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In this column, I am going to tell you about my susceptibility to a specific infection prior to my myelodysplastic syndromes diagnosis and thereafter.
It is not a pleasant story, but it may nevertheless be of interest to other myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) patients because MDS patients are at a high risk of developing infections, especially when their white blood cell counts are low.
Even before my MDS diagnosis, I had been suffering from recurrent bladder infections for decades. Why? Nobody can tell. About ten urologists have already seen my bladder from the inside. Many ultrasounds and X-ray examinations have been taken. Everything that could have been examined in my urogenital tract has been checked, and I can proudly say that I have never had any negative results ever: No cancer, no anatomical obstacles, no bladder or kidney stones, and nothing wrong concerning "the hardware."
My bladder, however, has been my Achilles heel and cystitis my foe. Although there have been longer infection-free periods in my life, I always had to be highly attentive to possible warning signs and uncomfortable symptoms, such as the recurrent urge to urinate, so that I could start countermeasures early on.
I am an expert in taking appropriate precautions and in using non-antibiotic approaches to address the potential problem.
I drink a lot – and I mean a lot – of water, which means I have to go to the bathroom quite often. Before we travel, my husband patiently stores all locations with bathrooms in the GPS system so that they are readily available in case I need them. And, of course, I know every location in our immediate vicinity.
There are three hot water bottles in different sizes plus two grain pillows in my kitchen cupboard to provide me with heat, which relieves the pain. I have all sorts of herbal teas, goldenrod pills, and cranberries as juice, capsules, and powder sachets at hand, because each of my friends swears by one of them. Of course, I have additional alternative helpers, including homeopathic pills, in my medicine cabinet.
The jeans and trousers I wear are never too tight, and I always wear cotton or even woolen underwear. Since I know that both cold and hot weather make me susceptible to an infection, I avoid sitting on park benches, unless it's the right temperature. Needless to say, I never go swimming in water below 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), and I immediately change my bathing suit after being out of the water. I try to keep bacteria away from me by applying various hygienic measures, not too many and not too few.
To avoid irritation, I am being very cautious with coffee, acidic drinks and foods as well as hot spices. I still consult online forums from time to time where cystitis problems are being discussed to get more advice on the topic. I also patiently listen to the recommendations of my doctors.
As you can see, I am very committed to not getting an infection and therefore try to adhere to my precautions in every possible way.
Even before my "MDS career," I have swallowed loads of antibiotics over the years, when only aggressive therapies helped me out of the dilemma.
I occasionally had to argue with my general practitioner because he only wrote an antibiotic prescription for five days whereas I knew in advance I would need one for ten. When I took the antibiotics long enough, I rarely relapsed.
I had to educate my doctors to believe me when I could tell I had an infection. On several occasions, I hurried into the doctor's office and said that "I have an infection again," although a simple urine test did not show it (yet). However, another urine test taken three days later would come back positive.
In 2006 my MDS kicked in. During the first years of my disease, the problems with my irritable bladder did not change a lot.
Each time I felt the slightest sign of pain or burning while urinating I started my non-antibiotic program while cursing loudly because I was afraid I would get another irreversible infection.
After three days on alternative medicine and increasing pain, I very often ended up having the necessary antibiogram done to find out which antibiotics would successfully and reliably kill the specific germ. I have taken so many antibiotics over the years that it is no wonder that I have already become resistant to some of the available antibiotics.
Due to my MDS, my leucocyte count has been decreasing steadily over the years: from the almost normal level of 4.0 x 109/L to around 3.0 x 109/L in the beginning to the range of 1.6 x 109/L to 1.8 x 109/L in the last year. That's where I am at the time being.
Furthermore, I have acquired an immunoglobulin deficiency. It means part of the police in my body is reluctant or unable to fight intruders. My response to expensive intravenous immunoglobulin therapy has been poor so far. As a result, my doctors have doubled the dosage.
So it is no surprise that the devil in disguise keeps attacking me. In 2013 I had no less than six bladder infections. Most of them were relapses, I guess. In other words, my immune system is a mess and it does not function the way it should.
My doctors finally decided that I should take antibiotics prophylactically (!) to avoid another bout of cystitis. In addition, I had to promise my doctors that once I have an elevated temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) or higher, I will go to the hospital right away to get intravenous antibiotics.
Although I have been on prophylactic therapy for about three months now, I unfortunately caught another bout of cystitis a couple of weeks ago, which is still lingering on. I once again could feel it coming even before it was really there; when the frequency and urgency to urinate increased, I knew these tiny little stubborn germs were vexing me again.
