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Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?

Photographers have learned to be inventive in evading Instagram’s ban on female nipples. They’ve used paint, glitter, hair and flower petals to obscure them. They’ve covered them up with leaves, cornstarch, a spatula, handbags, shot glasses, strands of bubble gum, and sand.Some have inserted a rectangular black censorship bar. Others have used digital editing tools to blur the nipples or overlay a patch of the model’s skin color to give the impression that she has no nipples at all.These artistic gymnastics are the result of Instagram’s community guidelines, which allow female nipples in paintings and sculptures, but not typically in photography. And they are related to a campaign — #Freethenipple — being waged by artists, activists and celebrities, and playing out on the social media platform itself.These Instagrammers are pushing the boundaries with doctored photographs, as well as posting unadulterated photos that test how far the platform is willing to go in censoring their artwork. It’s a cat-and-mouse game that the cat usually wins, since the cat has access to artificial intelligence and 15,000 people working around the world to review posts and look for banned material.“Censoring photography is invalidating it as an art form,” said Joanne Leah, a Brooklyn-based photographer who estimates that she has about one post removed every month. “Every time something gets censored, it feels like a punch in the gut.”Since Instagram’s ascent as a mainstream, image-centric social media platform, it has effectively turned its users into published photographers. It has also allowed artists, once at the mercy of galleries, to promote their work independently, as long as they abide by certain rules.There are plenty of risqué images allowed on the site. Photos of women in sheer tops — the shape of their nipples exposed — often stay up, as do some with the nipples craftily covered or altered. But bare nipples on a photograph of a woman are off limits, though Instagram says it makes allowances for users who make clear that the display of nudity is meant as a form of protest or to raise awareness for a cause. That’s why photos of mastectomy scarring and breastfeeding are allowed. (Instagram started allowing photos and videos of breastfeeding in 2014 after pressure from activists.)The same rules apply on Facebook, which owns Instagram. In defending its policies, the company emphasizes its vast global reach: 2.4 billion monthly users on Facebook, and over 1 billion on Instagram, both in 100 languages. In an email, Instagram’s head of public policy, Karina Newton, said that the site isn’t trying to “impose its own value judgment on how nipples should be viewed in society.” “We’re trying to reflect the sensitivities of the broad and diverse array of cultures and countries across the world in our policies,” Newton said.Instagram’s rationale for drawing a line between photography and other forms of fine art is that the nipples typically belong to living people, and the site cannot know for sure whether the subjects have given consent. Posting a photo of a marble Aphrodite doesn’t present the same problem for them.Pictures of genitals and “close-ups of fully nude buttocks” are also against the rules, but it’s the explicit exclusion of the female nipple that has drawn the fiercest objections.Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Chrissy Teigen, who have tens of millions of followers each, have tested the Instagram censors by exposing their nipples in posts that were swiftly taken down by Instagram. But at the forefront of the movement have been artists who have put persistent pressure on Instagram to loosen its restrictions in a way, some of them acknowledge, that would run afoul of social custom. Free the Nipple has been a cause for years, and the hashtag on Instagram now aggregates more than four million posts. Leah, 41, has been communicating directly with representatives from Facebook for about a year and a half about her concerns over how their policy affects artists like her. So the company decided it was time for a meeting.Last month it hosted about two dozen artists and anticensorship activists at its offices in Lower Manhattan for a five-hour discussion with the company about Instagram’s policing of nudity in their work. The company representatives listened, but gave no signs of budging, according to several people who attended. The company told them that it was just keeping within the bounds of social propriety: If you walked down the street in New York, one employee explained, you wouldn’t see exposed female nipples on advertisements.One of those who attended, Micol Hebron, 47, an interdisciplinary artist in Los Angeles (Instagram paid for her travel), snapped a topless selfie outside the building and tried to post it after the meeting. Almost immediately, her Instagram account was shut down.Several years ago, after Facebook took down a topless photo of Hebron from an art exhibition about breast cancer awareness, she created what she calls a male nipple pasty — a circular cutout of a man’s nipple that a woman can copy and can stick on her own nipples.As Hebron’s pasty cleverly pointed out, Instagram’s ban does not extend to male nipples. In the real world, the female breast has had some success on the equal-rights front.In February, a federal appeals court in Denver decided against Fort Collins, Colo., which sought to uphold an ordinance banning women from going topless in public. In New York, a 1992 State Court of Appeals decision established women’s right to go topless in public for noncommercial reasons. But decisions elsewhere have let similar laws stay on the books because, unlike male chests, female chests were considered to be an “erogenous zone.”When it comes to nipples, there are “criteria” to help both human and technological reviewers identify a nipple as male or female, Instagram’s Newton said. The criteria include indicators of the person’s gender, an Instagram spokeswoman said. But Instagram stresses that the system is imperfect. “There are times that we can’t tell — and mistakes may be made,” Newton said.In July, Instagram introduced the option for users to appeal deleted content; before, users could appeal if their account had been deleted but not in response to individual posts having been removed. As the great democratizer of photography, Instagram has opened up a new chapter of art history. From depictions of the nursing Madonna in 14th-century Italy to Frenchwomen lounging in the nude in 16th-century paintings, bare breasts have long been an artistic preoccupation, the gender studies scholar Marilyn Yalom wrote in the 1997 book “A History of the Breast.”“Though breasts still carry an overload of cultural and sexual expectations, many women hope to see the day when their chests do not have to bear such a burden,” Yalom wrote.What is different about the current era of nude art is that women are often the ones wielding the camera or the paintbrush. Mona Kuhn, 49, a Brazilian-born photographer, whose work focuses on the human form and often captures nude figures, has had work exhibited at the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. But on Instagram, she said, she has to hold back what she considers some of her most important pieces.“I cannot promote my work as much as some other person who does landscapes,” she said.Other artists have accepted the reality that they don’t have free rein on such a wildly popular, global platform. “No one forced us to use Instagram,” said John Yuyi, 28, who uses her own body, with nipples obscured, to make popular Instagram posts about human interaction with technology. “They can say, ‘if you don’t like our rules, you can find another social media.’”At Facebook’s meeting, some artists pressed the tech employees on the matter of transgender and nonbinary users posting topless images. Is it still a female nipple if the person no longer considers themselves female? What if their nipples used to be anatomically male, but they transitioned to being a woman?Last year, Rain Dove, a gender-nonconforming model with more than 360,000 Instagram followers, found themselves in a battle with the platform’s censors when they posted topless images with breasts exposed. In one video, they were playing basketball. In another, they were drinking from a gallon of milk, wearing only boxer briefs.Dove, 30, said in an interview that after Instagram took down two of the topless posts, they would repeatedly republish them, writing in the caption that because Dove did not consider themselves female, their nipples weren’t female either. In the caption’s text, Dove threatened to take legal action if Instagram continued to remove their posts, and eventually, the bare-chested images were allowed to stay.“No one’s head exploded,” Dove said. “We’re all going to be fine!”Newton said that if Instagram’s content reviewers have context signaling that a user identifies as a man or nonbinary (for example, if the user states their pronouns), nipple exposure is allowed. And if a transgender woman posts an image of their exposed nipples, Instagram will remove it. But Instagram is not showing any signs of relaxing its general ban on female nipples. So artists have begun to factor that into their work, even as #freethenipple lives on.Amanda Charchian, a commercial and artistic photographer who shoots nudes, often obscures women’s nipples with pinpoints of color or a blurring feature. Charchian, 31, is now working on a series that involves her applying paint to photographs of nude women and architecture, and she said that she feels Instagram’s restrictions creeping into her artistic process.“When there’s a nipple, I think to myself, ‘Should I cover it or not?’” she said. “That’s the infiltration of Instagram censorship on my mind and my creative decision-making.” Source link Read the full article

