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Happiness Sprinkling
I learned about The Happiness Sprinkling Project in church yesterday. The Happiness Sprinkling Project involves people spreading happiness to others through conveying positive, affirming, beautiful messages to anyone who can see them - often strangers. The messages...
They Don’t Understand
It may be impossible for anyone who has not experienced fluoroquinolone toxicity to understand what it’s like. It’s difficult for the person who is going through fluoroquinolone toxicity to explain that EVERYTHING is going wrong; and it is even more difficult for...
Fluoroquinolone Induced Gene Upregulation and ROS
The article, “The Fluoroquinolone Levofloxacin Triggers the Transcriptional Activation of Iron Transport Genes That Contribute to Cell Death in Streptococcus pneumonia” is difficult. It’s not light reading. I wish it was. I wish the articles that have information...
Petitioning the FDA – Comments Needed
Floxie friends, I have one thing that I am asking you to do today. And please, if you decide to do it, do it sooner rather than later. Please go to THIS LINK and make a comment about how fluoroquinolones have hurt you. Let the FDA know that the current warning...
Election Day
November 4th, 2014. Today is election day in the U.S. It's a mid-term election, which means that the obnoxiousness level of the campaigning is a 9 on a 1-10 scale. During presidential elections, it gets up to a 20 (yes, on a 1-10 scale of obnoxiousness). I hope that...
Kratom – Painkiller for Floxies?
At the end of my last post, "Why NSAIDs Suck for Floxies (and Probably Everyone Else Too)," I mentioned some alternatives to NSAIDs that can be used as painkillers. I forgot one that a Floxie friend specifically asked me to mention, so it's getting its own post. The...