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what factors contribute to pressure sores
Answers: 3 Views: 749 Rating: 1 Posted: 12 years ago

What witchway says is true, but you must also essentially consider the patients underlying medical issues, especially  diabetes and heart disease/impaired blood flow throughout the body. There are others I'm sure, but I'm not an expert. Consistent and frequent repositioning of the body, up and ambulatory/walking if possible  (for better blood circulation)  and proper, attentive care  given  by care-givers as well as doctors  given at the first signs of a bed sore can manage it well or even stave it off.  Best of luck.

Rating: 3 Posted: 12 years ago
What can be done to aid a suffering sciatic nerve beside these wussy pain pills the dr gave me?
Answers: 6 Views: 662 Rating: 5 Posted: 12 years ago

See a GOOD Chriroprator!!  They set you right in more ways than one,......and pills are not the long term  answer  to a problem that needs immediate physical attention.  

Rating: 6 Posted: 12 years ago
Whats your favorite icecream flavor
Answers: 11 Views: 684 Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago

MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP,....."BREYERS",  SPECIFICALLY.   OMG,!!!!!!

Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago
Has anyone ever passed away while you were present?
Answers: 24 Views: 1204 Rating: 10 Posted: 12 years ago

What a very special and exclusive, inclusive moment to be a part of.  You are seeing the living world and the transition to the world beyond at the same time.   That's incredibly special!!

Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago
Has anyone ever passed away while you were present?
Answers: 24 Views: 1204 Rating: 10 Posted: 12 years ago

NO,...and , surprisingly, I have never questioned or wondered about this specific question.  I've always just taken the word of those that have,...perhaps afraid to experience it first-hand for myself,  thus far!!

Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago
2 dozen corn tortillas....
Answers: 3 Views: 668 Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago

How about filling them with a fruit-compote mixture to off-set the spicyness of the natural Latina food recipes being made.  Perhaps a papaya, banana and pineapple mixture,  or a mango, avacado, pineapple combination??  Sweet and spicy ALWAYS works,  it just needs imagination!! Yuuummmm!

Rating: 4 Posted: 12 years ago
Why must gays insist that there union be called a marriage?
Answers: 48 Views: 4554 Rating: 16 Posted: 12 years ago

Uhhhhh,....Because they LOVE each other for life!?!!!

Rating: 8 Posted: 12 years ago
What is an interesting president fact?
Answers: 11 Views: 790 Rating: 6 Posted: 12 years ago

This is pretty vague,  but I remember a presidential son getting a routine foot blister and wound up dying from it as it got severely infected and  this was pre-antibiotics,--era.....what a shame.  He might have been someone who really changed history..........We will never know now...........

Rating: 2 Posted: 12 years ago
What's your favorite mixed drink? We're talking the hard stuff!
Answers: 29 Views: 1631 Rating: 12 Posted: 12 years ago

BLOODY  MARY,.........May be wussy from some ones  point of view but  who cares??,   Then.  I have one or two at most, and then,.... I enjoy them immensely, then I switch to deep red wine...........

Rating: 9 Posted: 12 years ago
how to get water retention out of ankles quick
Answers: 3 Views: 684 Rating: 1 Posted: 12 years ago

Use the compression socks or stockings daily, day and night and you will see a gradual improvement in the lessening of the swelling, to a point of almost no swelling. I learned this the hard way through experience.  Not sure why I swelled so, but at my work I stand all day, 5 days a week,  don't get enough sleep most nights . Am in my late forties,   have heart disease and PAD in my family history,  as well as diabetes. All issues.  I'm trying to preempt by supporting my leg veins with the compression socks and after 3 months I see a very marked improvement in the swelling.  The swelling  almost is none!!  And it feels great!!  Trust your instincts and be proactive, ....it will  definitely pay off!    I feel old having to do this, but , yet,  I feel younger having done it!!   I have a quite physically active job that I handle each day, and feel  vibrant daily,  as I should at only 48!!

Quickly, then elevate your feet well above your heart for an hour or two at least and hope that does the trick  for now.

Rating: 2 Posted: 12 years ago

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