Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue.

STROKE: Remember

The 1st Three Letters.... S.T.R.
A friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.

Please read:
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .....she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die.... they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke... totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.R

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

I thought....

I was conscious about my health but I was wrong. I have been abusing my body for years without realizing it. After my gynae check up and my sudden operation I realize I bad I was with my body. I only did my pap smear after 2 years delivered Aaron. Even then, I should have done it way before Aaron was born but I neglect it. Having few history of breast cancer and ovary cancer in my family I only do the mammogram this year. My friend Linda that stayed in the States informed me that over there they only encourage woman above 40 to do the mammogram. May be due the expensive fee. But I was on the way to the hospital and I heard our local ads urging young Malaysian woman to take first step on breast check up or mammogram and also pap smear due the breast cancer and cervical cancer statistic is getting higher. Why not take precaution earlier? We can spend our money on food, drink and party, there should some money spend on heath.

While I was going to my physiotherapy session, my gynae doctor asking me to see her and it seems that my pap smear wasn't great after all. There some fungus was detected and she give me some medication to kill the germ inside my vagina. Just imagine, I thought I was clean. We can never be too sure nowadays.

On my physiotherapy session, I learn day to day movement how we can care about our back. Honestly, I heard this when we were in junior high school and even our mom always told us to sit up straight and don't sloughing. And yet, we choose not to care and now I had no choice to care. I had to learn this in my 30's again and what a embracement as it show it was me who abuse my own body. Oh well mistake has been done and I live to tell it. I hope my writing could give some awareness to all my ladies friends how important for us to take care outside and inner body. I have paid the price!

My visit ...

To relatives house during Eid Mubarak (Hari Raya) was so tiring and enjoyable. Lavish with different kind of food for each houses. Only this time we had biggest relatives meeting and asking about each one of them. Firstly, we visit the eldest aunt house and so on. Both my grandparent already past away so we only had our Mak Ngah to visit on my mom's side. But Nek Bik (my grandma youngest sister) on my dad's side and glad she can still manage to see her great grandson.

To gynae clinic for yearly check up and mammogram bringing good result. Never knew doing mammogram make you feeling very worried. While the imaging lady doing her work, I was so afraid to know the result. Thanks god I was clean from any lump. The reason of the gynae check was because I miss my period for 3 months and yet I am not pregnant. But at this moment doctor suspected hormone in balance and I am on hormone medication. I must make sure in great shape as we are planning for second child next year.

To orthopedic clinic has made me admitted to hospital immediately for further diagnose. I was sent to x-ray and MRI to see what has cause my left leg in pain. The finding is one the MRI result. My L5 spine disk was torn and leak. Due to this the disk is pushing my nerve and cause me pain on my left leg. After knowing the cause doctor advise me to do minor operation so they can insert facet block at my L5 spine. But he fail to tell me that it was very painful procedure as he had to do 6 times local anesthetic (as if you had 6 times epidural) which is painful for me. I had very low tolerant on pain (that's why I had epidural for when I delivered Aaron). Anyway if I don't do it I will forever feel the pain on my left leg and I won't be able to wear any high heels. So now I just discharge from the hospital and I want to rest and do some physiotherapy exercise so my back can heal fast. I had to give Aaron to my parent as I can't carry him due to my back is still in pain.

For relatives and friends that visit me in hospital and my house, I would like to thank you and my house door still open to anyone to wish to visit me. 

Finally...

Finally my PC up and running again with new motherboard, processor and RAM after the crash boom bang incident last week. I should have know something was wrong when I started to smell some burning at the CPU. Due to my ignorance finally my PC died last week and collapsing my motherboard and power supply. Still I manage to back up mine and hubby email achieve and not losing any data at all. But the damage has cost us a dime to replace all the component at near Eid Mubarak festival. Shucks! I am glad to be able to online again and was feeling so restless when the PC died 3 days ago. My life means nothing without my PC, LOL!

Anyway Eid Mubarak just around the corner and I want to wish all the muslim in the world "Happy Eid Mubarak" from me, Rosnin & Aaron.. Muah!!

