PJ Evans asked if saying something like 'the loss of Cylert results in people having to go on disability' would help.
It might well - certainly can't hurt. Management of risk has gotten absurd - it's off topic so I won't go into it here but if you think the FDA is off base on this one you don't want to hear about them and new chemo drugs.
I contacted a friend who is expert in FDA compliance issues and she reiterated the main points people have mentioned - petition the FDA, ideally through an advocacy group as well as individual citizen petitions, get press, seek compassionate use permission.
The FDA is being run by political issues, ignoring the recommendations of their scientific advisory boards - witness the continual refusal to make Plan B OTC despite strong recommendations from the advisory board. So not adding anything new here but it's going to take a long term push to fight this. It's yet another legacy of the current administration's determination to make policy on politics not facts.
I've sent a letter to my congressman, John Dingell, who is an ex officio member of the subcommittee on health.
FDA aside this is going to be tough. My husband works in biotech and we hear over and over that the big pharmas are less and less interested in anything but making blockbuster drugs. Best hope is that the FDA will reconsider their ban and the generic will be available. Eventually the drug marketplace will change with small companies doing the research and the giants doing marketing, manufactering and distribution. This is not a good scenario for people needing small market drugs and I'm sorry to see Teresa and Xopher get caught by it. :-(
turkey tortellini soup - best use of leftover turkey!
And we haven't even touched on the subject of brining....
Don't know about that fancy algorithm but a 19 pound bird should be roasted for about 14 minutes/pound so depending on your oven I'd go around 4-4.5 hours. Joy of Cooking recommends preheating to 450 then turning down to 325 when you put the bird in and that's what I'm doing for my 16 pound bird. 16 pounds is the magic number - a bird under that weight should be roasted for 15-20 minutes per pound, over 16 pounds 13-15 minutes. Oh yes - and add about 5 minutes per pound if your bird is stuffed.
What Scot H said.
I don't know how we as a nation can hold our heads up with a government engaging in such barbarous behavior. Pathological doesn't begin to describe it.
It's definitely the mad cow thing. The first time my husband tried to give blood after they changed the rules he exclaimed to me - "I can't give blood anymore" and every head in the room whipped around to stare at him! grad school at Cambridge made him too dangerous apparently. Since there are no tests for it and it is 100% fatal I can understand the red cross's conservativism on that issue but it is frustrating
And further, on the subject of NSAIDs, there are a few recent studies that show they inhibit bone growth after a bone injury. I found this out 6 weeks ago when I broke my ankle and the orthopod said vicodin or tylenol but no aspirin or ibuprofin for 6 weeks.
There have not been studies done to clearly document how long it's a problem - in mice it's the first two days but they heal broken bones in 2 weeks. In any case, NSAIDs are not entirely benign drugs and a significant number of people end up with adverse results from taking them for a prolonged period.
There are two sorts of clematis - the summer blooming - big, showy flowers in a range of colors like dark purple (jackkmani IIR) with somewhat sparce growth generally and sweet autumn clematis. The latter produces tons of tiny white very fragrant flowers - here in SE Michigan starting late August until frost. I have one that spreads more than 30 feet along a fence - and this sort gets hard pruned after hard frost. I don't know how it would do in Seattle in a balcony but it is a profuse and aggresive grower.
Since you sound somewhat shaded another possibility might be silverleaf - which also produces copious tiny white flowers. I think the idea of going and looking and asking about plants is a good one though. hmmn - honeysuckle or sweet potato are both pretty....
I also spent the weekend in the garden and have the battle wounds to show for it - the big rosebush clearly resents being pruned!
Suzanne-
after you've used the aforementioned blunt object on your doctor be aware that hypothyroidism is notoriously underdiagnosed and undermedicated in women. I have it, have had to argue about dosage in the past. Definitely worth finding another doctor and repeating the labs.
and like everyone else I'm glad to hear T's dosage problem was diagnosed and is fixable. I think the comment about checking and counting pills is very wise and will start doing so forthwith!
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