Random Talking Points

[lunabee34]

No new NCIS tonight, so I have some time to kill. Love to talk to anyone who's around.

Here's what's been going on with me lately:

1. Josh has been sick pretty much all of January. He catches respiratory illnesses like cotton socks catch burrs. He has the immune system of an Ancient dying of the plague. He finally went to the doc again, and will now be taking Singulair and Flonase every day and he's adding echinacea and vitamin C to his regular vitamin regimen. Any suggestions for other things he could do to improve immune health?

2. I've been trying to up my game with self-care. My skin has been so dry because of the Hashimoto's, and so have my eyes. My eyes had gotten so dry that my vision was frequently blurry. I've been using eye drops, and the fish oil I've been taking has really helped. My nostrils had gotten painfully dry, and I've finally gotten them under control with a cocktail of Clinique Moisture Surge, Gold Bond Eczema Lotion, and a smidge of Nystantin just in case they were actually getting infected. I have to watch out for the tops of my eyelids, too; they get flaky unless I keep them super hydrated.

3. Emma and I are having so much fun watching Supernatural. I love Bobby and Ellen and Jo so much. We watched Born Under a Bad Sign tonight, and I love how early on Bobby is willing to go to bat for them (he knows possessed!Sam killed Wandell but isn't going to tell), and I love how hot that scene is when possessed!Sam is twirling Jo's hair with the knife. *fans face* It didn't occur to me on first watch, but wow at how pissed Meg had to be to screw up her daddy's plans for Sam to get revenge.

Emma's also picked up on some interesting things that didn't occur to me on first watch. So in Crossroads Blues, after Dean kisses the crossroads demon, Emma turns to me and says, "So, did John have to kiss the Yellow Eyed Demon?" And I was all, "OMG, he did! He did!" It's a bit of a retcon that we see the YED later making deals of his own when he tells John in In My Time of Dying that he can't swing saving Dean but he knows somebody who can, but I think that's just the YED keeping what he can and can't do close to the vest.

4. Emma's watching Fairy Tale. She watched all the dubbed on Netflix, and is now watching the subbed on Crunchroll. She's super invested in the Gratsu ship; I tried to find her some fic that would be appropriate for her to read, but everything on the first page was rapery and bizarre crossover. LOL Anybody familiar and have some recs?

What's going on with y'all?

Comments

[executrix]

I think it's interesting that there are 24 comments on LJ and none here! (I always read my LJ flist first.)

One problem with supplements is that there's really no regulation. So if, for the sake of the argument, 250 mg of plotdevicium is an effective treatment for what ails ya, and you buy 250 mg plotdevicium gelcaps, they might have less (or more) than the stated amount, or none, just floor sweepings, and manufacturing conditions could be poor.

[lunabee34]

I know. I usually get more comments here than LJ.

I agree with you re: supplements. They aren't regulated, which is why I would only want him to stick with stuff that's been around for awhile with info on drug interactions. Echinacea I'm okay with, extract of Chinese toad butt root not so much. LOL

[executrix]

The problem is that if echinacea is actually useful, the stuff labeled "echinacea" might not be what it's supposed to be. OTOH, if the "extract of Chinese toad butt root" is just a sugar pill, it can't do any more harm than that amount of sugar.

[lunabee34]

This is a good point. :(

I was going to say that I don't understand why we can't regulate supplements but then I remembered we can't even guarantee that our drinking water is free of lead.

That horrible tragedy has really racheted up my anxiety. Could you imagine having a baby and watching her health deteriorate and knowing that she would have problems forever because your government let her be poisoned? It makes my skin crawl.

[zulu]

Yay self-care. I am moisturizing with all the little bottles of hand-cream that bell accumulates during the holiday season, being as she works in a school and parents give gifts. Often I can manage to use them all by the time more show up next year!

[lunabee34]

Awwww, how sweet. My dad taught middle school and he would get sweet presents for Christmas.

[the_rck]

Singulair really has helped me. I don't know that it decreased the number of colds I get, but it made each of them less serious. I used to get three months of asthmatic bronchitis per cold, and now I don't get it at all. I also used to know a day or two before I got real symptoms of a cold because my chest would start feeling tight. That no longer happens.

[lunabee34]

Oh this is so so good to hear.

I will be over the moon if Josh has the same results. And yay for you feeling better.

[the_rck]

I'm particularly grateful for Singulair given that I can't use the only rescue inhaler medication currently on the market in the US. Well, I can. I just can't do it without racing heart, tremors, insomnia and a ton of anxiety beyond my normal levels. I haven't actually needed a rescue inhaler in the last decade, so there's that.

Of all the medications I take, Singulair is the one I would be most reluctant to give up and the one that I think may actually have saved my life. I'm trying to imagine my daughter's early school years with colds that left me with trouble standing up for months after I caught them.

[lunabee34]

Fiona takes Singulair too and I can't imagine how bad her asthma would be without it.

So between Josh and Fiona (and Emma when she was younger) taking Singulair and everybody in the house but me on Flonase, it sometimes feels like we are singlehandedly keeping the pharmaceutical industry afloat. LOL

Fiona likes to list things, so she frequently goes, "I take my breathing treatment and my pill and my allergy medicine and my nose spray and my cough medicine and my pain medicine." *shakes head* (obv those last two are not all the time)