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CTE transformed ex-NFL star into 'other person'

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CTE transformed ex-NFL star into 'other person'

Fred McNeill was no big, dumb football player.

After completing an NFL career that included two Super Bowls, he got an advanced law degree and practiced law. But within just a few years, he began to fall apart, losing his temper, losing his memory and losing job after job.

When he died in 2015, he was bankrupt, unable to eat or care for himself.

Now he’s become a medical first. A positron emission tomography (PET) brain scan done in 2012 showed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE — the degenerative brain disease being linked increasingly to professional football and to head injuries sustained in combat.

A thorough autopsy done after his death confirms the diagnosis, pathologists confirmed this week. It’s the first time CTE has been diagnosed in a living person with a post mortem confirmation.

Recent brain scans of NFL hall of famer Joe DeLamielleure, who was diagnosed with CTE, the brain injury that is affecting so many former football players. Jeff Siner / Charlotte Observer / MCT via Getty Images file

The confirmation comes too late to help McNeill. But if the findings hold up in other patients with similar symptoms, such a scan may be able to diagnose CTE in time to give patients hope for recourse while they are still alive and, perhaps, eventual treatment.

Early diagnosis may also help families struggling to understand what is happening to their loved ones, said Tia McNeill, Fred McNeill’s widow.

Related: NFL wives say money won’t fix their husbands’ injuries

“Here is this person who was so kind, so intelligent, so special, so loving, so easygoing. He made things look easy. And then he flipped to be this other person,” McNeill said in an interview.

“We were just looking at him, not knowing what’s going on.”

She said they quarreled as her once-reliable husband forgot to pay bills and lost jobs.

“He was a partner in a law firm. He had brought in a big class action case … worked on breast implant litigation,” she remembered.

“He was doing big cases. And then he was voted out. At first I thought it was depression.”

“He made things look easy. And then he flipped to be this other person.”

Visits to doctor after doctor told them little but that he may have brain damage related to his many years of playing football. Fred, she said, tried to cover up his struggles.

“Fred would say, ‘don’t say anything. I am going to lose my law license. I don’t want anyone to know,’” she said.

And he would get uncharacteristically angry. “Simple stuff — he would lose it. It was not Fred.”

The story is starting to become familiar — athletes or veterans who are healthy and vibrant, becoming forgetful, angry, combative and often suicidal. Sometimes it happens at astonishingly young ages — former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was just 27 when he was found dead in his jail cell, convicted of one murder four years earlier and recently acquitted in two more.

Retired tight end Frank Wainright, who played for the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens, was 48 when died in 2016 and his wife Stacie said he had struggled for more than seven years with confusion, memory loss and behavior changes.

Trisha Bell told NBC News in 2014 that her husband Nick, who played three seasons for the Raiders, suffers from depression and by age 45 was no longer driving, shopping or paying bills.

Related: Is Football Safe for Kids? New Study Finds Brain Changes

CTE has been found in the brains of more than 100 former football players.

After years of denying any responsibility, the NFL acknowledged there is a link between head blows and brain disease and signed a $1 billion settlement to compensate former players.

Tia McNeill hopes for more help now that the links between CTE and football have become more clear.

“I have to believe that the league will become more humane. I just have to believe it. I have to hope they will support families more,” she said.

Postmortem Autopsy-Confirmation of Antemortem [F-18]FDDNP-PET Scans in a Football Player With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. The Congress of Neurological Surgeons

She tries to help the families of other men affected.

“You know your loved one. You know there is something going on. There’s always a reason when there is a change in behavior or health, and you want an answer.”

Related: NFL wives pick up the pieces

At the very least, it helps to predict what might happen, Tia McNeill said.

That happened the first time she spoke to Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist credited with discovering and describing CTE.

“He was finishing my sentences,” she said.

The changes caused by CTE have become depressingly familiar, Omalu said. “You begin to lose your intelligence. You begin to lose what makes you a human being,” he said.

“You become more impulsive. You become more violent. You may become an alcoholic.”

Omalu is trying to develop his PET scan method into a commercially available test.

“When you are alive and you think you have CTE, we could scan you,” he said.

“This could differentiate CTE from Alzheimer’s disease and from other dementias.”

“You become more impulsive. You become more violent. You may become an alcoholic.”

Having a scan could help settle disputes with the NFL and other former employers and might eventually lead to treatments, Omalu added.

The behavior that put so many pro athletes into the headlines in past decades may not have been due to life in the fast lane, fame and fortune won too early in life, Omalu said.

It may have been CTE, perhaps not killing them directly, but driving confused young and middle-aged men to early deaths caused by alcohol, drugs or accidents.

“People would say, ‘oh, he had it all and how could he do that?’” said Tia McNeill.

“Now we know it’s a disease. It’s not a ‘how could he’ thing.”

