Posted 12-7-2009
This Foxnews article could be relevant for anyone experiencing vision difficulties. It seems there is such a thing as an artificial lens that can be implanted into an eye that can help persons be able to see in high definition. It looks like it is only available in the UK and British ophthalmic surgeons indicate the lens actually allows vision to be better than 20/20.
This is extremely good news to me and even to my husband who vows over and over that if they ever come up with a sure fire way to improve vision he will jump on it and have it done. Until then, we are both skeptical about all the current surgical procedures for vision improvement and the percentage of successful vision rates that are not 100% OK.
I would rather continue to use eyeglasses instead of going through any corrective laser surgery on my lens if the outcome turned out to be worse than what I had to begin with. I have always known that with advances in medicine there will be a better technique if I just wait it out and it looks like this British technique is the one. Cataract surgery is quite common and the technique starts out just like the implanting of a new lens in a cataract patient. However the great thing about this particular lens is that it can be adjusted while it is in the eye. The article describes the process of adjustment by detailing, “The lens is made from a special light-sensitive silicone, and it can correct both cataracts and the long-sightedness that usually comes with age. By shining ultraviolet light on specific parts of the lens, surgeons can change its shape and curvature, sharpening the image seen by the patient.” The first surgeon to use the lens reports, “We have the potential here to change patients' vision to how it was when they were young. The change is so accurate that we can even make the lens bifocal or varifocal, so as well as giving them good vision at distance we can give them good vision for reading.” “They won't need their glasses at all." And the procedure seems foolproof because the lens can be adjusted over several days until there are no distortions caused by flaws in the eye and once vision is perfect it is permanently fixed in shape. I would love to have perfect vision again as I have not been without glasses since 8th grade.
I think it is great when there are advances in medicine and science made to real problems such as vision difficulties. One thing that I am puzzled about though is that a lot of really cool advances are made abroad and not available here in the US. The article does not say if this will be available to the general public and at what cost, but only that they are successfully implanting the lens into real patients. Hopefully my excitement about this procedure is not in vain and I will start seeing commercials on TV offering this technology in my home town.
Monday, December 7, 2009
HIV-Positive Man Reportedly Injects Blood Into Sleeping Wife
Monday, December 07, 2009
This story on Foxnews is so outrageous that I included the link embedded into the reported story if you want to read more about it. Click here for more from Sky News.
In New Zealand a woman is now HIV positive because her husband wanted to have sex with her. He intentionally took a needle and dipped it into his own blood that was infected with HIV and pricked her leg with the needle on two occasions while she slept. On the second occasion she just happened to wake up after being pricked and confronted him and he confessed he wanted to make her HIV positive so she would start having sex with him again. Four months after being pricked with the infected needle, the woman tested positive with HIV.
I am so sorry for this woman who thought she was doing the best she could for her children by staying with her husband after she discovered he was HIV positive during a health screening shortly after moving to New Zealand. I’m sure though that she probably had no idea he was ever capable of doing such an atrocious thing or she would not have stayed with him. Why oh why can’t hindsight be foresight?
This should be a time in history where a murder victim gets to actually sit through her own murder trial and see the murderer tried and sentenced for punishment while she is still alive. I don’t know how this man was infected with the virus himself but I’m sure it was not by being husband of the year. I would not want to have sex with him either but not because he had HIV and that I would get the disease but because he obviously is an adulterer and not worthy of such an intimate privilege. I cannot imagine what this husband could be thinking as a simple fix to their relationship problem by maybe saying to himself…Well I’ll just make her HIV positive too, and then our marital problems will be solved…Let’s see I’ll even use one of her sewing needles to stick her with so it won’t hurt so bad…..Now what is my plan in case she wakes up after I stick her? Oh I know I’ll just confess and then we’ll kiss and make up and then have sex………and live happily ever after. Oops I guess he forgot about the happily ever after because there is no happy left, only death and orphaned children. I wonder if the courts of New Zealand even have a precedent for charging this man with a crime bigger than assault. If so, it should be a murder trial because this woman is going to eventually die of AIDS just as he is, however even the death penalty verdict would not seem like justice since he is going to die of AIDS anyway.
