Monthly Archives: October 2021
What To Do? What To Do?
Most of you in our age range have probably been taking a low dose (81mg) aspirin every day because doctor’s told us that it would help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Jan and I certainly have been.
But now that’s all out the window, apparently. So we have this.
Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday.
Bleeding risks for adults in their 60s and up who haven’t had a heart attack or stroke outweigh any potential benefits from aspirin, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said in its draft guidance.
But it seems if you mix it with some other things, it works to prevent strokes and heart attacks again.
Combo therapy cuts risk of heart attacks and strokes in half
A combination therapy of aspirin, statins and at least two blood pressure medications given in fixed doses can slash the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) by more than half, says an international study led by Hamilton researchers.
The fixed-dose combination (FDC) therapies were examined both with and without aspirin versus control groups in a combined analysis of more than 18,000 patients without prior CVD from three large clinical trials. FDCs including aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks by 53 percent, stroke by 51 percent, and deaths from cardiovascular causes by 49 percent.
So do we, or don’t we.
But then there’s this
And this, several studies that aspirin helps treat CoVid,
and even maybe helps to prevent it.
Aspirin lowers risk of COVID: New findings support preliminary Israeli trial
Over-the-counter aspirin could protect the lungs of COVID-19 patients and minimize the need for mechanical ventilation, according to new research at the George Washington University.
The team investigated more than 400 COVID patients from hospitals across the United States who take aspirin unrelated to their COVID disease, and found that the treatment reduced the risk of several parameters by almost half: reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%, ICU admissions by 43%, and overall in-hospital mortality by 47%.
And this.
Aspirin may protect against COVID-19, Israeli research finds
People who take small doses are 29% less likely than others to test positive, researchers say; those who do get COVID recover faster, and with reduced aftereffects
Or this.
Aspirin may lower pancreatic cancer risk, Study
Or this too.
Or this.
Low-dose aspirin lowers colon cancer risk: UK study
Or this.
An aspirin a day could keep diabetes at bay: study
Follow the science they keep telling us.
But if Doctors, Scientists, and Researchers can’t even agree on Aspirin, a drug that’s been about for almost 130 years, how can they be so sure about HCQ, Quercetin, Ivermectin, and others, especially since Doctors, Scientists, and Researchers in other countries say they’re very effective.
Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances, I guess.
Thought For The Day:
Seems even more true today.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Changing to Changas . . .
As I said yesterday we had get-together planned for today at the Friendswood Texas Roadhouse with some old Alvin Opry friends. But that all came to a screeching halt when I went to their website to check over the menu and found that during the week they don’t open until 3pm.
So Jan got on the phone to update everyone and try to reschedule. We thought about changing to 3pm, but several people had conflicts. So we kept the time and changed the location to the Jimmy Changas on I-45 at Victory Lakes.
But even then one person couldn’t make it, but told us to go on ahead anyway.
One thing I’ve always liked about the décor here are the imagative chandeliers, like this one.
Jan got the Pollo Mariscos a chicken breast covered in a cream sauce with Shrimp and Crawfish.
I got the Plato Soldado (Soldier Plate) a combo plate with a little bit of everything.
The price on this plate includes a $2 donation to Camp Hope, a organization that helps veterans. Nice.
Here’s today’s motely crew.
Next up before heading home we made an HEB stop for a few things along the way, finally getting home a little after 5pm.
Recently I been checking out some of those apps that let you colorize black and white photos.
The ones I’ve found seem to do a good job in colorizing faces, but they often make incorrect assumptions about the colors of clothing and things in the background. So I’ve been looking for one that lets you change colors rather than just take what the AI gives you.
But as I go along I’ve been running some of my family photos through the apps, like this one of my grandmother Clara Calvin.
I have no idea how old she is here, maybe in her 30’s or 40”s. She was born in 1892 and died at the age of 93 in 1985.
And here is what one of the Colorizer apps came up with.
I have no idea about the real color of her dress, but it looks good.
And I am still looking at other apps that would allow me to change the color of her dress if I wanted.
Thought For The Day:
“Never Lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who has lied to you.” – Leroy Jethro Gibbs