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Before we start, I’m going to preface by saying I love Vietnam. This is my second time living here and Hoi An, and I honestly feel so lucky to be here. Vietnam is a beautiful country with great weather, lovely people, tasty food, and awesome beaches. The cost of living is fantastic for digital nomads, and I have a great quality of life here.

However, the longer I live in Vietnam the more I learn about something very culturally interesting (and disturbing): Vietnam’s cat (and dog) meat trade, and Vietnam’s view of cats in general.

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I’m Not a Vegetarian So I Won’t Tell You What to Eat

Here’s the thing, I’m not a vegetarian, and I’m never going to tell people what they can and can’t eat (unless it’s endangered). To some cultures, eating pigs or cows is horrifying, but many of us eat them anyway. Other cultures survive off horse meat, which would upset most Americans. It’s the same with cats and dogs.

While I don’t have a big issue theoretically about the consumption of cats and dogs, what I do take issue with is animal cruelty, factory farms, and people STEALING PETS to eat them.

Also, the international affairs and anthropology major in me finds this all really culturally interesting, so I couldn’t help but share.

I can’t imagine eating this little baby!

People Steal Cats and Dogs to Sell for Meat

I knew that some (emphasis on some) people in Vietnam ate cat and dog, but I had no idea that people actually STEAL pet cats and dogs in Hoi An to sell to meat vendors. There are so many posts on expat forums here from people who’ve had their dogs stolen from backyards or the beach. Jack’s Cat Cafe even has a massive wall around the property to keep the cats in and the thieves out.

While this is definitely a thing in Vietnam, especially in Hoi An, it’s important to note that many of the locals are just as upset about these pet thieves, and would never dream of eating cat or dog.

Our foster babies Lady and Rory

Stray Cats Are Bad Luck…

This is a new one I discovered, and I have to say it really shocked me. As many of you may know from Instagram and Facebook, Chris and I are now fostering 3 little kittens through Vietnam Cat Welfare and Jack’s Cat Cafe. We cleared everything with our landlord beforehand, however, when we brought the kittens home, our landlord double checked to make sure our kittens weren’t from the street, otherwise, they’d bring bad luck. Ummm… what?

Okay, so I’m going to start by saying our landlord is a young, cosmopolitan, Vietnamese businesswoman who speaks perfect English. So it definitely came as a bit of a shock when she said that stray kittens would bring bad luck, sort of like when my Chinese friend told me that shaving your underarms gives you breast cancer.

Now, I can understand if she was worried about fleas, worms, and other bugs, but no- she was worried about bad omens. Thankfully our kittens aren’t actually from the street. Some shop owner’s cat had kittens and they were dumped at Jack’s Cat Cafe in a plastic bag. (So we didn’t have to lie!)

Moggie a few weeks after we rescued her

So Many Injured and Abandoned Kitties

While this was a big shock to us, it does sort of make sense. No one in Vietnam seems to really want to help stray cats or kittens, which is why you’ll often see them dumped or abandoned. My old foster cat Moggie was found as a kitten with a broken leg after being hit by a motorbike and was rescued by our friends’ Vietnamese landlord. However, his neighbor wasn’t a big fan and tried to convince the landlord to toss Moggie in a bag with some rocks and drop her in the ocean. Ouch.

I’m very glad this kind Vietnamese man decided against throwing her in the ocean because now she’s a very happy tripod kitty living with our friend in Danang. All it took was a solid month of diarrhea after some hefty worm medication and she was fine! (I’ve never cleaned up so much poop in my life. Now I know what having a baby is like.)

Rory says: Don’t eat me!

Eating Cats for Good Luck

This whole conversation made Chris and I really curious, so we did some research. Apparently stray cats in Vietnam are considered “unlucky” which is why some Vietnamese families will eat cat meat at the start of every month to ward off bad luck.

Stray cats are bad luck… so let’s eat them? I guess that makes sense.

Some Vietnamese people view cats as evil because of their power over bad luck. A Vietnamese cat butcher also told the interviewer that eating a cat’s spine will give you agility, while Vietnam Cat Welfare stated that cat urine drops into the ear has been prescribed for deafness and hearing problems.

I guess Vietnam is kind of like Ancient Egypt, except rather than worshiping cats, the Vietnamese culturally fear (and eat) them.

Say hello to foster baby #3: Beanie!

Vietnam’s Fight Against the Cat and Dog Meat Trade

Hanoi has been cracking down on the cat meat trade for a myriad of reasons. According to PAWS For Compassion, officials in Hanoi are “urging residents to stop eating dog meat as it could hurt the city’s reputation and lead to diseases like rabies. The Hanoi People’s Committee said the practice could tarnish the city’s image as a ‘civilised and modern capital.'”

While it’s great the government has begun cracking down on this, there are still over 1,000 cat and dog meat sellers in Hanoi alone. Many cultural practices have firm roots in society, and the cat and dog meat trade is no different.

Rory and Beanie are too small to eat anyway

Most People in Vietnam Don’t Eat Cats

I just want to reiterate that not everyone in Vietnam eats cats or dogs, and I’d probably venture to say that most people (especially in developed cities) do not torture or eat cats. However, this animosity towards cats is pretty prevalent here in Hoi An, which is why places like Vietnam Cat Welfare (also known as Jack’s Cat Cafe) have so much work to do.

Thankfully these places do exist (PAWS For Compassion in Danang is another great organization), and they are making a huge impact here in Central Vietnam. Vietnam Cat Welfare and Paws For Compassion have actually begun a process of educating locals on how to properly care for their cats and kittens with nutritious food and worm medication. PAWS for Compassion also works with children to teach them to be kind to animals and the environment.

However, there is still a TON of work to be done, and Jack’s still gets bags of kittens dumped on their doorstep every few days.

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Found tied up in a bag in the old town of Hoi An and brought to our gate. Look at Rory, Lady and Beanie today! Two days of hissing, two weeks of loving and now such beautiful girls These three are now looking for their forever home. Send us a message to meet them and see how cute they are.❤️

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My little babies found in a bag in Old Town

What to Do If You Find Abandoned Kittens in Vietnam

Vietnam Cat Welfare actually has some incredible information about what to do if you find a stray kitten in Vietnam. But for the sake of having everything in one place, I’ll summarize it here.

