A 18 year old teenager saved her fathers life thanks to CPR learnt from the TV series House! Her father "suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in the family kitchen. Kodie Holland, told her mum off for doing chest compressions incorrectly before taking over, and said: "I just knew that if I stopped then I would lose my dad." Dr Alistair Slade, ( Read more... )

They got it wrong & I have Type 1 Diabetes not Type 2. Raging uncontrolled Type 1 Diabetes. With Sky high ketones. 22.6 ketones. Apparently the levels at which you call your GP/attend A&E is a mere 1.6-3.0. My body is burning fat and acids and in around 5-6 months I have lost 21¾lb, Without trying.

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This does not surprise me at all. A study (though needs serious study not this pathetic effort!) reported in the Lancet Psychiatry says that up to 1 in 11 patients sectioned with psychotic conditions, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, may actually have a treatable immune disorder. The finding is controversial but I am very aware of people ( Read more... )

Every day my little Tobacco had to take so many meds. All the reminders about the place are so odd. The paper on the kitchen cupboard my carer drew up for me about 4 years ago. The other I did as I could never remember for a long time on which ear I had applied his epilepsy meds. Tobacco was so clever for his meds. "Horrible" was his epilepsy meds ( Read more... )

Dental surgery agree without 'agreeing' or 'apology' that nerve damage has happened to my mouth and eye from their anaesthesia. With the systemic sjogrens, sarcoidosis, trigeminal neuralgia and autonomic dysfunction/Sympathetic Nerve Dysfunction all a risk separately, these of all my many diseases collaborate against my Ever not reacting badly to ( Read more... )

From BBC Scotland :

An accidental discovery about a woman who can smell Parkinson's disease in people is leading to a real difference to people being diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Joy Milne was tested by researchers to see if she could detect people with Parkinson's through a tell-tale odour
Currently there is no cure and no definitive diagnostic ( Read more... )

Ewwwwwww. There's a highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea spreading in the north of England with an outbreak centred in Leeds. It's a nasty fkr and ( Read more... )

It looks like a cat has taken a deep clawed slide all the way down my arm but I have no idea what caused it! It wasn't there when I had my bath with the carer this afternoon & I noticed it around 8pm on my forearm. Then discovered it's from shoulder to wrist. I never felt it happen so what the buggery bollocks was it??
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Head, face & shoulder pain got so bad earlier I had to go to bed. Heading back to sleep in a couple of minutes I hope. This is going to get worse the longer my damn high level prescription cream is out of stock, I'm now using one ⅔ weaker & fk can I tell :-( Plus Wednesday didn't help, awesome achievement because that's it now, was completely a now ( Read more... )

The future is here. Sci-fi is real. This is Creepy.... But amazing.

Nano particles could stop internal bleeding