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Coolidge became nationally famous from his dictum on Boston Police strike of 1919: " "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime." From biographty in Grolier Encyclopedia: http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/bios/30pcool.html
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wwh, what should one do if one has a very bad blister? On one's heel, for instance since you mentioned it...?
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Ordinarily, just extra cleanliness will suffice. Only diabetics or immune deficient persons are at extra risk.
Sometimes it may be desirable to remove the dead skin to prevent bacterial growth in serum trapped beneath it.
Thereafter it should be kept clean and dry.
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I wonder how Cal's son's problem developed there? Very unnerving to think a blister could lead to death. I am the classic over-protective mother, but this is one death-event-scenario that got past me. One less worry, I suppose, but I'll certainly store it away for my probably soon-to-approach grandmotherly days.
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Dear WW: The newspaper stories told little if anything more than what I posted. Let us be grateful that such tragedies are rather rare, and that today antibiotics still are very effective. Soap and water is still the most powerful preventive.
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Soap and water is still the most effective 'preventive' or 'preventative'? It is interesting to note that both are acceptable in your meaning, wwh.
Can you tell I'm compulsive, wwh?
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a girl friend of mine, (a few years ago, when she was in her mid thirties) had a hangnail. it became infected, and while it hurt a bit, she wasn't worried about it.. then her hand became tender, and she could see red lines of inflamation traveling up her arm (following the line of her blood vessels.. so finally she went to the doctor. he sent her from office to hospital! the 'lines' were sign of 'blood poisoning'. (the inflamation was in her blood, and inflaming her blood vessels.) her arm was red upto the elbow!
she was scheduled for immediate surgery to drain the infection.. general anethstesia was used... she had an allergic reaction, and went into heart failure!
She survived the orderal (she was in the hospital for a full week!) Luckily, her infection was not anitbiotic resistant.
she was in generally good health, just unluck to get a small wound infected, and to not treat it promptly. most of us get hang nails more than once in our lives, and some of us have even gotten hangnails infected.. but very few of us have had a hang nail be a near cause of death (can you think of it? cause of death: untreated hang nail! but it can happen.
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Dear WW: I had a real loony sick-iatrist call me obsessive, but it didn't bother me. Shouldn't bother you.
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Dear of troy and wwh:
wwh, first: OK. I won't worry that I'm compulsive.
of troy: Gee, thanks. wwh gives me blisters to obsess about fo the rest of my life and then you go and give me (and other obsessives) hangnails to obsess about.
Best regards,
WorryWart
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