If you find a stray kitten (or kittens) in Vietnam, first you need to decide if they need rescuing.

Is it genuinely abandoned, or is there a chance its mom is still around somewhere getting food?

Is it sick or injured?

Does the kitten look healthy or malnourished?

Is the kitten being abused?

Does it have a home nearby? Ask around.

Overall, unless a kitten or cat is sick, injured, malnourished or being abused, it’s better to leave it be. If your kitten is truly abandoned and you know for SURE that the mother isn’t coming back (you can check back in every few hours), then you can take it.

That said, raising a kitten under three weeks old is extremely hard without its mother’s milk. If you see a very, very young kitten, do not take it unless you’re 100% sure that it is abandoned, and be prepared for the fact that your kitten may not survive. You can learn more about how to age a kitten here.

It’s important to remember that many Vietnamese people keep cats and kittens in their shops and restaurants, so there’s a chance that the kitten you just found actually belongs to someone! Please be sure to ask around before you take a person’s pet!

Here’s what Moggie looked like when we got her…

What to Do If Your Vietnamese Cat or Kitten Needs Rescuing

If you find a cat or kitten that obviously needs help, there are a few things you can do.

1. Is Your Cat Injured?

If you find a cat or kitten that has been hit by a motorbike or looks like it’s near death, you should take her to a local vet. Hoi An and Danang have a few really good places, but if you live somewhere else you can always ask on the local expat Facebook groups.

Veterinary care is actually pretty cheap in Vietnam, and many times people will often pitch in to help you pay for emergency medical care if you ask and provide photos. I’ve seen a few people pitch in to help someone pay for surgery for a cat who was hit by a motorbike. Some vets might even give you a discount or do it for free if the cat isn’t yours.

If your kitten is extremely sick and is not eating or drinking, you will definitely want to take them to the vet right away. Most cats and kittens in Vietnam have worms and need de-worming medication, but some are healthier than others. When we got Moggie, she was an absolute mess, and the worming medication gave her diarrhea for a few weeks (which meant taking her to the vet again).

Moggie in our laundry basket

Lady having a snuggle in bed

2. Can You Care For the Kittens?

Many cat rescue programs are bursting with cats. I mean, Jack’s Cat Cafe has SEVENTY CATS AND KITTENS. So please don’t assume you can just drop your kittens there without asking. Jack’s keeps unvaccinated kittens in cages if they can’t find a foster home (this is why I’m fostering!), and they only have so many cages available.

If you can keep the cat or kittens for a month or two, I would recommend doing this while you work on getting them vaccinated. You can then work on posting around in expat groups to see if anyone wants to help you adopt. Many cat rescue places may also help you work to find homes for them as well, but they do have their hands a bit full with the cats and kittens they already have.

Moggie vacationing at PAWS for Compassion

3. Contact Vietnam Cat Welfare (or a Local Equivalent)

If you really need help, you can always contact your local cat shelter. Let’s say you just don’t have the money for the medical treatment, or you are in a guesthouse and have nowhere to keep them, this would be a good time to reach out for help. Even if these shelters have room, they might know of someone who can help you.

Just please do not drop off cats or kittens without asking because these places may not have room right away for an unvaccinated animal. The fastest way to get in touch is through Facebook either at Jack’s Cat Cafe.

Our kitten Dragon back in Australia (we share her with Chris’ parents)

How to Help Vietnam’s Stray Cats

If you’re like me and you have the biggest softest spot in your heart for cats and kittens, reading this article probably makes you want to help. Well, thankfully there are a TON of ways you can help Vietnam’s cats and kittens!

1. Adopt a New Forever Friend!

The #1 best way to help the stray cats and kittens in Vietnam is to adopt one (or several). This is only ideal if you plan to keep your new fluffball forever. This means you either plan on staying in Vietnam forever, or you are prepared for the process of bringing a cat with you when you leave Vietnam.

Vietnam Cat Welfare has a ton of cats and kittens that need adoption, so you can always contact them. Meanwhile, PAWS For Compassion has a list of available kitties here.

Foster your own baby like Rory!

2. Foster a Kitten in Vietnam

If you aren’t stable enough to adopt your own cat or kitten in Vietnam, you can always help out by fostering. At Vietnam Cat Welfare, they’re always looking for new fosters. If you want to foster, you’ll need to be available for at least 2 months. You’ll be responsible for food, toys and looking after the kittens, along with taking them to the vet for their vaccines. However, Vietnam Cat Welfare will pay for their medical treatment and vaccinations.

While fostering, you will also need to take tons of photos of your kittens (not a problem for me, obviously) and report back to Vietnam Cat Welfare about their personalities so they can help get your kittens adopted. You should also do your part to help look for someone to adopt them too!

PS- If anyone in Vietnam wants to adopt Rory, Beanie, or Lady please let me know!

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Always so grateful to our incredible volunteers for spending their time with us❣️ If you would like to spend a month with our cats email: [email protected] and tag a friend you’d get on that plane with!!✈️

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3. Volunteer and Jack’s Cat Cafe

Vietnam Cat Welfare/ Jack’s Cat Cafe in Hoi An and PAWS for Compassion in Danang are always looking for new volunteers. If you plan to be in the area for a few weeks (at least 3 weeks in the case of Hoi An), you can volunteer full or part-time!

I chatted with the owner of Vietnam Cat Welfare/ Jack’s Cat Cafe and she said that full-time volunteers will be given a free place to stay if it’s available, otherwise, they’ll work to find you a room in a nice guesthouse for a very steep discount (we’re talking $5 a night).

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Volunteers will help feed and care for the cats, work in the cat cafe, and can also help with social media and outreach. Jack’s has a very active Facebook and Instagram, and they’ve even been working on local outreach in the Hoi An community to educate people on how to care for cats and kittens.

If you really want to have a meaningful experience while traveling, I highly suggest volunteering full time with Jack’s Cat Cafe or PAWS For Compassion in Danang. If you live in Hoi An or Danang and want to volunteer a few days a week, both are open to part-time long-term volunteers too!

Help kitties like Moggie!

4. Donate Money For Food and Vaccines!

If you don’t live in Vietnam or can’t help in person, Vietnam Cat Welfare and Paws For Compassion are always looking for donations of food or money. A donation of just $10 feeds one cat for an entire month, while $30 would cover all the costs of deworming and vaccinations for a single kitten. (I told you Vietnam is crazy cheap!)