This has got to be one of the most heinous of crimes I have heard of yet in the name of family and love. This guy is a psycho and keeps letting his male parts get him in deeper and deeper trouble and it is too bad he can’t get the death penalty twice for each time he pricked his wife with the infected needle.
This story on Foxnews is so outrageous that I included the link embedded into the reported story if you want to read more about it. Click here for more from Sky News.
In New Zealand a woman is now HIV positive because her husband wanted to have sex with her. He intentionally took a needle and dipped it into his own blood that was infected with HIV and pricked her leg with the needle on two occasions while she slept. On the second occasion she just happened to wake up after being pricked and confronted him and he confessed he wanted to make her HIV positive so she would start having sex with him again. Four months after being pricked with the infected needle, the woman tested positive with HIV.
I am so sorry for this woman who thought she was doing the best she could for her children by staying with her husband after she discovered he was HIV positive during a health screening shortly after moving to New Zealand. I’m sure though that she probably had no idea he was ever capable of doing such an atrocious thing or she would not have stayed with him. Why oh why can’t hindsight be foresight?
This should be a time in history where a murder victim gets to actually sit through her own murder trial and see the murderer tried and sentenced for punishment while she is still alive. I don’t know how this man was infected with the virus himself but I’m sure it was not by being husband of the year. I would not want to have sex with him either but not because he had HIV and that I would get the disease but because he obviously is an adulterer and not worthy of such an intimate privilege. I cannot imagine what this husband could be thinking as a simple fix to their relationship problem by maybe saying to himself…Well I’ll just make her HIV positive too, and then our marital problems will be solved…Let’s see I’ll even use one of her sewing needles to stick her with so it won’t hurt so bad…..Now what is my plan in case she wakes up after I stick her? Oh I know I’ll just confess and then we’ll kiss and make up and then have sex………and live happily ever after. Oops I guess he forgot about the happily ever after because there is no happy left, only death and orphaned children. I wonder if the courts of New Zealand even have a precedent for charging this man with a crime bigger than assault. If so, it should be a murder trial because this woman is going to eventually die of AIDS just as he is, however even the death penalty verdict would not seem like justice since he is going to die of AIDS anyway.
This has got to be one of the most heinous of crimes I have heard of yet in the name of family and love. This guy is a psycho and keeps letting his male parts get him in deeper and deeper trouble and it is too bad he can’t get the death penalty twice for each time he pricked his wife with the infected needle.
Man Arrested for Throwing Tomatoes at Sarah Palin, Police Say
Updated December 07, 2009
This story on Foxnews is about a man who apparently got himself arrested because he was on an upper level of the Mall of America in Minnesota, and supposedly threw two tomatoes at Sarah Palin the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, as she sat below signing copies of her new book for fans. However Palin was not hit by the tomatoes, but instead the tomatoes hit a policeman nearby so, the arrested man may face assault charges.
I thought this story was rather hilarious because I did not know people still threw fruit or vegetables at people they did not like. I’ve never been to the Mall of America. Do they sell tomatoes there? Was this premeditated and were the tomatoes brought with the assailant? Were the tomatoes rotten or the grocery store green ripened kind? How did the authorities know he was aiming at Sara, when the article reported that neither tomato came close to hitting her? Maybe he was trying to hit the police instead.
People are so funny and even the article compared this book signing event to an event like Black Friday. People do strange things on Black Friday so I can imagine the frenzy scene but a little put out that the writer for this article called the people in line "die hard supporters" of Palin, like it was a bad thing, and made the supporters appear as if crazed because they were in line at 5 a.m. and standing in freezing temperatures. I kind of like Palin myself and I am glad it was only tomatoes that were thrown at her and that she was not hurt. I feel bad for the policeman because you know that must have hurt very bad hitting him in the face. This assailant aught to be ashamed of himself for throwing anything from a second story Mall balcony as it could have severely injured or even killed someone such as a small child or an infant. In a busy Mall, from that height he is lucky he did not strike a small child or heaven forbid an infant since I’m pretty sure children were present in the crowd with some of the people in line. So as you can see my first laughter about this story has turned into outrage, not that he threw something at Sara, but because he even threw anything at all from the balcony above people. People are insanely stupid these days and have no common sense and it is getting dangerous to be around even non criminals. This assailant reminds me of the people I watched in a movie portrayal of a guy, who is not too bright in his present life, and somehow goes through a time machine experiment and he wakes up in the future and finds he is the smartest person on the planet. He can’t believe how utterly stupid people are and he is trying desperately to educate the masses into realizing the decline of their ways from past mistakes and how to correct their problems now.
