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I am 64 years old and live in a major city in the Pacific Northwest. I DID live with my boyfriend untill he died on Feb 24th of this year (2009) from respiratory failure. (The SECOND life-mate I have lost to smoking-related problems!!!) I am hurting a lot from his loss right now, but nonetheless, I am determined to go on and fight my way through the grief. I also have a 39-year-old daughter who spontaneously pops into and out-of my life at unpredictable intervals - and a little yellow-eyed black cat. My interests include: kayaking, hiking, camping out, reclothing porcelain dolls, spiritual studies & paranormal research (particularly past life and afterlife, as well as energy field and vibratory frequency research), research into 'alternative' medicines, public speaking, writing and puzzles such as crosswords, cryptograms, logic puzzles, etc. I work as a combination admin asst. & graphic designer for a dental laboratory, and have been on this job for just over 8 years, now

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    There used to be a little link in the upper left corner of Yahoo Mail that would take me right back there, but NOW I have to clear out of Internet Explorer entirely and re-enter from scratch to get back to it! THIS is REALLY a nuisance. I would like to know WHY that link is no longer available!

    Other - Yahoo Mail1 decade ago
  • Insurance Help Needed? Turning 65 in Oct and am swamped with ads for medicare supplemental insurances!?

    Several arrive in the mail every day! I have given up and just throw them off in a corner without even opening them, any more!

    Is there a website or some other source that can give me a workable comparison of them ALL in one place? This is really driving me crazy!

    4 AnswersInsurance1 decade ago
  • Does paint adhere better if sprayed on or brushed on?

    I am sure the answer would depend on the surface I am trying to paint over. I am a hobby person and paint all sorts of things, but in this case, how about a couple of metal filing cabinets - with their original factory paint jobs?

    4 AnswersDo It Yourself (DIY)1 decade ago
  • Does Anyone Know the Lyrics to "Sidi Brahim" by John Renborn?

    I have been trying to find them, but since it is not a popular "rock" song, it is not available on any of the "song lyrics" websites I have found. It seems to be a narrative old European (Irish, maybe?) folk song, probably from mideaval times, about a 24-year-old woman, stuck in an arranged marriage with a 14-year-old boy. She seems to fluctuate between accepting the situation and rebelling against it, and eventually ends up killing him.

    There are some verses, however, where the words are too mumbled and garbled to understand them.

    3 AnswersLyrics1 decade ago
  • Please Help Me Find a Good Hypo-Allergenic Hairspray?

    Can anyone recommend a good, effective, yet hypo-allergenic hairspray that is easy to find and reasonably affordable?

    I used to use "Suave Naturals" but cannot find it in ANY store anymore. (Even when I COULD find it, it was only at Wal-Mart, and now even THEY don't have it.)

    I need something that is widely distributed and easy to find because, even though I live in a large city, there seems to be a narrower selection of retail outlets in this part of the country. (Or is this happening everywhere and I just happened to be HERE when I noticed it?)

    Anyway, I need something that will hold my hair in place WITHOUT making my scalp itch and burn and my respiratory passages feel horrible - and I need it to be something I can actually FIND at the stores.

    Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

    2 AnswersMakeup1 decade ago
  • Please Help Me Find a Good Hypo-Allergenic Hairspray?

    Can anyone recommend a good, effective, yet hypo-allergenic hairspray that is easy to find and reasonably affordable?

    I used to use "Suave Naturals" but cannot find it in ANY store anymore. (Even when I COULD find it, it was only at Wal-Mart, and now even THEY don't have it.)

    I need something that is widely distributed and easy to find because, even though I live in a large city, there seems to be a narrower selection of retail outlets in this part of the country. (Or is this happening everywhere and I just happened to be HERE when I noticed it?)

    Anyway, I need something that will hold my hair in place WITHOUT making my scalp itch and burn and my respiratory passages feel horrible - and I need it to be something I can actually FIND at the stores.

    Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

    1 AnswerAllergies1 decade ago
  • Liquid Cinnamon - hard to find?

    It is easy to find powdered cinnamon or cinnamon sticks, but I have never seen a liquid cinnamon flavoring.

    Has anyone seen such a thing?

    If so, where could I find it?

    FYI - I live in the Pacific Northwest in case it is only available in a different area.

    8 AnswersOther - Food & Drink1 decade ago
  • How to Get a Message to "Adeline"?

    How to get this message to someone whose question already "resolved"?

    The other responses ahead of mine all seem to think the answer is automatically YES, but I would think that it depends mostly on the personality of the child, himself. No two people see the same situation in exactly the same way. It is not nearly so much what happens to us in life, but how we psycho/emotionally process it, that really matters.

    Your child is at an early enough age that his emotional essence is still pliable.

    You could try presenting to him the idea that he will be exceptionally lucky because most kids just have one home, but HE will have TWO loving homes to alternate back and forth between. Start him out with that viewpoint and maybe the negative ideas of of being deprived and damaged will never occur to him (and by the time he gets out in in the world where others can drop these negative concepts on him, he will already be accustomed to the positive aspects and their input won't affect hi

    2 AnswersPsychology1 decade ago
  • VERTICAL Double Vision? SERIOUS answers, ONLY, please!?

    When we think of "double vision" we think of two images side-by-side. However, back around mid-summer, my boyfriend began to experience occasional incidents of VERTICAL double vision - one image ABOVE the other! The incidents were sporadic and short-lived at first, but have become more frequent and longer-lasting with the passage of time.

    In Late August, his vision got "stuck" that way for a couple of days, then turned loose and went back to intermittent again.

    The eye doctors he has seen at the VA Hospital are totally bewildered and have NO idea what it is or what to do about it.

    He thinks it is a side effect from his medications, but the doctors keep denying that - even though it lessens if he cuts back on his prostate meds and one of his inhalers. However, both of these meds are vital to him, so he cannot cut them out entirely.

    Has anyone else ever encountered this?

    Does anyone know what it is and what we can do about it?

    10 AnswersAlternative Medicine1 decade ago
  • VERTICAL Double Vision? SERIOUS answers, ONLY, please!?

    When we think of "double vision" we think of two images side-by-side. However, back around mid-summer, my boyfriend began to experience occasional incidents of VERTICAL double vision - one image ABOVE the other! The incidents were sporadic and short-lived at first, but have become more frequent and longer-lasting with the passage of time.

    In Late August, his vision got "stuck" that way for a couple of days, then turned loose and went back to intermittent again.

    The eye doctors he has seen at the VA Hospital are totally bewildered and have NO idea what it is or what to do about it.

    He thinks it is a side effect from his medications, but the doctors keep denying that - even though it lessens if he cuts back on his prostate meds and one of his inhalers. However, both of these meds are vital to him, so he cannot cut them out entirely.

    Has anyone else ever encountered this?

    Does anyone know what it is and what we can do about it?

    3 AnswersOptical1 decade ago
  • VERTICAL Double Vision? SERIOUS answers, ONLY, please!?

    When we think of "double vision" we think of two images side-by-side. However, back around mid-summer, my boyfriend began to experience occasional incidents of VERTICAL double vision - one image ABOVE the other! The incidents were sporadic and short-lived at first, but have become more frequent and longer-lasting with the passage of time.

    In Late August, his vision got "stuck" that way for a couple of days, then turned loose and went back to intermittent again.

    The eye doctors he has seen at the VA Hospital are totally bewildered and have NO idea what it is or what to do about it.

    He thinks it is a side effect from his medications, but the doctors keep denying that - even though it lessens if he cuts back on his prostate meds and one of his inhalers. However, both of these meds are vital to him, so he cannot cut them out entirely.

    Has anyone else ever encountered this?

    Does anyone know what it is and what we can do about it?

