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So I have been sick for the last week or so. Not enough to completely knock me out, but pretty bad. Sore throat, slight fever, and constant achy tiredness. I have been sleeping a lot. But that's not what I am posting about.

Last night, on top of this sickness, I started to feel the onset of another condition I suffer from on occasion. I guess it is acid reflux, or heart burn, or something like that. I get a case of it maybe once every couple of months. Usually after I don't eat for a long time (like all day,) and then eat too much right at once. I am pretty wimpy in terms of enduring pain, but still, this is the most painful thing that ever happens to me. Very sharp upper abdominal pains. I guess a lot of people get this, so maybe you know what I am talking about.

Anyway, I was very depressed yesterday as I felt it coming on. I drank a bunch of malox, which is what I usually do, but I knew it wouldn't do any good. It never stopped it before. It always happens at night, and it means an entire sleepless night of agony. Since I was already not feeling well my mood was even beyond depression into the fear zone. I just didn't know if I could take it.

Well, a little googling dug up a natural food website where lots of people had written in with testimonials for treating this, and innumerable other conditions, with apple cider vinegar. Who knew?

So with a little help I made my way to the local health food store and bought a bottle of Bragg organic ACV. Apparently the mass produced (Heinz) stuff doesn't work and I wasn't about to argue. Got home, put 1 Tablespoon into a glass with about an ounce of water and slugged it down. Let's just say you wouldn't want to drink it for pleasure. But, and I am not exaggerating here, one minute later I could feel the pressure in my abdomen going down. Five minutes and lots of gurgling and burping later I was 90% better. Went to sleep fine and woke this morning with no problems. Incredible.

Even feels like my sore throat is better.

This is such a relief to me that I just had to share. Apparently it works on gout too, so I'm ready for that as well! Does anyone else have any experience using ACV as a remedy?
- jim 11-30-2004 5:59 pm [link] [6 comments]

red cross findings on Guantánamo "torture"


- bill 11-30-2004 4:19 pm [link] [add a comment]

responsible shopper is an excellent resource to check up on how our multinationals behave in the public sphere.
- dave 11-28-2004 6:53 pm [link] [5 comments]

karate chimp (mpg video)
- tom moody 11-28-2004 5:05 am [link] [add a comment]

17 critical mass cyclists arrested in nyc last night


- bill 11-27-2004 4:44 pm [link] [add a comment]

most dangerous/safest cities
- dave 11-24-2004 10:11 pm [link] [1 comment]

celebrity sandwich controversy
- sally mckay 11-20-2004 12:22 am [link] [4 comments]

rocketboom - vlog
- dave 11-19-2004 8:56 pm [link] [add a comment]

diy holograms
- dave 11-19-2004 8:42 pm [link] [add a comment]

if only there were a way to take down a buck from the comfort of my easy chair. i cant wait for the RPG version. gonna git me sum terra-wrists.
- dave 11-19-2004 8:07 pm [link] [2 comments]

is that a dissertation in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- dave 11-19-2004 4:47 pm [link] [1 comment]

when we say Yeeow! Ayipioeeay! We're only sayin' you're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
- linda 11-18-2004 8:10 pm [link] [add a comment]

sorry world
- linda 11-18-2004 3:20 am [link] [2 comments]

rotten denmark blogspot


- bill 11-14-2004 6:32 pm [link] [add a comment]

a stolen election ? david korn the nation

election fraud watch farhad manjoo salon

Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried Tom Zeller Jr NYT


- bill 11-12-2004 6:37 pm [link] [add a comment]

got gas ?


- bill 11-11-2004 4:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

Dear Friends,

I am so grad to be back in NYC. But I am having sleepless nights  
because of this Nov 2nd resort. I just can't accept that horrible man  
has won the presidency. It smells very very fishy. I think our fight is  
not over yet. We got to start making some noise!

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=196480
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?

Samoa


  
- bill 11-11-2004 3:27 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

geek alert -- hypertransport.org announced a new motherboard-to-daughter board interconnect called HTX. This supports 6.4 gigabytes/second transfer rate, compared to 1 gigabyte/second of PCI-X. Opteron server boards based on this should be showing up in 2005. Will IBM/Apple be ready also?

And no, this isn't enough bandwidth for me. I want more, more, more.
- mark 11-11-2004 1:43 pm [link] [add a comment]

Jersey City is now safe. As you were.

- mark 11-11-2004 11:25 am [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

"A study published last summer in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 17 percent of the soldiers who returned from Iraq suffered from PTSD, anxiety or depression, a rate similar to that suffered by troops when they came home from Vietnam."



- bill 11-11-2004 3:17 am [link] [add a comment]

rip charles kennedy central park naturalist


- bill 11-10-2004 1:55 am [link] [add a comment]

fuck the south

- julie 11-09-2004 9:26 pm [link] [2 comments]

museum of hoaxes pestered by spambots


- bill 11-09-2004 1:02 am [link] [add a comment]

ahrem


- bill 11-08-2004 9:14 pm [link] [1 comment]

john perkins confessions of an economic hitman


- bill 11-08-2004 9:06 pm [link] [add a comment]