Why does the skin of older people bruise so
easily?
As people age, the skin becomes thinner and fat padding under the skin is lost.
Thus, blood vessels are less protected from injury. An injury inflicted by mild
trauma—for example, bumping against a table or being hit by a tennis ball—may
result in a substantial bruise. In some instances, bruising may be an
indication of an underlying condition. Bruises that appear for no apparent
reason may indicate a bleeding disorder. Anti-clotting medications may cause
bleeding under the skin.
I'm a very fortunate and healthy person. I only take a low dose thyroid pill, a vitamin and a probiotic supplement per day. I've never had the need for an anti-clotting medication. I see bruises on my body and have vague recollections of yelling ouch but can't remember why. So either Wanda is hitting me with a plastic ball bat or I'm walking into a lot of door knobs. I had a brilliant idea; place a note on the area with the date and cause of injury to help me remember.
I'm working on an App
I'm dealing with Monday Morning Blog Block.
The blog is supposed to be entertaining. Some of the material can be considered educational and informative but not much. When Younger Daughter Rebecca was small she would ask me a question and look at her mother for confirmation of my answer. She was a smart kid. It didn't take her long to realize I had a vivid imagination and was not opposed to making something up. Saturday evening I noticed Adopted Granddaughter (The Little Norwegian Girl) Karoline doing the same thing with Jennifer. I wouldn't take 85% of this seriously. I take few notes and prefer to be spontaneous. Think of this as a diary with censored lewd parts.
Once again I'm asking you to waste your time reading about something I think was a waste of time to print and post on the Internet that I'm repeating and posting on the Internet.
It makes perfect sense to me.
According to The Daily Meal there are foods that never go bad. At this point in my life I don't consider Hardtack crackers, dried corn and powdered milk food but someday I may. For now these are back-of-the-cabinet items and we all have them.
For a couple of years I did a considerable amount of cooking and became a quasi gourmand. Butter, eggs, breads and rich creamy sauces became part of my regular diet. Now over thirty pounds lighter I have some of the reminders in the dark recesses of the kitchen.
I have rice wine and apple cider vinegar, cornstarch and boysenberry syrup, sesame oil and exotic spices that will never see the light of day. I also have several boxes of almost empty cereal, a bag of legumes and a small container of quinoa.
I wonder if there is a need for an opened but still good non poisonous food exchange.
The other day I read we should think about buying refurbished rather than new. We would save money and have one less item in the waste heap. Electronics like computers or phones were the basis of the article but the author explained the product could be just about anything.
I would draw the line at brushes (hair and tooth) socks and underpants but that's just me.
If you moved in to a new house would you buy a new toilet seat? What about the toilet?
One man's trash.....is another man's treasure.
Candlestick Park: Open forty-four-years it was the home of San Francisco Giants baseball team and the 49ers football team. Candlestick was the location of the final Beatles concert in 1966 and a visit from Pope John Paul II in 1987. It was closed following a Paul McCartney concert last Thursday evening.
Now for $749 a pair (and $10 shipping) you can be the proud owner of a pair of seats from the storied venue.
Other than a very rough splintered wooden bench or a large pole up my rectum I can't think of anything more uncomfortable than a stadium seat. And while I commend and applaud the altruistic nature of "proceeds go to charity" I can't help but wonder how much is actually donated and to what.
I also wonder how many people that purchase a "piece of history" would donate to a charitable cause without the promise of orange plastic seats.
Police in Spain arrested a Venezuelan woman who arrived at an airport in Madrid with 1.7 kilos of cocaine hidden in her breast implants.
The woman came in on a flight from Colombia and authorities conducted a baggage search when she began acting suspiciously. "During a check of passengers from a plane from Bogota, the gestures and behavior of a supposed tourist raised the suspicions of narcotics agents," airport security officials said in a statement.
The 43-year-old woman then confessed that her implants were packed with cocaine.
When the woman was taken to the hospital to have the implants removed, officials recovered almost four pounds of cocaine.
This is not the first time something like this has happened. Spanish police previously busted a Panamanian woman with more than three pounds of cocaine stuffed in her implants in 2012.
A Spanish police unit that checks on so-called "hot flights" has already made 189 arrests this year.
A prison inmate currently residing in a correctional facility in Arizona has filed close to 6,000 lawsuits and is seeking $10 trillion in cash or gold.
Dale Maisano has filed the majority of the suits about prison food because it allegedly hurts his stomach.
"Stop the torture and give me food that will not make me ill," he claims in one suit. "Daily I'm given a diet that causes me to be severely ill," the 62-year-old wrote in another.
Maisano, who filed 249 lawsuits on Jan. 24 of this year alone, has specifically filed 5,813 federal lawsuits to date.
"I don't have any delusions I'm going to get any money. A lot of them are just nuisance suits. I'm trying to get my point across."
He is currently serving a 15-year sentence for aggravated assault.
"Inmate Maisano has access to appropriate health care and his diet needs are met," said Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman Doug Nick. "The sheer volume of the lawsuits he has filed and the financial demands he makes speak for themselves."
Maisano began filing the lawsuits, most of which are dismissed on the same day they are filed, in 1986.
A New Orleans woman has been charged with fraud after she allegedly attempted to check in at Slidell Memorial Hospital while posing as her dead sister and wearing her memorial shirt.
Diondre Jones attempted to pass herself off as her deceased family member, Delores Jones, by using her sister's social security number and birthday.
When hospital staff entered the dead sister's name in the computer system, an error message reading "Date of Death Precedes Date of Service" popped up on the screen.
Jones had already been treated and released, but an officer was able to track her down in the parking lot.
When the officer asked the 26-year-old how hospital staffers had ended up with the wrong name, Jones reportedly pointed down at the memorial shirt she was wearing.
"They must have gotten the name from this shirt," Jones said.
She was booked on one count of Medicaid fraud and another outstanding charge.
A Pennsylvania teenager was upset that his friend snubbed him on an invite to eat cheesesteaks.
William Hitchcock-Sahr was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment after he allegedly kicked his buddy in the face and dragged him down the stairs over the missing invite.
The 18-year-old reportedly became upset when he called the victim and found out he was eating cheesesteaks with two other individuals.
When the suspect arrived on the scene, he "started arguing because he wasn't invited and his friend hadn't bought him a sandwich."
The victim sustained multiple broken facial bones and severe indigestion.
A Georgia man who allegedly had a two-foot sword in his pants was happy to see a sheriff's deputy because he wanted assistance with a small issue.
Ryan Coleman flagged down Deputy Bradford Lockridge by waving his arms and acting as if he was in distress.
When the officer stopped, the 37-year-old approached his vehicle and began talking very rapidly. "Coleman stated that a bug flew into his eye and he bent over to look in the mirror on the passenger door and the sword in his pants sliced into his leg," Lockridge wrote in a report.
After a brief conversation, Lockridge noticed a meth pipe in the suspect's waistband. When asked about the pipe, Coleman first attempted to conceal it and then tried to break it.
Lockridge cuffed him after a brief struggle and then found another pipe in Coleman's pocket and a silver sword in his pants that "ran down his leg from his waistband."
Coleman was arrested and charged with possession and use of drug-related objects, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a deadly weapon.
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