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Well I’ll Be Damned

It’s only been 101 days since the first day of my last period. I didn’t think I was ever going to get a period ever again. Honestly, it would be no skin off my back if I never get a period. I could care less if “Aunt Flow” comes to visit as long as I do not become pregnant!

Can I hear an AMEN!? LOL

My OBGYN specialist told me not to be surprised if the frequency of my period diminishes because of my Hypothyroid. I have been Hypothyroid since my diagnosis in 2006. I take Synthroid every day to regulate my thyroid.

I also keep extra pregnancy tests lying around the house just in case! I don’t know – you would probably store them around your house too if you knew you didn’t want to be pregnant again. I’m 40 years old. I can’t imagine starting over with the diapers and the wipes. In 10 years I’ll be 50. I just don’t want to go there! Can you feel what I’m saying? Can you relate at all?

I would be interested in hearing from other hypothyroid people out there. Has your problem thyroid diminished your periods?

Smar(x)t Disposal

Smart Disposal: A Prescription for a Health Planet

• DO NOT FLUSH unused medications and DO NOT POUR them down a sink or drain.
• To ensure protection of people and pets:

1. Pour medication into a sealable plastic bag. If medication is a solid, rush it or add water to dissolve it.
2. Add kitty litter, sawdust, coffee grounds, or a similar material to the plastic bag.
3. Seal the plastic bag and dispose of it in the trash.

Visit www.smarxtdisposal.net & www.nebraskameds.org

Linked Up w/ Tuesday’s Tip Jar & Random Tuesday Thoughts

Urinary Tract Infection

What is a urinary tract infection?

Your child can get an infection in the bladder or the tube that carries the urine out of the body. The infection is caused by bacteria and needs to be treated. Here are signs you should watch for:

• Your child has pain when she urinates (pees).
• Your child has to pee right away and can’t hold it.
• Your child has to pee often.
• Even when your child is awake, he wets his pants.
• Your child wets at night.
• Your child’s urine smells bad.
• Your child has a fever or a stomach ache.

How can I help my child?

• Give antibiotics. Your child needs to take the medicine prescribed by your doctor to get better.
• Give lots of water and fluids. Drinking lots of water and fluids helps clear up the infection.
• Give pain and fever medicine. Give your child acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil) for the pain or for fever over 102 F (39 C). No aspirin.
• Call your doctor. Two days after your child starts the medicine, call your child’s doctor about your child’s symptoms. You need to make sure you child is getting better.
• Get a recheck. Your child will need another urine test 2 weeks after the first visit.

Call your child’s doctor right away if:

• Your child has back pain.
• Your child starts to act very sick.

Call your child’s doctor during office hours if:

• Your child has a fever more than 2 days after taking the medicine.
• It still hurts your child to pee 2 days after taking the medicine.
• You have other concerns or questions.

Prayer for the Nation

Prayer for the Nation
by Franklin Graham

Lord,

We are thankful for the abundant blessings You have bestowed on America. Our forefathers looked to You as Protector, Provider, and the Promise of hope. But we have wandered far from that firm foundation. May we repent for turning our backs on Your faithfulness.

We pray that this great nation will be restored by Your forgiveness. From bondage, You grant freedom. Through Your own sacrifice, You offer salvation. From the state of despair, You offer peace.

From the bounties of Heaven, You have blessed – not because of our goodness – but by Your grace. You have given us freedom to worship You in spirit and in truth as Your holy Word instructs. May our lives honor You in word and deed. May our nation acknowledge that all good things come from the Father above.

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that our nation should set apart a day for national prayer to confess our sins and transgressions in sorrow, “yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon … announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

“We have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our own hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own … we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us! It behooves us then … to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

Help us to pray earnestly for our president and leaders who govern, that they will humble themselves and seek Your guidance so that everything we do will shine the light of Your glory in a darkened world.

May our prayers as a people and a nation be heard and blessed for such a time as this. We make this please in faith, believing in the mighty Name of Jesus our Lord.

Amen.

Prayer For Such A Time As This

In 1952 the U.S. Congress set aside the National Day of Prayer as a time to intercede for our nation and its leaders.

The Bible commands us to regularly and fervently pray “for kings and all those in authority” (2 Timothy 2:2, NIV). It also informs us that the initiative for national spiritual healing and renewal lies with followers of Christ (see 2 Chronicles 7:14).

