dear ms b-be screened

DEAR MS B-BE SCREENED


we pay the price
ms b
for past sins

no its not bad stuff
just
when we were little long time ago
we were kicked outside
go outside and play
we were told
so
out we went

now we when the weather was warm
went outside with just a pair of shorts on
sometimes even barefooted
we were

during the summer
we would get
real real real dark
like we were from south of the border

what that means
was that there was probably a lot of sunburning
going on

i can remember my nose peeling a lot
it would be a pink island inside a dark face

now fast forward well a lot of years
those hours and hours
of
exposing my skin to all that radiation
well
ms b
it finally caught up to me

right there on that pink island
my nose
im sure it even though i wear a hat a lot when
i am and was outside
it still peaked out of the shadows

so gradually over the years
the dna inside those skin cells on my nose
got changed
so
that they began to grow irregularly
so
that it began to grow downwards from the surface
even
making a pinpoint area when the skin
would just bleed

so

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a spot that bleeds frequently
a spot that comes and goes
a spot that changes and grows darker
or

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a spot that develops an ulcer in it
or


a mole that gets darker and grows and changes how it looks
its
a warning to have it checked

so
thinking ok i am now paying for my past uv overexposure

so
i am now destined to have mohs surgery on
a basal cell on my nose
that pink island that im sure looked cute when i was little
well
we didnt know better back then

so mohs it is
shave
slides
more shaves
more slides
until the bad cells are all gone
then
the hole thats left
well
that has to be filled in some way

flaps and stitches
thats the final event for that day

so
ms b
i want you to be sunscreened as much as possible
with a pretty little hat on
so that nose will not peak out under its shadow

yes
wish i had known better back then

the organicgreen doctor

alzheimers news-talk and walk

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-TALK AND WALK

this last week ended with an alzheimers weekend

it started with a talk to a group of about 20 people
i gave them a talk on
alzheimers disease
my story
clinical studies

this is an exciting time for alzheimers research
first the federal government looks like it will
pour in about 1 billion dollars a year into
alzheimers research

it costs $287,000 to care for an alzheimers patient in their
last 5 years
thats a lot of money for just one person
but
there are 5 million folks with the disease in the us
do the math on how much will be spent on these folks
it will be more than cancer patients and heart patients

so
a little money spent to help find effective treatments
seems like a good investment

i always tell
my personal story
and
my familys story with
alzheimers

putting a personal spin on these talks
seems to make the audience more tuned in to what i am
saying

i end my talks with what the new treatment studies are
that are going on
the new game changers in the fight to end alzheimers

yes
they might be here now
just months away from approval


i end my talk with all the healthy things a person should
be doing to fight this disease

then
i answer question after question from folks on alzheimers disease
they just want answers
but
like i say
sometimes sometimes there are no answers
just questions
but
i hope in my talks i am able to provide some answers
some comfort maybe

this weekend my wife she and i went to an alzheimers walk
in little rock arkansas
to walk with my younger brothers family
as they walk to remember him for his fight with this disease

i must say the opening ceremony
when each family raises one of these flowers in the air
the wind off the arkansas river spinning these flower petals
each petal sometimes with names on them
i know our family has too many petals on our flowers

as the flowers are raised
all spinning for those lost and those affected
lots of tears are shed
a moment of silence where you can hear
hundreds of these flowers
spinning
their petals
in rememberence of those lost

i felt chills go down my spine to my feet
tears just rolled down my cheek
but
i know that we are close to finding
a
treatment
maybe
a
cure

the organicgreen doctor

country n news-flare em

COUNTRY N NEWS-FLARE EM

when i do the landscape at the habitat for humanity houses
i try to do what i can to make trees better
make the landscape
well function for the homeowner the best i can
since i have limited funds to do the landscape
plus
i try to get to know the homeowner to decide how much
landscape do they want to manage

some want the minimal done to the landscape
so
thats usually based on the cities requirement
3-4 shrubs
at least one 4 inch approved tree like a cedar elm or oak
sod in the front

so
sometimes thats all we have money to do
so thats all we can do

on this house
the old house was burned
the remaining slab was removed

the fire damaged the 3 live oaks on the property
of
course building the houses are rough on trees that are
already on site

so
i protected them well with boards
so boards and machines wont be banging the bark and limbs
i also trimmed up the trees to open up the canopy
trying to predict which limbs would not interfere with
construction
and
be a source of nuisance for the new homeowner

i also removed any damaged limbs from the fire
it looks like even though the tree itself was damaged some
they will survive ok

i also went ahead and added a layer of compost
in the drip line as well as a sprinkling of
organic fertilizer to help these trees
neglected for years it looked like

during construciton a lot of soil was dug up
piled up
so i noticed that over the time of construction
that a lot of soil had piled up around the trunk
of the trees
a lot of it was there before construction started

so now that we are through with the outside construction
i removed all the protective barriers
gently raked off all the soil around the trees

there is a thing called a root flare that should be showing
on trees
planted too deep a tree will have its lower bark underground
which
allows it to rot and permanently damage the tree
stunting its growth
now
these poor old live oaks were already fighting a
battle from
having being fire damaged
having roots cut during construction
having its  drip line walked on and driven on
for weeks

they didnt need the added stress of having their
root flares all covered up

so i went to work
gently removing all the piled up dirt from the tree trunk
one tree had a foot of dirt piled up
yes there was some damage done to the bark
but
it should do ok
thank goodness

i added a thick 4 inch ring of mulch around the tree
leaving the root flare and roots exposed

here is what it should look like
if a tree is planted correctly
this allows for the maximum growing environment for
these trees

now take a look at the base of your trees
can you see the flare of the trunk as it enters the ground
or
does your tree look like a straight pencil in the ground

maybe you should consider gently digging out that flare
and roots
so your trees can breathe

flare em out i say


i will be the featured speaker today
at an alzheimers disease and dementia conference
at baylor scott and white sun city clinic
4945 williams drive georgetown texas
from 430-630 pm
i will speak for about 45 minutes then will answer questions
from the audience for the rest of the time
the public is invited

the organicgreen doctor