It's so annoying and frustrating because I try everything I can to prevent another bladder infection, but obviously it does not seem to make a difference.
I don't get an infection because I catch a cold or because I get infected externally (it may happen that way, but it is rare). I get infected by the bacteria that reside inside my body. We all carry them; however, in healthy individuals, they are controlled by the immune system.
Since the immune system is compromised in MDS patients, and in cancer patients in general, the bacteria often win the battle against the immune system.
When my immune system was still healthy, I almost always managed to go to work and do my normal daily routine with a bladder infection, with or without antibiotics. But as an MDS patient with the same infection, I feel really ill, fatigued, and weak, and I lie on my couch most of the day.
This is the open end of my story. The only answer to ineffective antibiotics seems to be a higher dosage of the same antibiotics or other antibiotics.
Patients like me are in desperate need for alternative treatment strategies. Are there any? My specialists shrug their shoulders, smile at me compassionately, and continue to monitor me closely.
A rise of antibiotic resistance is a commonly known medical problem making the treatment of serious bacterial infections difficult and sometimes impossible.
I therefore continue to try to avoid them at all cost.
Bergit Kuhle is an MDS patient who was diagnosed with the disease eight years ago. Her column is published once a month at The MDS Beacon. You can view a list of all her columns here, and a list of all previous Beacon patient columns here.
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Jan 27, 2011, 5:48 AM EDT
We know Brian Cashman is already an expert on stout, but last night he had to expand his game a little:
Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman donned his spiked hair/bandana hairpiece and assumed his celebrity bartender persona — Hard Cash — at Foley's Pub and Restaurant on Wednesday to pour drinks and help raise money to fight cancer (his father-in-law died of the disease).
Cashman worked a three-hour shift and announced as he poured his first drink — a Guinness — that "I got to get everybody drunk tonight."
I heard that there were a bunch of Mets fans there ordering complicated girly boat drinks. No, not to mess with Cashman. Just because it was a Wednesday night.
Seriously though, it's been a pretty crazy week for Cashman, but from the various reports about this bartending gig on Twitter last night, it sounded like he had a lot of fun. I have no idea why I care about that — I wouldn't lose any sleep if I thought Frank Wren was having a tough week — but I'm kind of glad to see Cashman enjoying himself.
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New preconditioners for systems of linear equations with Toeplitz structure
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In this paper, we consider applying the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method to solve system of linear equations \(T x = \mathbf b \) where \(T\) is a block Toeplitz matrix with Toeplitz blocks (BTTB). We first consider Level-2 circulant preconditioners based on generalized Jackson kernels. Then, BTTB preconditioners based on a splitting of BTTB matrices are proposed. We show that the BTTB preconditioners based on splitting are special cases of embedding-based BTTB preconditioners, which are also good BTTB preconditioners. As an application, we apply the proposed preconditioners to solve BTTB least squares problems. Our preconditioners work for BTTB systems with nonnegative generating functions. The implementations of the construction of the preconditioners and the relevant matrix-vector multiplications are also presented. Finally, Numerical examples, including image restoration problems, are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed preconditioners.
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- Title
- New preconditioners for systems of linear equations with Toeplitz structure
- Journal
Volume 51, Issue 1 , pp 31-55
- Cover Date
- 2014-03-01
- 10.1007/s10092-012-0074-0
- Print ISSN
- 0008-0624
- Online ISSN
- 1126-5434
- Publisher
- Springer Milan
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- BTTB matrix
- Generating function
- Generalized Jackson kernel
- Preconditioner
- PCG method
- Authors
- Yong-Jie Shi (1)
- Xue-Bo Pi (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Mathematics, Shantou University, Shantou, 515063, Guangdong, China


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SUGAR LAND, Texas Police have released sketches of two suspects who robbed a Sugar Land Pizza Hut over the weekend.
The armed robbers barged into the restaurant at 3638 State Highway 6 around 11 p.m. Sunday.
They pointed guns at employees, jumped the counter and demanded money from the safe.
The workers were unable to open the safe, so the gunmen took money from the cash register.
Before fleeing, they forced the employees into a bathroom and ordered them to stay there.
A witness later told police that two men matching the gunmen s description were seen running through bushes at the Foundations at Edgewater Apartments at 2222 Settlers Way.
One of the men was black, 30 to 40 years old and about 6 feet tall. He was wearing black pants, a black shirt, a black hat and glasses.
The other man was black, in his early 20s and about 5 feet 9 inches tall. He was wearing khaki shorts or pants. He also had a thin beard that included sideburns that continued down his jaw line to his chin.
