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Robert Walton wrote:
> 
> I got the last of my firewood up out of the woods yesterday. There's
> still a little out there, but probably always will be. Today I got it
> all stacked, etc. Just a few big sweet gum logs to split, my back
> says, "Another day!".

My back is killing me, too.  This weekend we loaded and moved 4 cords of  
wood.  Most of it needs to be split to size so it was heavy work.  Load it in 
the truck, unload it and stack it.  We will be getting a few more cords of 
wood, mostly huge tree trunks that we will not split this year..
We have an additional 3 cords ready to burn for the winter.  

Wood heat is our only source of heat. We have wood, lots and lots of wood. We 
use about 2.5 cords a winter, more if it is a bad winter. I have a small 
house.


> 
> I really like arranging firewood in a stack. It's one of those
> necessary things that you do, but you can make it pleasing to the eye
> at the same time. Arranging the garden is like that also. I like this
> year's arrangement of the firewood. It's in 5 different stacks,
> according to dryness, mostly. They're not all lined up, they're
> convenient, but out of the way, they block wind where it needs
> blocked.

Me too.  I look at it like a puzzle, and try to interlock logs so that the 
stack stays put.  
This past week we built a new woodshed.  It's an 8x16 pole shed, no sides..  
I put pallets down and we stacked the wood on the pallets.  Oak is on one 
side and hickory is on the other.  I have a little cherry and pecan mixed in. 
 There are no softwoods in our wood inventory this year, YET.  We need to 
take down a huge sweetgum that keeps dropping limbs, as well as a leaning 
pine, so we may have some softwood.  I am thinking of splitting it and 
hauling it around to the campgrounds-sell it out of the back of my truck.  I 
would make a box the size of a laundry basket and sell the wood for maybe 
$5/box or more with a free bag of marshmallows thrown in.  It's an idea 
anyway.


> 
> I took a pile of pine logs from a tree that needed to go so another
> could fall and chopped it into kindling today. 

We've got a couple of plastic trashcans that we park on the porch for 
kindlin'.  Throughout the year, as DH makes various projects in the workshop, 
we save the scraps.  Also, I rake up the debris where we split and save all 
the bark that comes off.  It all goes into the trashcans.  For firestarters, 
I pick up and save pinecones.  This year, I made candles, so I poured a bit 
of leftover wax over the pinecones.

> The gnashing and gnawing of insect teeth in that pine in the first
> stack is close to being identified. They leave a stringy wood litter
> behind. When I was splitting the pine today, I found lots of big white
> grubs and little white bugs. 

Too bad you don't fish. <g>

We got a lot accomplished this weekend, too. We rebuild the chicken tractor, 
replaced the skids and the bottom frame and roof.  I had used some old 
polycarbonate green greenhouse roofing on it originally, but UV did that in 
so we replace it with some scrap metal siding.  We also used that scrap metal 
for the woodshed roof.




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The problem with using "iatrogenic" is what is part of the problem with
medical care in the U.S., the patient.  Not to defend doctors but their job
is kind of hard when so many of their patients, to put it bluntly, are
liars!  Yup, just flat out liars.

Well, Mr. X, please fill out this questionaire.  Do you drink alcohol?
Yes/No, if yes, how often.  Doctors get the same blooming answer that cops
get "oh, I just had a couple of beers."  So the doc gives him some
medication which is contra-indicted if someone drinks.  Blam, liver
problems.  Doc gets marked on the iatrogenic list.

Patient comes in and is going to have oral surgery.  Long questionaire.  One
of the questions is "have you ever used ANY drugs, legal or otherwise.
Patient lists some antibiotics and the Soma they took way back when for a
back injury.  Patient doesn't note that patient used meth as a recreational
weekend drug.  Patient gets anesthesia and it takes enough to knock out a
horse and patient goes into pulmonary shutdown and dies.  Doc gets marked on
the iatrogenic list.

Both are the direct responsibility of the patient!

So, isatrogenic lists are worthless!

BTW, ALL med errors are reported, period!  Monthly, by all hospitals.
Doesn't matter whether or not they result in a death.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "SJC" <indexer AT localnet.com>


>I went looking just now for current figures on iatrogenic deaths in this
> country, but as usual, they are not easy to come by.  Not really
> something any of us want to think too hard about, I guess.
>
> I no longer have mine (burned in house fire) but I remembered this
> article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which is
> only available on the net for $$, although some libraries carry it and a
> lot of hospital libraries will let the public in (another closely-held
> fact) but someone has copied it to a blog at
> http://digg.com/health/Doctors_May_Be_Third_Leading_Cause_of_Death
>
> Those are of course, not current figures and no matter what, are 'way
> low.  I have seen many deaths go unmarked so far as causative factors.
> For instance, had I had the good grace to croak this spring before my
> diagnosis and subsequent treatment, my death certificate would
> undoubtedly have read simply "pulmonary thrombosis" with no note as to
> neglect/lack of dx/treatment or anything else, for that matter.  I've
> seen estimates that reporting of iatrogenic death ranges from 5% to 20%
> of actual cases.....pretty scary when you do the numbers.
>
> And these are only deaths.  They don't count the incidents that involve
> a less-than-dead patient, such as medication errors that don't result in
> death, surgeries done on the wrong limb, etc....