dear ms b-you will

DEAR MS B-YOU WILL

now ms b
part of this blog may be a little scary
but at the end it will be good

the large body of water near you
is called
the pacific ocean
i dont know if you have been in it yet
but you will im sure

now your water you dont have to worry about it
drying up
or
overflowing

at least i dont think you do
you never know with this climate change thing
going on

i think though when i look at the predicted high
ocean levels that where you live wont be underwater
dont move to houston or san francisco or miami

now near us is our biggest body of water
the ocean is hundreds of miles away from us

on this water
people do fun stuff
like
party at lot on weekends and fish and ski and ride
ski motorcycles
well thats what i call them
there is even a beach there called
hippie hollow
but
you arent allowed to go there
ever
it smells funny and people dont wear much clothes
if any


then during the drought the last few years
there is this body of land
that just pops up in the middle of the lake
its called sometimes island
its sometimes there sometimes not

that sometimes island has been around now for awhile
making it hard to get across the lake in a boat
heck you can almost walk across it when the lake is low

now
with all the flooding we have had
that island has slowly slowly gone away
so now the sometimes island
is
now the notimes island
it be ms b all gone

thats just weird huh

now a few years ago before the drought
when the lake filled up to where it was ready to overflow
they opened the flood gates

there was this couple in an wooden boat
on the lake
now this is scary
the motor stopped working
the water like a river slowly sucked them towards
where the water was sucking under and through the dam
one person was rescued early
but
before they could get this lady off
she and the boat got sucked down through that sinkhole

they were gone
this seemed to not be going to end well

well
the bits and pieces of the boat popped up downstream
all crushed to smithereens
nope it was going to be bad for that lady

then
this people that lived below the dam
heard a knocking on their door
they opened it
there was this lady crying cold naked all scratched and beat up
but alive

she turned out ok ms b
just scared as she was sucked down through the water
through those turbines
swirly bouncing around like a ball up and down
off everything
but
shes alive and is ok

im sorry ms b
i have no plans to ever get on that lake near that dam
i bet its like a magnet if you get too close
pulling you down that hole

well at least she is ok
and
the lake was full then and is full now

sometimes its good

oh by the way
ms b
your gma has changed her will
so that
you get to inherit those heirloom homemade ash wooden clothes pin

i told you this would end good

the organicgreen granddaddy

mothers day present

MOTHERS DAY PRESENT
my wife she and i must have hippie blood flowing
through our veins
i feel that and think that sometimes

we live here at the country n
homesteading like
all we are missing i guess to say that
is a cow and a goat
we have the garden
we have the chickens
the dogs
the cat
the landscape

we drink our own water rainwater
which we collect and filter and uv the germs
its the best refreshing water there is
lucky us
lucky pets
lucky wildlife
lucky garden
lucky landscape
lucky life

we also produce about 75% of our own electricity
last month we used $18 of electricity from our electric company
we produced the rest of what we used

we eat a lot from our gardens
last night most of our salad was from our garden
asparagus swiss chard arugula kale mexican oregano onions
carrots beets tomatoes
potatoes baked
we added a small steak and corn from the store
we are what i call 90% vegetarian

the first thing i did when we first moved in here 15 years ago
because of my wife shes request
was to put up this 40 ft of clothesline
now i didnt mind since that meant we rarely would use
a clothes dryer which meant we would use less electricity
plus
clothes line dried clothes they just feel different
feel good
and have this country smell

now the problem over the years has been
clothespins
they seem to be getting smaller and smaller
they dont hold the clothes on the line as well as they use to
plus
they just fall apart
the wood they are made of must be real soft stuff
they just seem to melt away like what happens with
a snowman when the weather gets warm
not sure how that happens to those
clothes pins
but it does

so recently while i was reading the magazine
called mother earth news
there was this article about this guy in rural new york
that hand makes clothespins
like old school ones

so i contacted him via email
well i only make so many each year
i make them out of ash
ash now thats familiar
oh yes thats what baseball bats are made of
then
he puts tungsten oil on them
he says they will last a lifetime

the only problem is if you want them
you have to get on a list
when he makes all of them
if you are lucky and you are on the early part of the list
you can order them

so
i put my self on the list
now thats a list just to be considered
the next list if you get selected
is a list of folks that might get clothespins if he can make enough
to fill out all those orders

so
im on the first list
months went by
then i get notified now im on the next list
then
a week ago
i got notified
you are number 38 so it looks like i have enough for you
how many
50
so i sent him the money

lets just say one of his clothespins cost what a whole package
of those store bought ones
you know where they are probably made
thats right china

now i feel real lucky since there were hundreds of folks waiting
on that second list
that wont get any of his homemade heirloom clothespins

now i was excited
since
this was going to be my wife shes mothers day present

now dont laugh
like some did

when my wife she opened that package
she was excited as she has been for any gift i have given her
well maybe there were others she liked better

she instantly walked outside
took all those old pins off the line
threw them in a bucket
here you can use those in the garden
i was happy as she was since now i wont have to steal her clothespins
off the line to hold down my row cover and sun block netting in
my garden
i definitely know i had better now ever ever take one of these
new ones down to the garden

she very proudly hung the clothes out with those pins
proud as a peacock she was
what a pretty smile was on her face

