will hitch a ride to the Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in June for the six-month Horizons mission. Be sure to follow Alexander during his mission to see more on Airway Monitoring and other top science experiments planned for Horizons.
Explore the Horizons brochure for more information.
Credits: L. Karlsson
Asthma attack imminent!!!
On another note, it was one day shy of being a full year since I last saw 44208 when it was 3rd unit on 1443 behind CLP12 and CLF3.
Small Bitter gourds are very rare species and powerful Ayurveda medicine for many diseases.
Bitter melon, also known as bitter gourd in karela (in India), is a unique vegetable-fruit that can be used as food or medicine. It is the edible part of the plant Momordica Charantia, which is a vine of the Cucurbitaceae family and is considered the most bitter among all fruits and vegetables.
Bitter gourds are very low in calories but dense with precious nutrients. It is an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, and B3, C, magnesium, folate, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, and has high dietary fiber. It is rich in iron, contains twice the beta-carotene of broccoli, twice the calcium of spinach, and twice the potassium of a banana
Health Benefits
Blood disorders: Bitter gourd juice is highly beneficial for treating blood disorders like blood boils and itching due to
toxemia. Mix 2 ounces of fresh bitter gourd juice with some lime juice. Sip it slowly on an empty stomach daily for between four and six months and see improvement in your condition.
Cancer: The juice of bitter gourd contains an enzyme that inhibits the transportation of glucose (sugar) that lowers blood sugar levels, also cuts off cancer cells’ food supply, retarding their growth.
Cholera: In early stages of cholera, take two teaspoonfuls juice of bitter gourd leaves, mix with two teaspoonfuls white onion juice and one teaspoonful lime juice. Sip this concoction daily till you get well.
Diabetes mellitus: Bitter melon contains a hypoglycemic compound (a plant insulin) that is highly beneficial in lowering sugar levels in blood and urine. Bitter melon juice has been shown to significantly improve glucose tolerance without increasing blood insulin levels.
Energy: Regular consumption of bitter gourd juice has been proven to improve energy and stamina level. Even sleeping patterns have been shown to be improved/stabilized.
Eye problems: The high beta-carotene and other properties in bitter gourd makes it one of the finest vegetable-fruit that help alleviate eye problems and improving eyesight.
Gout: Bitter gourd juice is liver cleansing. It helps clean up a toxic blood, improves blood circulation and relieves gout pain.
Hangover: Bitter melon juice may be beneficial in the treatment of a hangover for its alcohol intoxication properties. It also help cleanse and repair and nourish liver problems due to alcohol consumption.
Immune booster: This bitter juice can also help to build your immune system and increase your body’s resistance against infection.
Piles: Mix three teaspoonfuls of juice from bitter melon leaves with a glassful of buttermilk. Take this every morning on empty stomach for about a month and see an improvement to your condition. To hasten the healing, use the paste of the roots of bitter melon plant and apply over the piles.
Psoriasis: Regular consumption of this bitter juice has also been known to improve psoriasis condition and other fungal infections like ring-worm and athletes feet.
Respiratory disorders: Take two ounces of fresh bitter melon juice and mix with a cup of honey diluted in water. Drink daily to improve asthma, bronchitis and pharyngitis.
Toxemia: Bitter gourd contains beneficial properties that cleanses the blood from toxins. Sip two teaspoonfuls of the juice daily to help cleanse the liver. Also helpful in ridding jaundice for the same reasons.
Info_ juicing-for-health.com/health-benefits-of-bitter-gourd
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I should have been studying more instead of doing this photo, but I've had this concept in mind for a long while and wanted to finally do it. Although I'm not totally happy with the more technical aspects of it (but being a perfectionist I never am, haha), it actually turned out very close to what I had in mind which makes me happy. =)
I think this concept came back into my head today because of the phone call I got in class from the hospital, saying that I have a CT scan booked for the 19th. That's pretty dang fast, which is great, but... hmm. Yeah. Basically, it's a brain scan to check out some weird stuff that's been going on with headaches and vision problems, etc, which is quickly looking like it might be the straw that broke the camel's back.
I won't ramble on about it all here, but the concept of this photo is how sick I can get with being sick (yep, those are really all my pills that I take every day, though there's sometimes more). I'm a pretty positive person, which does wonders, but I miss being able to play sports and, you know, even wake up in the morning without numerous dislocated joints.
Wait, what?
Yep, it's called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or EDS, which is a connective tissue disorder (not enough collegen, which is the glue that holds your body together, so instead of my ligaments being like rubber bands, they're like those favourite pair of sweats with the super stretched out waistband). Right now it still says HMS (hypermobility syndrome) on my records, but I'm in the process right now of it being properly changed to EDS (hard to explain, sorry). It's way too complicated to type it all out, but the main characteristics are frequent and easy dislocations, stretchy, delicate skin, easy bruising, etc.
