global dx

With my mom getting older each year and I can’t help but think of what will happen to her when she reaches an age where she will need extensive care. Putting her in a nursing home is hard for all of us but I guess we are just left no choice. We are now looking for nursing homes as early as today because we don’t want to end up having problems with this in the near future. To be honest, we don’t know where to start regarding this matter.

Then a friend then told us about BetterCaring.com and how they can help us about this matter. We haven’t really talked to them yet but we checked out their website. We were convinced that they can help us with our problem because they provide good articles and articles regarding nursing homes. They also have a forum where you can interact with people who really know about such things. If you are like us who are seeking for answers, BetterCaring.com can help you.

Grandma Polly loves coffee. She goes to the coffee shop everyday, sometimes she even goes to Starbucks to buy her favorite espresso. Grandma cannot go through the day without drinking coffee. She is a coffee addict because she drinks almost ten mugs of coffee a day. Her doctor asked her to lessen her coffee intake but she never followed the doctor’s advice. A month later, grandma had a heart attack because of too much caffeine in her blood. The doctor advised her to drink Uji Matcha. This time she followed the doctor’s suggestion.

At first she does not want the taste of green tea. She said that it does not taste good. So my mother asked our neighbor who is a Japanese to prepare the tea for us. Lee our neighbor has added milk and sugar to Grandma’s tea. It gave an aromatic essence and it looked really delicious. At first she was very hesitant to drink it. After a few minutes of convincing her to sip some of it, she finally had drunk the whole cup of tea. Grandma told us that it tasted really good. Now she is used to drinking tea. She even asked Lee to teach him how to prepare her own drink.

I have a friend named Amanda. She is beautiful and sweet. She never goes beyond her curfews. She always follows the rules and prefers to stay at home and read her favorite paperback novel. She doesn’t drink and smoke. I have always known her to be a good girl. That’s why I was devastated when I found out that my friend was involved with meth addiction.

Meth or otherwise known as crystal methamphetamine is not as popular as cocaine and marijuana. I’ve never even heard of meth before. Not until I heard the news about Mandy. Meth, as I have learned online, is a very powerful addictive stimulant which, unlike cocaine, produces a long-lasting high and takes 12 hours before 50% of the drug is removed from the body. What’s so scary about meth is that it is legally available in the market through prescriptions (brand name Desoxyn). You see, it can be used for treatment of narcolepsy, obesity and alcoholism. What’s also alarming is that research shows that abuse of this substance can cause psychosis, changes in brain structure and function, memory loss, aggressive or violent behavior and paranoia. It’s a good thing we found out about Mandy’s situation and was able to help her before its too late.