The rest of the story was void of any interest with small details of the time Palin arrived, what she was wearing, who she was with, an interview with a high school age fan standing in line, and that Palin did not give any speeches or talk to reporters. I imagine the reporter of this article was probably standing in line at 4:45 a.m. behind the 16yr old he interviewed and sorely disappointed the only story he could make up was that a couple of tomatoes hit a cop but came very close to Sara Palin.
This story on Foxnews is about a man who apparently got himself arrested because he was on an upper level of the Mall of America in Minnesota, and supposedly threw two tomatoes at Sarah Palin the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, as she sat below signing copies of her new book for fans. However Palin was not hit by the tomatoes, but instead the tomatoes hit a policeman nearby so, the arrested man may face assault charges.
I thought this story was rather hilarious because I did not know people still threw fruit or vegetables at people they did not like. I’ve never been to the Mall of America. Do they sell tomatoes there? Was this premeditated and were the tomatoes brought with the assailant? Were the tomatoes rotten or the grocery store green ripened kind? How did the authorities know he was aiming at Sara, when the article reported that neither tomato came close to hitting her? Maybe he was trying to hit the police instead.
People are so funny and even the article compared this book signing event to an event like Black Friday. People do strange things on Black Friday so I can imagine the frenzy scene but a little put out that the writer for this article called the people in line "die hard supporters" of Palin, like it was a bad thing, and made the supporters appear as if crazed because they were in line at 5 a.m. and standing in freezing temperatures. I kind of like Palin myself and I am glad it was only tomatoes that were thrown at her and that she was not hurt. I feel bad for the policeman because you know that must have hurt very bad hitting him in the face. This assailant aught to be ashamed of himself for throwing anything from a second story Mall balcony as it could have severely injured or even killed someone such as a small child or an infant. In a busy Mall, from that height he is lucky he did not strike a small child or heaven forbid an infant since I’m pretty sure children were present in the crowd with some of the people in line. So as you can see my first laughter about this story has turned into outrage, not that he threw something at Sara, but because he even threw anything at all from the balcony above people. People are insanely stupid these days and have no common sense and it is getting dangerous to be around even non criminals. This assailant reminds me of the people I watched in a movie portrayal of a guy, who is not too bright in his present life, and somehow goes through a time machine experiment and he wakes up in the future and finds he is the smartest person on the planet. He can’t believe how utterly stupid people are and he is trying desperately to educate the masses into realizing the decline of their ways from past mistakes and how to correct their problems now.
The rest of the story was void of any interest with small details of the time Palin arrived, what she was wearing, who she was with, an interview with a high school age fan standing in line, and that Palin did not give any speeches or talk to reporters. I imagine the reporter of this article was probably standing in line at 4:45 a.m. behind the 16yr old he interviewed and sorely disappointed the only story he could make up was that a couple of tomatoes hit a cop but came very close to Sara Palin.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Man Who Killed 4 Washington Police Officers Shot Dead
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
I found a story on Foxnews about the man who recently gunned down four police officers as they sat in a coffee shop. The article highlighted how the shooter was killed when he approached an officer sitting in his patrol car making out a report on a stolen car. The officer recognized the shooting suspect because of a large mole on his cheek and when the suspect went for his gun the patrolman shot him dead.
I am so glad that this criminal will never again hurt anyone. He obviously had a history of violence and crime and also a history of mental illness. I am glad the residents of Tacoma are rid of this menace and closure can be brought to the families of the victims and fellow police officers.