I won't bore you to death with too much detail here, but if you want to learn more, you can do so here: www.ednf.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&a...
On top of EDS, I also have asthma, ADHD, hypothyroidism, numerous other sub-conditions that go with those, and a couple other things. I also might have a few other things that are being investigated currently.
Now, I'm sorry if this seems like a vent, because that's not what I meant this to be. I AM OKAY! =) My point of this photo is to help raise awareness for EDS and other chronic illnesses, and, most importantly, emphasize the message that everyone has their own battles to deal with in life, and you never know what those might be for a person unless they open up to you. There's such a stigma around health problems, and I want to work towards helping break it. For example, when people find out about my health, they either don't believe me or freak out and are scared to even breathe on me. Both can get really hard to deal with.
This website pretty much sums up the first part: www.butyoudontlooksick.com/
Anyways, I doubt most people even read this far, but thank-you if you did. =) I'm normally pretty shy about sharing about my health issues, but I'm trying to be more open about them now in hopes of raising awareness and also reaching out to others who have chronic illnesses.
If you are reading this and are also going through some tough stuff, whether physical or mental health, or any other difficult circumstances, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Don't be afraid to reach out to your friends and family. People care, even if they don't always know how to show it. Just give them a chance, and don't be embarrassed or ashamed.
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Please check out my Facebook page! Though it may be unrealistic, my goal is to try to get at least 300 likes by the end of this year. More would be fantastic, but I'll try to make it at least semi-obtainable. ;)
It's not often you get to claim you almost died to get a photo. But try treching quickly up hills, valley walls, across a rail road bridge; While suffering from asthma. I admit it, I'm a geek and a nerd; I wear large rimmed glasses and I can't run more than 20 yards before reaching for my rescue inhaler. All in all, however, it was worth it.
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Small Bitter gourds are very rare species and powerful Ayurveda medicine for many diseases.
Bitter melon, also known as bitter gourd in karela (in India), is a unique vegetable-fruit that can be used as food or medicine. It is the edible part of the plant Momordica Charantia, which is a vine of the Cucurbitaceae family and is considered the most bitter among all fruits and vegetables.
Bitter gourds are very low in calories but dense with precious nutrients. It is an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, and B3, C, magnesium, folate, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, and has high dietary fiber. It is rich in iron, contains twice the beta-carotene of broccoli, twice the calcium of spinach, and twice the potassium of a banana
Health Benefits
Blood disorders: Bitter gourd juice is highly beneficial for treating blood disorders like blood boils and itching due to
toxemia. Mix 2 ounces of fresh bitter gourd juice with some lime juice. Sip it slowly on an empty stomach daily for between four and six months and see improvement in your condition.
Cancer: The juice of bitter gourd contains an enzyme that inhibits the transportation of glucose (sugar) that lowers blood sugar levels, also cuts off cancer cells’ food supply, retarding their growth.
Cholera: In early stages of cholera, take two teaspoonfuls juice of bitter gourd leaves, mix with two teaspoonfuls white onion juice and one teaspoonful lime juice. Sip this concoction daily till you get well.
Diabetes mellitus: Bitter melon contains a hypoglycemic compound (a plant insulin) that is highly beneficial in lowering sugar levels in blood and urine. Bitter melon juice has been shown to significantly improve glucose tolerance without increasing blood insulin levels.
Energy: Regular consumption of bitter gourd juice has been proven to improve energy and stamina level. Even sleeping patterns have been shown to be improved/stabilized.
Eye problems: The high beta-carotene and other properties in bitter gourd makes it one of the finest vegetable-fruit that help alleviate eye problems and improving eyesight.
Gout: Bitter gourd juice is liver cleansing. It helps clean up a toxic blood, improves blood circulation and relieves gout pain.
Hangover: Bitter melon juice may be beneficial in the treatment of a hangover for its alcohol intoxication properties. It also help cleanse and repair and nourish liver problems due to alcohol consumption.
Immune booster: This bitter juice can also help to build your immune system and increase your body’s resistance against infection.
Piles: Mix three teaspoonfuls of juice from bitter melon leaves with a glassful of buttermilk. Take this every morning on empty stomach for about a month and see an improvement to your condition. To hasten the healing, use the paste of the roots of bitter melon plant and apply over the piles.
Psoriasis: Regular consumption of this bitter juice has also been known to improve psoriasis condition and other fungal infections like ring-worm and athletes feet.
Respiratory disorders: Take two ounces of fresh bitter melon juice and mix with a cup of honey diluted in water. Drink daily to improve asthma, bronchitis and pharyngitis.
