"Even if the normal climb is technically easy, multiple casualties occur every year on this mountain (in January 2009 alone five climbers died).[citation needed] This is due to the large numbers of climbers who make the attempt and because many climbers underestimate the objective risks of the elevation and of cold weather, which is the real challenge on this mountain. Given the weather conditions close to the summit, cold weather injuries are very common." In your state of health and age I should insist on the beach.
Exposure and altitude will take quite a few people on what is considered an 'easy' mountain. I have tackled the tall ones before but once over 6000m it is just a lot of pain and nausea from low effective oxygen around 9.7% (always ~21% mix but..). Beach has ice cream. So there is a clear winner.
This journal was started 3 months ago. So Slarti, has your life improved in any way and specially due to this thread?
I understand, because of your mother you know more, you lived it. This could be one of your projects - to oblige Anna and others who at your view are spreading information pollution to put a disclaimer. Who knows what adventure it can be, what discoveries may come at the light. And a friend of mine simply refused chemotherapy, when cancer came back on her bones ..... she also refused a shaman who was assisting her first time united with chemotherapy, and breath cancer stage 4, she was diagnosed to have 3-4 months ..but she survived... 5 year later it returned.. she never knew Anna, it was her choice.......... "My experience working in hospices means I have had this kind conversation a few times. There is also a male vs female view of things. I am very male, practical solution to problem first. Mars, Venus etc. etc." The Gautama Buddha was a man, Lao Tzu was a man, Rumi, Omar Khayyam There are more here https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/in-search-of-god.308024/ The most of them are men.. It is all about duality inside of us - if the concept of reincarnation is acceptable by you - for me it is fact, then we all born once a man, once a woman, changing backgrounds, races, places and so on until will get the whole lesson. I am against all this feminism, but I believe in order to be happy and whole we should recognize a presence of both poles in us, like this great poet Your thought, dreaming on a softened brain, like a long-lost valet on a soiled couch, I will tease about a bloodied heart flap: I am getting rid of my satiety, brash and caustic. .............................................. Want to - I will be mad with flesh - and, like the sky, changing the tone - want to - I will be impeccably gentle, not a man, but a cloud in his pants! VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (from the poem "The Cloud in the Pants" "She give some detail here in another interview it took me a while to find. She saw a friend die of a completely different cancer. Cancer & chemo scared her so she went to a naturapath instead of conventional treatment. "I was living in a lot of fear at that time – fear of the cancer, and fear of chemo. I cleaned up my diet, did colon therapy, and took all the pills the naturapathic doctor gave me. " Thank you for finding this interview, but where is the problem here, she simply revealing her fears and her experiences and even saying that only natural way of healing did not work. I am the same, always curing with natural ways like Reiki, essential oils etc, but if some real thread I welcome antibiotics and whenever modern science is offering to stop illness. And here I hope we will finish about Anna, it is too personal for both of us, especially for you. But I would love to hear if you really will feel to make her put a disclaimer and how it will be. "Read the article I posted before discussing how when people like yourself are under stress they become highly vulnerable to con-artists. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...iew-new-book-the-confidence-game-review-scams" I read it and ask you, please, stop trying to put me among stressed people and to explain my devotion to the spiritual openness by that. The people I mention in my previous post has nothing to do with con artists. I even cannot understand why Konnikova lost her time to find out about the topic, maybe to solve her own problems. Sometimes victictims are kind of hypnotized. "The dirty secret is: 1. Insurance/lawyers force oncologists to over-prescribe. 2. Chemo is taken by patients it will not help who want to SHORTEN their lives, sometimes they don't tell their friends they chose a form of proxy assisted death. My own mother went from diagnosis to death in four months. Had she not taken chemo she would have lived longer however she had a tiny, basically zero, chance with esophageal, metastasized to liver and lung it would help. Older people have seen long & drawn out deaths and most given a choice... So they take the fraction of a percent chance and leave the rest up to god. https://www.rd.com/health/conditions/cancer-prevention-oncologists/" Again very sorry for your mother... and yes the pharmaceutical industry must be sued more.... as well all doctors hiding behind "Watership Down is soon coming to Netflix. I liked Jonathan Livingstone Seagull which you mentioned as a kid a lot however, I also liked this little tale (tail) about rabbits. Richard Adams and Richard Bach." Uups, sorry, missed Richard Adams, better late than never, will enjoy reading in next days. And will look forward to watching it with kids, thank you (they knew about Richard Adamas). I admire also another Richard - Richard Dennis, his lifestyle and views and interviews to NYT sd, of course, turtles experiment! Then will be three Richards, perfect number, if you agree. "For me JLS was not about if I used my imagination I would become a kind of faster-than-light-and-time being. That is what Jonathan became in a story. JLF was about committing to a path bravely whether it went somewhere exceptional or not." True.. it is the same for us..many here and in the world are not understanding why we are committed to our battle - because it came to us and we feel it is truth and justice
I originally started this to metaphorically splash cold water on my face for a day. I had a feeling of I know something is wrong but I don't know what it is. Usually the only bad decision is not making one and writing stuff down helped me choose to go to an endocrinologist. Deciding to be open and not embarrassed or ashamed of some getting older effects, maybe get some insight. So it turned out I had an acute case of potassium deficiency and I feel as good as a few years ago again. Other than that I have for the past couple of weekends volunteered in a hospice again. Mostly just sitting about making cups of tea for people etc. though I made a few beds which use positive air pressure through the mattress to dry and a cam mechanism to slightly rotate the person automatically to shift weight. Bedsores are a horrible thing so prevention is far better than treatment etc. So I guess that is a worthwhile benefit of the journal.
Did your doctor explain how or why this potassium deficiency came about? And are you treating it with supplementation or a change in diet?
To be honest, I think we are only partly understanding each other. but there are some things I agree with. Doctors need to be sued less not more, many good doctors are persecuted by people who want someone to blame. For example my neighbor growing up was a pediatrician, I was a kid when he moved next door. A highly intelligent and dutiful man, as good as they come as a neighbor and friend. He retired at 53 because two lawsuits within five years (none before) involving misdiagnosis (lab error in one) made him effectively un-insurable. A total waste and loss of a really good doctor. On the opposite end of the spectrum there are money grubbing sociopaths in medicine. One I know in Ireland caused huge harm by offering homeopathic treatments for cancer in a fancy and expensive private clinic. He fought for years but was finally struck off the medical register. So he started flying in Japanese and other non-English speaking patients (his history harder to discover) for his expensive treatments and bottom of the class doctors assisting him. This was in Ireland, not Mexico. Over a decade later he appealed and using lawyer brute force got his medical license back! As corrupt and wrong as it gets. Anyway the good can be taken out too easily and the bad just double down over and over. As in politics. The practical problem with chasing people like Anna is they use the internet to reach an international audience. They will always have people who defend them wasting time. Cancer is riddled with enthusiastic Dunning Kruger effect people, people who don't know what the don't know but are extremely confident as a result. Same with UFOs, 'quantum' people and whatnot. Richard Dennis.. well he is what he is. At least the Turtles Experiment gave us the movie "Trading Places".
He agreed it was down to excess Coca-Cola accelerating the loss through urine and probably not helping me absorb it either. I was taking a Centrum Advance a day for a year, that helped but it could not supplement enough. Change of diet and some oral/IV supplements are making a huge difference. I'm just going to give it a few months, I have dropped the supplement a lot this week to encourage the body's natural absorption. My heart feels steady as a rock again, the only arrhythmia I have had was after drinking some Canada Dry.. also a Coca-Cola product... may have a common ingredient.