"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:39:46 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:31:05 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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I trode across a suspension footbridge (The Swinging Bridge over the
Illinois River in Kerby, OR) yesterday and admired the engineering.
12x12" uprights about 20' tall and 1" galv steel wire ropes supporting
about an 80' span. I wonder how far they had to sink the terminations
to support that structure...

Oh, sink the terminations? You mean, like, in concrete? Oh. We were
supposed
to do that?...

I believe that it would have "fall down, go boom" long before now if
they hadn't done that, Ed.

I found a nice secluded "beach" and took a dip in the nice, refreshing
(70F or better) river yesterday. It was great. I need to get out and
do more hiking before it gets cold and wet to do so this year. It give
me and my Nikon more exercise.

'Beats hanging around here. If my freaking eyes were better (my sixth
laser
eye surgery is tomorrow -- I may or may not be able to see the screen
until
Saturday),

SIXTH? What hack are you going to, sir? Are you flying to Tijuana,
B.C. for the $49.99 specials, or what?

It's a series of procedures to deal with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy.
Bad ****. They have to do it a small bit at a time so your retinas don't
peel off your eyeballs and leave you blind. Another of my doc's patients, a
23-year-old kid, just lost 100% of his vision because of it. I've been a lot
luckier, and I'm thankful for the advanced laser-diode technique they use
now. So far they've burned out over 3,000 spots on my retinas, and I can
still see. They cauterize blood vessels in your eyes with the laser. I am
one lucky dood.

Today should be the last. If I keep being lucky, I won't have any trouble
with it again.


My BIL got his done on Base and the surgeon accidentally tore the flap
off during his RK procedure. It's no big deal, except it increases the
pain level about six hundred percent. I hope to never, -ever- hear a
doctor say "Oops!" during my visit to him.

I've been joking with my doc about that. "What happens if the laser is on
and you sneeze?," I asked him. I picture my brain being sliced in half as he
says "oops"...g



if the tendonitis in my right Achilles heel wasn't keeping me

I finally figured out that the patellar tendinitis in my right knee
was only a food allergy. Whenever I eat corn and hot sauce at the same
time, my knee gives me all sorts of grief. Neither one by itself
affects me nearly as much.

Holy cow. What have I been eating lately? A lot of barbecued chicken and
corn on the cob. Big salads, Jersey tomatoes and summer squash up the
yin-yang. Some marinated London broil. Lots of fish. Hmmm...that's my usual
summertime stuff.

This is a weird one, because my orthopedic surgeon, an excellent sports
medicine guy, says it's an overuse injury. But I haven't been overusing it.
He's scratching his head. He wants me to wear this thing that looks like a
big, black ski boot. It's really stylish with shorts, and when you walk in
it you sound like one of the creatures that come out of the dark in
Halloween movies. 'Scares the hell out of little kids...

Anyway, it seems to be improving. For a couple of months I could hardly
leave the house. Now I can walk for about a mile without it flaring up. When
it hits four miles, I'll be satisfied.

I had already discovered my allergy to the
Nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, chiles, peppers, and eggplant)
and have been a much happier man in the past 17 years.

Those are some of my favorite things.

I'd be willing
to bet that a majority of people's illnesses is due to food allergies
and urge you to go see a WooWoo Doctor (as my BIL called them, aka a
kinesiologist) or Naturopath, for testing. An old girlfriend's mother
was studying to become a Naturopath and tested me for free, finding my
nightshade plant allergies. I have half again more energy now with
those foods out of my body, and my arthritis pain level is markedly
decreased. I'm just now getting over my allergy to potatoes.
Ahhh--Potato chips again! (in moderation)

'Glad to hear it. I'd just open my veins and be done with it if I couldn't
eat fresh tomatoes.


When I eat hot sauce, and I still love Mexican food, I notice all
sorts of muscle aches. I think it releases lactic acid in my muscles,
as if I'd overexerted myself (think a day of horseback riding after 20
years of not doing so, then remember what your inner thigh muscles
felt like afterwards.) Not a pretty picture.

Very interesting.


Tomatoes give my entire body an acid condition and I feel 40 years
older than I am in my joints and muscles. That was the largest problem
in my allergies.

Potatoes used to give me horrible aches in the intestines as they were
processed.

If any of this sounds familiar, try getting tested for food allergies
by the WooWoos. I gare-on-TEE that you'll not regret having done so.

OK, but what's a WooWoo?



from walking (literally), and if a few other things weren't barking and
screaming at me, I'd be on the beach surf casting for bluefish, myself.

It's hell gettin' old, ain't it?

As they say, it beats the alternative.



However, being temporarily blind (five times in the past two months) is
very
interesting. You really can think clearly without the distraction of
seeing
things. I had hope for Michael in that regard but it seems to have had the
opposite effect on him.

MT? Yeah, I plonked him long ago for is recto-cranial inversion
problem. John joined him yesterday. Life's too short to suffer fools.

Watch out, there will be no one left but the people who want to know what
grade of rod to use for welding up trailers out of recycled bed frames, and
whether a Chinese drill press is stiff enough for milling diesel engine
blocks.



Are there any fish in that river? If so, why are you wasting your time
splashing around in it?

Nothing much. Just salmon and steelhead at various times of the year.
I haven't been much of a fisherman since I turned teen, though.

"Just" salmon and steelhead? And you spash around in that sacred water?
Heathen!!

--
Ed Huntress