shame shame

SHAME SHAME
i am a big football fan
i watched several games this weekend
including that exciting arkansas game
where he receiver threw the ball back for
the longest lateral ive ever seen to eventually win
the game in overtime

so a lot of excitement was felt this weekend
some disappointment
like the cowboys losing in overtime to the eagles

but
then
there was a lot of shame this weekend
felt yesterday as i watched pregame shows
watched the cowboy game
listening to all the commentators

all like me felt disgusted
shame is what i felt

so im not even going to mention the players name
lets just say i have no respect for jerry jones
the owner of the cowboys

how deep down into  a pile of feces does he have
to go
in order to win

well he did
he must have got covered real good when he dung down
to get that player
he stinks real bad
jerry i dont think you will ever be able to wash this off
the smell of shame that you should feel
but
im sure you dont


deadspin.com

for signing that player who beat the crap out of his girlfriend
got convicted
then
i still cant figure how he got off
oh i know how
money probably doesnt talk
or
she was so scared to talk anymore is probably what happened

if you google his name plus beating of his girlfriend images
you will see images that will  make you sick

i think if that was my sister or daughter i would have
made sure he would never play football again
one way or the other
legal or not legal

so
shame shame shame
on the judge for reversing the conviction
on the nfl for even letting him back into the league
especially on the players association for defending him and getting his
penalty reduced to 4 games
the same tom brady got for maybe letting air out of some footballs
the same as this cowboy got for letting the air out of his girlfriend
then
on jerry jones for doing a deal with the devil
to sign him to play for the cowboys
a mark a smudge that he will never be able to rub off

yes shame shame
jerry
you stink

the organicgreen doctor

alzheimers news-robins disease

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-ROBINS DISEASE

dementia is an umbrella
under which there are several different types of dementia
the most common is alzheimers disease
then there is vascular dementia mixed dementia frontotemporal dementia
parkinsons dementia
then there is
lewy body dementia


abcnews
thats the final word on what robin williams had
which explains his behaviors and his death

so many people were logging on the lewy body website
that it crashed this week

i always tell folks when asked that lewy body is the worst
dementia to have

if you have had a loved one who has had alzheimers disease
you know how bad that disease can be
a slow painful drift downwards that speeds up at the end

well i think of lewy body dementia as alzheimers disease
on steroids
its all sped up so that it all happens in a shorter time
think of all the bad things that happens in alzheimers disease
except its all scrunched up together
and happens more powerfully
its all devastating to all involved

at least with alzheimers it gets spread out over a longer
period of time so its not as traumatic
although not pleasant
the symptoms of lewy body can be fast and furious

if you ever talk to a family member whose loved one has had this
disease
they usually start crying and talk about how bad it was

an emotionally traumatic disease that i would wish only on
my worst enemy


in lewy body dementia there is this accumulation of this
protein throughout the brain
called
alpha synuclein
thats causing all this disruption in the normal activity of the brain

early on in the disease there are movement problems like
parkinsons but then all the bad things start happening

there is variability from day to day on patients alertness and
confusion
there are visual hallucinations and delusions
there is acting out sometimes violently their dreams
there is autonomic motor dysfunction with low blood pressure
dizziness and urinary incontinence
there is memory loss that is usually milder than alzheimers

the diagnosis is clinical
based on symptoms
until the patient dies and an autopsy can be done

medications like i take aricept (donepezil) may help some
antipsychotic drugs can make symptoms worse
antidepressants may help the depression
for the rem sleep disorder benzodiazepines like clonazepam
may help

but
really there is no treatment
there is nothing to do to slow dementia of lewy body down
they usually live less than 8 years after it develops

death is merciful for all involved

its just a bad experience for all those involved
the worse affected is the patients family

rip robin williams


november 7   bell county in temple
team organicgreendoctor
i will be the honorary chair for this event

tomorrows walk has been moved inside because of the
potential for flooding rain
the walk will occur inside the baylor scott and white research building
next to the pepper creek trail

we are close real close to a treatment or cure
we need your help

the organicgreen doctor

country n news-homestead plant

COUNTRY N NEWS-HOMESTEAD PLANT

when we start to build a house for habitat for humanity
i usually go look over the property trying to identify
plants that need to be saved
as well as look for trash trees that need to go
like ligustrum and hackberries

if you dont know what a hackberry is then you
dont have them on your property

i have spent $2,000 removing them near my house
over the last 15 years
so when i look at these properties thats what im looking
at into the future
a huge expense for these folks

the most recent property is almost a full block where
eventually the plan i think is to add 6 houses
the block use to be part of an old homestead
weve found lots of barbwire and rocks and cedar posts
old gates old water troughs lots of chicken wire

you can tell where the fences use to be because of
the lines of hackberries around the property
now hackberries are a useful tree as a food source
for birds
but they are a nuisance for property owners since
they die after about 25 years
dropping their dead limbs slowly everywhere
sometimes on your house or car or fence

one of the first plants i found was this big old what i call
a heritage oak
hidden by all these vines and hackberries and brier patches
brier patches mean scratches
just look at the scars on my legs sometimes

then this group plus two other groups cleared out this
heritage oak so you could see its beauty

sitting close by was a huge old pecan oak
sure its a native one
not one of those soft shelled ones we buy now


texastrees,org
then
sitting close to the pecan was a vitex tree like in the above
picture but bigger
a huge one
this year it was loaded with its beautiful purple plumes
its the largest one ive ever seen
so far its still entombed with yards and yards of vines
and briers
over the next few months it will be released from its
tomb

then just above the trailer of chomped down hackberries
by this energetic group you can see the upper branches
of the desert willow
a beautiful sometimes hard to find tree
this one is probably 25 ft tall


sungardensinc.com
wish i had one in my yard

then
one day as i was at the back of the property
i looked down and saw this plant with red flowers
it was all wound up in stickers and briers
so i labeled it with yellow tape

just after this rain it bloomed
this is what it looks like
to me it looks like a salvia greggii or autumn sage
but its leaves are darker and larger and the edges
are darker almost brown
but
its beautiful
knowing it was going to be destroyed with the next
construction this winter
and
knowing it may be hard to identify it this winter
i dug it up
transferring to a new safe environment
hoping it will live on for another generation

its safe here at the country n

the organicgreen doctor