welcome to the organic green doctor blog

i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
this blog will be about my journey with this disease
please feel free to follow me along this path
i will continue blogging on organic gardening, green living,
solar power, rainwater collection, and healthy living
i will blog on these plus other things noted to be interesting

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

black friday experience

BLACK FRIDAY EXPERIENCE
i do not ever go shopping on black friday
but did once and lived to tell about it
will not ever do a black friday ever again
am cured
hold my shopping for a wednesday am at 900am two weeks
before christmas      have a list, have researched what i want,
walk in the store and get it, pay for it and get out of there

this black friday experience has ruined my shopping pleasure

a few years a go was at home visiting my parents in a rural
state near here    
they lived about 15 miles from a small town of 15000
in this small town they have a walmart
walmart had their black friday deals advertised in the
local paper     its called black friday because of all the
bruises that you get from shopping that day

there was a tv advertised that i wanted to get for my parents for
christmas      theirs was an old one that was real old
my wife she and i had bought it when we first got married as
poor college students so you know it was not an expensive one

so on that friday morning i got up early and left at 5:00 am
to go to the walmart     figured that in this small town it
would not be busy if i got there early     would just go in and
get it before the big rush occurred    
the store was opening at 6:00 am

well was i ever wrong      when got there at 5:30 am the parking
lot was full     was able to park at the edge of the parking lot
the line was so long it took me almost 30 minutes to get into
the store

when i got into the store no one could move because it was
so full     am sure it exceeded maximal capacity allowed
by the fire department by two-three times the number

the whole time i was there never was able to get pass the
mass of people to to get any where near the television

looked up and there was a nephew       must be genetic this
black friday shopping      he called his wife on her cell
phone-she just happened to be in the television section    
she had one of the televisions sitting in the aisle as some
lady just left it there

guess the lady could not get it through the mass of people
to get it checked out

my nephew managed to get to where the television was-
i never could fight may way there      he lifted it up and
moved through the mass of humanity       now we had to
get it to the check out line-
the lady before had given up on that      my nephew he just
barreled through       we looked up     we were saved as
 there was another nephew he in the line about to check out-
yep its genetic  

you know what we did right     you bet     my nephew he
checked it out for us    
there was a lot of people p..... at us as we went past
them

but yes got that dang television      my nephew he(a tall
fireman who shouldnt have been in that overcapacity crowd)
 lifted it up and took it to my car (had borrowed my sons
toyota 4-runner)
after all that then the dam thing would not fit in the car

luckily my nephew he was in a large pickup truck
he drove it to my parents house for me

after my parents both died got the television and brought it
back here to use in our guest bedroom    

think about that black friday experience every time
i look at that television

learned my lesson

the organicgreen doctor

Monday, November 22, 2010

big pharma/pharmaceutical/drug companies fined for fraud, cowboys

BIG PHARMA/PHARMACEUTICAL/DRUG 
COMPANIES FINED FOR FRAUD
one of the big pharma companies-glaxosmithkline was just
fined $750 million for committing medicare  and medicaid
fraud for selling defective drugs    
this is not a generic company

the drugs were the antinausea medication kytril, the topical
antibiotic bactroban, the antidepressant paxil cr, and type 2
diabetes drug avandamet

the drugs were contaminated by bacteria, were split in half,
or did not have the correct amount of effective ingredients,
plus other defects

a employee whistleblower turned them in    
she got $96 million
some states will get $160 million     most states could use
the money

the medicare/medicaid fraud team that investigated the
fraud was funded with $350 million by the health care reform act  
it has recovered $3 billion so far for medicare/medicaid fraud
pretty good investment huh      
add that to the benefits of the new health care law

a sgk spokesman regretted not manufacturing the drugs to
the appropriate standards     the facility that made the
faulty drugs has been closed
luckily no significant harm was caused by the faulty drugs
they just did not work-you continued to be nauseated, your
skin infection did not heal as fast, your depression was not
controlled, and your diabetes was not controlled

no wonder patients have a mistrust of the drug companies-
things like this do not help gain patients trust
am always hearing from groups that the generics are not
as well made- well heres your branded meds not working
and not well made

COWBOYS
could they be on the come back
they looked good yesterday
even the old man qarterback ran for a touchdown
am sure most quarterbacks wished they had the
cowboy receivers to pass to

turkey day will be important as they play the saints
go cowboys

Sunday, November 21, 2010

rainwater harvesting system-maintenance, good football weekend

RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM-MAINTENANCE
today is mantenance day for the rainwater harvesting system
we use here       we use rainwater as our only source of water 
please do a rain dance for us as we need rain around here

here is a picture of our filtering system









you can do a google search for rainwater on  google search
on the right side of this blog to read about the system we have

the rain falls on roof then goes through a roof filter then goes to
a sleeve filter to rainwater tanks     from there the water goes
through the 4 filtering systems above

once a month remove the white filter housing and clean it
well as below       a new filter is then placed   this is a
10 micron filter     it catches most stuff that may be in the
water

twice a year have to remove the blue  filter housing  and clean
out the blue housings       remove one at a time      wash each
with soap and water, irrigate it well, then sterilize it with a
cholorox-water solution      then irrigate it again, then put in a
new filter

the first blue filter is a white woven 5 micron filter
the second blue filter is a carbon filter that is a 2-5 micron filter
it catches any odors or chemicals in the water

the last blue filter houses the ultraviolet light     this  is replaced
every 12 months     it goes inside a quartz tube(broke
that sucker once-it was expensive and shut down my system
until could get a new one ordered)
this sterilizes the water

last thing do is put a chlorox solution in the the blue housing
with the ultraviolet light        the water is turned on and when the
solution reaches the faucets in the house the water is turned
off     let it sit for four hours      this sterilizes the whole
system    

this is how we get our pristine water      great for drinking,
bathing, and cooking-and making coffee!!!

GOOD FOOTBALL WEEKEND
well razorback fans yall going to miss that quarterback
next year      know the pros are drooling over him
they almost did not make it

good thing that the auburn quarterbacks dad didnt get that
money from the miss state alumni or he may have beaten the
razorbacks in that close game

next week lsu  (texas fans can you say texas am game)
this is what this game is like

longhorns won and looked good doing it
they looked like the longhorns we were expecting
this year     of course the competition wasnt good

next thursday is the am and texas game
records dont matter    
a win would be good then
there wont be a loosing season

just give the ball to that big guy johnson and let him
pound the ball

go cowboys today       beat the lions
would be a good morale booster
jason garrett may be the answer(solution)

the organicgreen doctor