As I slowly finished my day the other day - I realized how little that I had gotten done during the whole day...it was really depressing. I can remember when I had 3 rug rats and a couple of dogs underfoot and I still managed to do several loads of laundry...fix meals...keep the house up ( notice, I didn't say "clean")...do all the bookkeeping for the house and a busy dental office...and have enough energy at the end of the day to do something fun. Today I'm lucky if I can find my bed at the end of the day after doing very little.
One hundred years ago - people didn't retire, they usually died before they had reached a retirement age. We were a much more agrarian society, and no matter how old you were - if you were on a farm, you worked. Even in the thirties when FDR invented social security, our life expectancy was considerably lower than it is today, and not that big a percentage of the population was around to collect...and if they did collect, it wasn't for a long period of time.
Today, we are living longer and supposedly, enjoying it more. I'm not sure that I agree totally with that statement, but I'm trying to. This month has been an example of how you don't want to spend your retirement. We're into the third week here - so there have been about 15 working days this month...we were out of town for three days and I think I've had doctors' appointments on the other 12, or close to it. I've been to the heart clinic for appointments twice. Had blood taken three times. I've had two appointments with my G.P.. I've had two dental appointments and an appointment with an endodontist and got the scintillating news that I need a root canal...OH HAPPY DAY! ! ! The days that I didn't have an appointment, my husband did. This is no way to spend those golden years - I don't even have time to make my jewelry that I love and sell at my online shop. This isn't fun - it's work.
I turned 70 this month - so not only am I not having fun, I'm feeling very old. Do you remember when you were a kid and how old 30 - 40 - 50 sounded? Well, even as a dues paying real adult, I thought that 70 was old. And dear God....I am now there. It is a scary thought. I'm hoping that things pick up soon and we can stay away from the doctor for a few months. I'm also hoping that life becomes fun again - not just one medical problem, appointment, crisis etc. etc.after another. I had a friend who used to say that after 50 it was patch, patch , patch....well, right now I'd like to replace the whole shebang rather than doing any more of this damn ( pardon me) patching.
Okay - back to my title - why they invented retirement. No gainfully employed person could have the number of appointments that I've had in the last three weeks and maintain their job. Secondly, no one's production could have dropped as much as mine has and kept a job. "They" had to invent something so that seniors wouldn't get too depressed...and retirement was it. It's okay if all you got done today was one load of clothes and a visit to the dentist - such a minuscule accomplishment is acceptable because you're retired. So I really think that they invented retirement as a face saving gesture for the older generation - can't do that any more???? That's okay, you're retired.
Showing posts with label medical effects. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
The Medicinal Effects of Copper
I wrote a blog several years ago about copper jewelry and the medicinal benefits of it.
The website that I wrote it on is long gone, and I assume that the article is sitting out there in the ether somewhere, but I sure can't find it. First of all - I lay no claims to any medical knowledge, other than being the wife of a retired dentist. Neither am I a witch doctor or a holistic guru...but this is what I have seen.
Over three years ago my husband was diagnosed by a very competent orthopedic doctor with rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist. In about four months, he had had three attacks where his wrist swelled to almost three times it normal size and it was extremely painful. Each time he could not play golf for almost a week. I was doing allot of work with copper wire at that time and literally begged him to let me make him a copper bracelet and he finally relented because he would have done anything, at that point, not to have another attack. My husband is definitely not the bracelet type, but he was desperate. He will have had the bracelet for four years this May and has not had another attack since and he wears it 24/7.
He was so amazed by all this that he did some research and the article that most impressed him was on Web MD, and it was written by a German physician who had been the doctor for almost all the copper mines in Germany. What struck John the most was the fact that in all the years that this doctor worked at the Copper Company, he had never had one patient with rheumatoid arthritis. We filed this in the fact file that really isn't too important and went on with our lives.
About three weeks ago, I sold a copper bracelet to a woman in my neighborhood. She bought it because she liked the design and the way that it looked. I told her John's little story because she said that she ( and basically her whole extended family ) suffers tremendously from arthritis and she had lived in constant pain since 1999. Subsequent visits with her have lead to her believing that this bracelet that she bought is a miracle worker. Not only was she sleeping better because of the absence of pain, but the constant pain she has lived in for the last 12 years gets lesser every day. I truly hope that this continues to be the case, it has really made me feel like a miracle worker as it is...I would hate to lose that.
Her husband is an engineer who worked in the IT industry. So this man knows his way around a computer. He has been so intriqued with the improvement in his wife that he too has done some research and the article that struck him the most was written by a physician, an orthopedist. He said that several years ago, a complete scientific research project was conducted on the relationship between copper and arthritis...and the results were that the research scientists could find no relationship at all. However, this doctor contended that any orthopedic doctor who diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis in a patient should recommend that the patient, at least, try a copper bracelet and see if it offered any relief to the pain.
I wear a copper bracelet 24/7 too and I am still able to do things with my hands that should be difficult in someone of my advanced years, and hopefully that will continue ad infinatum. Here's the new bracelet I just made and am wearing now...and it will soon be available in my shop with either the sterling silver finish, which I prefer and all in copper .
The website that I wrote it on is long gone, and I assume that the article is sitting out there in the ether somewhere, but I sure can't find it. First of all - I lay no claims to any medical knowledge, other than being the wife of a retired dentist. Neither am I a witch doctor or a holistic guru...but this is what I have seen.
Over three years ago my husband was diagnosed by a very competent orthopedic doctor with rheumatoid arthritis of the wrist. In about four months, he had had three attacks where his wrist swelled to almost three times it normal size and it was extremely painful. Each time he could not play golf for almost a week. I was doing allot of work with copper wire at that time and literally begged him to let me make him a copper bracelet and he finally relented because he would have done anything, at that point, not to have another attack. My husband is definitely not the bracelet type, but he was desperate. He will have had the bracelet for four years this May and has not had another attack since and he wears it 24/7.
He was so amazed by all this that he did some research and the article that most impressed him was on Web MD, and it was written by a German physician who had been the doctor for almost all the copper mines in Germany. What struck John the most was the fact that in all the years that this doctor worked at the Copper Company, he had never had one patient with rheumatoid arthritis. We filed this in the fact file that really isn't too important and went on with our lives.
About three weeks ago, I sold a copper bracelet to a woman in my neighborhood. She bought it because she liked the design and the way that it looked. I told her John's little story because she said that she ( and basically her whole extended family ) suffers tremendously from arthritis and she had lived in constant pain since 1999. Subsequent visits with her have lead to her believing that this bracelet that she bought is a miracle worker. Not only was she sleeping better because of the absence of pain, but the constant pain she has lived in for the last 12 years gets lesser every day. I truly hope that this continues to be the case, it has really made me feel like a miracle worker as it is...I would hate to lose that.
Her husband is an engineer who worked in the IT industry. So this man knows his way around a computer. He has been so intriqued with the improvement in his wife that he too has done some research and the article that struck him the most was written by a physician, an orthopedist. He said that several years ago, a complete scientific research project was conducted on the relationship between copper and arthritis...and the results were that the research scientists could find no relationship at all. However, this doctor contended that any orthopedic doctor who diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis in a patient should recommend that the patient, at least, try a copper bracelet and see if it offered any relief to the pain.
I wear a copper bracelet 24/7 too and I am still able to do things with my hands that should be difficult in someone of my advanced years, and hopefully that will continue ad infinatum. Here's the new bracelet I just made and am wearing now...and it will soon be available in my shop with either the sterling silver finish, which I prefer and all in copper .
I am very partial to copper and have allot of bracelets in my shop from plain and simple to fairly ornate and decorative.
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