I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Speaking of asthma medication - I'm going to back off of advair to every other day - hoping to wean myself off again.  I have been in SO MUCH PAIN since I started it - I could hardly walk this morning.  On the other hand - I can breathe better.  I had having to make these decisions....  hmmmm pain or breathe - pain or breathe...

I didn't know about milk proteins - but am not intensely lactose intolerant.

Sunflowers, all the hype about the cicadas is a bust in close-in DC. I don't remember this brood of cicadas from 1996 - and I WOULD remember them because it was the year I met DH (in June!) and I am utterly terrified of those things. The really huge brood was in 1987 and 2004 and will return in 2021. They don't have them in Wisconsin, where we plan to retire in 2019, so I will be safe. In 1987 I was posted overseas to Jamaica, so I avoided a couple weeks of them. In 2004, I was a wreck. I had to drive to work instead of walking to the bus. I stayed in on the weekends - I really have a phobia. I swear, if one gets on me I will drop dead. With that level of hysteria I have about them, they weren't really around close-in Northern Virginia in 1996 or DH never would have asked me out again. We even had a picnic on the Mall ... No Big Bugs. Thankfully, because I don't want to die from a cicada getting on me so close to retirement. Phobia, I tell you.



L

Raw Story Headline:

Fox News chief ordered Geraldo Rivera's mic cut for defending Obama on Benghazi report. 

A new report says that Fox News President Roger Ailes ordered the Fox News control room to cut host Geraldo Rivera’s mic just two days before November’s election because he was defending President Barack Obama against the network’s “misinformation” about terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

The New York Times reported on Monday that Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Alter’s new book, “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies,” is expected to tell a story about how Fox News tried to use the Benghazi attacks to prevent Obama’s re-election.

“Roger Ailes covered the Benghazi story as if it were Watergate just before Nixon’s resignation, with almost wall-to-wall coverage,” Alter wrote, noting that Rivera was the only host “allowed to offer a dissenting view.”

But Rivera apparently went too far during hisNov. 2 appearance on Fox & Friends when he accused guest host Eric Bolling of telling a “lie” by suggesting that the president “went gambling in Las Vegas when he could have been saving our people in Benghazi.”

“After the argument continued for several minutes, Ailes called the control room and told the producers to cut Rivera’s mic,” Alter explained.

Alter, who is also an MSNBC contributor, also noted that the order from Ailes was unusual because Fox News employees “generally reflected Mr. Ailes’s views without his explicit instructions,” according to the Times.

Update (11:50 a.m. ET): An unidentified Fox News “spokesperson” told Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell that Ailes never ordered Rivera’s mic cut, but another Fox News exec made a call to “urge the show to move on because the segment had come to its conclusion.” In a tweet, Rivera also denied that anyone cut his mic.

 Just such as this is why I would not listen to Fox News.....I wouldn't trust anyone from there with even giving me the correct time unless I was sitting in front of the atomic clock...........yes, I know, I wouldn't need to ask then.  Lord knows they certainly can't be trusted  with anything of any importance.  Of course, when your whole program is one of destruction while carrying on many levels of fear mongering and miss-information....any one with an actual brain stays far away.  There is enough of that with all journalists, but not all of them want to be totally destructive one one President. 

Anyway.....hope you all had a great day.  I may be able to find a good graphic.  Going to look now.

Jackie

I just came by to read but then saw GG;s comment on Advair. I have switched from it to Dulera. With my insurance Dulera is cheaper and is at least as effective as Advair, at least for me.

I have the lingering aftereffects of the flu. A friend who does not have asthma started this crud two weeks before I did and is still huffing and puffing. The flu combined with the pollen is kicking my butt. I am taking more asthma meds than I like but no prednisone so it's okay.

Rosemary, I'm glad you're managing without prednisone.

Edited to add: Enjoyful, I'm still banging my head at what you had to go through and they can't trust the negative result anyway. On a brighter note, How's Samson doing?

RR, my Sammy Sampson is doing beautifully.  He LOVES having his Mom around, and proves it by wiping his nose on my face and nibbling on my pony tail, and by putting his head against my chest.  It's a BIG head, too, as big as my torso!  Such a sweet, sweet boy.

I'm also one with a cicada phobia.  Actually, big bug of any kind phobia. The cicada invasion I remember best was in 1970 - I was in Cincinnati - and 2004.   I note Vermont doesn't seem to have them.  Another point for Vermont.  I'll take blizzards over cicadas, although I'm probably nuts.

Sun and other allergy sufferers: feel better soon. I've had them all my life.  I was taking Zyrtec to control - and finding that I was so sleepy midday I was afraid I'd fall asleep at the wheel.  Stopped taking it about a week ago.  Allergies are worse with the pollen falling like snow, but I'm more alert.

Fiddleheads...interesting...wondering what they taste like.

Enjoyful, aw...Sampson sounds cuddly.

Good to hear from Athena.

Miss you lioness.

Hey, Sandy - try cutting the Zyrtec in half and taking it at night. That's what I do - otherwise I would be face down in my keyboard by noon every day. 5 mg/day works nicely for me and taking it at night helps me sleep. And I am SO glad you have a cicada phobia too. People think I am crazy because they don't bit, but those damn things are AS BIG AS A HUMAN THUMB!!!!! THERE ARE THUMBS WITH RED EYES FLYING AROUND AND HITTING PEOPLE!!!! (shuddering) I don't remmber the 1970 ones in Dayton - I would have been 12. I'm sure we had them - I must've stayed in. The 1987 ones nearly killed me. I never have to live through any more Brood X swarms! And I, too, would much rather live through blizzards than cicadas!



Interesting that everyone has SEs from Advair. Maybe I do and don't pay attention. But after I started using it, I stopped having bronchitis twice a year or more, and stopped having pneumonia every other year or so. I was so thrilled with consistent breathing that I don't think I noticed anything else! I had never breathed so well before!



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Jackie, I want that cat!  Ofcourse, I know now, that one picks their kitties for their personalities, not their looks, but if looks could beguile, that would be the kitten for me.  (Ofcourse, I would always get one from a shelter too.)

cicadas HURT when they fly into your face - seriously - like getting HIT with a large hailstone - but yuckier!  BUT, it's the noise, oh, the noise - like having a helicopter hovering above your head WHINING - truly could NOT believe it the first time I was in DC for the "invasion" - and for some weird strange reason, they seem to CLUSTER around the wheels of your car - and crunch, crunch, crunch when you start driving. 

Poor Athena - this invasion on top of everything else she's dealing with -