Jokes of the day

The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, 'Please wake me at 5:00 AM ' He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.'

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests. *

WIFE VS. HUSBAND

A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a  word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?' 'Yep,' the wife replied , 'in-laws *

WOMEN'S REVENGE

'Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase. As she fumbled for her wallet I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked. 'No,' she replied, ' but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'

UNDERSTANDING WOMEN **(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

W O R D S

A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day... 30,000 to a man's 15,000. The wife replied, 'The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men... The husband then turned to his wife and asked, 'What?'

CREATION

A man said to his wife one day, 'I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.' The wife responded, 'Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!

WHO DOES WHAT

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, 'You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.' The husband said, ' You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.' Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.' Husband replies, 'I can't believe that, show me.' So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says..........'HEBREWS'

God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.*

SEND THIS TO SMART WOMEN WHO NEED A LAUGH AND TO MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT

Facts about tampons and pad

If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you use tampons, read this and pass it on to your friends. For the men receiving this email,please forward it to your friends, significant others, sisters, mothers, daughters, etc.) Thanks!

Check the labels of the sanitary pads or tampons that you are going to buy the next time and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email.
No wonder so many women in the world suffer from cervical cancer and womb tumors. Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why would they do this? Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to need to use more. Why isn't this against the law since asbestos is so dangerous? Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider tampons as being ingested, and, therefore, didn't consider them illegal or dangerous.

This month's Essence magazine has small article about this and they  mention two manufacturers of a cotton tampon alternative. The companies are: Organic Essentials @1-800) 765-6491 and Terra Femme @(800)755-0212.

A woman getting her Ph.D. at University of Colorado at Boulder sent the  following: 'I am writing this because women are not  being informed about  the dangers of something most of us use: tampons. I am  taking a class this  month and I have been learning a lot about biology and  women, including  much about feminine hygiene. Recently we have learned that  tampons are  actually dangerous (for other reasons than TSS). I'll  tell you this -  after learning about this in our class, most of the females wound up  feeling angry and upset with the tampon industry, and I for  one, am going  to do something about it To start, I want to inform everyone I can, and email is the fastest way that I know how

HERE IS THE SCOOP:
Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful:   Rayon (for absorbency), and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching the  products). The tampon industry is convinced that we, as women, need bleached white products in order to view the product as pure and clean. The problem here is that the dioxin, which is produced in this bleaching  process, can lead to very harmful problems for a woman. Dioxin is potentially carcinogenic cancer-associated) and is toxic to the immune and reproductive systems. It has also been linked to endometriosis and lower sperm counts for men. For  both sexes, it breaks down the immune system.
Last September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that there really is no set 'acceptable' level of exposure to dioxin given that it is cumulative and slow to disintegrate. The real danger comes from repeated contact Karen Couppert 'Pulling the Plug on the Tampon Industry'). I'd say using about 4-5 tampons a day, five days a month, for 38 menstruating years is 'repeated contact', wouldn't you? Rayon contributes to the danger of tampons and dioxin because it  is a highly absorbent substance. Therefore, when fibers from the tampons are left behind in the vagina (as usually occurs), it creates a breeding ground for the dioxin. It also stays in a lot longer than it would  with just cotton tampons. This is also the reason why TSS (toxic shock syndrome) occurs.

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached  and that are all cotton. Other feminine hygiene products  (pads/napkins) contain dioxin as well, but they are not  nearly as  dangerous since they are not in direct contact with the  vagina. The pads/napkins need to stop being bleached, but, obviously,  tampons are the  most dangerous. So, what can you do if you can't give up using tampons?  Use tampons that  are made from 100% cotton, and that are UNBLEACHED. Unfortunately, there  are very few companies that make these safe tampons. They  are usually only  found in health food stores.  Countries all over the world ( Sweden , Germany , British Columbia , etc.)  have demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the U.S.  has decided to keep us in the dark about it. In 1989, activists in England mounted a campaign against chlorine bleaching. Six weeks and 50,000 letters later, the makers of sanitary products switched to oxygen bleaching (one of the  green methods available) (MS magazine, May/June 1995).