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PAWS for Compassion also suggests holding a fundraiser for the cats in Vietnam! This can be done by running a marathon, holding a bake sale, including it as part of your wedding registry, or asking for donations as a birthday present.

Jack’s Cat Cafe recently featured a young girl who asked for donations as a birthday gift!

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Things Are Changing Slowly But Surely in Vietnam

While the treatment of stray cats in Vietnam sure isn’t ideal, things are changing slowly but surely with the help of organizations like Vietnam Cat Welfare and PAWS for Compassion. The government is now cracking down on the cat and dog meat trade, which will also hopefully lower the theft of household pets.

Many locals are also slowly coming around to the idea of cats and kittens. I know so many Vietnamese people who welcome stay kittens into their homes and restaurants and take great care of them. From Taco Ngon’s little kitten to our maid who took in a batch of stray kittens last year.

For now, the best thing we can do is educate, adopt, and donate, whether its time or money. Hopefully, we can start making these kittens a little more ‘lucky’ one rescue mission at a time.

Vietnam’s Stray Cats and the Cat Meat Trade: Why it Exists and How You Can Help Before we start, I'm going to preface by saying I love Vietnam. This is my second time living here and Hoi An, and I honestly feel so lucky to be here.

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Danish Doctor Issues Warning about HPV Vaccine: “The Vaccine Should be Stopped Immediately!”

Image from the Danish documentary: The Vaccinated Girls – Sick and Betrayed. The documentary has been removed from YouTube.

HPV Vaccine Controversy: A Danish Doctor's Perspective

by Dr. Stig Gerdes SaneVax, Inc.

[Note from SaneVax: The HPV vaccine controversy has been raging since the FDA approved Gardasil in 2006 in virtually every country utilizing this new medical intervention.

Dr. Stig Gerdes wrote this open letter to Danish Health authorities, the medical community, and local journalists hoping to shed some light on the very real consequences many Danish families were forced to deal with post-HPV vaccine use.

Unfortunately, for medical consumers, the letter below was written well over two years ago. HPV vaccine stakeholders are still trying to deny the facts Dr. Gerdes was courageous enough to put in writing. The letter is printed in its entirety below with permission from the author. The SaneVax team would like to thank Mie Thorsen for providing the translation to English.]

Panic before closing

The pharmaceutical industry, The Danish Health and Medicines Authority, The Ministry of Health, The Minister of Health, Cancer Inc., Statens Serum Institute and The Regions are panicked at the low coverage of the HPV vaccine, which is now below 25%. Cancer Inc. has hired a company “Focus” to make phone calls to parents with the following message: “Your daughter is turning 12 years old this year, and she must have the HPV vaccine.”

The Minister of Health recently announced that something must be done to raise the vaccination coverage. This is the same Minister of Health who was against the HPV vaccine before she became the minister.

Do all of these agencies not understand that Danes can think for themselves? No one will let their children or themselves vaccinate and risk being destroyed by the side effects caused by a totally unnecessary and sparsely documented vaccine.

The HPV vaccine damaged are ridiculed, ignored, viewed with suspicion, and left to stand completely alone with their disease without help from our health care system.

The 5 HPV centers release the sick girls quickly while referring them to the Center for Functional Disorders without investigation or treatment. It's a huge “blunder” that the health service in Denmark relegates the HPV vaccine injured to the psychiatric category of enfant terrible “Functional Disorders”! (Note: Enfant terrible means a child whose inopportune remarks cause embarrassment.) By doing so, the authorities avoid potential compensation because the disease is psychological, not triggered by the vaccine!

It should be known that Merck, the manufacturer of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, has stated in their Gardasil Product Information Leaflet, that there are over 45 side-effects which may be experienced after Gardasil injections and that this occurs in 3.2% of those injected and that 1/3 of these are serious (life-threatening) side effects. Despite this, The Danish Health Authority wants concrete medical evidence that it's Gardasil that triggers these serious side effects in some of the vaccine users. Merck's own figures correspond to Denmark's experience in that about 20.000 youngsters have side effects, including around 6-7000 so serious that the survivors end up confined to bed 24-7.

The proponents continue to argue that the FDA and EMA (National Board of Health in the US and Europe) claim there are no serious side effects caused by Gardasil. But, their statements are based on a false premise. Furthermore, they keep saying that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Gardasil contains among other things aluminum adjuvant nanoparticles, and it is this that promotes negative side effects by hitting the mitochondria, triggering autoimmune reactions, and interfering with the body's hormones which regulate metabolism and menstruation. One of the symptoms frequently exhibited is severe tiredness. The pregnant have an increased tendency to miscarriages and often give birth early in the week from 24 to 28. Furthermore, the risk of experiencing cell changes in the cervix is increased by 45%, when you get vaccinated, if you have HPV virus in the body before vaccinated.

The nano-adjuvanted aluminum particles are so small they can pass through the blood vessels into the tissue, pass through the blood-brain barrier and destroy the sections of the brain resulting in neurological failure symptoms such as Guillain-Barré. The particles can also pass from the pregnant mother to the placenta to the fetus. Babies can be born with side effects such as increased irritability, poor sucking ability, severe fatigue, skin changes, and other sequelae. Aluminum nano-particles also can be transmitted through breast milk to the child, so the child's symptoms gradually get worse if it has side effects at birth.

The HPV vaccine is not required to prevent cervical cancer. There is no evidence that the HPV vaccines prevent cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine is not tested to see if it causes cancer itself. All women should instead take a pap smear every 3 years from 23 years of age until they die, and a pap smear if they experience unusual bleeding.

It is possible with current techniques to replace the side effect-causing aluminum adjuvant nano-particles with organic material, for example, leukocytes. HPV vaccines would then have no serious adverse events. This applies not only to the HPV vaccine but all vaccines in the Danish vaccination program. The HPV vaccine incidence of adverse events is 100 fold higher than the other vaccines.

The disease the HPV vaccine induces is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), a physical disease triggered by viral infections, bacterial infections, heavy metals, vaccines, trauma and fungi of various kinds. It is important to point out that patients with ME, triggered by heavy metals and vaccines, should not be vaccinated later in life. If they are, it could trigger relapse and/or exacerbation of ME disease.

