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I wanted to store this online before I lost it forever. I just rediscovered this note two weeks ago.
One of my friends at Xavier's, (lets call her F) did research on the kind of diet that will help ease my discomfort due to arthritis, and put it all together in this note. It was one of the most personal and caring gestures I can recall among my varied experiences with people. We weren't even very close, and she wasn't the kind of person who vocalized her concerns.
For Kate:
1. Apples- regarded as excellent food medicine for arthritis and rheumatism especially when these diseases are caused by uric acid poisoning. The malic acid in them is said to neutralize the uric acid.
2. Bananas- A diet of bananas only for 3 or 4 days is advised- The patient can eat 8-9 bananas daily and nothing else. [personal note: I've lived on only bananas for 2 days when I was on some strange diet and it really isn't as difficult as it sounds- but then I love bananas! ]
3. Cucumber juice, in combination with the juice of carrots, beets and celery has a beneficial effect in conditions such as rheumatism, arthritis and gout.
4. Garlic- In Russia, garlic is used extensively in the treatment of arthritis and associated diseases. In Japan too, garlic extract was used to treat patients with Lumbago and arthritis and a large number of them were benefited without any side effects. This is probably due to the anti-inflammatory properties of garlic.
The most popular method is to take the garlic cloves orally [don't forget to brush your teeth later] although you may also rub the affected parts with cloves of garlic. Garlic oil is rapidly absorbed through the skin and into the blood stream, and quickly reaches the affected areas.
She ended it with a personal note:
That's all I could find on arthritis for now. Make sure you actually do some of this stuff. Apples are easy to eat, cucumber and carrot juice is yummy (although some people think it is an acquired taste)
I don't know how you'll feel about the Garlic and Bananas, but I would say that anything is worth a shot.
happy healing,
F.
Thanks for this, F., and just for you, I'll have a glass of carrot juice tomorrow!
The batchmates
How do we wake up one day and decide, I think I'll get X out of my life today. One way or another. Do we really consciously do this, or is it a result of keeping way too many disagreements to ourselves? Was I so disposable, that the minute you realized I was 'stupid' and had 'no intellectual credibility' you chose to wash your hands off me?A friend offered his perspective. While I don't agree, I can certainly accept his take on the issue. (I hope you don't mind that I'm posting this here)
the way i look at it, the reason people are important is that they do something/ say something which makes us feel better. minus this ability of theirs to make us feel better they wouldn't be too important to us. so the question really boils down to whether they are unique in this special ability to make us happy. i don't think so. ergo, i think people are replaceable.
Does this really happen? The minute we find someone else who offers the same things as our old friends (whose annoying traits we have discovered), who successfully fits the bill, do we promptly replace one with another? What does it mean, when you're hurting, and the other person isn't? Is it regret, or just the sad realisation that you are truly pathetic, that overcomes you when you realise you've spent the last three years worrying about certain people's opinions about you, when you should have been speaking your mind, and doing your wish instead. And especially considering that these people don't really give a shit about you apart from the fact that you make for good conversation.
These people were an important part of your existence, with who you had some fun times; the few people you could say anything at all to. It was good to have them in your life- even if for the simple selfish reason that they made you feel good about yourself, accepting you for who you are.
Then I tell myself that someone who could get me out of his life so easily was probably not worth all of this thought.
:DI finally submitted two spiral bound copies of my thesis this morning. *phew*I am now officially jobless...well, atleast till monday. My boss has, on three separate occasions during the course of the day, mentioned that i will be working here in July. July!!!I told her about two months ago, when she asked me about my plans for the summer, that I will not be coming to the lab this summer, as my parents want to spend some time with me before i'm bundled off to another continent. She grimaced, and i thought she'd remember that little detail, but no, must forget about my plans, and make plans for me instead. aaaargh.she even discussed all the experiments i'd have to repeat and all the stuff i'd have to write up for my 'papers'. Papers? what papers? :(anyway, atleast she can't take away my plan for this weekend. Early tomorrow morning, I'm off to Harihareshwar beach at Shriwardhan. Google it. *is excited*