I believe our nation is in a perilous spiritual state. We must pray. We must call on God to heal our land, forgive our sins, and lead us in the path of righteousness. Please join with believers across this great nation on Thursday, May 6, and the days following as we cry out to the Lord for His mercy and help.

I will be on my knees. I hope you will be on yours. Thank you, and God bless you.

“Prayer is the most important action any of us can take for the cause of Christ in this world.”

Franklin Graham
2010 Honorary Chairman
59th Annual National Day of Prayer

Meningitis Vaccine has Problems

AMES, Iowa — Parents who get their children the meningococcal vaccination before they head off to college thought their children were protected from bacterial meningitis.

After the death of an Iowa State University student last week, though, they are learning that the vaccination is not 100 percent effective.

Travis James “T.J.” Good of Omaha reported feeling ill April 13. His roommates took him to the emergency room at Mary Greeley Medical Center, but within hours he was dead.

He died from meningococcal disease, also known as bacterial meningitis or spinal meningitis, an infection of the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. It is a rare but quick-striking disease that most often hits teens and young adults.

Good had been vaccinated against the disease before entering college.

Read the Entire Article: Omaha.com: Meningitis vaccine not foolproof

Attention Diabetes Bloggers and Diabetes Activists!

Do you have a blog OR site about Diabetes? If you have a blog or site about Diabetes you might as well join our Health Directory. I’m planning on creating categories for every health related blog OR site that wants to be listed. All you do is link up and then let me know that you did. You can link up by posting a text link, button, or both. Once you are in the Health Directory I will get you introduced ASAP. What are you waiting for? Tell all your Blog Friends too!

Diabetes Sites and/or Diabetes Blogs introduced here on Checkup Today are as follows:

1. Living with Diabetes

Luke 24: 32-53

32 They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?” 33 And within the hour they were on their way back to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven disciples and the others who had gathered with them, 34 who said, “The Lord has really risen! He appeared to Peter.[a]”

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

35 Then the two from Emmaus told their story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road, and how they had recognized him as he was breaking the bread. 36 And just as they were telling about it, Jesus himself was suddenly standing there among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. 37 But the whole group was startled and frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

38 “Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why are your hearts filled with doubt? 39 Look at my hands. Look at my feet. You can see that it’s really me. Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost, because ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do.” 40 As he spoke, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41 Still they stood there in disbelief, filled with joy and wonder. Then he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he ate it as they watched.

44 Then he said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. 46 And he said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day. 47 It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all the nations,[b] beginning in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’ 48 You are witnesses of all these things.

49 “And now I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven.”

The Ascension

50 Then Jesus led them to Bethany, and lifting his hands to heaven, he blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up to heaven.[c] 52 So they worshiped him and then returned to Jerusalem filled with great joy. 53 And they spent all of their time in the Temple, praising God.

HT: Bible Gateway: Luke 24:32-53 (New Living Translation)

Luke 24: 13-31

The Walk to Emmaus

13 That same day two of Jesus’ followers were walking to the village of Emmaus, seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 As they walked along they were talking about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things, Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them. 16 But God kept them from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?”

They stopped short, sadness written across their faces. 18 Then one of them, Cleopas, replied, “You must be the only person in Jerusalem who hasn’t heard about all the things that have happened there the last few days.”

19 “What things?” Jesus asked.

“The things that happened to Jesus, the man from Nazareth,” they said. “He was a prophet who did powerful miracles, and he was a mighty teacher in the eyes of God and all the people. 20 But our leading priests and other religious leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and they crucified him. 21 We had hoped he was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.

22 “Then some women from our group of his followers were at his tomb early this morning, and they came back with an amazing report. 23 They said his body was missing, and they had seen angels who told them Jesus is alive! 24 Some of our men ran out to see, and sure enough, his body was gone, just as the women had said.”

25 Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures. 26 Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?” 27 Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

28 By this time they were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey. Jesus acted as if he were going on, 29 but they begged him, “Stay the night with us, since it is getting late.” So he went home with them. 30 As they sat down to eat,[b] he took the bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and gave it to them. 31 Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And at that moment he disappeared!

HT: Bible Gateway: Luke 24:13-31 (New Living Translation)