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thanks I was surprised to learn how long it takes for medicines to get out of the system - the ER dr. said to give it a couple days to let the dust settle before starting a new one .. being curious, I googled, and came across info that says it can take 5+ days for doxycycline to completely be out of your system. For another med it was saying 11-12 days! The formula used was the half life of the medication times 5.5 (I had no clue about half life either ) The elimination diet sounds interesting, I am going to look more in to that as well.

I would like to start going to more natural ways of handling illnesses, and health in general, but am not sure where to safely begin. What would you recommend for a beginner, completely new to herbs? Also, Arby suggested asking about Oil of Oregano because of it's properties. Any info on that would also be appreciated.

My results: "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas.

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Happy Birthday!!!

Since I've not been feeling that well, I wanted to try to make as many things ahead of time when I've got the energy levels up. My son loves the homemade bread that I make, so I was hoping to freeze, then thaw/rise/bake as needed. How many times do you let it rise before freezing it? My initial thought was to make the dough, let it rise, punch it down, shape, freeze, then thaw and let rise for baking. I wasn't sure if one rising was enough, or if freezing dough would kill the yeast for it's second rise? I know I could bake then freeze the baked loaf, but that doesn't give the same 'fresh baked' sort I was going for.

I love her neat site, cannednerd

oh Philbe, that dog is dangerous. It's a shame you can't report it, it would give your mom someone other than you and MM to blame for it being put to sleep. I hate to see animals put down, but when it's one like this, the risk to people has been proven to be far greater! Maybe you could use the legal ramifications of being sued if it bites someone else as reason for getting all the dogs off the property -- the next person it bites may not think twice about reporting it. We had a dog ages ago who would nip at ds's legs. Step-dad's uncle wanted it --- well, the dog just got worse, to the point where it ripped part of his hand pretty bad. Dog was put down asap by the SPCA when it was reported he bit like that. Hoping MM feels better soon and has no infection or anything from this!

Happy Birthday, Violet!!!! so good to hear that you had a good day, may you have many, many more

hamburger gravy ... i love that ... I like it with mashed potatoes best leftovers I like on bread or biscuits

so glad you're okay, gofish. what a scary way to start the day! also happy that the "prank" those kids (or geesh, at this point, I'd think even immature adults) pulled didn't hurt or kill anyone.

(((snowmom))) (((mother))) I hope you are both doing better than in the earlier posts. I missed this thread until MtRider posted in shoutbox to check it out. I was just diagnosed with Lyme myself. While I am glad that I have a diagnosis and treatment (beginning 21 days of doxycycline twice a day -- just got back from the pharmacy from picking it up this afternoon), but at the same time, scared because the symptoms start accelerating so fast, and the irregular heart beat/sinus tachycardia the drs and cardiologists couldn't pinpoint the cause of, is now being attributed to the Lyme. And the twitching, speech, vision issues ... I was hoping it would be "cured" and I go my merry way in life, but it seems that it can linger in some situations, which is scary to me. If as I am right now is the worst it ever gets, I can cope, if it gets worse at some other point, I am afraid of those prospects. I am counting my blessings, trying to be positive, I'm getting treatment, the heart issues were not worse than they are, and so on. At the same time though, the worry is there, esp. after hearing what you ladies have been through with it.

Happy Birthday

thanks

I'd like to participate again this year

http://www.instructables.com/id/Crochet-Locutus/

LOL gofish, the "resistance is futile" made me think of this crocheted Borg: : Must assimilate our husbands in to yarn fans ... Hmmm, thinking I may need to find a 12 step program geared toward trekkie yarn hoarders

they grow up way too fast. are you going up with her too?

you'll be a wondeful special friend in the ministry

That's just rude -- I too see it as they're asking for your groceries, a lot of people have no manners or consideration My brother *will* ask for whatever he sees - from food to knick knacks My mother lets him get away with it, and I used to ... until one day he went too far. Now it's a definite NO. Before we moved here, a boy my son's age a couple doors down was playing video games with my son, and when he was leaving, he had the Wii, Wii balance board, controllers, games ... he was grinning ear to ear as he said my son said he could borrow it all. Like a fool I sat there dumbfounded. Not until his dad's girlfriend came over for batteries for the controllers did I finally speak up and say everything needed to be returned right then. It's hard to say no ... until the line gets crossed. Sadly far too many don't care about being rude and will take whatever they think they can.

wondering what kind of dandy 'liquids' the 'real' foods would be mixed with.... times sure are changing. I used to think that the Jetsons and Star Trek kind of technology would be great -- now, not so much. Think we have chemicals now, I don't want to imagine the chemicals we'd be having if this became the norm.