Burn Remedy

What is the best natural remedy you know of for burns?  I am making hair accessories for my kids and the hot glue gun keeps burning my fingers! It's a Wal-Mart hot glue gun for goodness sake, not an adhesive and high temperature glue here. Just a little pink glue gun for me.  After half dozen flowers glued, my fingers have had enough. That stuff sticks to everything!

I have an aloe plant (but that stuff kinda stinks).  I can use it though.  I have used vinegar for sunburn but not sure it'd work in the same way for this kind of burn.  I have some type of silver cream from the hospital from when my daughter grabbed a few hundred degrees of curling iron from the wrong end and burned her palm, but I'd rather not use that unless it's a major burn.  It's good stuff.

I'm looking for a mild, natural burn remedy.

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Cannabis Oil

Yes, it's legal in some states for the medical grade stuff but you can buy it at Amazon (probably more of a food grade hemp oil).

Have you read of all the health improvements being claimed with cannabis oil?  I have recently been reading about it and want to learn more.  Anybody use this and does it help?

I've heard many things - cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, general health.

If the skin cancer claims and cannabis are true, wow is our government and Big Pharma holding out on us, at the expense of our health and lives.

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Mudding

The thing to do in our little redneck town is for the kids to go mudding.  I thought that meant jumping on a cheap atv and playing in the mud with it. Nope, they take their nice jeeps and trucks and get mud in every crevice possible on the truck and themselves.

Yeah, I'd rather take the ATV rather than risk damage to an automotive vehicle.

They post pictures of their mess afterward and they're quite proud of themselves.  They look like they are having fun anyway.  If my kid did that and messed up one of our cars, she'd be in SO much trouble.

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Medication Update

So far, the two week periods have held off.  *whew*  Maybe that means my thyroid medication is leveling off somewhat?  I know it's not right entirely yet because there are days I feel like I am going to jump out of my skin.

I'm still missing something. Selenium? Magnesium? Iodine? Vitamin D? All of the above? I don't know.

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Financial Relief: End of Child Support

Child support is done (unless the ex goes back to court with some reason why my husband should pay for adults).  It ended in July and the case is officially closed at the end of September.

This month, we got our bills paid on time.  Boy, has that been nice. It's been hard and it's been long but it's finally over.  My husband is all for taking care of his minor children - he was always on time and paid up. However, it is a relief for our large family not to have that court order hanging over our head, struggling to make ends meet. About two years ago, we even had a bankruptcy free consultation because it was soooo hard to pay our necessary bills.  We didn't go through with the bankruptcy and we kept our heads barely above water to get to this point.

Whew.  What a relief.

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Total Switch To Naturethroid

I tried to switch solely to Naturethroid (stopping the T3 pill) and it isn't working out too well.  My period started a week after my last period! I thought, eh, it's just spotting.  Nope, full on menstruation.  I had some of the premenstrual signs ALL.  THE.  TIME.  (to the point hugs hurt my chest!!).

Great.

I LOVE Naturethroid instead of the Synthroid, but right now, I must not be converting T4 to T3 still (my reverse T3 problem).

I will not go back to Synthroid.  I am going to keep with the Naturethroid.  I need to figure out why I'm not converting still.  I'm missing something.  Either I figure it out or I take Naturethroid daily plus a T3 pill.

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Husband's Music Phases

I got home tonight from an emergency vet visit (dog is now OK, our bank account, however, is not anymore) to find an empty amp box (from hubby's current amp) in my living room - like it is just sitting there waiting to get packed up.  I wonder if that means my husband is selling that one to get something else or a different amp.  I am thinking - - probably!

His auction/sale for his recording microphones is going on now (hmmm...I wonder if he remembered to include the monster audio at musicians friend cable or if he is keeping that for himself).  I think he is done recording and is just going to sit around the house, take out one of his many guitars, and play just to play.

Only time will tell.  He goes through these phases.  You just have to ride through them and wait for the next one to come up.

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