Advice – Life As An Anomaly

Sleep Doctors Reveal Why You Should Sleep on the Left Side

For some strange reason, if I fall asleep on my left side, I begin to cough, so I have to turn. However, doctors reveal that it is healthier for most people to sleep on the left side. Learn why your sleep position matters and exceptions to his advice. — Read on http://www.powerofpositivity.com/sleep-on-the-left-doctors-reveal-why/ ©️2020 Basil Rene….

Simple Solution To Ease The Spread Of Coronavirus

Second Look Sunday: “Life With Sarcoidosis Is A Nightmare”

Originally Posted June 26, 2013 “Life with sarcoidosis is a nightmare” – Six words that describes most people’s experience on a daily basis with sarcoidosis. Those are the words posted as a comment on my Facebook page by one of my Facebook compatriots, and they speak so much of the frustration she feels having this…

How The Corona Virus Attacks Your Body

This short informative video explains how the corona virus – COVID19 – attacks your body.

8 Things People Diagnosed With Coronavirus Want You To Know | HuffPost Life

People with COVID-19 share what they’ve learned from dealing with the virus over the last few weeks. — Read on http://www.huffpost.com/entry/living-with-coronavirus-diagnosed_l_5e77a00dc5b62f90bc4c9f3a

Preparing For The COVID-19 Outbreak For The Past 14 Years

Today, I am working from home and settling in for the long haul. As the rest of the world goes into a “sudden” hygiene frenzy, my wife and I are settling into what has become normal for us for the past fourteen years. In 2006 we were already minor germaphobes, but when I started to…

How Watching The Walking Dead Prepared Me For The Covid-19 Outbreak

Thinking Out Loud Thursday: Nostradamus

3 Ways to Make Gel Alcohol Hand Sanitizer – wikiHow

With the current shortage of hand sanitizers I now have to make my own.

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Fame

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Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Abandonment

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Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Trust

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: The Naked Man

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Dealing With … People

In general, I dislike crowds of people. I prefer to take my vacation after summer when kids are back in school and vacation spots are quiet. I just spent some time in a beach town that is considered the playground for the ultra wealthy. I am very sensitive to rude, discourteous, ill mannered and obnoxious people…

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom – What Character Is Really About

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Excuses

Nobody Knows Enough

It’s very easy for someone to look at the negative side of things, especially when you are living with a chronic illness like Sarcoidosis. Doctors a lot of time don’t exactly always give you the most positive prognosis and that is because they are working off of statistics. Each of us is an individual and…

Think Before Playing The Hero

I stood in the aisle at the grocery, alone, looking at the different ice cream selections, trying to find the one with the least sugar, when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a small figure at the top of the aisle. I looked up and there was a young girl, about five,…

This Is the Single Best Way to Defend Yourself Against Airplane Germs

According to one study, travelers are up to 100 times more likely to contract a cold while flying. But, instead of downing powdery vitamin concoctions and slathering on a pound of hand sanitizer, it turns out the best medicine to fight a plane cold may simply be getting some sleep. — Read on http://www.health.com/syndication/sleep-to-avoid-germs-on-planes

The Weekend Revisit Of “Riding Elevators”

The thing about most people with sarcoidosis is the fact we all mostly have suppressed immune systems due to our medications. I hate riding elevators in flu season because inevitably some sneezy person always gets on. I came across this on the Internet the other day and I don’t know if it does work, but…

Can We Clear The Air About Sarcoidosis And Depression?

Sarcoidosis DOES NOT cause depression. Reading different posts at different sites, it is becoming a common misconception that sarcoidosis of itself causes depression and the two go hand in hand. This is entirely not true. On a blog post I read recently, a person was recently diagnosed with sarcoidosis and their main concern was that…

Learn To Use Your Smartphone To Enjoy Better Health

I started using a smartphone before there was even an Apple iPhone. Remember the Palm Treo? The world’s first smartphone? As a matter of fact I started to use PDAs, Personal Digital Assistants, the precursor to the smartphone way back in 1990. I had a Toshiba PDA and believe it or not, I still have…

Avoiding The Purity Sales Pitch

Sitting on the over stuffed, over sized grey leather sofa, I face him, amazed by his frizzed out hair and his 70s sense of fashion. He asks me a million and one questions about my health history, going even deeper into my emotional history. No other doctor had done that before. He studies me intently,…

When You Strike A Nerve You Know That You Are Doing Something Right

I recently put up a post called #Sarcoidosis Tweets Are The Whiniest Tweets There Are On The Planet and boy did I get a lot of direct emails for that one. That particular post received the second most hits of all my posts and the most direct email responses. The negative comments were by direct…

When It Rains, It Storms

I posted last time that my friend was going in for testing and they discovered that he has lung cancer. He is not in a really good place, but that is another story. Last week I got a call that my mother was having trouble breathing and that she was going to the nursing home…