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    Insomnia

    in Health and Medicine

    Posted

    You may find that melatonin is helpful.  I buy Nature's Bounty 1mg, 180 tablets, from Lazada Thailand for 439Baht (cash on delivery).  Currently, I take one tablet about 20 minutes before sleep.  There is no hangover effect.

     

    You will have to experiment with what dosage is best for you.

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    Food Caught In Throat

    in Health and Medicine

    Posted

    The medical term for swallowing difficulties is dysphagia.  There are many possible causes:

     

    1.  Hiatus Hernia:  "...makes it difficult to swallow solid food and drier textures like rice, chicken or meat... This condition means that the diaphragm muscle keeping the stomach in the right place has been weakened." [iqoro.com]

    2.  GERD:  stomach acid backing up into the esophagus can cause scarring and narrowing of your lower esophagus.

    3.  Achalasia:  lower esopageal muscles don't relax enough to let food enter the stomach, causing you to bring food back into your throat. [mayoclinic.org]

     

    For a more complete list go to mayoclinic.org/diseases/dysphagia.

     

    And, finally:  See a doctor for diagnosis!

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    Covid in Thailand vs world.

    in COVID-19 Coronavirus

    Posted

    On 8/22/2021 at 8:28 PM, amdy2206 said:

    I see Thailand has moved up to 34th around the world for covid infections ... Every day they are moving up the table. 

    I've also been watching Thailand's rapid move up the world table:  now 33rd place as of August 23.  Given that Thailand is the 20th largest country by population, I expect it to move up many more places yet (even with the under-reporting of cases!).

    Medpark still vaccinating?

    in COVID-19 Coronavirus

    Posted · Edited by LarryLEB

    FYI:  MedPark's online system is still accepting bookings.

     

    I just completed MedPark's online registration form and booked my appointment for Thursday, the 19th, at 15:00.  They will send a  confirmation email in 24 hours.

     

     

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    Boy.......Going into a bank is very stressful now..........

    in Pattaya

    Posted

    23 hours ago, billd766 said:

    Do YOU wear spectacles?

     

    If you do, you will understand. If you don't I cannot help you.

     

    BTW thank you for your unwanted and un-needed advice. I have filed it under trash.

    FYI...   I wear glasses, and I'm able to adjust the mask to wear it correctly AND to avoid them fogging up.  I see many others that wear glasses wearing their masks properly.

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    Anyone recommend some book titles?

    in General Topics

    Posted · Edited by LarryLEB

    I keep a list of the books that I have read, but only those for which I have given 4 or 5 stars out of a possible 5.  Here are some of the nonfiction titles well worth your time:

     

    1.   I am nearly finished Gwynne Dyer's The Shortest History of War.   Dyer is a military historian and his book is incredibly well researched and footnoted.

    2.   Studs Terkel's Working:  People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.  Terkel is known for his oral histories, and this book is one of his best in that genre.  Other titles of his are also worth reading.

    3.   Robert Graysmith's Zodiac:  The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer.  

    4.   Tracy Borman's Thomas Cromwell:  The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant.  

    5.    William Shirer's  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

    6.     Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman:  A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Marking of the Oxford English Dictionary.

    7.  Gayatri Devi's A Princess Remembers:  The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur.  This may be difficult to find; may have to order it hardcopy.

    8.  Peter Biskind's My Lunches With Orson:  Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles.

    9.   David Grann's  The Lost City of Z:  A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

    10.   Brian Keating's  Losing the Nobel Prize:  A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor.

    11.    Dava Sobel's  Longitude:  The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.

    12.  David Grann (yet again!)'s  Killers of the Flower Moon:  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.  "In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma." Their wealth?  OIL!   ..."One by one, the Osage began to be killed off. More and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. The newly created FBI took up the case "  under the young director, J. Edgar Hoover.  [quotes courtesy of Amazon.]

    13.  Dee Brown's   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American West. 

    14.   Alan Stern and David Grinspoon's  Chasing New Horizons:  Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto.

     

    If I can get around to it, I will add another "missive" with the rest of the titles on my list.  I hope that you will enjoy at least some of these books as much as I did!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Thailand reports another record high new COVID-19 cases

    in Thailand News

    Posted · Edited by LarryLEB

    5 hours ago, dinsdale said:

    This is what Delta looks like when it is completely out of control. Yesterday the UK had 54,000. If testing here was on par with the UK then it would be fair to assume so would the infection numbers probably much higher. Now past 400k and rapidly moving toward 500k. Many of us on here said we are watching a disater in the making some time ago. I believe it's here.

    A valid comparison between UK and Thailand in that their populations are nearly the same (70M Thailand; 68M UK).  The real numbers here in Thailand would likely beggar one's imagination.

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    Cheapest possible way to build small dwelling…

    in DIY Forum

    Posted

    On 5/12/2021 at 10:39 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

    It is from Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s KBE  book She published in 1887 that has been made into 10 movies from 1899 to 2001 . Your education is sadly lacking, sir. 

    Also used extensively by fictional barrister Horace Rumpole in the Rumpole of the Bailey books and the TV series with Leo McKern.

    The best

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

    Posted

    On 7/3/2021 at 11:06 PM, Sparktrader said:

    True Cruise movies r usually good. He's good at the fun characters, cant play serious though. That WW2 film was horrible.

    There was ONE serious movie in which I thought Cruise was very good:  Collateral (2004) with Jamie Foxx.  I was pleasantly surprised because, in general I have to agree with you regarding Cruise's attempts at serious roles.

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