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Bye-Bye Boo Boo Ice Pack

As the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime is the type of role model every leader should strive to be. He is heroic, brave and cares about those who serve under him. Optimus has a strong sense of justice and belief in protecting all life forms. When the Transformers first premiered in 1984, most kids wanted to be like Optimus Prime.

Now, Optimus Prime can protect you or your children in the form of an ice pack. The bye-bye boo-boo ice pack is a gel ice pack with a plush fabric cover. The bye-bye boo-boo ice packs come in different styles such as: Batman, Hello Kitty, Scooby-Doo, and more. The reusable bye-bye boo-boo therapeutic ice packs are perfect for pain and fever relief.

Batman

Scooby-Doo

Hello Kitty

Hi, my name is Dave and I have insomnia. My insomnia started when I was in high school. I don’t know why it started. Over the years my insomnia just got worse and worse. Sure I got to watch a lot of David Letterman, but back then I just wanted to go to sleep.

At first it was very mild. I wasn’t able to fall asleep before 1 am. Slowly that time got pushed back to 2 am, then 3 am then finally not at all. Like the time it started out as one night a week, then two nights, and so on. It wasn’t uncommon to be awake for six days straight.

I was real frustrated for a long time about my insomnia. I didn’t want to talk to anybody about it. Not mt parents, not my friends, nobody. For the first two years I felt terribly alone and isolated. I rarely talked to anyone, I hardly came out of my bedroom. My parents thought it was just normal teenage behavior and I would grow out of it.

Then one day I noticed something unusual. The nights that I didn’t sleep I wasn’t tired the next day. the nights that I did sleep I was more tired than usual. I was also more productive when I didn’t sleep. I thought that was strange. It was almost like not sleeping was better for me. As I thought about it more and more I accepted the fact that this was normal to my life and nothing was going to change that. I decided to embrace my insomnia with a positive attitude. Now I could play more video games, read more books, watch more movies.

When I started telling people about my insomnia they were a little shocked and unsure of what to say. I got the usual people telling me how to cure my insomnia. I got ideas from everything that made sense like drink warm milk mixed with honey to the more weird ideas like get a glass of warm water and fill with moth balls. Supposedly the vapors would lull you to sleep. Nothing has worked for me.

It has been 15+ years of living with insomnia. This past year it has actually gotten better. About a year ago I discovered Acai Juice. When I first drank it I slept all night long. I still don’t sleep on the weekends at all, but I do sleep more during the week. I don’t know if my sleeping has to do with the Acai Juice. I don’t drink it as much now ( it has gotten a little expensive), but I am sleeping better.

I don’t know if the juice had anything to do with me sleeping more or not, or if my sleeping will continue. However, for now I will just be happy that I am sleeping.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. If the Acai Juice helped me sleep it was probably a fluke. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean it will work for you.

I used to work in a warehouse a few years ago. I was driving a forklift, moving boxes, whatever the job called for. The majority of the time the job wasn’t that bad. Like most jobs there were the usual problems: lazy employees, stubborn bosses and the like.

However, this being Kansas the summers got miserable hot. 800 gazillion degrees hot in the shade miserable. Since this was a warehouse and most of the work involved being outdoors, there was no air conditioning in the warehouse. We were able to take extra breaks (at the expense of our lunch) but most days this did not help.

What we could have used was a personal cooling vest. A personal cooling vest isn’t just for battling the heat. Personal cooling vests are helpful for people with multiple sclerosis; this cooling safety vest also helps those who suffer from other neurological and physical disabilities which cause intolerance to heat.

Cooling Vest - Evaporative Cooling System - Polar Products

Steady Steps Toe Hold

With the weather starting to cool off, nothing beats sitting around with a group of friends on a lazy Sunday watching football. Even though the players are wearing full pads, watching them getting hit and trampled on, you wonder how they get up.

Unfortunately, sometimes the players don’t get up on their own. Sometimes a player doesn’t realize they are sore until after the game. One injury I had never heard of until an announcer mentioned it is Turf Toe.

The official name is metatarsophalangeal joint sprain (yeah, I can barely pronounce it either). Even though Turf Toe is what it is called when it happens to the big toe, this can happen to any of the toes. Turf toe is named such because it mostly happens when playing sports on tough surfaces such as artificial turf. While it is common to football players, turf toe can happen to anybody.

Turf toe occurs when the toe is hyper-extended, or the toe is bent further than it is supposed to bend. This can happen in a number of different ways. One of the more common ways is when a player steps down on the toes, and another player hits their calf from behind.

While Turf Toe does not sound serious and it has a funny name. Turf toe can be a debilitating injury to anybody. Most football players have taken a month or more off to heal. There are a few things that can be done to help prevent Turf Toe. However, if you do get Turf Toe try this Toe Hold Toe Alignment Splint to help the recovery process.

If you should happen to get Turf Toe, don’t despair. While wearing the toe alignment splint people all over will be asking you what you did to yourself. Just think of the smiles you’ll get when you tell people that you have an injury with a name like Turf Toe.