Mountain Lion Attacks Son - Dad Attacks Mountain Lion

!±8± Mountain Lion Attacks Son - Dad Attacks Mountain Lion

Sometimes, even a mountain lion has to watch who it bites.

Consider the case of the mountain lion, or cougar, who jumped out of the woods at a park in British Columbia and took a 4 ½ year old boy named Paul Krismer, Jr., by the head.

The boy's father, Paul Krismer, happened, luckily enough, to be nearby and turned just in time to see the cat do what comes naturally.

"I heard this cracking in the bushes," Paul Senior recalled, "and I looked back and I could see this cougar leaping at Paul and just getting his jaws set on Paul's head. Then they fell to the ground together."

The distraught father, who was about 20 yards away, rushed to the scene of the attack, without any weapon in hand and, instead, used his feet. He jumped on top of the cat with both of them.

"I just leaped off a log which was at a height over the two of them," he stated, "and came down very forcefully on the cougar's chest with both feet."

The mountain lion was so befuddled by the brazen attack of the father that it released the youthful Paul from its generally vicious grip and fled back into the wild, where, no doubt, it was accustomed to meeting less formidable adversaries than Paul Junior's dad.

What did the boy recall of the life-threatening crisis?

"He thinks it's a bad cat that made a bad choice," his dad said. "I honestly don't think he has a whole lot of sense about his own mortality." The dad went on to say his son is living the life of a typical 4-year-old. "You wipe out on your bike one day and a cougar attacks you the next. Then you fall off the swings the day after that. It's just another thing that happens."

Mountain Lion Attacks Son - Dad Attacks Mountain Lion

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Menstrual Calendar: Charting the Signs of Fertility

!±8± Menstrual Calendar: Charting the Signs of Fertility

Charting the signs of your menstrual cycle is a good way to keep in touch with your body, your feelings, and your health. It is also a good way to predict your days of menstruation in advance, even if your menstrual cycles are irregular, and to know the most fertile times if you are hoping to conceive.

Cervical Mucus

The sign that is easiest to observe is the cervical mucus, since it is noticed in the course of daily activity. Fertile type mucus is produced by the cervix during the days when the ova are maturing and preparing for ovulation. This mucus is not only an indicator of fertility, it is essential for fertility. Cervical mucus nourishes the sperm, protects them from the natural acidity of the vagina, and guides them toward the ovum. Following is a simple way to observe and chart your fertile type mucus.

Pay attention to how you feel as you go about your daily activities. Just as you have learned to notice a certain wetness at menstruation, you will begin to notice a second wet time, but later in the cycle, and without bleeding. The second wet time is caused by your fertile type mucus.

Each time you go to the bathroom, wipe with toilet paper both before and after you use the toilet, noticing: a) the sensation you feel as you wipe with toilet paper, b) what is on the toilet paper. Chart what you see and what you feel in any way that makes sense to you.

1) Menstruation: mark the days of bleeding in some way, such as coloring the calendar day red.

2) Nothing: if you don't see or feel anything outside your vagina, you can leave the calendar blank on those days.

3) Something: but if you see or feel something - anything - such as pasty or sticky mucus, or a feeling of wetness - draw something, such as a raindrop, on these days.

4) Slippery something: If the pasty or sticky mucus turns to slippery mucus or a slippery feeling, color the raindrop dark to indicate the slippery wetness.

After a few slippery wet days, the mucus may disappear or return to sticky or pasty. When it does, begin to count the days until menstruation arrives. In a normal fertile cycle, the time between the last day of slippery mucus or slippery feeling and the next menstruation is between 11-16 days. You will become quite accurate about your predictions after you chart for about three cycles.

The mucus is your most fertile time, since fertile type is produced during the days leading up to and including ovulation. If you are trying to conceive, use the wet, slippery days for sexual relations. But don't try to use this information for birth control unless you seek out a qualified teacher of fertility awareness or natural family planning.