Toxemia: Bitter gourd contains beneficial properties that cleanses the blood from toxins. Sip two teaspoonfuls of the juice daily to help cleanse the liver. Also helpful in ridding jaundice for the same reasons.
Info_ juicing-for-health.com/health-benefits-of-bitter-gourd
Folkloric
- Decoction of leaves used for hiccups, asthma, gout, back pain, rheumatism, wounds and sores.
- Young leaves, usually boiled, used to increase the flow of breast milk.
- Pods for intestinal parasitism.
- Leaves and fruit used for constipation.
- Decoction of boiled roots used to wash sores and ulcers.
- Decoction of the bark used for excitement, restlessness.
- In India pounded roots used as poultice for inflammatory swelling. Flowers used for catarrh, with young leaves or young pods.
- In Nicaragua decoction of roots used for dropsy.
- Roots have been used as abortifacient. In India, bark is used as abortifacient.
- Decoction of root-bark used as fomentation to relieve spasms; also, for calculous affections.
- Gum, mixed with sesamum oil, used for relief of earaches. Same, also reported as abortifacient.
- In Java, gum used for intestinal complaints.
- Roots chewed and applied to snake bites.
- Decoction of roots is considered antiscorbutic; also used in delirious patients.
- Juice of roots is used for otalgia.
- Bark used as rubefacient remedy.
- Decoction of roots is use as gargle for hoarseness and sore throat.
- Leaves used as purgative.
- Chewing of leaves used in gonorrhea to increase urine flow.
- Fresh roots used as stimulant and diuretic.
- Seeds for hypertension, gout, asthma, hiccups, and as a diuretic.
- Rheumatic complaints: Decoction of seeds; or, powdered roasted seeds applied to affected area.
- Juice of the root with milk used for asthma, hiccups, gout, lumbago.
- Poultice of leaves applied for glandular swelling.
- Pounded fresh leaves mixed with coconut oil applied to wounds and cuts.
- The flowers boiled with soy milk thought to have aphrodisiac quality.
- Root is rubefacient and plaster applied externally as counterirritant.
- In Egypt, powder from dried seeds has been used as a handwash.
- In West Bengal, India, roots taken by women, esp prostitutes, for permanent contraception (Studies have shown total inactivation or suppression of the reproductive system).
- In African savannah, used in the treatment of rheumatic and articular pains.
source: stuart xchange
This may be helpful information for those who have loved ones with Asthma like myself: www.abc10.com/mb/features/salt-rooms-rising-in-popularity...
Surprisingly, the last "Whats in my bag?" photo I did has been one of my most popular. It's been some time, so I thought it was time for an update.
"In a second experiment, the scientists found that giving a combination of the four microbes — plus a samples of feces from one of the at-risk kids — to mice with asthma decreased inflammation in their lungs. And microbe-treated newborn mice actually developed less severe asthma than their untreated counterparts."
I'm allergic to lots of things: cats, smoke, grass, hay, horses, red wine and many other triggers. It sets off a chain of allergic reactions: coughing, wheezing, itchiness,...
Spring takes my breath away.
(Edit: I also have a mild form of asthma. Thanks Asthma Mom, for pointing out I had not added it to the list.)
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. . . After suffering the last two Januarys with fairly bad asthma, my doctor suggested an artificial tree this year, so here it is!! There is a lot more decorating to do, but I love these lights! A foot pedal changes them from white to colors, and then to alternating.
Have a great week Flickr and Facebook friends, and let the decorating and blizzards commence . . .
i have asthma.
eh. :/
i was supposed to get like 400 something on this breathing test for normal lungs, but i got like 100 something. bahahaha.
i went to this other doctor 2 years ago and he said it was just my anxiety, but ive actually had asthma the whole time and he didnt even test for it then.
ohh and i like fainted in the doctors office.
and they all like ran and got me food. haha.
i had to get my tetnis shot. :/ eh.
going to kyle's to help him painttttt.
:)
bye,
Aged 55, father of 7 girls told me he has been suffering from asthma for the last ten years of his life. The disease has forced him to leave his job as a guard in a local industry and brought him out to the streets to beg.
Still needs to take care of the youngest two daughters who are still unmarried.
GEC Circle,Chittagong.
Hello and hope this finds you all fine, happy & healthy :)
Today, there's a rather sensitive subject to be touched here and I'll try to do that in the softest and most discrete of ways.
As you may have noticed, there appears a Grey Ribbon of Awareness at the end of the sentence.
This ribbon is to raise awareness about such issues as Mental Illness, Diabetes, Brain Cancer and Asthma.
Mental Illness is the subject to be dealt with today.
Those of you who are familiar with my profile are aware about my studies in Psychology.
