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

E - I'm on femara and estimate that I've lost about 30% of my hair.  I take biotin and use oil, but still the hair goes.  I've got another 3years, 4 and 1/2 months on it (but who's counting).  I can take the hair loss better than the pain, though....

E - I was about to suggest BIOTIN, but GG says it hasn't made much of a difference for her, still, I know some friends it has helped.  Think it might be worth a try, if it doesn't conflict with your meds.

I don't know about Chinese Medicine for hair loss, I now use it for all my nasal allergies, and it's been wonderful. I get it from my acupuncturist.  Like homeopathic medicine, it doesn't have the ZAP, hard hitting effect of some "western" medication, I used to use antihistamines that knocked me off my feet, literally.

Sending out HI's to Blue, and Athena - hope you are feeling less pain, and feeling optimistic about the future

Pain is anoying. Sorry to be so brief. Hope to be less taciturn in the in the future. Love you all.

On morphine - yikes!

I'm so sorry about the hair loss everyone is experiencing.  I can't volunteer any help, since tamox did the opposite for me.  When I stopped taking it, all the extra fell out, but then apparently the follicles decided they liked being busy, so it all came back.   

Here is a fabulous, wonderful, amazing, delightful video (commercial for Audi) for all the Trekkies out there:

http://io9.com/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car-commerc-493836696

Hysterically funny!

And, something pointed I just saw on FB ...

mmmmhmmmm.

L

Here is the URL from an excellent article in Salon.com about the destruction of American journalism by the rise of the RWNJ "press" and the subsequent near-obliteration of journalistic integrity over which Faux Noise and its ilk have presided.  It is an excerpt from a recently-published book “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America” by John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/15/from_fox_news_to_rush_secrets_of_the_rights_lie_machine/

Some pithy pull quotes:

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"This isn’t your grandfather’s conservatism either. Although some conservative hosts, such as Michael Medved, can be quite thoughtful, just as conservative writers such as William Kristol will sometimes acknowledge when the movement has gone off the rails, the realists are in the minority. For a huge portion of contemporary conservative media, the broadcast begins and ends with the fear card, and it is often played in extraordinarily incendiary ways. Sure, some of the radio ranting comes from lightweights who are only trying to fill the three hours on the all-talk affiliate in St. Louis or Minneapolis. But the most effective purveyors of the venom are gifted and charismatic figures, such as Glenn Beck and Michael Levin, whose fire-and-brimstone moralizing is matched only by their willingness to bend the truth to support whatever argument they’ve decided to make that day. Across large swatches of America, and most rural areas where little journalism remains, right-wing talk radio is arguably the leading source of political information."

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Between the cocoon effect and the shameless disregard for consistency and intellectual honesty, it is not surprising that professional surveys tend to find regular viewers of Fox News to be more ignorant about what is actually happening in the world compared to those who watch other networks. In November 2011, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll examined how New Jerseyans watched television news, and the poll concluded that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.” In some surveys, to be accurate, Fox News does not rank at rock bottom in terms of audience knowledge. But on balance, it is the clown dunce of TV news. No other network ever comes close to getting the sort of assessment Fox News received from World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, in 2010. As one reporter summarized it, PIPA conducted a “survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation. So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false.” As Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson concluded in their study of the Tea Party, “Fox News makes viewers both more conservative and less informed.” What may be most revealing is that there is no evidence that this finding bothers the management of Fox News in the least.

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"The political right is perfectly comfortable with the false construct of a “news” network that has, in the words of Eric Boehlert, “altered the game by unchaining itself from the moral groundings of U.S. journalism.” For partisans who do not want to be held to account, the conservative media landscape of the twenty-first century looks like a future in which they could reside quite comfortably. A world with little journalism, where the affairs of the wealthy and corporations receive little scrutiny, especially their dalliances with politicians, and where the political news agenda is dominated by their partisan news media and pundits, is jim-dandy. The conservative media can continue their migration and colonization of the news so that they are indeed the mainstream. It is a world where their ability to win elections is greatly enhanced, even when they are pushing policies opposed by the majority of the population. Even if they lose an election, as happened with the 2012 presidential race, conservative media are there the next day to tell conservatives that they need not accept the will of the people. “Conservatism did not lose last night,” shouted Rush Limbaugh on November 7, 2012. Actually, it had lost. Rather badly."

Hoo boy.

L

Blue,

Owww!  Warms shower and a nap are in order.

'Moring...

Oh Blue- so sorry to hear about that! Ouch!

HL - rigth on both counts I ay. Not losing hair around here. luckily.

Not feeling TOO toopy despite the morphine - but still intend to replace it with morphine, as I just got wory  on two possible jobs.

Hugs to you Blue.....I've been known to be a good faller-downer now and then.  Definitely not fun at all. 

Jackie

and where Fox news is concerned ( no one knows what change is

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Blue, ouch! Feel better.

Athena, glad you checked in. I hope they can get something to control your pain without it making you feel loopy.

It's another gorgeous day in Seattle, but I looked at the forecast and see that we've got rain in our (near) future. 

Over the weekend (did I already say this???) we got oysters (ate them ALL last night for dinner!!!), and smoked salmon (guess what I had for lunch today?)  The very very best thing about the northwest is all the yummy seafood available here.

On the house-hunting front, we're still looking at the new house and moving forward albeit a bit tepidly.  Today hubby is looking at a new townhouse in Tacoma - mostly 'cuz it's convenient.  Lots of stairs (four stories), but if there is a bathroom on each floor I'm fine with it.  The condo in Hawaii we've received no word on - don't know if that's lack of communications, a reject of the offer or simply Hawaii-time.  I told hubby today that I'm ready to just buy nothing, leave everything in storage, buy a camper and take off.  Not the most intelligent move financially - but I'm SOOOOO done with looking a not finding. 

oh Sun - I so wish that I could take a nap.  It's one of the many things I'm looking forward to in retirement. 

I haven't (yet) told anyone at work that I'm planning on retiring this fall.  Not planning on telling them until August or maybe even September.  They gave me a HUGE project that I've started on, but they keep putting off the "official" start date.  I have a hunch that I won't be around for the finale - which makes me sad, as I detest leaving things partially completed.  To attempt to push thing forward I planned a vacation that will start 2 days following my planned retirement date, and made it clear that I wanted to have this project completed prior to my "vacation".  Since they have chosen to ignore that - I guess I won't (probably) be able to be the one to complete the project, either.  I'm not heart-broken, but it is frustrating, as I have been trying to get this project up and running for almost 4 years.  Finally succeeded in the up and running part....