Back from Oxfordshire

[qatarperegrine]

I'm back in Doha after two weeks visiting my family in Oxfordshire.

Realizatons made on this trip:

• babies are cute
  
• childbirth is not cute, but anyone who has gone through it has my undying respect and awe [Edit: gone through it on the birthing side, that is. Obviously we've all been through childbirth on the being-birthed side.]
  
• I desperately desire to live in a city that is not just walkable but walking-centric, like English towns with a medieval city center tend to be
  
• Britain is full of these brown, fibrous upright cylinders with little green wavy bits at the top; Doha should look into acquiring some:
  

The original plan had been to go hike the Ridgeway Trail for a week, but for various health reasons I had to scrap that plan. In the end I managed a 1.5-day, 29-mile hike from my sister's house in Abingdon down the Thames Path for a day, and then east on the Ridgeway following a prehistoric earthwork called Grim's Ditch (pictured above). It covered some really beautiful scenery, and hiking is always good for my overall serenity. I wish I could do more of it.

Pictures of the trip are here.

And in case anyone is jealous of my jet-setting ways, I also spent three days in bed with a migraine and a new medical condition that you don't want to hear about. I like to travel, but my body sure does not. Dear roboticist friends: please to make me a cyborg body to transfer my brain into, for I am royally sick of this one, kthxbye.

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The Google is Your Friend, Trust the Google

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

Let's see what Google has to say:

• Googling autoimmune "psychological stress" gives us 37,200 links.


• Googling autoimmune "mental stress", being the less scientific term, gives us 12,800 links, with quite a few interesting articles on the first page, such as:
  
  
  1. Stress affects hormones which affect immune system which alters mental and physical disease.
  
  
  2. Can Stress Cause Autoimmune Disease? Dr. Richard Weinstein Thinks So.


• Lets narrow the field somewhat. Googling "autoimmune diseases" "rheumatoid arthritis" "mental stress" gives us 511 links, such as:
  
  1. Stress as a Risk Factor in the Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
  
  
  2. Neuroendocrine–immune relationships between emotion regulation and health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
  
  
  3. Linking Stress to Inflammation.
  
  
  4. How psychological stress via hormones and nerve fibers may exacerbate rheumatoid arthritis, which isn't the actual paper, only a reference to it.


• Googling "autoimmune diseases" "juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" "mental stress" gives us 87 links. Quite a few to good solid sources.

JRA has been "renamed" to "Juvenile idiopathic arthritis", idiopathic meaning they haven't the foggiest idea what causes it. So while JRA is not directly related to "regular" rheumatoid arthritis, it too shows a direct link with various forms of "stress", physical, emotional or otherwise. With many other autoimmune diseases, such as Psoriasis, the connection between the initial occurrence or later outbursts, is much clearer.

"Seek Search, and Ye Shall Find".

Re: The Google is Your Friend, Trust the Google

[(Anonymous)]

that is what i was suggesting you should have done, yes

Re: The Google is Your Friend, Trust the Google

[(Anonymous)]

and by "that" i mean use google