    2 AnswersOther - Diseases1 decade ago
  • For Medical Pros or Advanced Med Students ONLY - Preferable CARDIAC Specialist(s)?

    Is it possible to tell if someone has had a heart attack several years ago? Is there a test or series of tests that can CONCLUSIVELY comfirm or refute a possible heart attack?

    I talked to a specialist who does CT scans of the heart, and I was told that this shows only the mapping of the blood vessels in the heart, and would not show any potential damage to the heart muscle, itself - such as scar tissue.

    My boyfriend needs to know with CERTAINTY whether he suffered a heart attack in 1998 or not. A "second opinion" on this is needed to help resolve a legal issue, but we don't know if it is even possible to find out for sure.

    8 AnswersHeart Diseases1 decade ago
  • Lost in the Transition?

    When I use the "search mail" parameter to sort out certain e-mails, I then select all and click on the "MOVE" button, and it allows me to create a new folder for the messages I am moving.

    However, the same number turned up by the search is NOT the same number that gets transferred. It seems to "lose" about 25 messages each time. One search turned up 227 messages, but only transferred 202. Another found 221, but only moved 196. Another located 82, but only moved 59.

    I cannot find the "strays". If I try searching for them in the inbox to see if they were just left behind, the search parameter brings up the moved contents of the new folders instead - even though "inbox" is the ONLY folder marked for the search.

    WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? How do I find my missing messages - if I even CAN find them at all?

    1 AnswerOther - Yahoo Mail1 decade ago
  • Accuracy of Dating Artifacts?

    Carbon 14 and other dating methods appear to me to have one major problem:

    If it is true, as I believe, that they only date the MATERIAL an object is made out of, how can they be accurate if (totally disregarding cultural style) someone 5,000 years ago carved something out of a 15,000 year-old rock? Does it then register as 5,000 years old or 15,000 years old?

    Or suppose someone 1,000 years ago molded a pot out of clay that was made with 5,000 year old dirt?

    Well, you get the idea.

    SERIOUS RESPONSES ONLY, PLEASE.

    5 AnswersAnthropology1 decade ago
  • Too Many Blood Thinners - Can The Effects Be Reversed?

    My fiance had a heart attack in 1998. They put him on blood-thinners, among other medications, for several years and just discontinued them about a year ago or less.

    I am very worried because he STILL bleeds too much from minor cuts and sometimes gets large dark red blotches under his skin (Particularly on the backs of his hands and upper arms) from what I imagine are broken blood vessels.

    What scares me is the thought that if the blood vessels in his hands and upper arms are THAT fragile and break that EASILY, what about the blood vessels in his brain, his heart, and other areas where a broken blood vessel could be critical or even fatal?!?

    I am afraid his doctors at the VA have overprescribed these pills for way too long and put him in some serious danger by doing so.

    (My father was permanently crippled by a cerebral hemmorhage when I was 12 years old, and I saw a co-worker collapse and die of one when I was in my late 30's - so you can understand WHY I am so concerned!)

    5 AnswersMen's Health1 decade ago
  • Volume Control on Stereo - PLEASE HELP. Serious response only, please?

    How common is this? Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it - I HOPE?!?

    This has happened to the last 2 out of 3 stereos I have owned.

    The volume control knob just goes crazy! I try to adjust it and it jumps all over the spectrum, hitting whatever volume it wants instead of what I am adjusting it to.

    For instance, if I try to go from 14 to 17, instead, it will jump up to the 20s or 40s or go down to 2, 3 or even 0!

    This is the second stereo that has done this, and since they were each different makes and models, I know it is not related to a problem with just one manufacturer - unless several manufacturers are buying volume controls from a single faulty source!

    IS there a way to fix this? (I tried taking one apart, but the circuit board was bradded together in a way that I could not get to the volume control to see if I could spot an obvious problem with it.)

    3 AnswersMusic & Music Players1 decade ago