I never heard of it, but it appears VJ has a link for you.

Hope your appt at bladder clinic went well.  I have another cancer surgery in my bladder tomorrow...scraping any cancer out.

I had my yearly appt with my primary care this morning.  I need to do blood work and a dexa scan when things calm down.

I hope that is soon.

Jane

Jane...
...never thought bladders would give us so much problems...hoping your surgery appointment has a positive outcome for you...

Thank You for your input, Vanilla-Jackie

V-J  Urology surgery went well.  He was pleased with healing from June surgery.  He did take 2 more biopsies from the "padding"at the bottom of the bladder.

Surgery was also delayed 3 hours...emergency for my urologist in surgery to take care of.

All in a LONG day.

jane

Sounds like good news, jane!! 

Jane...
...things can only get better for you from now on....

Thanks, Mary and V-J.

jane

This is a new topic, it may not garner much interest but I thought it was worth mentioning.

RA, gout and inflammation.

If you have any of the above you know how painful, and debilitating they can be. It needs to be said that they are related. Gout is a form of arthritis. Foods that are high in purines, and chemicals that cause spikes or increases in uric acid production underly these and other conditions.

I recently got exposed to roadside spraying. I got my first violent Gout and RA bouts. OMgoodness! My husband has had gout, so I was familiar with the symptoms, and the diet. This lead me to research on why the spraying inflicted staggering gout and RA, and the most effective and lesser known natural treatments. Here's what I've learned in case it helps someone else.

Many people are aware that canola oil is hugh in uric acid. Canola is an oil made from a GM modified rape seed oil. Its "lower" in uric acid than rape seed oil. Rape seed oil was marketed during the WWs for use in war ships. They had a ton left over. They tried remarketing it as a food oil, except it killed people with the horrific gout. So Canada invested in a GM form that had lower uric acid, but still high enough to cause gout in susceptible individuals, and paid the US millions of $$ to market it as a healthy food oil. Two things in my personal knowledge: my husband did work for farming families. One farmer and his 2 adult sons were growing GM rape seed. Their combine broke down in the field during harvest. So the 3 were standing around, working on the combine. One of them stripped a handful of the seeds and ate them. He thought they were tasty and shared them with the other two. That evening all 3 were on emegermcy life support in the ER completely swollen up and black with uric acid poisoning, head to toe. They all nearly died. As a side note, if you're using "vegetable oil" - STOP! Its in there.

Next, my research on food additives and toxic product ingredients has lead me down the path that they hide toxic ingredients under misleading names on labels, and even on MSDS, or SDS as they're now called. So when I waslooking at what the county used to spray their roadsides (the pesticides were bad enough) I noted the name of the "sticker" they used. Thats the chemical thats supposed to make the pesticide stay put, with longer acting efficacy. I looked it up. The active ingredients didn't look that bad, but there in an almost offhand, casual mention was the term "seed oil." Bingo! This was hidden rape seed oil, not the lowerer uric acid kind. Chemical companies still have a huge surplus of rape seed oil that they slip into all kinds of products so they can use it up and not take a complete loss. Perhaps you may be unaware that vehicles are not VOC proof. Fumes from outside, get drawn in with air circulation and even leak through the frame much like water floods into cars that have driven into rivers or lakes. So when you go down the road you can be exposed unwittingly to all kinds of toxic substances. In my case they sprayed where I was staying, I evacuated to a different place that nobody mentioned had just been sprayed as well. In order to get out of there I had to drive over miles of road that had been sprayed.

They gout and RA was so bad I tried all kinds of things to get relief; the normal things did not work. I consulted my herbal medicine reference. The remedy that stood out to me was "celery juice" or celery seed "tea." I had one piece of celery left. I made cream of celery soup. In minutes there was dramatic improvement. I also used a homeopathic remedy that helps remove uric acid from the body: ruta. I did these daily, substituting a small amount of celery seed for the celery, in my cooking.

Before the advent of allopathic (petroleum based) medicine these were 2 of the healing modalities that all doctor used, and found quite effective. If you have gout, RA or even inflammation, give it a shot and let me know if they worked for you"

Had some gout years ago. I don't recall at this time what I did to relieve it. Someone told me to try taking Feverfew, which I did, and that may be what helped.

Interesting story ---
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

Feverfew has salicylic acid like willow bark.  It would work.

Good article. My older sister worked as an Executive Director in Elder Care and Dementia Care Facilities. She'd get hired to clean up buildings that had failed inspections or had other major problems. She was very good at it. She'd get the building whipped back into shape, purge the bad staff, get the good ones pay raises and improve the quality of care for the residents. The problem was the owners didn't want quality care, they wanted cheap care and bigger profits. As soon as they got a passing grade from the state inspectors they'd fire her and bring in some family member to continue their previous practice. She used to tell me about all the abuse she would find. It was pretty standard across the industry.

The abuse and negligence in elder facilities here in Iowa is horrific.  We rank 49th in inspections!

I'm trying to stay in my home and be as independent as possible.  I'm still able to drive and here that is a necessity to being independent.

Stay safe and healthy,

Jane