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Anti-Acidity

Prevacid

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Prevacid (Lansoprazole) decreases the amount of acid produced in the stomach.

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Zyloprim

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Zyloprim (Allopurinol) is used to lower blood uric acid levels.

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Nexium

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Nexium is used to treat symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and other conditions involving excessive stomach acid such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

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Pepcid

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Pepcid is used for treating and preventing ulcers. It is also used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), conditions that cause increased acid secretion, and esophagitis.

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Prilosec

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Prilosec (Omeprazole) blocks the production of acid by the stomach.

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Tagamet

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Tagamet is used for treating and preventing ulcers of the stomach and small intestine, and treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

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Gasex

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Gasex helps in digestion by exerting carminative, antispasmodic, antiflatulent and antacid actions.

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Aciphex

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Aciphex (Rabeprazole) decreases the amount of acid produced in your stomach.

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Protonix

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Protonix (Pantoprazole) is used to treat erosive esophagitis (damage to the esophagus from stomach acid).

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Metoclopramide

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Metoclopramide works by increasing the movement of the stomach and intestines to help move food and acid out of the stomach more quickly.

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Bentyl

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Bentyl (Dicyclomine) is used for treating symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

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Zantac

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Zantac (Ranitidine) is used for treating certain conditions that cause your body to make too much stomach acid.

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Allopurinol

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Allopurinol is used for treating gout and high uric acid levels in the blood or urine caused by certain types of cancer chemotherapy.

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Ranitidine

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Ranitidine is used for treating certain conditions that cause your body to make too much stomach acid (e.g., Zollinger-Ellison syndrome).

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Carafate

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Carafate (Sucralfate) is used for treating and preventing ulcers.

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Cytotec

Our price: $1.36

Cytotec (Misoprostol) is used to prevent stomach ulcers while you take NSAIDs (e.g., aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen).

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Colon Clean Supreme

Our price: $39.84

Colon Clean Supreme is an extra strength colon cleanser.

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Super Antiox GSE

Our price: $39.14

Super Antiox GSE is a herbal antioxidant and increases antioxidant levels in body.

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Reglan

Our price: $1.03

Reglan (Metoclopramide) is used for the short term treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

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an apology for the spam......

Dear readers,

I want to apologize sincerely for the spam. Someone has apparantly highjacked my blog and is posting some really awful spam on this blog. I can't figure out how this has happened. I have deleted the last 7 posts. I am looking into this. This is just the rudest thing.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Today.....

Today, I'm greatful for my family. As a young adult, I never wanted to be married or have kids. At least, I didn't think I did. My relationship started with my husband sort of oddly. Neither of us was looking for anything serious, but we just sort of fell into step. Six years later, we got married and were expecting our first child.

We've been together for 15 years now, and have three beautiful children. Our children are amazingly gifted little people. Looking back, I realize how silly I was in my younger years to have thought I could get through life without the love of my own little family.

Monday, January 19, 2009

280 emails later.....

Wow. Okay, I had a GREAT weekend. For the most part. My baby girl learned to climb out of her crib not too long ago, so my husband built her a toddler bed because we couldn't find one that we liked. It was so cute, that we decided to go ahead and redo her entire bedroom. Then we decided that the boys, who share a room, needed her room, because it was bigger, so we needed to swap rooms first. This was a HUGE undertaking!! You have no idea how much stuff my children have. I had no idea how much stuff my children had, lol!!!

First, I took her comforter to Home Depot, and used their handy little color matching machine to match the colors of paint I wanted. My husband painted the bed, and we are having a large M laser cut to mount on the head board. We moved everything the boys had out of their room and into the hallway, living room, and kitchen. We dismantled their bunk beds and put them outside (my husband had such success with the little one's bed, he wants to build them their own beds as well.). We painted her room a beautiful sage green color, with hazelnut cream trim, and moved her into that room. We were so inspired by how well it turned out, we've decided to redo the boys' room next.

In the midst of all the mess, I could feel myself start to get agitated. With three kids, everything is always cluttered and messy in our house. I hate to clean house, and it's a constant job. It occurred to me during this, that it's not the kids making me feel like I'm losing my mind, as I've often blamed them for, but the fact that everything in my life is out of order. It makes me feel out of control, and I don't like that. Kind of a big introspective moment for me.

