Living a simple, happy life in the Appalachian Mountains. Nature is my jam! Sjogren’s, Ehlers Danlos, POTS, MCAS Awareness. Gen Xer
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Anyone ever heard of the herb Guduchi? It supposedly helps MCAS. LMK if you’ve tried it and if it helped you.
If you’re preparing, listen to this woman. She knows.
Those freeze-dried emergency meal buckets are mostly a marketing gimmick aimed at scared people who panic buy. I currently own zero emergency food buckets and have enough food to feed my family for quite a long time. A 50-lb bag of rice is about $25 and around 82,000 calories. Seal it in Mylar with oxygen absorbers and it lasts 25–30 years. Same for beans, oats, and pasta. You can feed someone for a year on bulk staples for a few hundred bucks.
The pouches? Often 250–400 calories each, $8–13 a pop, and loaded with sodium. You’re paying a huge premium for “just add water” convenience and a dramatic shelf-life claim that cheaper basic dry goods already match when stored right. Fine for a backpacking trip or a grab-and-go bag. As your main long-term plan? It’s an expensive way to stay dependent on someone else’s product. Do the math. Then buy rice.
Anyone else stocking up on rice and dried beans? Preparation for emergency is always good. I also made Pumpkin Butter and GF Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin Butter is emergency food too, Y’all. 😂 I make mine with maple syrup as a sweetener. The key to pumpkin butter is to stir constantly for 20 minutes to avoid it sticking to the pan. 🎃
This is really great info for both LongCovid and POTS sufferers because they’re essentially the same. Note the use of XOLAIR, especially if you have MCAS. It’s a monoclonal antibody injection. My old Mayo Clinic geneticist that specializes in EDS told me that MCAS is a constant driver of POTS.
I recently said I'm feeling good for the first time since developing long COVID. Lots of people asked for meds that helped the most.
Here's a list and my general approach.
longcovidmd.substack.com/p/m…
Amazing news: Ukraine Russia Ceasefire!
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
You can also disagree and still be friends, follow one another on social media etc. How boring would life be without different opinions?
Great video. POTS patients do a lot of extra planning for outings. Extra meds, compression and cooling gear, etc. My kitchen tip is to have a counter height stool to help with long periods of cooking. It helps me a lot.
Civilians, are we prepared? Can you survive without fuel, the grid or municipal water?
FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water.
The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable nuclear reactors, massive battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures."
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/inside-…
LongCovid Clinical Trials in the U.S. These are free.
clinicaltrials.gov/search?co…
These could potentially pave the way for real treatments for millions suffering from POTS (Dysautonomia) prior to Covid also.
This is a fun contest. Some pretty cool prizes.
American Made Giveaway 🇺🇸
Christmas is in 67 days! We’re excited give away over $1,500 in American Made goods from small businesses across Vermont, Idaho, Virginia, Indiana, and Alabama. We’ve teamed up to give away a handcrafted leather rifle stock cover, set of hand carved Dreamware utensils, a beautiful wool pillow encased with organic American-grown cotton, an elegant Farmhouse Pottery taper candle holder, and a box of pasture-raised chicken or pork (your choice).
To enter for a chance to win something from one of these amazing small businesses:
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2. Like and share this post
3. Comment and tell us what you’d be most excited to win from this incredible lineup
The purpose of this giveaway is to spread some cheer (there will be 5 winners!) and also to help each of you give quality, American Made gifts this year! It’s convenient to go shop at big box stores, but we all know how disappointing that usually turns out to be. Shop small and support real families; we know you’ll be thrilled with your purchases.
Bookmark this post so you can easily come back and shop with the small businesses that brought you this giveaway. The link to each of their websites is in their bio.
Open to the 48 contiguous states. Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on October 24, 2026.
I’m going to dip these in beeswax to preserve them and make a leaf garland or two. I won’t press them because I like their natural curls.