I'd like to openly share here with you today the reason I took the time to complete these studies and also put them in praxis by undergoing a 7 year process of personal analysis, when in the first place I was ready to start my studies in Architecture and Interior Design.
Growing up I happened to be directly exposed to mental illness. For understandable reasons of descrition there'll be no commenting on who this person/people were.
The reason for coming out open with the subject is only one: to raise awareness.
So, let me say to you that mental illness is NOT a resposibility of the people who carry and live with it, but it is a whole lot of responsibility of the poeple living with such individuals to support them the right way - and this includes getting professional help.
I'm aware of the fact that mental illness stigmatises people and families and lives....and I'm also aware that pychologists and therapists are not the most favorited people of all....and it is true that there are many out there who should not be doing this job and are rather inappropiate in doing it.
But this is so with everything in life. There are people who are unable or disqualified in doing something but out of nothing else than their personal interest, they go on with it.
As in every profession, job or occupation, there are good examples and bad examples.
In case though someone is in need of a therapist either because of psychopathological reasons or simpler day life matters, he/she should not hesitate in investing some time into finding the one therapist that suits them the most.
A supportive, analytical process, which focuses on the present and practical issues can be Life Altering. It can enhance the way we live our lives and when surrounded by people in our immediate environments who need our help and support, we would have the means to provide it.
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Lots of people say: "..but I'm not crazy (wrong choice of word in the first place)...not the one who needs a therapist...he/she is!"...well, my dear all, when we live with such people their issues become ours...and it is in the hands of the healthier and stronger to do something.
Yes, there is tremendous ammount of pain involved....there can also be tremendous ammount of relief and pleasure involved, too. It is a matter of choice.
And last but not least....no therapy will do a thing, unless it's done with the one and only intangible quality in life, which has the most tangible of effects on our lives: LOVE
If you've managed to read all this, then thank you from the bottom of my heart for having taken the time.
The loveliest of days to you all!
Ivy xx
I got a new asthma inhaler, and thought I'd film the unboxing of it. Thanks to GlaxoSmithKline for the advance preview unit. Read the full post on my blog.
Verbascum Densiflorum, the Denseflower Mullein or Dense-flowered Mullein in August (dziewanna wielkokwiatowa, jedna z ludowych nazw dziewanny to warkocze Matki Boskiej - Divine Mother’s braid). One of the largest of the herbaceous wild plants found in the Notecka Forest is associated with freshwater habitat. The mullein flowers as a traditional herbal medicinal product are used in combination with other drugs. They can be used for the relief of sore throat symptoms associated with dry cough and colds. The flowers and leaves are anodyne, antibacterial, antiseptic, antiviral, astringent, demulcent, emollient, expectorant, and vulnerary. The herb is often gathered wild and can also be farmed. Cultivation in pots is recommended.
'Ah!', you might well say, 'that must be a tranquil spot!' The truth is regrettably quite different. As I was spying on the Natural World near and on the Mangsit Rocks, above me on the bluff of Tanjung Mangsit, the bulldozers were 'clearing' lush green away to make place for yet another development for tourism. Whart can one say? You can hardly gainsay the local populace for wanting to cash in on tourism like Bali did (meanwhile destroying the coastal lines of that island). Anyway...
Here's Ypthima baldus, named after a Nymph of antique myth who in her union with Hermes is said to have brought forth those typical denizens of Nature, the Satyrs. Chamaesyce hirta, Asthma Plant, provides succor to our Butterfly garbed in Wet-Season colors.
Soon Butterflies, perhaps even Asthma Weeds, and certainly Satyrs will have been replaced here by 'development'. Hermes has certainly flown away, and Nymphs? - they may be hiding in Bougainvillea and Caesalpinia, the imported colors for fashionable homes and hotels.
PS Well, I suppose 'development' at least will improve internet... Please continue to bear with me...
Stupid me, I knew I shouldnt of tried to get a better shot of the train going over the Kankakee in the horrid summer heat, but I really wanted to. I was wheezing before I crossed the tracks, but I thought I could still make it up the steep hills, which I did. On the way down it happened, I had a heat induced asthma attack and no inhaler, I was able to make it across the tracks before I started to pass out, and would of ended up in the hospital, but Eric ran to the car and got some water bottles to at least keep me from over heating and getting heat stroke, luckily it didnt get worse, and we left and chilled at BK in Wanatah for awhile.
I just wish the sun didnt hide behind the clouds and overexposing the shot, but I don't care.
English Lake, IN
June 20, 2009
Fuh, such a long time being abducted by final exam and did not upload any photos, here we go..
Enjoy guys! and have a pleasant day!
Participants at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Participants at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
The effect of a widespread genetic variant that increases the risk for childhood asthma can be neutralized.
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