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Jul. 21st, 2006
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Jul. 21st, 2006 09:00 amNow that's a heat wave...
Maan, I so remembering the two SWELTERING summers in St. Louis. Both times, I had a top floor apartment with one itty bitty window a/c. The second summer was made marginally worse by a LARGER apartment w/ vaulted ceilings (I was 19 and an idiot. It looked pretty when I was apartment hunting in May), but the first summer still ranked as the worst due to the attack of the mono. Though, when you pass out from exhaustion after climbing three flights of stairs after driving to and from the grocery store, you really don't care what the temperature is.
Those summers are my measure for HOT. Philadelphia doesn't measure up simply because it always cools off to at least 80 by night time. There hasn't been one period of time that I have to take a cold shower and go to bed in only underwear in order to hope to eke out a couple of hours of sleep before I wake up hot and sticky again.
About the only thing that is comparable to it in Philly is when it's above 50 degrees outside and my heater is POURING out enough hot air to raise the temperature in my apartment above 90. That sucks...and makes me wonder if I'll like dry heat at all.
Maan, I so remembering the two SWELTERING summers in St. Louis. Both times, I had a top floor apartment with one itty bitty window a/c. The second summer was made marginally worse by a LARGER apartment w/ vaulted ceilings (I was 19 and an idiot. It looked pretty when I was apartment hunting in May), but the first summer still ranked as the worst due to the attack of the mono. Though, when you pass out from exhaustion after climbing three flights of stairs after driving to and from the grocery store, you really don't care what the temperature is.
Those summers are my measure for HOT. Philadelphia doesn't measure up simply because it always cools off to at least 80 by night time. There hasn't been one period of time that I have to take a cold shower and go to bed in only underwear in order to hope to eke out a couple of hours of sleep before I wake up hot and sticky again.
About the only thing that is comparable to it in Philly is when it's above 50 degrees outside and my heater is POURING out enough hot air to raise the temperature in my apartment above 90. That sucks...and makes me wonder if I'll like dry heat at all.
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Jul. 21st, 2006 09:25 pmI just scared ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
luridmuse. She has a coworker just diagnosed w/ corn allergy and I was just listing all the things she needs to do/avoid just for skin irritations.
me: lots of info dump
luridmuse: good lord, this must he a serious pain in the ass.
me: ohhhh---tell her to stop chewing gum, using breath mints, hard candies, etc!!!!....
Ooooh...does she take multivitamins?? get her to stop if so.
luridmuse: yeah she does actually..
me: she can buy individual vitamins from GNC that are "corn free" and say so on label.
luridmuse: *notesnotesnotes* damn..is there anything that doesnt have corn in it?
*snorts* Not really.
luridmuse. She has a coworker just diagnosed w/ corn allergy and I was just listing all the things she needs to do/avoid just for skin irritations.me: lots of info dump
luridmuse: good lord, this must he a serious pain in the ass.
me: ohhhh---tell her to stop chewing gum, using breath mints, hard candies, etc!!!!....
Ooooh...does she take multivitamins?? get her to stop if so.
luridmuse: yeah she does actually..
me: she can buy individual vitamins from GNC that are "corn free" and say so on label.
luridmuse: *notesnotesnotes* damn..is there anything that doesnt have corn in it?
*snorts* Not really.
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Jul. 21st, 2006 09:38 pmDrug Combo provides shocking reversal of multiple sclerosis symptoms
wow! This is absolutely amazing. Relapsing remitting MS is the absolute worst form to treat and generally any MS treatment available only works for a short while for these patients. Even in animal models, there are very few things that work for relapsing remitting MS. Hopefully larger studies will prove out the same results as this small one and the side effects/risks will be minimal compared to what the disease problems are.
wow! This is absolutely amazing. Relapsing remitting MS is the absolute worst form to treat and generally any MS treatment available only works for a short while for these patients. Even in animal models, there are very few things that work for relapsing remitting MS. Hopefully larger studies will prove out the same results as this small one and the side effects/risks will be minimal compared to what the disease problems are.