A lot of research is going on with the HPV vaccine and there will be earth-shattering results for the next 3-6 months. A world congress in Leipzig in March 2016 related to autoimmune diseases revealed this.

The vaccine should be stopped immediately! There are so many unanswered questions that should be answered before we continue to vaccinate. With each injection, there is a risk of incapacitating a previously young strong human.

Sincerely,

Chairman of the Civil Rights Movement and General Practitioner

Stig Gerdes

Read the full article at SaneVax.org.

Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.

More information about Gardasil

Illinois Teen Dies Three Weeks After Being Injected with HPV Gardasil Vaccine

California Nurse Gives Gardasil Vaccine to Own Daughter who Develops Leukemia and Dies

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

Iowa Girl Faces Death: Life Destroyed by Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil Vaccine Given without Consent and Ruins Life of 14 Year Old Girl

After 3 Years of Suffering 19 Year Old Girl Dies from Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Decision We Will Always Regret

15 Year Old French Girl's “Descent into Hell” After Gardasil Vaccine – Wheelchair Bound and Paralyzed

The Gardasil Vaccine After-Life: My Daughter is a Shadow of Her Former Self

Gardasil: An Experience no Child Should Have to Go Through

I Want my Daughter's Life Back the Way it was Before Gardasil

Gardasil Vaccine: Destroyed and Abandoned

15-Year-Old Vaccinated by Force with Gardasil now Suffers from Paralysis and Pain

Recovering from my Gardasil Vaccine Nightmare

Gardasil: We Thought It Was The Right Choice

“HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”

13 Year Old World Championship Karate Student Forced to Quit After Gardasil Vaccine

If I Could Turn Back Time, Korey Would not Have Received any Gardasil Shots

What Doctors Don't Tell You: Our Gardasil Horror Story

Family Fights U.S. Government over Compensation for Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: When Will our Nightmare End?

HPV Vaccine Injuries: “I Cannot Begin to Describe What it is Like to Watch your Daughter Live in Such Agony”

Gardasil: Don't Let Your Child Become “One Less”

The Gardasil Vaccine Changed Our Definition of “Normal”

Gardasil: I Should Have Researched First

“They've Been Robbed of Their Womanhood” – Local Milwaukee Media Covers Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Day Our Daughter's Life Changed

Gardasil: The Decision I will Always Regret

Gardasil Vaccine: One More Girl Dead

Gardasil: A Parent's Worst Nightmare

After Gardasil: I Simply Want my Healthy Daughter Back

Gardasil: My Family Suffers with Me

Gardasil Changed my Health, my Life, and Family's Lives Forever

Gardasil: Ashlie's Near-Death Experience

Gardasil: My Daughter's Worst Nightmare

My Personal Battle After the Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me

A Ruined Life from Gardasil

HPV Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries

The Dark Side of Gardasil – A Nightmare that Became Real

Toddler Wrongly Injected with Gardasil Vaccine Develops Rare Form of Leukaemia

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Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49.

Because of the strong opposition from big pharma concerning Dr. Moulden's research, we became concerned that the name of this brilliant researcher and his life's work had nearly been deleted from the internet. His reputation was being disparaged, and his message of warning and hope was being distorted and buried without a tombstone. This book summarizes his teaching and is a must-read for everyone who wants to learn the “other-side” of the vaccine debate that the mainstream media routinely censors.

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Danish Doctor Issues Warning about HPV Vaccine: “The Vaccine Should be Stopped Immediately!”

Image from the Danish documentary: The Vaccinated Girls – Sick and Betrayed. The documentary has been removed from YouTube.

HPV Vaccine Controversy: A Danish Doctor's Perspective

by Dr. Stig Gerdes SaneVax, Inc.

[Note from SaneVax: The HPV vaccine controversy has been raging since the FDA approved Gardasil in 2006 in virtually every country utilizing this new medical intervention.

Panic before closing

The HPV vaccine damaged are ridiculed, ignored, viewed with suspicion, and left to stand completely alone with their disease without help from our health care system.

Sincerely,

Chairman of the Civil Rights Movement and General Practitioner

Stig Gerdes

Read the full article at SaneVax.org.

Comment on this article at VaccineImpact.com.

More information about Gardasil

Illinois Teen Dies Three Weeks After Being Injected with HPV Gardasil Vaccine

California Nurse Gives Gardasil Vaccine to Own Daughter who Develops Leukemia and Dies

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

Iowa Girl Faces Death: Life Destroyed by Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil Vaccine Given without Consent and Ruins Life of 14 Year Old Girl

After 3 Years of Suffering 19 Year Old Girl Dies from Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Decision We Will Always Regret

15 Year Old French Girl's “Descent into Hell” After Gardasil Vaccine – Wheelchair Bound and Paralyzed

The Gardasil Vaccine After-Life: My Daughter is a Shadow of Her Former Self

Gardasil: An Experience no Child Should Have to Go Through

I Want my Daughter's Life Back the Way it was Before Gardasil

Gardasil Vaccine: Destroyed and Abandoned

15-Year-Old Vaccinated by Force with Gardasil now Suffers from Paralysis and Pain

Recovering from my Gardasil Vaccine Nightmare

Gardasil: We Thought It Was The Right Choice

“HPV Vaccine Has Done This to My Child”

13 Year Old World Championship Karate Student Forced to Quit After Gardasil Vaccine

If I Could Turn Back Time, Korey Would not Have Received any Gardasil Shots

What Doctors Don't Tell You: Our Gardasil Horror Story

Family Fights U.S. Government over Compensation for Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: When Will our Nightmare End?

HPV Vaccine Injuries: “I Cannot Begin to Describe What it is Like to Watch your Daughter Live in Such Agony”

Gardasil: Don't Let Your Child Become “One Less”

The Gardasil Vaccine Changed Our Definition of “Normal”

Gardasil: I Should Have Researched First

“They've Been Robbed of Their Womanhood” – Local Milwaukee Media Covers Gardasil Vaccine Injuries

Gardasil: The Day Our Daughter's Life Changed

Gardasil: The Decision I will Always Regret

Gardasil Vaccine: One More Girl Dead

Gardasil: A Parent's Worst Nightmare

After Gardasil: I Simply Want my Healthy Daughter Back

Gardasil: My Family Suffers with Me

Gardasil Changed my Health, my Life, and Family's Lives Forever

Gardasil: Ashlie's Near-Death Experience

Gardasil: My Daughter's Worst Nightmare

My Personal Battle After the Gardasil Vaccine

Gardasil: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me

A Ruined Life from Gardasil

HPV Vaccines: My Journey Through Gardasil Injuries

The Dark Side of Gardasil – A Nightmare that Became Real

Toddler Wrongly Injected with Gardasil Vaccine Develops Rare Form of Leukaemia

Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm

On Sale! 50% OFF! Until Sunday October 7th

eBook – Available for immediate download.