When the fertile mucus is present, we are under the influence of the hormone estrogen. We may feel courageous and loving. Men who bored us last week may suddenly appear interesting and attractive. Like Mother Earth in her rainy season, we are full of potential. We may also be interested in sexual activity. These emotions and reactions are caused by the hormone estrogen, which is getting us ready to have a baby, whether or not we want one! These hormonal swings are a predictable part of our cycle that must be safely navigated by all women in their reproductive years.

After ovulation, under the influence of the hormone progesterone, we may feel somewhat deflated compared to our wet, fertile time. Like Mother Earth in her dry time, we may feel quiet, with less energy. When menstrual bleeding begins, both estrogen and progesterone are at low levels. We may feel sensitive, solitary, or inward. Getting to know the feelings that go along with your hormonal cycle can give you a new and sensitive relationship with yourself.

Dark red menstruation for about three days probably indicates that hormones are high enough to build a good uterine lining and nourish a fetus in the event of conception. However, more than three days of menstruation can be exhausting. If your bleeding is excessive, try drinking raspberry leaf tea on a regular basis.

Three to five days of wet, slippery mucus 11-14 days before the next menstruation is a probable indicator of normal ovulation and a fertile cycle. Cycles are often 28-30 days from the first day of bleeding to the first day of the bleeding of the next menstruation. However, irregular cycles do not indicate infertility. If the time between the last day of slippery mucus and the next menstruation is 11-16 days, the cycle is probably fertile. Even if one cycle is not fertile, the next may well be fertile. Much depends on the stress we may be feeling. Keeping a chart allows us to keep all things in perspective, and feel our own harmony with all the cycles of nature.

Basal Body Temperature

If you are not sure you are ovulating, you can take your temperature. The body's resting temperature increases four-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit or two-tenths of a degree Centigrade under the influence of progesterone at ovulation. Observing this sign involves taking your temperature at the same time each morning before rising. (This is not as hard as it sounds. It takes less than two minutes and you can go back to sleep if you want.)

To observe your temperature rise, buy a BD brand digital basal thermometer. This brand will give you a consistent and accurate reading. Other high quality brands of digital basal thermometers are also probably accurate, but have not been tested for fertility awareness. Make sure the battery is good. (You can replace it.) An ordinary clinical thermometer is not accurate enough for fertility awareness. Nor is the "ear thermometer" (tympanic thermometer).

Take your temperature every day immediately upon waking, before 7:30 a.m. The body's rhythms (circadian rhythms) fluctuate over a 24-hour period. Your temperature is lowest in the early morning and highest in the afternoon. Fluctuations are greater after 7:30 a.m. If you go to bed before midnight and wake up before 7:30 a.m., you will get the clearest temperature readings.

If it is not convenient to take your temperature immediately upon waking, you may take it during light morning activity. For example, if you need to go to the bathroom, you may take your temperature while getting up and using the toilet. But be consistent about the circumstances under which you take your temperature. If you take it during light morning activity, take it that way every morning. Don't take it sometimes before getting up and at other times during light morning activity. If you have sexual relations, take your temperature before.

Many women find that the digital thermometers require such a short time to use that it is easy to take their temperature before getting up. Take your temperature by mouth. Under arm and ear temperatures are not accurate enough for family planning purposes. The thermometer will beep softly several times before beginning to beep slightly louder and repeatedly. Keep the thermometer under your tongue until the louder, repeated beeps begin. You can read and chart your temperature as soon as is convenient after taking it. Your thermometer has a recall button that allows you to read the last temperature taken. Be sure to wash your thermometer after each use.

Your Temperature Graph

Put a dot on a graph on the spot corresponding to each day's temperature. Join the temperature dots of consecutive days. If you do not take your temperature one day, do not join the dots across that day. Also write out the temperature numerically, to guard against errors in graphing.

Interpreting Your Chart

1) Breathe and relax. Study your chart.

