I like to wear pierced earrings, but I tend to wear small and lightweight earrings.  I find that the large and heavy ones hurt my ears.  I always wonder how other women can stand wearing the heavy ones!  Every now and then I see someone who has a very large hole in their earlobe from their ear being stretched from wearing such heavy earrings!  I shudder when I see people like that!

I have a good friend Beth who was one of my college roomies.  Beth lives in Pennsylvania now.  She has worn so many heavy earrings in her pierced ears that she has actually ripped open one of her ears.  It looks terrible!  I thought that Beth was going to have to just live with that torn earlobe the rest of her life, but she called me and told me that she recently found out that there is a cosmetic surgery procedure that can be done to repair torn earlobes! 

Beth told me to check out the website of the doctor that she wants to do the procedure; the website of the Philadelphia Plastic Surgeon Dr. Emily Pollard.  Dr. Pollard is Certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and the American Board of Surgery.  She is also the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Lankenau Hospital on the Main Line in Philadelphia. 

I was just reading over her website and saw that she is highly educated and highly respected.  She certainly seems to be a great choice for my roomie to turn to!  I can’t wait to see a picture of how her ear looks after she gets it fixed!

Posted: March 11th, 2009 under Friends, Health, Internet, Life, Online.
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My mother-in-law is thinking about having some cosmetic surgery done on her upper eyelids.  As she has been aging, the skin just under her eyebrows has started to droop.  They’re drooping so much that they are affecting her vision!  So she is thinking about having them “lifted.”  I’ve never heard of that kind of procedure, and any kind of surgery concerns me so I turned to a website (mya.co.uk/askanexpert/) that my sister told me about to get some Cosmetic Surgery Help.

I learned that the procedure is called blepharoplasty and that it is a common procedure. That website has a lot of helpful information about all different kinds of cosmetic surgery; if you or someone you love is thinking about having a procedure done and you have questions about it, this is a good place to turn to for information!

Posted: March 6th, 2009 under Business, Family, Health, Life, Online, Technology.
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Healthy foods make me ill

I’m a paradox. If it is supposed to be good for you, it makes me ill. I can’t tolerate olives, or olive oil, consuming either makes me ill for days on end. You would not believe how hard it is to go out to eat nowadays because of that - so many restaurants now are trying to convert to “healthy” cooking, which involves cooking with olive oil! There have been times when I’ve been out with friends and we’ve gone into a restaurant they all want to try out and there turns out to be absolutely not one single thing on the menu I can eat - every single thing has been prepared with olive oil! And it is embarrassing to go to church pot-luck dinners and have to ask everyone if any dishes had been prepared with olives or olive oil. Of course then EVERYONE wants to know details of EXACTLY what happens when I eat it - very annoying.

And don’t even get me started on the smell of lavendar - the plant that is supposed to relax you and help you fall asleep. One whiff of that and I’m running for the bathroom to toss my cookies!

Sometimes I think my body hates me!

Posted: March 4th, 2009 under Food and Beverage, Health, Life.
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One of the big controversies surrounding cell stem research has been over the use of embryonic cells.  I didn’t know until recently that there are other ways to collect stem cells that can benefit the our health.  One of the processes involves collecting stem cells from menstrual blood!  Isn’t that amazing?  We can collect our own menstrual blood and ship it to a company that stores it for future use in stem cell therapies! 

The company that does that is called C’elle.  You can sign up for their service and they send you a kit that you use to collect your menstrual blood, then you ship it to them where they cryo-freeze it and store it for future use.  I was reading their website, and found that on their Order Now page they are offering a limited time offer to save $200 off of their initial fees.  That makes it a very reasonable price!  On their Pricing page I found that you can order a gift certificate for someone else in any amount over $50, to help someone else you may know and love to take advantage of this new technology!  I think that the medical advances the world has been seeing are amazing, don’t you?

Posted: February 21st, 2009 under Health, Life, Technology.
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I was reading in the local newspaper that the peanut recall has been expanded to include some snack foods sold at the local Cumberland Farms convenience stores!  The recall is for Cumby’s snacks - the hole in one snack mix and the honey roasted peanuts!  Up to now I had gotten the impression that the peanut scare was not around here!  I’m sure that we haven’t bought any of those snacks, but it really is a scary thing.  You have to wonder what foods ARE safe to eat anymore!

Posted: February 20th, 2009 under Food and Beverage, Health, Life, News.
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