Call your healthcare provider

Being on the second nine of life, I’m extremely aware of the most repeated advice in all medication guides: ‘Call your heathcare provider.?
If it’s a symptom, your self diagnosis conclusions, passing comment by a stranger or something in a political cartoon that gave you pause, call your healthcare provider.
Then when they put you in a facility, you can continue wondering aloud with your cell mates, because medical people aren’t going to see you any more.
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? More direct advice.
? Running your bacon under cold water before cooking will reduced shrinking by up to 50%.
? At Shell gas stations, press the button on the side of the air pump three times. The pump will start without having to insert coins.
? If you peel a banana from the bottom, you won’t have to pick those little ‘stringy things? off of it.
? Eat more marshmallows! Marshmallows relieve toothaches, asthma, sore throats and arthritis.
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Salvation Army Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a small salary of only $13,000 a year for managing this $2 billion organization — 96% of the donated dollars go to the cause.
For dying children’s last wishes, the Make a Wish Foundation fund trips and other ‘wishes.?
Did you know 100% of their funding is for the dying children?
The American Legion commander, and commanders of Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Vietnam Veterans Association, and Military Order of Purple Hearts have zero salaries.
Monies for St. Jude Research, Ronald McDonald House and Lions Club International go to their charities.
The Lions Club, known for years for their helping the blind, added measles vaccinations to their charity list this year.
? ‘Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.? ~Ronald Reagan
For Christmas I received a bacon scented pillow case, and it does smell like bacon. However, daughter Luan hasn’t checked it out yet, a requirement. J & D Foods produces this case.
They say in their enclosure:
You will sleep better and happier than you ever have in your life.
It makes you think of happier things, like bacon for breakfast.
It will kick your overnight digestive system into high gear.
Dramatically increase your intelligence and higher brain functioning.
Increase drool on your pillowcase.
When you wake up you’ll feel like you have been shot out of a bacony cannon!
Also: ‘This statement has not been evaluated by anyone anywhere.?