If you have been listening to me or people like me all these years, you will have a 72 hour kit or bug out bag, food storage and a garden. You will be stocked up on food preservation supplies. You have downloaded, read, thought about and acted on emergency preparedness. The following links have been in the side bar a long time…
Annual Causes of Death in the United States
* Heart disease: 652,091
* Cancer: 559,312
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 143,579
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 130,933
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 117,809
* Diabetes: 75,119
* Alzheimer’s disease: 71,599
* Influenza/Pneumonia: 63,001
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 43,901
* Septicemia: 34,136
Tobacco 435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 365,000
Alcohol 85,000
Microbial Agents 75,000
Toxic Agents 55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes 26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,000
Suicide 30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms 29,000
Homicide 20,308
Sexual Behaviors 20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,600
Do not smoke, wear your seat belt, eat well, quit drinking too much alcohol, get regular cancer screenings, worship God and be nice to everybody 
Do not let fear mongers steal your life. Keep ALL things in your life in balance. Do you eat organic food and work out at the gym AND smoke and drive above the speed limit? Make rational choices!!!!!!
While all the flu info swallows up the news, pay attention to what else is happening. Do not be blinded by sensationalism. Be prudent about the world full of joys and sorrows. DO NOT let yourself fall into a pit of despair and hopelessness! Turn up the love, turn off the TV. Live life as if each day matters.
The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Every year in the United States, on average:
My health and the weather have a lot in common…it goes from one extreme to the other! Two days ago the official high was 88 degrees. Last night we had a heavy frost that looks like snow. It was a balmy 27 degrees. Tonight’s forecast is for 20.
I’m truly not sure how I feel. When I woke up my lungs hurt REALLY bad. Now that I have taken my morning meds, it’s tolerable as long as I don’t move around much. Each night my fever breaks in my sleep thanks to night sweats, then the fever gets hotter and hotter all day. As part of my daily meds I take an 800 mg Motrin every six hours. That helps, but the headache, fever, stabbing eye pain and creepy skin get to me anyway.
I’m truly lucky to be on oxygen at this time. My upstairs neighbor has the same flu bug. I can hear him cough and he sounds way worse than me 
When I fell asleep it was 76 degrees this morning. When I woke up after noon, it’s cold and rainy…58 and dropping fast. The most astounding thing is the weekly forecasts also changed while I was asleep!!! We are expecting 20 degrees. Geezum crow! I will need to bring the oniony seedlings back in again. One more example of how the world can change in the blink of an eye. Seems to be happening a lot lately….
Imagine my surprise!!!! I opened the back door to let Zeke out and several of the bushes up on my little hill have begun to unfurl their leaves! Real leaves! I haven’t seen real green leaves since October! Can you tell I’m excited?
Then I went into the bathroom to comb my hair. Good thing the internet is not a two way visual street! Oh, my gosh! I haven’t had a haircut in “forever”. I washed my hair last night before bed. Then I had a night of intense night sweats. It all adds up to a cross between clown hair and an afro. What a fright 
I was miserable…aching all over, burning up from fever, queasy…but I could not stop thinking about the holes in my front yard. Zeke likes digging holes to lie in. If it were my land, I would not care. I’ve been meaning to skim some sod off the future garden area to fill in the holes. As the sun went down, I did just that. I carved out two large rectangles. After digging up the sod and dragging it back to my apartment, I wasn’t so sure I was going to live. I did all that without supplemental oxygen. I’ve never felt such burning in my chest!
I gulped o2 and downed some lemonade. When the bulk of the pain had subsided and my breathing wasn’t so raggedy, I went out, dug holes for the sod and fitted them in. Not the smartest move after the hottest day of the year when I was so sick….but I did it!!!!!!
After a nice, cool shower, I’m still trying to recover.
It was 86 degrees here today. I spent the afternoon under my down quilt freezing. My feet and legs were like ice. My head was burning up. The rest of me was either hot or cold…nothing in between. What’s up with that?
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