yes
we are simple folks
its the simple things that we enjoy the most

the organicgreen doctor

alzheimers news-i am not sure

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-I AM NOT SURE

after doing several talks on alzheimers and on treatment trials

for alzheimers

some folks have gotten the impression that i somehow cured

my alzheimers disease

i didnt

i dont know if i have alzheimers disease

i think i do 

you can only diagnose this disease 100% when you die 

and they autopsy your brain

yes they can tell your family he had alzheimers disease

now you can look at the downfall of a persons memory 

and

his physical condition that is typical for alzheimers 

to say with some degree of accuracy that

yes he or she had alzheimers

so i can say with some degree of certainty that my mom 

and my younger brother had alzheimers disease

not many things cause the course they took

did my dad have it 

i think so

he was starting down that path when he died 

does my older brother have it 

i think so based on some of his testing

time will only tell if thats the case

do i have alzheimers disease

i think so 

but time will only tell if thats true

did i cure my alzheimers disease

no

if its whats wrong with me

i have only pushed the symptoms of the disease down the road some

but

it will i said it will raise its head again and strike again 

and take over

unless there is a new treatment that becomes available soon

real soon that stops it 

right now that does not exists

so whats my explanation as to why my memory is now normal

my memory loss may not be due to alzheimers disease but may 

have been due to something else

like stress not well controlled blood pressure not well controlled cholesterol

maybe a super ministroke in the wrong place

that caused my memory loss that over time healed itself 

and now my memory is normal 

see i dont know

or

what may have happened

now this is what i think happened

i developed subtle memory loss real subtle not detectable to anyone

but me

it was well documented to be normal then three years later it was abnormal

then five years after that back to normal again 

i think i do have alzheimers disease and am either in that

category called preclinical alzheimers 

or 

in early mild cognitive impairment

here is why i think so 

i have normal lab workups except for low vitamin b12 and 

low vitamin d and high homocysteine

those are risk factors for memory loss but are not the cause

of my memory loss

i have corrected all three of those

i have normal mris of the brain except for things two of them called

white mater hyperintensities that are like tiny tiny tiny tiny strokes

if you have 7 or more you may be at risk for alzheimers or stroke

but 2 doesnt mean you have either one

they have not changed over the last 5 years 

i do carry the apoe4 gene a double version or homozygous that puts

me at higher risk for developing alzheimers disease

but it doesnt mean it causes the disease

how i take care of my health determines if it has an effect

the risk is 5-20 times increased according to which researcher

you read

i have had two normal glucose metabolism pet scans which if you

are far enough along with the disease it will be positive

it could be if i am just real real early that the test is not positive yet

since not enough damage has been done

i have had a spinal tap for the bad beta amyloid and the tau protein 

which are implicated in the present theory of what causes alzheimers

my levels are indeterminate

they are not normal but they are not in the dementia level

this correlates with my diagnosis of early mild cognitive impairment

that stage right before you get alzheimers disease

the stage right after preclinical alzheimers where you have

some abnormal testing but no symptoms

whats missing from my workup is the new beta amyloid pet scan

called amyvid pet scan 

it will show if the beta amyloid has accumulated in the brain 

if you have alzheimers it will be positive

however

like most medical tests it is not 100% accurate

as a normal person can have a positive test as can other diseases

cause a positive test

but

when added together with the history spinal tap family history 

if my amyvid pet scan is positive

i like possibly maybe could have alzheimers disease

im sorry but that is as close to making the diagnosis for me

that i can get

if my amyvid scan is positive i plan on moving forward with 

the likelihood that i have the disease

and 

will plan my life accordingly 

so if i have alzheimers disease

no i didnt cure it 

i only delayed its symptoms by 

taking aricept (donepezil) which works for awhile but eventually

doesnt work well 

not all neurologists agree in using in the diagnosis of 

mild cognitive impairment

my neurologist does believe in it 

so do i 

thats why i suffered through with its side effects

if my amyvid scan is negative i plan on discontinuing it 

by correcting my abnormal labs

low b12 low vitamin d high homocysteine high cholesterol high blood pressure

by doing all the healthy things that are recommended you do for your

memory 

avoid stress avoid meds that affect the memory treat depression 

and anxiety get adequate sleep treating sleep apnea restless legs etc

stay very active socially mentally physically 

meditating or yoga something to make you pause and reflect inside

then i used the protocol from the article by dr bredesen called

reversal of cognitive decline

you can google it if you want to read about it

i very carefully looked at it 

matched the vitamins and supplement against my medical history 

and my medication

some i could take many i could not 

i got the approval of my family doctor and my neurologist before

i took any of them 

there are side effects from them i could not tolerate

some interfere with heart medicine and blood thinners

so dont just read this article and start taking stuff

i looked at each closely

i personally think if what i am doing has helped it is 

the aricept (donepezil)

aggressively doing the healthy things i mentioned above

correcting my abnormal labs

maybe the supplements have helped some

that i cant be sure of 

so 

do i have alzheimers disease

i am not sure

but

i hope to know soon as close as you can know 

i hope this is useful to those who have contacted me hoping for a cure

im sorry 

but

there is not one

yet

the organicgreen doctor