Recently I heard that a family member in her early 50s was being seen by a doctor for DVT and that she was hoping that there was a more natural way of dealing with it than the medications her doctor was prescribing. When I had digested this scrap of family ''information,'' I thought about my own lax position (denial, really) and how it would make sense for me to make some changes in my life while I still have some shreds of health and potential fitness. And, of course, I have inherited my mother's compulsive pop reading habit (in my case, the Internet mostly). So, I decided to research and write an article that would incorporate some preventative and alternative health principles into my life that might make DVT somewhat less likely to catch up with me than is likely the case now. I would also like to see our family member above and others benefit from these principles if they decide that they want to. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a critical health concern that af
So, when I signed up for Amazon PRIME it was purportedly so I could have my shipping costs covered for books and such. I did not know that there was an opportunity to watch Prime Movies and TV as part of the deal. Now, I'm not a big movie buff. Quite a while back we opted out of the most common movie feed-- I just didn't feel like it was necessary to watch three or four movies a month. I like to read. The movies got in the way of my concentration with my expanding my reading to include new novels and new Canadian literature, in general. This is the part of my life where I want to be catch up on the reading I missed when I was immersed in other endeavors in the years before. So, goodbye Netflix and GEM and whatever other movie purveyors I was involved with. And I didn't miss them. However, when I found out that signing up with PRIME meant that I got to watch some of the TV movies and shows that looked like upgrades to some of the old movies of the past (i.e.,