If there’s one truth about being stuck at home, it’s that suddenly everything in your home seems to stop working. You open your blinds in the morning, and the wand breaks off. You sit on your patio chairs in the afternoon, and the mesh comes loose. You take off your glasses at night, and the nose pad falls off. I wasted days at home hunting down superglue, opening it up, and somehow having as much ooze out onto my fingers and kitchen table (add that to the list of things to fix!) as I needed for the entire project.
On the day I finally quit waiting tables and started working at a “real” job (you know… one that requires you to sit behind a desk all day) – I remember thinking my back pain troubles were over. “This is great,” I told myself as I slowly reclined into the hunched-over, super-comfortable, totally-terrible posture that would soon become my go-to position for 8+ hours every day. I wish someone (more specifically my doctor) would have warned me that 1 out of 2 people who work at a desk job will develop back-pain in their lifetime – but he didn’t. And in a matter of months, the minor back pain I had from waiting tables worsened into a slipped disc in my lower back – a condition that put me in unbearable, buzzing pain throughout the day.
If you get headaches and you’re tired of taking drugs or suffering through the pain… the story of Elizabeth Hayes could change your life. Elizabeth was recently struggling with a 12-hour migraine… and getting desperate. "I had a migraine start almost twelve hours ago," she says in her Facebook post. "About an hour ago it was at an unbearable limit. I had exhausted all of my drugs and tricks I usually use to ease my migraines… to no avail." That’s when she found an unusual solution that completely changed her life.
People are RAVING about this Doctor's smart invention for at-home eye exams (saving time & money). I never realized how much I hated taking eye exams at the optometrist... until recently, I started giving myself eye exams. At home. By myself. Now, I know what you’re thinking: "Taking eye tests at home? There’s no way a medical professional would approve of that." Get this: My optometrist was the one who recommended the at-home tests. There’s a good reason, which I’ll explain in a moment... but first, let me tell you about this new invention that actually makes this possible.
If you’ve ever lost your keys, lost your phone, couldn’t find your car in a parking lot, had your luggage lost at the airport, or even had one of your most valuable possessions of all — your beloved pet — run away, you know how stressful life can feel in that moment. Can you relate? And that time you spend looking for your lost items, well… you can never get it back! Not to mention the cost of replacing valuables like your phone or remote car keys.
Do you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying about how bulky and unsightly your keychain is? Of course not. But let's be honest, it can be bulky, leg-poking, and annoying! Not to mention just unorganized for those of us who enjoy things being "clean" and sleek. Can you relate?
About 4 years ago, my mom started another little "side-project" - she started digging through an closet FULL of old family memories, trying to sort and scan all of our family photos and home videos onto her computer. With her "spare time" (which is a word I don’t think she really understands), she found a way to hook a scanner up to her computer and then proceeded to manually scan each photo - well over 1,500 of them.