So I'm working on controlling the clutter. I rejoined FlyLady a while back, and that is helping a lot, with learning had to make lists and routines, and the mini missions of decluttering one thing at a time. Her motto is "you can do anything for 15 minutes" and you can. While we pretty much worked nonstop to get the rooms moved around, so that we could complete this project in one weekend, I did incorporate some of her ideas into the project, like do we love this? If not, why are we holding on to it? I managed to take 3 GARBAGE BAGS full of baby clothes to a dear friend that just had her baby prematurely and had not had a shower yet, and was totally unprepared. She also got the baby carseats ( BOTH of them) that our little girl had out grown, and a bunch of toys and blankets. I have 5 garbage bags of boy's clothes that will go to bless someone at the Salvation Army. Most of these things had been given to me by other people, my children never wore half of them, but I was holding on to them because ??? Maybe it was a feeling of guilt because they were given to me, so I needed to keep them? Who knows.

Anyway, my load is much lighter now, and I am working on decluttering everything else. I bring all this up because, since we were working so hard this weekend, I never found the time to get online and take care of anything. I logged on this morning and had 280 emails to wade through. I deleted all the obvious junk mail first, and group notifications because I'll be visiting those later anyway, and then found a great email from Kendra Thornbury, someone who's blog I subscribe to. In her post, she talks about feeling peace by going with the flow, and not having peace because you are fighting against the flow. There was a great little ten reasons why part at the bottome that really got my attention, mainly because it was part of my light bulb moment that I experienced this weekend.
Here it is:

10 Ways You Stay Out of the Flow and Fight Upstream:

1) Frustration
2) Holding on to Emotions
3) Resistance
4) Clutter
5) Control
6) Fear
7) Force
8) Victim Consciousness
9) Doing Things the Way You've Always Done Them
10) Attachment

10 Ways to Get in the Flow:

1) Relax
2) Create a Daily Practice to get Still
3) Allow
4) Surrender
5) Feel Your Emotions
6) Do Things That You Feel Alive In
7) Become Self-Aware (then will know when out of flow and can change course)
8) Learn to Hold a Healthy Detachment to Everything
9) Practice Acceptance (of self and others)

AND number 10?

You guessed it...

GRATITUDE. :)

I have been experiencing every single thing in the first ten. This is something I am going to work on!

Today, I am grateful for the abundace my family has, even if sometimes it doesn't seem like it. I am grateful for my wonderful husband, because he's an incredible father, he doesn't bat an eye when I decide to do something like remodel half the house in a weekend, he's creative, and handy. My middle child (he's 6), said to me today, don't worry mom, if we break it, Daddy can fix it, because he can work on anything, he's an awesome builder. Unfortunately, we were discussing him not taking care of the Playstation, which most likely, my husband CAN'T fix, but my kids think he can, and that's a great thing.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Grateful for Other People's Lives

I'm sure you've heard about the plane crash in the Hudson River today. It was incredible! So today, I'm grateful for the pilot of that plane for saving so many people's lives, not just the people on the plane, but all the people on the ground if he hadn't made it to the water, and for the flight crew, who stayed behind to make sure everyone made it out of the plane and on to the wings to be rescued.

I'm grateful to the ferry boat captain, who quickly changed course to come to the rescue, and get those people off the plane's wings to safety.
I'm grateful that not a single life was lost in this horrific crash.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I've had a lot going on over the last several months, and as a result, I've forgotten to be grateful for a lot of things. My life has felt like it was spiraling out of control, and I can't seem to get a grasp on it, to stop the spinning. I haven't had any focus, I'm scattered.

I want 2009 to be the best year ever. As a result, I need to set my goals, get my priorities in order, and be grateful for what I already have.

I am grateful for the opportunities that I have to better my future, and my family's future. I am grateful for the love that is all around me. I am grateful for my life.

Recipe of the Week

Parmesan Cream Sauce (or alfredo)

Pint of heavy cream
1/2 stick of butter
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
1/2 cup shredded romano
1 tsp Minced garlic

Melt butter in saucepan. Add garlic and saute until done. Add cream and bring to a boil. simmer for a few minutes until it starts to thicken. Add shredded cheese and stir with a whisk until melted and blended in.

I usually double this recipe for our family. Last night I tossed spinach stuffed tortellini in the sauce. It makes a wonderful sauce for chicken as well.

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