WHAT TO DO NOW:
Tell people. Everyone. Inform them. We are being  manipulated by this industry and the government, let's do something about it! Please write to the companies: Tampax(Tambrands), Playtex, O.B., Kotex.
Call the 800 numbers listed on the boxes. Let them know that we demand a safe product ALL COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS.
AND FOR THOSE OF US WHO USE SANITARY NAPKINS/PADS:
IF u ever wondered what were the ingredients that made popular brands so "free and light and carefree", well here's the bit:
The material that makes the pad so paper THIN, is cellulose gel. Yeap, it's not even cotton!!!!!! DO NOT wear the same pad for more than 3 hours of a maximum!!! After this duration, the genital area is prone to bacterial action and may result in cervical cancer or other complications!!!!!!!!!!
REMEMBER! NEVER NEVER NEVER WEAR THE SAME PAD FOR MORE THAN 3 HOURS!!!!
SO yes, please pass on this message to as many women as  possible and save lives!!!!!!!!!!

References:
Women Health Issues - Thrush

Hongkong & Disneyland

Finally my holiday started. We had to catch 7am flight and reach the airport at 4am. Huh so early and Aaron still sleeping in the stroller. After checking the bags we decided to have Big Breakfast in Mc Donald. My hubby managed to do his Subuh(Dawn) prayer before boarding the flight. Aaron sleep the whole journey (thanks god!). I told my mom to keep Aaron wake as late as she can the night before. 4 hours journey with AirAsia is horrible. Not sure if other liner good but for sure we not booking with them if the journey more than 2 hours. Express boarding doesn't really make any different in LCCT. I got backpain as the sit can't recline so much. Even our bus sit can recline much more. Oh well you pay cheap ticket so you get cheap service. I can't comment so much.

When we arrived, a bit clueless on which transportation to use to get to the Disney Hotel. But we took the cab as it is easier even thou it cost us HKD 150. Our room is magnificent and comfy. I love the view and very happy with the service. It was raining when we arrive so we rest a bit in the room before we start our journey to Hongkong Island via MTR. Aaron was fascinated with kid bathrobe and slipper.

Our main focus going to Hongkong is to take Aaron to Disneyland so he can meet Mickey Mouse personally. It was fun to see him get very excited when he saw Mickey Mouse. But he was puzzled when we  enter the souvenir shop as he sees too many Mickey. Some people commented that Aaron too small to enjoy Disneyland but honestly he enjoyed the day. He really have fun watching the Parade and see most of Disney characters alive. On the street he was dancing away enjoying the day and I don't feel trip is a waste. He don't even want to leave the place. So in future plan, we want to ensure we bring him to Disney World in Orlando before he start primary school. It will not be problem to us as my hubby been there and know way around.

Some people know that I'm good in shopping. We do buy a lot of stuff in Ladies Market, Temple Street, Western Market and the alley (LOL). We manage to go to the Victoria Peak but unfortunately it was raining and very cloudy. Barely can see the sunset. We made time to find Chinese Muslim Restaurant and enjoy the food there. We do travel with MTR and thumb up with their MTR system. If you ever get lost in Hongkong than you must be a fool. Being in Hongkong is something like going to Singapore. Their transportation is  very good especially their MTR station. The instruction very straight forward and it is impossible for you to get lost. But you must have a lot of stamina as you need to do a lot of walking. They have Central like our KL Sentral but better system. Everything in one roof. You don't need to go outside to catch another line train like ours (we had to go out of KL Sentral building to catch Monorail). But lack of public restroom. Even in travel guide did mention Hongkong lack of public restroom. If you have to go, please find Mc Donald.

Overall the trip was great but tiring. Aaron barely want to walk so we taking turn to carry him. The trip back is worth while using the express boarding as we are given priority to be in the flight early than the rest so we can get better seat.

I will be downloading most of the pictures at Facebook. The link will be mention below.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004889&l=aff49&id=1034455652

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