Waxing Poetic

Another great thing about being retired, is that you have time to notice the beauty all around you, and in my case, I get into those poetic moods, and the words just spill across my brain. Usually I can't write it down and then by the time I get home, the mood has changed , and alpha brain waves aren't there to spill them out onto paper. Fortunately, while I was driving my granddaughter Emily to the movies to see "Bolt" a couple of weeks ago, I got this great poem going in my head and was able to get her to write it down while I drove:



Fallen leaves everywhere, as far as my eye can see,

like big autumn colored snowflakes covering the ground and rustling along the street.

Making the treetops bare from the twirling brisk wind up there,

their stark branches revealing the empty birdnests heralding winter to come,

except for a hearty few who cling for their dear lives, the leaves make this

an autumn rainbow, that swirls along with us as my Altima swishes by.

Well, I read some more of that book on the sodium/potassium cell pump, and it really is profoundly important to ones health to keep the ratio of sodium and potasium intake at about 2 to 3 times the potassium to one sodium as measured in mg. I am still reading and absorbing the information and plan to apply the recommendations and follow the plan he outlines in the book, but to go all the way with it I have to have it sanctioned by my cardiologist, who I won't be seeing until spring. For now, I am just cutting the amount of sodium I consume and eating potassium rich fruit and vegetables, and as I think I mentioned, it has already had a dramatic affect on my blood pressure. I'll report more about this in my future blogs. I expect to have a significant decrease in my risk of heart attack, stroke, and development of diabetes Mellitus in the future, as well as reversal of metabolic syndrome and slowing of osteopenia to forestall osteoporosis. It has already reversed a trend to high blood pressure and dare I hope? it will have a significant affect on my lipid profile. It might decrease my LDLs ( the bad cholesterol). This is what one would expect of a new wonder drug, right? No, just an easy change in what one eats...not a weight loss diet, no hungar pangs to be expected, just a little attention to finding products one likes with less sodium in them. The book has lists of food products and their sodium content as well as foods with the amount of potassium in them, which makes this easier. It can be purchased on Amazon.com, if anyone is interested. (I don't profit from sharing this information) Again, its called: "The High Blood Pressure Solution, A Scientifically Proven Program For Preventing Strokes and Heart Disease" By Richard D. Moore, M.D., PhD.

Well, of course, it helps to be retired, because I can devote attention to stuff like this, which I'd never have had time to do while I was working a 40 week, day in and day out. Well I have another poem, but will end this blog and start another, since this one has gotten so long and has taken so long for me to write.