Have a Better Life

Due to my father’s Alzheimer disease, my single room at my parents house was changed to receive my father’s new bed. Once my mother is going to take care of him at home, we had to ask for a hospital bed to give my father some comfort and give my mother some more mobility to feed him, wash him and change diapers.

In a normal bed it was very difficult to sit him once he has no control of his body. With the hospital bed and through a mechanic device it’s possible to lift the bed and put him in a sitting position without much effort. We are just waiting for some side bars that come separated to prevent him from falling off the bed. A television was installed on this room so that he can watch TV and keep in touch with the world.

My old single bed was dismounted and it’s now on the attic. My mother kept a wardrobe, a drawer dresser by Powell furniture and a mirror. The television is on top of a second dresser she has and that she uses for storage of books and other small items.

This disease is very stressful for everybody but everything is being done to give him comfort so that he can have better life conditions.

Yesterday I wrote a post about diabetes and today I just knew about a campaign for a Zero Sugar product. Everyday more and more people search for Zero Sugar products not only due to health issues but also for diet purposes.

The newly released Coke zero offers Real Taste and Zero Sugar. It has an interesting campaign called: Coke zero : Life as it should be, where you can make your own black & white movie and you can even write the lines the actors will say on the movie. It’s really interesting, you can even choose from different scenes.

You can then submit your movie to compete with others and try to get a high rate. Make your own video and drink a Coke Zero, you will enjoy it.

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Do you know that you can save some money on the term life insurance you have related to your home loan?

Most people don’t know that some banks don’t send the update amount in debt to the insurance company. That happened to me. I payed for 6 years my monthly loan payment to the bank and although the amount I owed the bank was decreasing every year, the bank never updated that amount, meaning 6 years after being paying for my loan I was still paying the term life insurance as if I still owed the initial amount.

Check your situation, you can save a few dollars if you update the amount you owe to the bank on your insurance company.

• You should make the diabetes control the same way you do all year but with some extra care.
• Try to eat more or less the same that you usually eat and drink a lot of liquids to avoid dehydration specially in hot climates.
• It’s important to avoid gastroenteritis (diahrea) and vomits (that can cause hypoglycemia).
• Who gets seasick easily should take some pills to avoid the condition.
• Insulin dependents people should take with them enough quantities of insulin as well as glucose urine and blood reading straps.
• In case you are traveling to extreme climates, you should protect very well the strips and the insulin doses from the sun and heat as well as from negative temperatures (once they can freeze).
• If you are traveling by plane, you should take your medication on an handbag to prevent lost or deterioration and take with you the recipes and medical reports related to this medication.
• The best will be to travel with someone that knows your health condition and what to do in case you have a crisis (specially hypoglycemic)

Enjoy your travel!!

One of the things I miss to feel well with myself is time to “put me fashionable”. I have only a few clothes, I use and abuse of jeans and t-shirts even at work and I barely use jewelry. For some people jewelry means diamonds, gold, silver but there are beautiful and fashion jewelry at affordable prices, we can even make some pieces at home. Right now, and to lift my self esteem, I really need new clothes and a few more jewelry pieces.

It’s important for ourselves to know what really makes us happier and more comfortable, we need that to have a better life but there are some factors that avoid us from accomplish that and time and money are really strong factors, at least for me they are.

Do you have many gardening tools and you don’t have a special space to put them? Depending on the space you have available on your garden or yard you can build a small shed or a bigger one that you can also use as a working space for your bricolage. You can choose wood or steel buildings, they usually come as kits and are very easy to mount. Choose the one that fits best on your garden.