29 April, 2006

Well, as some of you all know, I just moved into another house earlier this month.

What I hadn’t posted was that shortly after we moved in, we had to hospitalize my mother, who was having trouble breathing, and sitting up in general. The doctors at the local hospital found blood clots around her lungs, and put her on heparin sodium to help clear that up. They also told her that she was grossly overweight (She outweighs me, and I weigh about 315 lbs), and needed desperately to lose some of her weight.

She’s diabetic, and has been so for about 10 years now. She wouldn’t stick to their suggested diets, because she’s just that stubborn.

I do hope she listens now, and starts to lose some of her weight. I can’t afford to lose her right now.

She’s been in the hospital for about ten days, but we got a call this morning. They released her a little earlier today, and, as I type, she is sitting in a chair in our new living room, complaining that she’s cold.

I’m glad to have her home.

So, I was doing some more reading over at Recommended last night, and I noticed the topbar, and a series of links there.

One of the link icons was a bit illegible for me (curse these olde eyes, lah), but it lead to a place called ‘[tag]freecycle[/tag].org’.

Now, the name initially made me think, “Hm, are they operating some sort of bicycle pool, or even giving away bicycles? What’s the catch?”
So, of course, being one of those fools into getting things for free, I checked out the link.
Although it wasn’t what I initially thought of it, it’s just as good.
People all over the world have developed groups where they can leave things up for people to pick up if they are looking for it, while asking others for things they could actually use. All this activity rescues things from heading to the landfill, and essentially encourages [tag]recycling[/tag] at a very useful level.

This is something I, too, can honestly recommend.

Freecycle.org. Check it out.