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Others here have said it all about the black dog, the yellow car, poetry.
But I may have a suggestion about that cough. I also had a persistent chronic cough (which may have been in part a side-effect of the ACE inhibitor I take for high blood pressure). I started taking a food supplement called Juice Plus+. Two fruit capsules in the a.m., two veggies in the afternoon. After about 30 days, the cough faded, after 60 it was history. I freely admit I was not taking in the minimum 5 servings of fresh vegetables and fruits daily. I had no idea it would help the cough -- just wanted to stop feeling tired and run-down.
What Juice Plus+ does is harvest crops at peak ripeness, then juice them and evaporate all the water. What goes into the capsules is the condensed nutrient your body would extract from fresh raw fruits or veggies, except for fiber. I pay about $39 a month, and it's worth every dime. More energy, and no cough. And it's weird, but I now eat a lot more fruit and vegetables. They have a website. And no, I don't own shares in the company.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 1, 2006 at 7:36 AM
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Now that's a great idea - we'll run them both side by side when done.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 31, 2006 at 2:20 PM
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but you can do it too if the mood takes you
posted by
Azur
on August 31, 2006 at 2:32 AM
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good plan dave. I'll do it
posted by
Azur
on August 31, 2006 at 2:01 AM
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The thought is growing still. I see it as a villainelle.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 31, 2006 at 1:55 AM
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A Black Dog Has Been at My Feet
I had another thought. It's not a novel title, but a great poem to be had there. Sort of a cross between Ted Hughes and Dylan Thomas I see it as. And what with the yellow car too.
Azur, you have to write that poem. If you don't, I will.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 31, 2006 at 1:54 AM
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The opposite of bloodless prose?
No Anne Rice jokes now!
posted by
majroj
on August 31, 2006 at 12:17 AM
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Azur, As I was reading this post, it seemed that you were passing from one exigency to another rather quickly. Hope every day is not like that for you. P.S. Whatever it is, I am quite sure that I have not yet written it.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 30, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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I picked up the art of objective non-preselection in this blog. Thanks for your compliment.
(A)
posted by
A-and-B
on August 30, 2006 at 4:50 PM
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What a scary experience.
Especially with your child. My other sister-in-law underwent a masectomy today. Last week, biopsies on four lumps came back positive. The surgeons say things went well today. Since I found out last week, I can't stop thinking about mortality. Well, I'm glad you(and your family) are okay. As for the one that got away, you never know, it may not have been what it seemed. The university will be lucky to have you.
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on August 30, 2006 at 4:47 PM
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Blame it on the alignment of the planets? Take care during this time.
(A)
posted by
A-and-B
on August 30, 2006 at 4:07 PM
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Azur, yet again you remind me of what is truly important
A narrow escape and a hard choice to make. Life is full of the latter, and the former, must have shaken you up a little. I wonder about the dirver of the yellow car, and what possessed them to stop there? I hate it when people's driving puts me or others into dangerous situations. It's one thing to stupidly and recklessly risk, one's own life, and even that makes me a little angry, because it's such a precious thing, but to risk others is unconscionable, except, of course, if they were having an emergency of some kind.
I understand your comment on my blog about needing a personal assistant. Wouldn't that be nice? Except, in my case, I don't think I could stand anyone else fussing with my stuff, I need to make my own decisions about what goes where, and what to take and what to leave. It's definitely a one-person job.
posted by
Blanche.
on August 30, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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Azur
I'm happy you avoided an accident, and take care of that cough luv. I don't know what deathless prose would be.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 30, 2006 at 3:10 PM
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Hello Azur.......how are you?....I have missed you!!!
Take care....all the best!
posted by
_Symphony_
on August 30, 2006 at 2:31 PM
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Dave. I kept sending that black dog away for so long
but now I accept it as my companion
posted by
Azur
on August 30, 2006 at 2:04 PM
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"A black dog has been at my feet" - there's a novel title for you.
"Deathless prose" is any Hardy novel up to about page 10.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 30, 2006 at 1:39 PM
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Azur--- Our deathless prose, of course, lives on after us. Having been both
an editor of a major magazine and an academic adviser for a student newspaper at a couple of major universities, I much more enjoyed the latter--- for the short-term. I decided early on in life that academia wasn't for me. Nor was editing someone else's work while sitting 9 to 5 in a magazine office with no windows.
posted by
Jazwolf
on August 30, 2006 at 1:35 PM
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Azur
interesting story . thanks
posted by
Rosetree
on August 30, 2006 at 11:09 AM
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Azur
Deathless Prose... hmmm. At the thought of it in your title, I thought you would tell me :)
posted by
mysteria
on August 30, 2006 at 10:41 AM
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