Anne

I notice after eating avocado, I feel slightly dizzy and lightheaded for about an hour. I love avocado and make a delicious guacamole, and also sometimes a kale and avocado salad. Not often, usually for parties or when guests are over. The only other thing that ever did this to me was aspirin which I can't take now because my doctor says I may be allergic to it. But usually when I am allergic to something, I break out in hives and wheeze. So are avocados known for making some people dizzy? LOL! I wonder how it does this.

I don't have access to a conventional oven. Only a 5 quart crock pot with low, high and warm settings. I have a box cake mix and the necessary eggs, oil and water. How do I make the cake? Can it be done?

My son just read the Lord of the Rings. He loves reading and says he enjoyed this book. I find thos amazing at his age but then I am not impartial. Is it fairly remarkable?

Is it typical of a cocaine user to be aggressive or short tempered, stomping around (walking as if angry), restless and manic? The reason I ask is that there is a person at work who is like this and when we were recently both in the ladies room, she went into a stall and it sounded like she snorted then did this sneeze/cough about four times. Around the office, she always seems very hyper as well. Her eyes frequently look bloodshot. She is socially a loner.

You know, the horrible situation where upstairs neighbors stomp around instead of walking softly? I have a friend who is going through something of a nervous breakdown after fighting such a problem for almost 8 months. He started out trying to be friendly to them and talk about the need for carpet, etc. Eventually went to his landlord. At this point, he has insomnia and dreads going home. He is actually trying to move! It got me thinking and I wondered if others have stories about this kind of situation. Apparently, it is not an easy problem to solve.

Do healthy 76 year old men take frequent naps in the day time, dozing in a recliner or on a sofa midmorning and in afternoon? Or is that a concern in terms of health?

My dad is 78. About 8 months ago, he bought a smartphone. This is pretty amazing in that he never had a cell phone before. But now he is obsessed with playing the solitaire game on it. Constantly. I mean for hours. If he is not watching jeopardy or napping, he is on the smartphone..staring hypnotized at the screen. We go out to dinner, out comes the smartphone at the table. He even pulls it out during coffee hour after church. The entire family is fed up. Nothing we do stops him. He says we are all overreacting. I think it is realistic to limit phone use to less than 5 hours a day! I think he needs serious help.

When someone dies and one is grieving, why does it feel like a tidal wave that overwhelms one minute and then there are periods of time it seems like things will be ok, tolerable, and almost normal, but when you start to laugh or just be normal it comes back. Why does the intensity come and go? Almost as if "forgetting" it on purpose for a little bit but them remembering it, over and over.

My sons fourth grade teacher insists that the plural of hoof is hoofs. I looked it up and it is hooves. I did see that the plural of roof is roofs where it was once rooves but changed at some point in the last century or so.

Remember when Ebola was in the US in the 1980s? In Reston Va, not far from DC. It was in a monkey laboratory but some workers got it..but the Reston strain in people was like a bad cold or something if I recall correctly. It killed monkeys. I remember hearing about it when I was in college, from a biology professor.

Im also curious how often people get an unused one replaced..how long they last.

Ok, I know about the tests for TSH, FT3, FT4, etc. But my point is, my mother was tested for almost three years by two different doctors and always they said it was normal. Well, she started really having symptoms much worse like losing her hair, shivering, anxiety, confusion etc...so she went to an endocrinologist. He said all those years her tests were telling her her counts fluctuated significantly for her. He put her on meds and she got well. So why do doctors look at a test result and say it's normal if it is not?

I saw in the news that Pfizer is buying back $11billion in shares over time. But what does it mean in general when companies buy back shares, what is going on with that?

Do you consider the principle of justice for human need which this glimpse of Jesus reveals to have been his message, based on legitimate scholarship that is not out to prove he was god, to be worthy of the discussion about human spirituality? (By spirituality, I mean in respect to wholeness as human beings and not to religion).