Dr. Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49.

Read Dr. Andrew Moulden: Every Vaccine Produces Harm on your mobile device or computer by ordering the eBook!

On Sale! 50% OFF! Until Sunday October 7th

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“The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program”

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Say NO to Mandatory Vaccines T-Shirt

100% Pre-shrunk Cotton Order here!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

In all honesty though, I’m not a food photographer — at least, not yet — and am just getting started with sharing some of my own recipes here on the UDH. I gave it a lot of thought considering how focused I’ve been on remodeling, but after more than 7 years of talking mainly about DIY and dirt and finally having a kitchen to cook in, suddenly talking about something meant to actually look appetizing is… well, kind of fun.

And that’s how I decided that the very first thing I’d share with all of you guys would be something almost laughable to call a “recipe” — my very easy, not-at-all-healthy-for-you, addictively-face-stuffing quesadillas. I first made this when I was craving Mexican food like no other during a semester-long study abroad in college. Italy is awesome and has amazing food, but when you’ve grown up in the southern US, food cravings are serious business. I needed something to at least satisfy whatever part of my stomach that kept reminding me that spaghetti sauce tastes nothing like salsa. I had only the few ingredients I could find at the little Italian grocer ten blocks away (so basically, not the best place to find tortillas and queso), and what came out of it was a meal I still eat to this day. And that every boyfriend I’ve ever cooked for has asked me to make a number of times, so that at least tells me that it’s not just me that really likes it.

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In years past, my diet has consisted of quick meals that I could heat up before going back to whatever project causing me to drip more sweat off my forehead (P.S., the new fire pit I built this weekend is coming your way soon!). In that time, I’ve learned a small handful of easy meals that are probably great for more than just project fuel (easy for kids, easy for parties, etc.). This will also be a fun learning experience for me as I get a chance to learn what food photography is all about (note to self: create studio area in garage). Still though… I probably got the best shot I ever could have, thanks to a certain curious redhead at the other end of the dining room table:

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

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In all seriousness, these are pretty darn good quesadillas. They’re easy to make, even when you’re really tired, and can even do some of it as a make-ahead meal (you can make the chicken ahead of time and then whip out the tortillas and cheese as needed, and the tortillas come out all warm and crispy). I will often make a large batch and either freeze or chill the leftover chicken for a later date. But the best part is that it’s exactly perfectly spicy and buttery and filling, which is exactly what I want in my comfort food. And when you’re entertaining, you can make a whole bunch of these really fast and cut them up into small wedges as finger food. It’s a crowd-pleaser and goes great with a beer. I plan on making them a lot this football season.

It’s also an incredibly versatile recipe since it needs so few ingredients. I prefer to eat it as a working-and-eating dinner: with one hand, while working on the computer (or with a beer in the other). Or when I feel like pigging out but also don’t feel like dirtying a lot of dishes.

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

These spicy chicken quesadillas are SO easy!! And kind of addictively spicy. But if heat isn’t your thing, you can still customize these for kids, tailgate parties, or just bachelorette-style over the sink. <3

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

It may sound counterproductive, but I like to pre-butter the quesadillas before putting them on the griddle pan instead of in the pan itself. This gives me a buttery bite every time, but to keep it mess-free, I butter the tortilla, flip it over against another, and fill it with ingredients before placing it on the pan.

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

You can make these an easy dinner for kids by scaling down the size (use a smaller tortilla) and heat of the ingredients used (I love medium heat salsa, while you can use mild and regular monterey jack instead of pepper jack cheese, or you can use hot salsa to dial up the heat… dealer’s choice!). If you’re a cheddar fan, load up the quesadilla with some shredded cheddar (ick). A certain bearded dude likes cheddar and hot sauce on everything, so I’m forced to add a little variety to the original these days (obviously, he can’t be trusted with taste like this, but it’s still easy and quick).

Enjoy!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

It’s also an incredibly versatile recipe since it needs so few ingredients. I prefer to eat it as a bachelorette style dinner: eaten over the sink, with one hand while working on the computer (or with a beer in the other). Or when I feel like pigging out but also don’t feel like dirtying a lot of dishes.

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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geekingoutonhealthcare-blog · 7 years

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A little background to start...

It’s back. Breast cancer, that is. It’s in my lymph nodes under my arm and under my collar bone on the same side where I had breast cancer 8 years ago, almost 100 months ago.

For those of you know don’t know the backstory on this, I was diagnosed with breast cancer 8 years ago when my daughter was 5 months old. It was pretty basic breast cancer: stage 2, ER (estrogen receptor) positive, PR (progesterone receptor) positive, Her2 negative (not totally sure what that means, but it is good that it is negative as that is a more aggressive kind of cancer). I had a double mastectomy and did 4 rounds of chemo over 12 weeks. I lost hair, I had perfect hair everyday for 9 months, and I got some cute new fakies that will stay that way forever:) I tried to take aggressive measures to avoid having to go through this again.

During my round 1 treatment, I was lucky to be stay a at home mom, then I started working at my dream job a few weeks after finishing chemo - with a wig, no eyelashes, no eyebrows, and a mush brain. My role was to work as an internal consultant to reduce cost and increase revenue for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In that job, I had the opportunity to work with amazingly smart, motivated, and hilarious people as well as to get deep into hospital operations and finance. At the the time and still today, I know that healthcare is my true calling as well as fixing complex processes, creating better ways of doing things, and developing the skills and knowledge of those around me. Although I’m not in hospital operations any more, I am working in my new dream job (really!) at Strata Decision Technology where I have had the opportunity to develop software to essentially automate my old job with algorithms and workflow, then to improve/scale/grow/fix/lead all of our client services. It may sound cheesy, but I really feel that I am helping to fix healthcare on a national scale both by creating & implementing software that addresses some gaping holes, but also by encouraging many young, super smart, talented people to dive in deep to the details of healthcare care and help fix it!

