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Link: Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room,’ by Jon Stock

Fact: The guy in the article was alive during the lives of most of the people posting on this board and was practicing while many of us were alive.

Quote from the article: "As late as 1972, in the fifth and final edition of his textbook, Sargant recommended lobotomy as an alternative to divorce in cases where the cause of a woman’s depression was 'a psychopathic husband who cannot change and will not accept treatment.'”

Next time we (by we, I am including myself) in anyway trivialize what women go through in our society, remember what this article says was an accepted practice to treat "hysterical" women IN OUR LIFETIMES.
 
05C40 said:
Link: Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room,’ by Jon Stock

Fact: The guy in the article was alive during the lives of most of the people posting on this board and was practicing while many of us were alive.

Quote from the article: "As late as 1972, in the fifth and final edition of his textbook, Sargant recommended lobotomy as an alternative to divorce in cases where the cause of a woman’s depression was 'a psychopathic husband who cannot change and will not accept treatment.'”

Next time we (by we, I am including myself) in anyway trivialize what women go through in our society, remember what this article says was an accepted practice to treat "hysterical" women IN OUR LIFETIMES.
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I'm continually amazed at how poorly we have treated women in the recent past.

As recently as 1975 a woman couldn't obtain a loan or a credit card without a man's signature.
 
Been discussing adding a new blood pressure medicine with my doctor. Mines been creeping up a bit. Called and left a message today that the measurements I'd been taking at home indicated that we should. That was around 2:30. I've had two calls from their office for more information and just got a text from my pharmacist that my prescription was ready to pick up. Not bad service.
 
I'm so very tired.

Does it make me a bad person that I am happy my mother is moving out?
 
finesse said:
Been discussing adding a new blood pressure medicine with my doctor. Mines been creeping up a bit. Called and left a message today that the measurements I'd been taking at home indicated that we should. That was around 2:30. I've had two calls from their office for more information and just got a text from my pharmacist that my prescription was ready to pick up. Not bad service.
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My current situation is the opposite. We cut my dosage of Losartan in half six months ago. I was in for my wellness check last week and I was 105/69. Measuring at home I am consistently under 120/80. My PCP told me if I can keep up these readings for the next six months he is open to taking me off BP meds entirely. Then we can talk about cholesterol meds. My overall cholesterol and triglycerides are good, but I need to bring up my HDL numbers up. I have some calcification in my abdominal aorta, and since I am an ex-smoker (quit almost 35 years ago) he is reluctant to take me off the statin completely.

These improvements aren’t due to significant lifestyle changes like a better diet or more exercise. I think it’s mostly just the reduced stress of being retired.
 
farce© said:
My current situation is the opposite. We cut my dosage of Losartan in half six months ago. I was in for my wellness check last week and I was 105/69. Measuring at home I am consistently under 120/80. My PCP told me if I can keep up these readings for the next six months he is open to taking me off BP meds entirely. Then we can talk about cholesterol meds. My overall cholesterol and triglycerides are good, but I need to bring up my HDL numbers up. I have some calcification in my abdominal aorta, and since I am an ex-smoker (quit almost 35 years ago) he is reluctant to take me off the statin completely.

These improvements aren’t due to significant lifestyle changes like a better diet or more exercise. I think it’s mostly just the reduced stress of being retired.
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I've been on BP medication for the best part of 50 years. I lost so much weight and everything else during the cancer thing that I was able to come off of it for a while and then spend a couple of years of HTZ. I'm not too surprised that it's creeping up.
 
dukeman92 said:
Not at all.
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In the end it was the best thing for everyone. Even the cats are happier now. She's proud of her new house, it is very nice, and she is where she feels more comfortable.

With everything else going on, I'm so happy to have that taken care of.

I hope that she gets involved in the senior center that we talked about and builds some good positive relationships.
 
Make sure you get skin cancer screenings people!!!!

Had a mole that was weird. We kept monitoring it. Finally got it removed for biopsy and turned out to be early early in situ melanoma... All gone but had I never gone to get checks, could have been bad in many years
 
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