2) Can you find six low temperatures during the fertile mucus days of your cycle? (You can chart your mucus and menstruation on the same graph paper.)

3) Draw a horizontal line at the highest of the six low temperatures. This is your low temperature line.

4) Draw another horizontal line four-tenths of a degree F. or two-tenths of a degree C. above your low temperature line. This is your full thermal shift line.

5) Can you find three high temperatures after the low temperatures? All of the high temperatures must be above the low temperature line. At least the third high temperature must be at or above the full thermal shift line.

6) This temperature pattern of low and high temperatures is called a biphasic pattern with a full thermal shift. A biphasic pattern with a full thermal shift confirms that you really did ovulate. A smaller, but sustained temperature rise also probably indicates ovulation.

If you are hoping to become pregnant, please pay close attention to nutrition. Look for unprocessed foods grown without chemicals. Exercise in moderation. Get plenty of rest. Avoid stress. Think happy thoughts. Pray for the child you desire, and begin sending your child love, now. Heal any hurtful feelings between you and your mate, and between you both and your parents. Your mate should avoid hot shower or baths and tight clothing, both of which lower sperm count.To increase your chances of conception, use the wet, slippery days for sexual relations.

If you have observed a biphasic pattern with a full thermal shift, and it is now 18 days since your last day of slippery, wet mucus, and menstruation has not arrived, you may feel confident that you have conceived.

Congratulations and blessings!

Menstrual Calendar: Charting the Signs of Fertility

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Ah, When Sweat and Prickly Heat Take Over Life

!±8± Ah, When Sweat and Prickly Heat Take Over Life

When sweat and prickly heat take over my life and I tend to have a mental melt-down literally and despair can set in, even at my happiest. Just last week, I had this sweetheart of a part, but because of several things abutting or even colliding all at once in my life, the part was lost. If it wasn't my fault, who could I possibly blame? The heat? My reaction to the heat? Was it my Mp3 player/recorder's reaction to the heat or was it all three? Let me explain; I am not a happy camper when I am hot. Actually I don't camp, either. In fact, I become an unusually unorganized individual similar to a bowl of disoriented jelly or a mélange of incoherencies. Last week was one of the hottest weeks on record and even if it wasn't the humidity made it so within my own skin.

I used to live in Phoenix, AZ or rather I grew up in Phoenix Arizona. If you know anything at all about the weather in Phoenix, you know that summer there is six months long and at the height, June - August is some of the most brutal times to live or visit. I bring up Phoenix because I used to get prickly heat on my neck and back something fierce during the summer months unless I was within a constant breeze. The natural ecosystem of Phoenix is starting to change, but I hazard a guess that it is still its hottest during those aforementioned three summer months.

I lived there for nineteen years of my life and I can tell you I had prickly heat for at least half of my life there. After leaving Phoenix, I realized if I kept my skin cool, most of the time I could avoid prickly heat. Staying out of overly hot rooms for more than 20 minutes could assure my body's avoidance of that painful occurrence. Prickly heat, according to a medical website occurs when the person is over heated and cannot sweat, but for me that is only half right. In the summer I can get and usually am overheated and I do sweat.

All my life, I have been a sweat-er and in the summer have had minor bouts of the prick-like pins and needles under my skin, usually on my face and sometimes on my back and occasionally on my neck. When it would start on my skin, I would immediately put a wet towel directly on the affected area and after several hours; two or three hours later I'd emerge a new person ready to conquer the heat or really avoid it. Last week, I had this great part in a new opera and I was excited to perform in it, when a heat wave screeched into New York City and hovered for about 10 days straight.

