Now there is a lady I can respect.  I don’t know how she stays so young looking and vibrant.  I love her movies, she is very talented and has the Oscar’s to prove it.  But her personal life is so different from what we see in the public eye.

She grew up like most of us, a normal kid.  She left home at 19 to act in NYC and she struggled (like most of us did when we first left home).    I was surprised that she suffered from bulimia.  She led a happy childhood, but found out in later years that her parents were not the happy couple she had believed they were, when she read her mother’s diaries after her death in 2008.   Her mother suffered from Alzheimer’s (such a cruel disease).

I really respect this woman and what she stands for.

Within the last 3 years or so, I have had a terrible problem with my right foot.  I can’t seem to sit for very long without experiencing extreme pain when I stand up.  It finally got so bad that I had to go see the doctor.  I had even put myself on crutches for a month prior to my visit to my podiatrist to see if that would help.  When it didn’t help, I called the doctor.

I have a very common condition known as plantar fasciitis.  It is a very painful condition of the plantar surface (bottom of your foot) that is caused by a variety of things, such as being over weight, injury or bone/heel spurs.  In my case, I have a heel spur that is digging into the ligaments and tendons on the bottom of my foot and causing extreme inflammation.

The doctor put me in a walking cast for a month to see if that would help, and it did not.  It got so the only way I could even stand on the foot was when I was wearing the cast.  So now I am in physical therapy for the foot.  The PT seems to be helping.  They are putting a patch on my foot that is soaked with an acetic acid solution, this is supposed to help dissolve the heel spur.  The patches cost $109 each and insurance will not cover it!!  I did a little research online and discovered that acetic acid is nothing more than common household vinegar!!  I can do the treatments myself at a very low cost!!  I am elated!!

First it was unwashed fresh fruit, then it was fruit juice, and now brown rice syrup and baby formula?  What are they trying to do to us?  It’s bad enough we have to worry about e-coli contaminating our fruits and vegetables, but now we have to worry about a deadly poison as well?  And in of all things, baby formula!!!

I think that the FDA had better get busy and start regulating our food products a little more stringently.  After all, our tax dollars write their paychecks.

Our enemies don’t have to worry about getting rid of us, our government will take care of it for them by not monitoring what is in our food.

Have you ever watched the TV show called Toddlers and Tiaras?  I find it deeply disturbing.  These mothers are disturbed people trying to live their dream through their daughters.  They are so hard on the children, making sure they don’t gain too much weight, making them adhere to a strict routine.

I think they should let the little girls be little girls.  They are making them grow up way too fast.  And some of the coaches!!!  I think that child beauty pageants should be against the law!!!

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you.  For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men?  Good grief!  Get over it already!  If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?