At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

Interesting comments regarding the shed that I hadn't though much about. I suppose there are two sides to every coin. The rental house has a carport with attached workshop that renters can use for storing junk. So I guess I can have my cake and eat it too.

Obed

 

[Obed]

Shed Delivery

My wife laid down some boards on the ground to mark where the shed should go. The shed mover has obviously done this a few times. The trailer has 8 wheels. Inside the normal dual axle wheels, there are 4 more wheels oriented 90 degrees from the normal for wheels. This second set of wheels can be lowered so that the normal 4 wheels get lifted off the ground. The trailer operator then operates a control that moves the trailer left or right to position the trailer exactly to the desired location.

 

[Larro Darro]

Your shed looks good. It is always a pleasure to watch a pro at work. They make it seem effortless.

Larro

 

[Coyote machine]

Why on earth would you not put the shed on level ground?:confused2:
It seems there is space to place it, or you could have filled the area with drainage stone or similar?
Three blocks on the down side seems un-necessary, and possibly risky when/if you end up with high winds, storms, etc. JMHO.

 

[PhysAssist]

Interesting comments regarding the shed that I hadn't though much about. I suppose there are two sides to every coin. The rental house has a carport with attached workshop that renters can use for storing junk. So I guess I can have my cake and eat it too.

Obed

Speaking of 2 sides to a coin, your earlier comment about putting foreign substances in your body made me cringe.

Steroids like prednisone are indeed artificial, but they are. (have to be in order to work) designed to be very very close in structure and function to the natural steroids made and released by your adrenal glands (they're not just for adrenaline any more) and by stopping the treatment prematurely, you actually added to your risk of both treatment failure and side effects/complications...

While it looks like you have been lucky this time, and dodged the bullets, next time, you may not be so fortunate.

The duration of treatment is chosen because of the type and severity of the process you are being treated for, so pretty commonly when patients stop their treatment early the condition rebounds and the smoldering inflammatory process blooms back even more fiercely, and sometimes in places where it is worse than the original.

Secondarily, the steroids are given in such a way (a 5 or 7 or 14-day burst) as to try to avoid inhibiting your body's (adrenal gland's) production and release of the natural analogue called cortisol, and either stopping it early (especially after just one dose) or playing with the dosing greatly increases the risk that you suppress your natural steroid hormone production and (kind of ironically, I think) could end up having to depend on taking that "foreign substance" daily for the rest of your life to replace it (kind of like thyroid hormone for folks who are hypothyroid, or insulin for diabetics.)

Like I said, looks like you luckily dodged those bullets, this time... And I'm glad for you.

Just saying,,,,,,

Thomas

 

[clemsonfor]

Yep did not know the science behind it but know that steroids have tapered doses to start high and then wean them off.

Steroids are one of the last things i would be worried about. There one of the few things that they prescribe to pregnant women, well there lots of things that they can take but they are very safe when used correctly to treat the inflamation pain or whatever.

 

[clemsonfor]

Yep did not know the science behind it but know that steroids have tapered doses to start high and then wean them off.

Steroids are one of the last things i would be worried about. There one of the few things that they prescribe to pregnant women, well there lots of things that they can take but they are very safe when used correctly to treat the inflamation pain or whatever.

 

[PhysAssist]

Yep did not know the science behind it but know that steroids have tapered doses to start high and then wean them off.

Steroids are one of the last things i would be worried about. There one of the few things that they prescribe to pregnant women, well there lots of things that they can take but they are very safe when used correctly to treat the inflamation pain or whatever.

Too right you are!

BTW, I also recommend Zyrtec (generic is cetirizine) instead of benadryl for any kind of skin rash or itchy condition. It's a lot longer lasting and more effective than the old standby, and much less sedating. If you can take benadryl, you can take zyrtec, and unless you have serious liver or kidney issues, it's safe at up to twice the recommended dosage (10 mg/day).

 

[Obed]

Yep did not know the science behind it but know that steroids have tapered doses to start high and then wean them off.

My wife asked me if the nurse practitioner said anything about weaning me off the steroids. The NP did not. She prescribed 21 pills, 3 pills/day for 7 days. Therefore my wife recommended that I take the pills until my hand got better then stop taking them. So I took 3 pills the first 24 hours and stopped when it appeared that I was past the worst of it. After working for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer for 4 years, I'm much more skeptical about the information the drug companies pass on to the medical practitioners.

Obed

 

[clemsonfor]

back on the tree cutting thing. i watched the latest episode of Moutain men off my DVR from sunday. The guy in montana that supposedly heats his home and shed with wood was cutting a leaning tree. he made his back cut first put a wedge in then cut the felling notch to fell the tree...somehow not binding his saw bar up?? This is a guy that supposedly knows what he is doing and heats with wood? thats a good way to get a tree to fall on you and or your saw destroyed???