The latest breast cancer research says that sleeping in a dimly lit, as opposed to dark, room may interfere with how tamoxifen works. Really? They tried it on 12 rats. Yep. So now is news worthy.
So now you are supposed to have room darkening shades or convince your local community to turn off the street lights. I'm not buying it. Even if I was still on tamoxifen I would not believe a 12 rat study. This is why they always say more research is needed.
Or they just make this stuff up.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
I swear they make this stuff up!
The latest breast cancer research says that sleeping in a dimly lit, as opposed to dark, room may interfere with how tamoxifen works. Really? They tried it on 12 rats. Yep. So now is news worthy.
So now you are supposed to have room darkening shades or convince your local community to turn off the street lights. I'm not buying it. Even if I was still on tamoxifen I would not believe a 12 rat study. This is why they always say more research is needed.
Or they just make this stuff up.
So now you are supposed to have room darkening shades or convince your local community to turn off the street lights. I'm not buying it. Even if I was still on tamoxifen I would not believe a 12 rat study. This is why they always say more research is needed.
Or they just make this stuff up.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Blogging about others.
I blog about myself and my oh-so-healthy-body. I don't really blog about other people and their stories. I mean I occasionally whine about a co-worker or a doctor or a rocket scientist that did something earth shattering utterly stupid. Crooked politicians, medical researchers, and scammers also hit my blog once in a while.
But I do not blog about other people and their medical ailments. I have family members who have their own health problems. But that is their story too tell. Its not for me to tell.
But Frances over at Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog writes about blogging as a way to share experiences, about their health problems or life and about others when they are terminally ill - as a way to cope.
I do feel it is their story to tell. Also, if all of a sudden I started blogging about another's health and someone who knew the family member but not about their ailment would find out about it through me and not through the patient.
Am I making sense? Sometimes I wonder. I believe that if you get an ailment, unless you are under 10, you should take responsibility to tell who you want to know. There is a line of privacy. Imagine if you are a high school student and you get diarrhea (a moderately embarrassing ailment at that age), do you want anyone to know? Should your mother's note say - he was sick and couldn't come in. Or should it spell out the intimate detail of mad dashes to the bathroom?
The same thing goes for the rest of your life. Its your body, you get to decide who knows what. I don't want to be the one to tell. If someone wants to write about your ailment and you don't want them to, they should start a private journal and not share it. That's their problem and not yours.
And its your choice to decide when and if to tell your story. I think I blog about this a lot but I think its important to me as well....
2/2 - I'll add an update and a clarification based on Frances' comment below. The way I read her blog post was that blogging about others illness is a way of coping. From my point of view I would never write about another.
But I do not blog about other people and their medical ailments. I have family members who have their own health problems. But that is their story too tell. Its not for me to tell.
But Frances over at Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog writes about blogging as a way to share experiences, about their health problems or life and about others when they are terminally ill - as a way to cope.
I do feel it is their story to tell. Also, if all of a sudden I started blogging about another's health and someone who knew the family member but not about their ailment would find out about it through me and not through the patient.
Am I making sense? Sometimes I wonder. I believe that if you get an ailment, unless you are under 10, you should take responsibility to tell who you want to know. There is a line of privacy. Imagine if you are a high school student and you get diarrhea (a moderately embarrassing ailment at that age), do you want anyone to know? Should your mother's note say - he was sick and couldn't come in. Or should it spell out the intimate detail of mad dashes to the bathroom?
The same thing goes for the rest of your life. Its your body, you get to decide who knows what. I don't want to be the one to tell. If someone wants to write about your ailment and you don't want them to, they should start a private journal and not share it. That's their problem and not yours.
And its your choice to decide when and if to tell your story. I think I blog about this a lot but I think its important to me as well....
2/2 - I'll add an update and a clarification based on Frances' comment below. The way I read her blog post was that blogging about others illness is a way of coping. From my point of view I would never write about another.
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