I was surprised to see reported in the article that there was little blame thrown toward the family that helped this man escape capture for days and even aided him in his belly wound from a bullet fired by one of the slain officers in the coffee shop, however some big names were thrown out to blame for this man to even be out in society and not locked up. One of the big names blamed was former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who in “in 2000 commuted his 108-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses.” The other blame went to a Washington state court where “A psychological evaluation in October found he was a risk to public safety, but not enough of one to justify committing him” But the kicker to the blame game is how this man was able to post bail for charges of raping a child six days before shooting the police in the coffee shop. He should have still been locked up for that and never let out in the first place. A few things reported in the article bothered me. One was that the sheriffs spokesman reported hearsay as if paramedics were the ultimate authority on medical conditions when he said, “Paramedics were stunned that Clemmons lived as long as he did with the bullet wound.” One more use for duct tape as the wound actually was found to have duct tape over it. The other thing that bothered me was reported “Police said Clemmons would have died eventually of the gunshot wound he suffered in the coffee-shop rampage.” What made them the medical authority on his wound? And why was that important to include in the story. Were they trying to justify his being killed by the officer as if,…Well he would have died anyway so it was OK that we shot him? After all the man was up walking around and even supposedly trying to gun down another policeman days after he had been shot. Didn’t sound like a dying man to me. No I’m not siding with the criminal, against law enforcement I know belly wounds are so infectious and painful, I just think it was odd to include this piece of reporting in the article. Seemed kind of like souping up the truth and I just wanted to bring attention to it.
Anyway I am very glad this criminal is no longer a threat to society and I hope justice will also be served to his accomplices in the murders of the policemen.
I found a story on Foxnews about the man who recently gunned down four police officers as they sat in a coffee shop. The article highlighted how the shooter was killed when he approached an officer sitting in his patrol car making out a report on a stolen car. The officer recognized the shooting suspect because of a large mole on his cheek and when the suspect went for his gun the patrolman shot him dead.
I am so glad that this criminal will never again hurt anyone. He obviously had a history of violence and crime and also a history of mental illness. I am glad the residents of Tacoma are rid of this menace and closure can be brought to the families of the victims and fellow police officers.
I was surprised to see reported in the article that there was little blame thrown toward the family that helped this man escape capture for days and even aided him in his belly wound from a bullet fired by one of the slain officers in the coffee shop, however some big names were thrown out to blame for this man to even be out in society and not locked up. One of the big names blamed was former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who in “in 2000 commuted his 108-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses.” The other blame went to a Washington state court where “A psychological evaluation in October found he was a risk to public safety, but not enough of one to justify committing him” But the kicker to the blame game is how this man was able to post bail for charges of raping a child six days before shooting the police in the coffee shop. He should have still been locked up for that and never let out in the first place. A few things reported in the article bothered me. One was that the sheriffs spokesman reported hearsay as if paramedics were the ultimate authority on medical conditions when he said, “Paramedics were stunned that Clemmons lived as long as he did with the bullet wound.” One more use for duct tape as the wound actually was found to have duct tape over it. The other thing that bothered me was reported “Police said Clemmons would have died eventually of the gunshot wound he suffered in the coffee-shop rampage.” What made them the medical authority on his wound? And why was that important to include in the story. Were they trying to justify his being killed by the officer as if,…Well he would have died anyway so it was OK that we shot him? After all the man was up walking around and even supposedly trying to gun down another policeman days after he had been shot. Didn’t sound like a dying man to me. No I’m not siding with the criminal, against law enforcement I know belly wounds are so infectious and painful, I just think it was odd to include this piece of reporting in the article. Seemed kind of like souping up the truth and I just wanted to bring attention to it.
Anyway I am very glad this criminal is no longer a threat to society and I hope justice will also be served to his accomplices in the murders of the policemen.
Man Forced to Choose Who to Save: Wife or Son
Monday, November 30, 2009
I found this story on Foxnews and I couldn’t help but be drawn in to this terrible tragedy about a boy who died in a car wreck by allegedly drowning because his father could not save both he and his mother who was in the same accident.
This story reminded me of a movie called Sophie’s Choice that I watched many years ago about a Jewish woman who was in a Nazi transport line and could only take one of her children on the train transporting them to a camp. The German soldier made her choose between her young son and younger daughter. She basically went crazy over her choice to keep the son and give up the daughter. The article stated very well about the husband’s choice to save his wife and not his son in the car accident, “It is the choice no parent — or spouse — should ever have to make.”
