Healthy Me

Do you know how Raggedy Ann (created by Johnny Gruelle) came into existence?

According to wikipedia:

Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter, Marcella, when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll and he drew a face on it. From his bookshelf, he pulled a book of poems by James Whitcomb Riley, and combined the names of two poems, "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant Annie." He said, "Why don't we call her Raggedy Ann?" 

Marcella died at age 13, shortly after being vaccinated at school for smallpox without her parents' consent. Authorities blamed a heart defect, but her parents blamed the vaccination. Gruelle became an opponent of vaccination, and the Raggedy Ann doll was used as a symbol by the anti-vaccination movement.

My husband is in the middle of selling a bunch of his stuff (music stuff, bike stuff) to buy a few things for protection.  Once he gets what he wants, I know he is going to miss all his stuff.  He's going to want another electric guitar, he's going to want an amp, he's going to want his mics he sold.  I was looking at the Shure SM58 Mic at musician's friend for him but after reading how it can take abuse, I think I'll buy it for my two youngest daughters to use.  They abuse their microphones like crazy - dropped, knocked into things, left out.  This might make a great Christmas gift.

Have you started Christmas shopping?  My youngest daughter literally has PAGES of things written down on hers and then hundreds of things in her wishlist online.  It's CRAZY!!

Have you ever wondered if the radiation in mammograms can cause cancer?

Think about it.  If you get a mammogram every year starting at 35-40 years of age, will the radiation over time give you breast cancer?

Many people think it can.  Here's one article here. There's many more.  Google it.

Curious. More research for me.

I have been reading about the success people have had curing their cancer, diabetes and epileptic seizures using cannabis oil (this is legal...you can buy it at Amazon - not sure of the quality but you can buy it from there).

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