Anyone with information should call the Sugar Land Police Department at 281-275-2540 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS(8477).


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holy cow. just finished this movie... i recommend everyone watch it if they havent already... really touching and crazy movie =)
dk what else to say but yeah lol
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I remember this movie. Its fantastic!
The maincharacter was just amazing, really interesting.
I really recommend this for you to see.
Heh yeah, its a great movie, very interesting plot. I am not sure its quite romance, but sure. I did enjoy it greatly. I also recommend Summer Wars, by the same director, Hosoda Mamoru.
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Yeah I was so happy when i was walking through HMV and i suddenly saw it in front of me. Lol the guy at the register asked me if I was giving it to my girlfriend, and as soon as I told him I was buying it for myself he pulled a dirty look at me lol
Yeah, it's a beautiful, touching, interesting and greatly enjoyable movie. Thank you for making the thread and reminding me of it, because I definitely re-watched it. c:
It still kinda bothers me that the translated title is not "The Girl who Leaps Through Time". But that's a non-issue.
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I have the movie downloaded. I really love it! I wanted them to kiss very badly. But i still love it.
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Share your experiences with the Believe In Girls 5 Mile Run and 1 Mile Walk below Back to event details page.
This was a cold one. It was 24 degress outside when I arrived there. They had someone under a tent playing good, fast beat music and people were dancing in the lines and in the parking lot to keep warm which was interesting to see. The race started a tiny bit late because the police were still finishing closing the roads. By the time we started running I couldn't feel my nose, ears, or finger tips. That got better after a couple miles. The course was not too difficult. Even though there were some hills the inclines were not that steep. A beginner shouldn't have to much difficulty with it. I actually had quite a bit of success with this race over my previous races. I managed to pass about 20 people throughout it and they never caught back up with me (which is a first). I ended up in 42nd place. The only complaints I had with this race was that the bananas at the end were too green and partially frozen due to the cold and the bagel was hard as a rock for the same reason. The finisher medal was pretty puny from others I've received in past races. I had a lot of fun with this run though and I'm planning on going back next year.


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If Your Church Offered You Money From The Offering Plate, What Would You Do With It?
As a child when we went to church, we were given a penny or maybe a nickle or dime to put into the offering plate as it came around.
As a child when we went to church, we were given a penny or maybe a nickle or dime to put into the offering plate as it came around.
I was watching World News with Diane Sawyer the other night and saw this story. I really found it interesting.
Labor Day means a three day weekend and respite from hard work for many, but it also means it's the season for end-of-summer deals. Here are some of the best savings of the season, from clothing to back-to-school gear.
The Haynes car. One of the first cars to hit the road back in 1893. America was getting ready to turn the corner and head into the next century as an industrial giant.
Like at lot of Americans over the past few years, it looks like Burt Reynolds has gotten himself in financial trouble because he refinanced his home.
According to court papers, the 74-year old Oscar nominee has missed more than a year's worth of payments on a $1.2 million mortgage he took out against his long-time home in Hobe Sound, Florida, and now faces foreclosure.
When it comes to wealth, there's rich and there's "I can see my name from space" rich.
Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, carved his name — in giant 1000 meter letters — into the desert of an United Arab Emirates island he owns. His sand namesake is so massive that the H, the first A and part of the M have been turned into waterways.
With the end of the month fast approaching, many people are looking forward to an upcoming payday. But researchers have found getting paid may actually be hazardous to your health.
A study from Notre Dame says people are more likely to die during the week after being paid, citing a temporary but significant spike in traffic fatalities, heart attacks and increased substance abuse during that time period.
With all the talk of how broke the US government is, you might be surprised to learn there's over a billion one-dollar coins sitting unused in Federal Reserve vaults. And the US Mint is still cranking them out.
NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that the coins are the wasteful byproducts of a failed congressional effort to get Americans to use them in everyday commerce.
A new store is taking on Whole Foods in the company's hometown of Austin, Texas.
Like the well-known chain, In.gredients will specialize in local and organic edibles, but with one key difference — it vows to be first "package-free, zero waste grocery store" in the US.
What does the Grinch do when it isn't the Christmas season? He apparently hits the links.
A county inspector has fined the parents of children selling lemonade near the US Open at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland $500 because they didn't have a permit.
When Marie Callender's declared bankruptcy this week, they weren't kidding around.
The chain shut the doors on 64 of its 600 restaurants around the country, and shut them with such haste that anybody who happened to be enjoying one of its signature homestyle meals in one of the doomed locations was told to put down their fork and exit the premises.


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