Radio Iodine Therapy

After my surgery to remove the Thyroid, there is this therapy to blow up the remaining cancer cells. I need to check-in to Ward 14 at the Canberra Hospital on Friday 30th May and swallow a pill which contains iodine and some radioactive substance. But before I get into this therapy, I need to do a low-iodine diet.

There are lots of information on the internet and one of them is www.thyca.org which you can download a cookbook and follow the recipes.

I went to the natural shop at Griffith Shops and packed in 2kg of organic wholemeal flour, 500g of bran, 250g of Lecithin, 500g of Wheat Germ and 1kg of rolled oat. Plus dried organic fruits. All this along with a cup of ginseng tea is now my breakfast. I use only hot water to moistune the cereals. 2kg of organic wholemeal flour is to make bread in my bread maker.

For lunch, I went to the farmers market on Saturday at EPIC and bought some cold meat, organic fruits and some vegetables. Diced them all up and cooked without salt in a big pan. Also red cabbage or savoy cabbage is known as the iodine sucker, if you consume a good quantity everyday, it will help to clear iodine from the body. There is a general iodine deficiency in Australia actually, so this diet is not hard to follow.

I couldn’t find any un-iodized salt anywhere in the markets and decided to completely remove it from my diet. It is only for 2 weeks and I am starting to enjoy it. Now I can taste the real flavor of the vegetables

It has only been 3 days that I am doing this diet now but there are changes. Salt started to clear up from the body and I get strange muscle cramps, if I force them. Yesterday there was one on my abdominal muscles and was painfull, I was coughing only. I think, I should take it easy.

Workplace Behaviours

Took me a while and couple of psychotherapy sessions to get rid of the eary feeling of hearing someone behind you trimming nails in the office environment.

I have heard that a friend of mine saw someone trimming his foot finger nails in the office. Excluding occupational health and safety, this is the worst thing that can happen to a developer while trying to debug through a complicated code. Person sitting in his chair, got one of the feet on the chair while the sock and the shoe sitting on the floor smelly, and trimming nicely… Yuk.

It is times like this that you understand the importance of an ipod and a good pair of noise cancelling ear phones. Grrrrrrrrrrr…

Another story from one of my friends when we were working in England-Newcastle back in 2001. There was guy also trimming the nails and one day my friend found one of those nails in his tea cup. In the events like this we usualy shot the guy twice from knees as a reminder but in Newcastle that would be considered gay so we didn’t.

Now, as soon as I get that image out of my mind, I will get back to coding.

Spiritual Firewall

This firewall is made for Muslim Internet users who wants to protect their computer with a firewall as well as verses from the Holy Koran. It has Turkish translation of Holy Koran in it to. Gives you a piece of mind when it comes to protect your server from hackers with the word of Allah.

Let say we are protected against Muslim hackers but what about Buddhist, Christian or worse Greek hackers? It would be better if the religion is a multiple choice preference in it. “All of the above” and “Atheism” should also be added.

Time to run to he hills before you start throwing stones at me hehe…

Welcome

I have turned this blog site to a “personal weblog” for funny and interesting things that I come accross everyday.

So, a warm welcome is necessary dear visitor. Let’s see what is going to unfold here. Please leave your comments and rumbles. Be gentle…