At first when I started reading this article I was heart sickened for the husband who saved his wife instead of his son thinking how bad he must feel and how could he ever be comforted again, but then as I read more about the story my opinion changed as the story unfolded. What I deduced was that he really did not have a choice because he had no way of saving his son so he should not be feeling as the article implied in the title that he was forced to make a choice about which one to save. It was reported that his wife was driving the car and their 13 year old was in the front seat when the car “cart wheeled down a steep 32 foot bank into the water,” somewhere near the family home in New Zealand. I don’t know if he heard the accident but the article reported the husband arrived at the scene in about 2 minutes and heard his wife screaming in the water and the son still trapped in the submerged car that was sinking deeper into the water. He tried to dive down and get his son out of the car but it was too deep. He turned to save his wife who was about to drown in the water. He made a statement to reporters, “I made a call to pull my wife to safety. I looked back and I could see the tail-lights but it was too far and I couldn't get him." I really don’t see the choice if he could not reach his son. After all he gave it a try but it was out of his hands. Besides, if the car went end over end down a 32 foot bank, his son might not have even lived though the crash even though the article said the boy drowned in the river. I may not believe that he drowned unless the article could site autopsy results which it did not. I think this father did everything he could, and he was fortunate to be able to quickly come upon the scene and even get the chance to save his wife.
I wish the reporter had not titled the article as it was that the man was forced to choose who to save because I don’t think that is what happened and if this husband and father reads this article it could only add to his grief and suffering which will not help his recovery from this terrible tragedy.
I found this story on Foxnews and I couldn’t help but be drawn in to this terrible tragedy about a boy who died in a car wreck by allegedly drowning because his father could not save both he and his mother who was in the same accident.
This story reminded me of a movie called Sophie’s Choice that I watched many years ago about a Jewish woman who was in a Nazi transport line and could only take one of her children on the train transporting them to a camp. The German soldier made her choose between her young son and younger daughter. She basically went crazy over her choice to keep the son and give up the daughter. The article stated very well about the husband’s choice to save his wife and not his son in the car accident, “It is the choice no parent — or spouse — should ever have to make.”
At first when I started reading this article I was heart sickened for the husband who saved his wife instead of his son thinking how bad he must feel and how could he ever be comforted again, but then as I read more about the story my opinion changed as the story unfolded. What I deduced was that he really did not have a choice because he had no way of saving his son so he should not be feeling as the article implied in the title that he was forced to make a choice about which one to save. It was reported that his wife was driving the car and their 13 year old was in the front seat when the car “cart wheeled down a steep 32 foot bank into the water,” somewhere near the family home in New Zealand. I don’t know if he heard the accident but the article reported the husband arrived at the scene in about 2 minutes and heard his wife screaming in the water and the son still trapped in the submerged car that was sinking deeper into the water. He tried to dive down and get his son out of the car but it was too deep. He turned to save his wife who was about to drown in the water. He made a statement to reporters, “I made a call to pull my wife to safety. I looked back and I could see the tail-lights but it was too far and I couldn't get him." I really don’t see the choice if he could not reach his son. After all he gave it a try but it was out of his hands. Besides, if the car went end over end down a 32 foot bank, his son might not have even lived though the crash even though the article said the boy drowned in the river. I may not believe that he drowned unless the article could site autopsy results which it did not. I think this father did everything he could, and he was fortunate to be able to quickly come upon the scene and even get the chance to save his wife.
I wish the reporter had not titled the article as it was that the man was forced to choose who to save because I don’t think that is what happened and if this husband and father reads this article it could only add to his grief and suffering which will not help his recovery from this terrible tragedy.
Beauty Queen Dies After Cosmetic Surgery on Her Buttocks
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
I found this article on Foxnews And it is a pretty short story, but really pretty sad because it is about the death of an Argentina woman who underwent elective surgery to increase the firmness of her buttocks and suffered a complication as a result of the needless surgery.
