Health and Tetris

The primary challenge with being in the health care field is the fact that people don't really give a damn about their health until they lose it to illness. It's very frustrating...

Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old man from Ohio, died on Wednesday from a tooth infection, Cincinati's WLWT reported.
According to the station, Willis' wisdom tooth began hurting two weeks ago, and dentists said it needed to be removed.
Willis, however, was a single father without health insurance, and couldn't afford the procedure.
After developing severe headaches and facial swelling, he went to the emergency room.

Although doctors recommended antibiotics and pain medication, Willis could only afford one.
Patti Collins, Willis's aunt, told WLWT what happened next.

"'The (doctors) gave him antibiotic and pain medication. But he couldn't afford to pay for the antibiotic, so he chose the pain meds, which was not what he needed,' Collins said. Doctors told Willis' family that while the pain had stopped, the infection kept spreading -- eventually attacking his brain and causing it to swell."

Willis leaves behind a 6-year-old daughter, and family members are hoping to create a fund for her future college education.

"People don't realize that dental disease can cause serious illness.The problems are not just cosmetic. Many people die from dental disease. When people are unemployed or don't have insurance, where do they go? What do they do? Silverstein said. People end up dying, and these are the most treatable, preventable diseases in the world."

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The Huffington Post   Laura Hibbard   First Posted: 9/3/11 12:32 PM ET Updated: 9/3/11 01:14 PM ET


When someone else has a cold or the flu, you pity them and say, "I hope they get better." When you have the flu it's like being in your own internal civil war. You're miserable and you know nobody really cares about your situation as much as you do. However, when it's more of a serious, long-term, debilitating disease -whether it's you or someone else you care about -everybody cares equally.

Cancer is not a joke. People think of it like it's some sort of tornado that will effect people way off in Kansas, but certainly not anyone they know and most definitely not themselves. My grandfather Ry got cancer. He's the only I saw go through that process, so he's the only one I can really talk about here. My grandpa got a purple heart in World War II. His leg was injured and he had to get a metal plate put in it, which made going through metal detectors on future flights on airplanes great. I remember he was very stern. He stood very upright and he was always working on things - a handy man. He was pretty serious, I don't remember him smiling. But I also knew he cared. He was one of those guys who never showed their feelings in words or emotions -more through actions.

When grandpa started going through chemo therapy and cancer treatment -he changed. He was confined to a wheel chair because he was too weak to walk. A man who rides himself on his strength and his ability to be useful to others not being able to do those things hit him hard. He didn't talk much. He looked, and this is going to sound weird, "soggy". He was paler, his hair was falling out, and he seemed more distant. It's hard to describe.

He was a shell of the person he had been. His spirit left before his body passed. If he was there at all, I was buried somewhere deep under the hopelessness.

Health is like Tetris. Oxidation, poor food quality, radiation, pollution, stress... they get in your system and fall on you like those building blocks in the game. It never comes in an overwhelming unmanageable amount though. A couple layers could easily build up without it really having much effect of your overall progress in the game. Now, eating healthy and exerices do help take a lot of the layers built up away, but not enough to have you win the game overall. You need Nutritional Supplements.

Some people, a lot of people actually, look at me and say, "Well I talked to my nutritionist and he says the off-the-shelf supplements work just fine". Just fine. It takes care of what it needs to on a daily basis. In Tetris this would be having 5 or 6 layers built up and only 5 layers left before you hit the top (a debilitating disease or serious health condition) and your off-the-shelf nutritional supplements manage to take down one layer while more blocks keep piling up. It's enough to get rid of some of the issue or hold it at bay, but certainly not over a long period of time. It is a joke to think otherwise.

If you want to prevent serious health problems you need Goof Food, Exercise, and Good Nutritional Supplements.

Usana doesn't cure diseases and it never claimed to. I have heard some pretty serious medical improvements from people who had diseases and took the products though. It's like this: If you haven't brushed your teeth in a year, and you have multiple cavities, and your dentists say you may need a root canal... Just using off-the-shelf toothpaste isn't going to help you. It will remove some plaque, but it will also miss a lot and won't get to the heart of the issue. If you use Usana toothpaste it will do more than just wipe of that days residue and plaque, it will sink in to make your gums and your teeth stronger and healthier. It will get to the heart of what is needed. You'll have a better shot at saving your teeth that way then you would off-the-shelf.

Same with heart disease. Same with nervous system failure. Same with liver failure. Same with kidney failure. These systems don't fail by accident -we cause them to fail. At some point you have to ask yourself, "Is my lifestyle slowly killing me?" Is not giving a damn about your health, damning your health?

It's alwaysgood to remember You are that somebody that somebody else cares about. When you have lost the game of Tetris and you're stuck in a hospital bed with your consequences of saying my health was just fine, but not particularly important to me, do you really think you'll be the only one hurting? What about those who love you? Won't they suffer just as much as you? If you want your friends to be happy and healthy and you never want to see them in pain emotionally or physically, you should eturn those same wants to yourself.