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Get your THYROID checked!
Comments (18)And, worriedone, what if; and this is thekey here,the what ifs. Like what if you where wrong? What if you had cancer? And you just took iodine? Do you realize you could/would be dead from cancer. Years ago, 20 to be exact, a gentleman my husband worked with, had similar symptoms as you. refused medical treatment,swallowed iodine. goiters shrunk to not be visible any more for 2 years. He then got a cold, that developed into pneumoniaand was found to have 3 masses in his lungs, small tumors in 2 lymph nodes and the goiter had been cancer all along. Had he listened to his doctors, he would not have died 6 weeks after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer. You may be lucky ignoring your doctors advise, the best advise you could have been given and you could be nothing more than a walking, ticking time bomb that will regret the day you ignored your doctors advise. Time will tell you. You complaint about doctors advise is absurd. No doctor is going to tell you to ignore the potential of cancer without being sure it isn't and instead swallow some iodine. I can just see it now. If you had gotten that advise and it was wrong; would you be on this forum telling all of us about the doctor who missed your cancer?...See MoreHave You Checked Out Your Dryer Lint Filter & Vent? Check Out My
Comments (20)Been there, done that...lint is such a HUGE annoyance to my life. We're in a 2nd floor condo where the dryer vent ducting goes to the roof through the attic over 20 feet and several elbows. My husband bought the condo years before we met, and the ducting was clogged after several years. At the time, he decided to disconnect the vent from the duct. The resulting moisture did some damage to the cabinetry (swelling of the particle board, even under layers of oil-based paint). Soon after we married, he decided we needed to fix the problem correctly. He went up into the attic and disassembled the ducting, brought it outside, and blew it out with his air compressor. I pushed some cleaning tool through it as well. We can't be doing this regularly! I mean preferably, never again! So, I had him put a filter -- a gallon paint strainer -- over the dryer vent where it connects to the machine. This clogs every month or so, we pull the machine out, disconnect the vent, clean the strainer, and put it back. This is still an annoying chore, but not the nightmare of dealing with the whole duct run. My husband had a cool idea, that what we need to do is sew a new, longer strainer that tapers to a skinny point, so that even when it clogs at the point, there can still be air flowing past the clogged strainer, and we should be able to go longer between cleanings. We got a new dryer last summer, and pulled the ducting out of the attic to clean it -- but it was already clean as a whistle. So, our secondary filter system has kept the duct run clean for 9 years. I found you can buy secondary lint traps with a door that opens to clean them out, but we don't have room to install the box in our laundry room, and I don't think it would work any better or be easier to clean than our homemade filter. When I redo the floor, I plan to put magic slider thingies under the dryer feet to make it easier to move in and out, plus I won't want to gouge my new floor. I have researched other solutions. People claim that solid metal vent will maintain better airflow than pleated, but I think it will still clog because we need 2 90-degree elbows to get it connected to the duct in the wall. And if it clogs, how do we pull out the machine with a non-stretching vent? If we could move the duct in the wall to match the dryer vent outlet, that would eliminate 2 elbows and would probably help... I also found you can install a secondary fan in the ducting near the exit, increasing the airspeed in long ducts so the lint won't clog. They cost $150-200, but if I never had to clean out the duct run or pull out the dryer to clean my makeshift secondary lint trap ever again, it would be well worth it. I also think that our ducting is leaky somewhere, because rooms on the other side of the wall (our master bath) get crusted with lint all the time. Finding and sealing those leaks would probably improve airspeed some, plus save me tons of work cleaning the lint all the time. I think the additional fan is the way to go. In 2 other areas where we replaced an ineffective low-cfm cheap fan with a high-cfm good one, like the hood over our cooktop, it made an amazing difference, night and day. Here is a link that might be useful: example of dryer duct fan...See MoreWhy do some people get under your skin??
Comments (28)Some people get a feeling of superiority, "I will decide to take or leave you!" Maybe it's time to analyze why this bothers you. Things that have hurt us in the past have a way of rearing their ugly head many, many years later. We had a neighbor while my kids were growing up, that basically made our lives miserable. I did one thing to slight her, that I learned years later, and that set the tone for how she treated us while she lived on the block. She had frequent parties and we were not included. She once had a party for her daughter and did not invite mine. Mind you, many of their mutual friends were invited. Luckily I was tipped off and we went up to our weekend house. This would have been very, very hurtful for my daughter to look over two houses away and see all her friends at this party. So for me, although I did not even want this woman as a friend, it brought up my past feeling of being excluded. Once I figured this out, I was able to get past it. Fortunately for us, she moved off the street. To this day, when I see her I am polite, but I do cringe. It shows you that some adults don't do the right thing and can be petty, vindictive and immature. You, for example, would never think to treat her in anything but a respectful way. Just shows you how different people are....See MoreOn the importance of skin checks
Comments (5)Glad they got it all. After MOHS surgery for basal cell on my nose last year - I pay alot more attention to my skin (and my spots LOL). I have a couple of new places that will be seen soon and another place on side of my nose I will be having removed. Full body exams are important. My internist does them, but my derm does a more involved one and has the camera....See MoreMichele
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