I get so troubled when I hear of a death of a perfectly healthy person taking the risk of surgery so lightly that they would rather take a chance at death in order to improve their looks. Any elective surgery is dangerous and people should think long and hard if the procedure is worth risking death for. This woman probably had previously undergone other surgeries and did not think a thing about this latest procedure. I bet the last thing on her mind going to surgery was that she would never wake up.
I can not imagine why such a beautiful woman would think that her buttocks would need an improvement. She was either very vain or very insecure or very desperate to maybe keep a job that required keeping perfect bodily proportions. Even a close friend of hers said, "A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind" This woman was a former beauty queen of Argentina in 1994 and was also a mother of twins so I can’t imagine why she would put herself at risk. Maybe it was because she was getting older as the article said she was 38 years old and she did not like the changes her body was going through. It seems like after 30 the body does not cooperate as well and tends to start losing shape. She was getting close to 40 and no matter how hard she might try to keep up with plastic surgery her body was going to continue to change and all the plastic surgery in the world is not going to stop time. I occasionally watch plastic surgery shows on TV and most of the results I think looks very unnatural. Particularly the tummy tucks. I don’t care how good the plastic surgeon is, they can not recreate the belly button position or the natural curves that women were born with. The other thing reported in this article was that the woman arrived in a hospital which makes me wonder if she was in one of those outpatient surgery centers where they are not equipped to handle extreme medical conditions that might develop during surgery. I think it is crazy to have surgery anywhere except a hospital where immediate emergency care can be provided. This woman had respiratory complications and was in intensive care for 3 days before she finally died of a pulmonary embolism which is one of the risks of having any surgery. The same close friend was reported as saying, “the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain." which also makes me wonder if she went to a reputable surgeon who knew what they were doing.
I know this may sound harsh but I am glad that she was famous enough to have her funeral publicized on Argentine TV because I hope it serves as a warning to other women who might take the risks of having elective surgery too lightly. It is just such a waste and I really do not think too much of Miss Argentine for her decision. I feel sad for her family.
I found this article on Foxnews And it is a pretty short story, but really pretty sad because it is about the death of an Argentina woman who underwent elective surgery to increase the firmness of her buttocks and suffered a complication as a result of the needless surgery.
I get so troubled when I hear of a death of a perfectly healthy person taking the risk of surgery so lightly that they would rather take a chance at death in order to improve their looks. Any elective surgery is dangerous and people should think long and hard if the procedure is worth risking death for. This woman probably had previously undergone other surgeries and did not think a thing about this latest procedure. I bet the last thing on her mind going to surgery was that she would never wake up.
I can not imagine why such a beautiful woman would think that her buttocks would need an improvement. She was either very vain or very insecure or very desperate to maybe keep a job that required keeping perfect bodily proportions. Even a close friend of hers said, "A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind" This woman was a former beauty queen of Argentina in 1994 and was also a mother of twins so I can’t imagine why she would put herself at risk. Maybe it was because she was getting older as the article said she was 38 years old and she did not like the changes her body was going through. It seems like after 30 the body does not cooperate as well and tends to start losing shape. She was getting close to 40 and no matter how hard she might try to keep up with plastic surgery her body was going to continue to change and all the plastic surgery in the world is not going to stop time. I occasionally watch plastic surgery shows on TV and most of the results I think looks very unnatural. Particularly the tummy tucks. I don’t care how good the plastic surgeon is, they can not recreate the belly button position or the natural curves that women were born with. The other thing reported in this article was that the woman arrived in a hospital which makes me wonder if she was in one of those outpatient surgery centers where they are not equipped to handle extreme medical conditions that might develop during surgery. I think it is crazy to have surgery anywhere except a hospital where immediate emergency care can be provided. This woman had respiratory complications and was in intensive care for 3 days before she finally died of a pulmonary embolism which is one of the risks of having any surgery. The same close friend was reported as saying, “the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain." which also makes me wonder if she went to a reputable surgeon who knew what they were doing.
I know this may sound harsh but I am glad that she was famous enough to have her funeral publicized on Argentine TV because I hope it serves as a warning to other women who might take the risks of having elective surgery too lightly. It is just such a waste and I really do not think too much of Miss Argentine for her decision. I feel sad for her family.
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