The third day of heat wave, I was in the composer's apartment singing through the score. My Mp3 recorder was rebelling after I'd paused it during a part that the composer was explaining why this section was written the way it was written. The Mp3 recorder stopped dead in its tracks, possibly from the heat in the apartment, but with much pushing of buttons, prayer, and cajoling on my part, the Mp3 recorder started up again and recorded, I thought. Imagine the environment, 86 degrees with humidity about the same, with no fan just a breeze through a distant window. I'd already gone through most of my paper towels to wipe the sweat from my face and neck, especially after the first hour of going through the score. To say, I was soaked would have been an understatement. For me after sweating all that time, I was exhausted and the composer being young male, he'd forgot to offer me water. In his defense, I neither asked for water until we were finished going through the score. It was a terrific score and fun, with various mixes of music with great notes for my tessitura. I was in heaven vocally because even though some of the notes were written lower the composer said I could transpose them up.

My plan once I got home was to re-listen to the music on my Mp3 player and practice, with the wet cloth on my forehead, but the heat had evidently gotten to the Mp3 player because I couldn't hear it through my headphones. AaaaGH! I could barely hear it through the speaker I'd recently bought for it. I felt as though I was in a minor dilemma. I could still marginally play it with one hand. I don't play the piano well enough to accompany myself even for the simplest piece of music. Practice, I did over the course of the next two days. My Mp3 recorder had been tested and had recovered, so I took it to rehearsal on Monday night in a rehearsal space that was even hotter than the composer's home. I was definitely screwed and I could tell. There was a bit of air coming through an open window for a time, and finally the other windows were opened during the first break, thankfully. The fan was even turned on at that point. After the first half of rehearsal my Mp3 recorder was no longer recording. I tried to use my phone to record, which just spoke out loud prayers that I'd already recorded previously instead of recording. My clothing was drenched. My skin on my face, neck, back and even my arms were beginning to burn from within. My body was turning into a big giant prick of pins and needles all over now and I still had an hour to go in this rehearsal. Sitting in front of the window did no good, since there was no breeze anymore. During the second break an overhead fan was turned on, but at the end of the break because it stirred the pianist's music, it had to be turned off. An Equity monitor was there to adhere to the time constraints within the rehearsal, but not the heat restraints. Does that make any sense? Cruel rules at best, I think. It certainly didn't make sense to me. The rain had subsided, but had not cooled the night off at all.

To say that I was restless was an understatement. I wanted to scratch every inch of my body, but knew that would look bad to the other six singers there. We were all hot, so it was not just me. Someone made the comment that they'd have to wear swimsuits the next evening for rehearsal to be able to stay in the room. Others agreed. I thought about it seriously for a second, but since I rarely go to the beach I don't believe I even have a swimsuit at this time. No, that was not an option. This time, I'd gone through all of my paper towels. They were all wringing wet they were so wet with sweat. My deodorant was barely hanging on. My hair was completely wet and I was exhausted and hungry.

During the rehearsal with the itching and wetness on various parts of my body I was no longer in the caring mood of reaching for those beautiful notes I knew I had in my range. I just really wanted to be out of that room and into any room that had air conditioning, so I could be prick less and cool again. Stepping out in the hallway was a bit of relief, but still not optimum. Outside was cooler still, thankfully. I decided to go to a nearby 24-hour drug store, in hopes of securing some apple cider vinegar. Earlier I'd read that would calm the prickly heat considerably. There was none to be had, but at least I found something to eat right away and also it was cool, cold actually in the store, so I was less itchy, while I was in the store. I was beginning to be coherent again.

Luckily, at home, I had white vinegar and patted my skin where all the prickly heat itched before and after my shower. I was finally cool inwardly and outwardly and slept like a baby. Aaah! The next day, I was released from the opera. I pleaded my case about the heat, but never mentioned my Mp3's failure. I was upset for a time that I would not be doing the opera, but in reality my skin was happy because it would not have to go through another grueling day of trying to protect itself by imploding with prickly heat. My heart was breaking but my skin was rejoicing. I know my skin was right I would not have been able to take four more days of heat in that room.

Ah, When Sweat and Prickly Heat Take Over Life

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