Tony Brewer

My nephew loves to play sports, and is interested in becoming a coach. In addition to learning how to coach the players in how to play the games, he wants to learn more about caring for sports injuries; how to prevent them and how to care for them. He’s been talking about a website called physioroom.com that has a lot of information about caring for sports injuries, and sells a lot of products related to caring for them. He is planning to buy one of their great sports team first aid kits to give to his favorite coach to use at their games and practices.

Sometimes I don’t sleep well at night. I just lie there, awake, trying to fall asleep. Nothing particular on my mind, I just can’t sleep! Even if I get up and take a sleeping aid pill. That makes me drowsy, but still sometimes I can’t sleep. Last night was such a night. I hate nights like that because the next day is really hard to concentrate on things that need to be done, and usually two days later I come down with a major cold. So I need to make extra sure to take super care to dress warmly and eat well, but I think it may be too late already - I think the sleepless night is just a symptom of the cold that is coming no matter what I do now. Not looking forward to that!  I do have to say, however, that I have had good luck using the product Zicam that helps to reduce cold symptoms and shorten colds.  I use the oral mist version - the other versions are difficult for my body to handle.  The lozenges actually give me a chemical burn on my tongue, and the nasal spray hurts my sinuses like you would not believe!  So I’ll make sure to pick some oral mist up today while I’m in town!

I noticed that the new bowling alley in town has opened, and is advertising for leagues.  Teri and I were considering going there and maybe joining a league.  We really enjoy bowling, and we’d love to support a new local business.  The big drawback is that we heard that they allow smoking throughout the entire alley all of the time.  Well, I’m afraid that is a deal breaker; Teri is badly allergic to cigarette smoke!  It makes it difficult sometimes to go places because so many places allow smoking inside.  I heard there are some states, like Maine, that has made it illegal to smoke in restaurants and all public places.  I sure wish they’d do that here!

I was looking on the Internet for a timer to buy for my mother that would alert her to several different time settings during the day.  I wanted to do that because my mother needs to be reminded to take her medications several times a day, and she has been having trouble remembering to do that.  So I found a great invisible clock on the low vision assistive technology webpage of the Enablemart.com website.  It can be set on vibrate to discretely alert her when she should take her medicine.

This website is dedicated to providing assistive technology products to people who have physical impairments.  It sells items such as large key computer keyboards and talking watches, screen magnifiers and many more non-computer related products to assist people to perform their daily activities.