And that is exactly why I chose to blog about Cancer, round 2. This is something I’ve never done before and something that feels oddly out of character for me. However, within hours of being diagnosed the second time, I immediately felt like that I wanted others to learn from my experience. Both my experience as a patient, but also my experience as a hospital ops geek going through the process. Expect to hear a little about me and probably a lot about utilization of services, awesome (or not awesome) processes, charges, costs, and the like.

To bring us up to current day, over Memorial Day weekend, while I was in Napa with some old friends, I felt a little bump, kind of like a piece of gravel, above my collar bone. I thought I’d just had too much to drink in wine (and good beer) country. But a few weeks later, it was still there. I called my survivorship PA (the one who sees former breast cancer patients after 5 uneventful years post treatment). She acted with a lot of urgency, which is a good thing, but also a little scary. I was in for an ultrasound within a few days. During the ultrasound, the tech did the procedure first, which took about 45 minutes because it was hard to see much. Then the doctor came in to do the scan, also for 45 minutes, then she asked the head of the department to come in and do it. After that, they shared that it was “all clear” in the least confidence-inspiring tone I could image. They said to come back in 3 months. I saw the surgeon a few minutes later. She said the same thing, in the same way. “OK... guess I’ll come back in three months. Good thing breast cancer is generally slow growing” I thought.

The next morning, the radiologist called me. She said she was using a new machine and had been thinking about me all night. She asked me to come back in that day for a re-do, at no charge, of the scan on her trusted machine. (SO THANKFUL TO DRS. HANSEN & GOLDBERG FOR ADVOCATING FOR ME ON THIS!). I went right away. Fortunately, my husband was able to join on short notice as the results weren’t so good that day. Inconclusive, but clear that something was going on that wasn’t normal. The scan warranted a biopsy. That was scheduled for the next week.

I had a Fine Needle Aspiration biopsy to carefully remove cells from the swollen lymph nodes. A pathology tech was present for the procedure to confirm that they had an adequate sample size and could do a conclusive read of the situation. (**First hospital ops geeking out moment: this was a really good process! It prevents the hospital from having to call a patient back in for not having an adequate sample and delaying results. Nice work NMH!**). I did feel the mood of the physicians and staff in the room change once they started looking at tissue. I cried and cried hard when I left because I felt certain it was cancer again. But, it was the extra long 4th of July weekend now and I’d have to wait until Monday (hopefully) to get results.

While at the pool with friends on July 3rd,I got the call. It was cancer. Not shocked. Not really scared. Just cancer. Just follow the process and everything will be fine. That was the mantra for cancer round 1, but for cancer round 2, that process doesn’t seem so air-tight. What if I follow the process and it doesn’t work... again? Pretty scary.

Next up, had to rule out further metastasis. Breast cancer commonly spreads to lymph nodes and can be treated and cured. It can also metastasize to the brain, bones, liver, and lungs. This is considered stage 4 and is ‘manageable’ but long term survival rates are much lower. I had a bone scan and CT scan of the neck, lungs, liver, and pelvis. When we heard the words “the scans were clear,” my husband and I both let out a rather loud “yeah” and “woo woo” in the very, very quiet cancer center. Yea stage 3! Yea Treatable! Yea Curable! (hope it works!) We were so excited about stage 3 and not stage 4 that we went home and opened a 2005 bottle of actual champagne from the Champagne region of France. We’d had this for 2.5 years and hadn’t found a worthy occasion up until we stage 3 day. It was a beautiful day and the bubbles were tiny as I’d recently learned was the mark of good bubbly. It was a great day.

Now... we are planning for treatment. 8 sessions of chemo (with the big gun drugs) over 16 weeks + 6 weeks of radiation. Then we’ll wait and see what’s next. I start this Thursday. I plan to work when I can. I plan to be a still be a good mom, although we’ll probably watch a lot of Fixer Upper rather than go for bike rides, for a while at least. I hope to be a decent, minimally high-maintenance wife. I’m feeling positive and like I know what is ahead, generally speaking. Right now, I’m just hoping my new wigs are cool, city and software-ish, not grandma from the country. Fingers crossed!

In future posts, I’ll plan to give a little update on the plot line as well as keep a tally of my charges and estimated cost. I hope to blog regularly and I really hope to stay somewhat interesting, insightful and literate. During chemo, I expect my brain may turn to mush for a period. So the literacy level of my writing may diminish (seriously!). No worries, a couple of months after chemo, I should be back to my fairly articulate self with the occasional funny typo. I also promise not be as long winded. Just a lot of catching up to do today.

As a warning, I tend to joke about/laugh about cancer, talk about it openly, and try to just go on with life. As my aunt says “if we weren’t laughing, we’d be crying our eyes out.” I’d prefer to laugh.

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endlessarchite · 7 years

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5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

My lighting was too yellow, I didn’t feel like setting up the tripod, and the daylight was already spent. Whatever, though. Lazy meal, lazy photography.

Hahahahahhahahaha… oh, Charlie.

The Ultimate Lazy-Gal Meal

5-Ingredient Spicy Chicken Quesadillas

Author: Sarah

Ingredients

soft taco flour tortillas (I prefer these)

chunky salsa (I prefer Tostitos – Medium heat)

pepper jack cheese (I prefer Sargento, and yes I’ve used pre-sliced when I’m feeling extra lazy)

boneless chicken breasts

butter or cooking spray for the griddle pan

Instructions

Cut chicken breasts into medium-sized chunks and place in skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Cover with salsa and let it cook a little until the chicken becomes shreddable (I use forks).

Once chicken is fully cooked, move pan aside to a cold burner on the stove (or if saving for later, let cool and store in sealed plastic container and refrigerate).

Add griddle pan over medium heat. Prepare each quesadilla by buttering the outside of each tortilla and filling with chicken and cheese. Cook on both sides until the tortilla is golden brown.

Notes

Use a wide spatula for easier flipping.

For less heat, use mild salsa and/or monterey jack cheese with no peppers.

Chunky salsa is better (IMO) than blended… I like the tomatoes and peppers in each bite.

Enjoy!

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