Coconut Water: A Budget-Friendly Electrolyte Boost

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IGGIE
Nov 23, 2024 5:31 am

G-Day everyone,

There has been a lot of talk lately about electrolytes. It is essential to not only drink lots of water to keep hydrated but to keep your electrolytes up to the right levels. I have not only bought ready-made drinks with all the right additives in the past, but I have also made my own following professional advice. I have come to the conclusion that the right drink to keep all ostomates at the right levels of electrolytes without breaking the bank is COCONUT WATER.

Try it and read all about it, and I think you might like it.

Regards, IGGIE

oldtimer
Nov 24, 2024 9:41 pm

Thanks, Iggie,

Just recently, I saw something about coconut water and electrolytes. I am having a problem with this and, as I have never tried coconut water before, will give it a try. What I sometimes drink is called Power Ade and is blue. That was suggested by my doctor's office a few months ago. It, however, has Blue 1 in it for the color. And that is the flavor with the least colors. I called the company and asked why they put it in their drink. The person feigned ignorance as to the needless addition of something petroleum-based. I don't drink it much, owing to that alone. I believe that coconut water will be just that. At least, I hope so.

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IGGIE
Nov 25, 2024 1:45 pm
Reply to oldtimer

Let us know how you go with Coconut Water.  Regards IGGIE

oldtimer
Nov 26, 2024 2:03 am
Reply to IGGIE

Well, our son will have to go shopping for the turkey very soon. I will ask him to pick some up and go from there. Yup, our 63-year-old little boy also goes grocery shopping for us as I cannot leave the house and his dad is not able to do anything for himself. Without him, we would have to do what so many other old people have been and are doing. Those who, like us, live in the country and just cannot take care of themselves any longer. Thank goodness, so far, so good. Although, I am about to put my husband in a nursing home. That will leave me also dependent on our son and granddaughter in some ways. Everybody has problems, don't they?

Shamrock
Nov 26, 2024 3:30 am
Reply to oldtimer

"Everyone has problems, don't they?"

Tell me about it.

I've had two tax-subsidized insurance policies accidentally active at the same time, and now neither wants to pay the $66,000 cancer hospital bill.

Then, because of this snafu, one of the tax-subsidized (healthcare org) says I may have to reimburse the IRS for all the insurance they were subsidizing, to the tune of $20,000+, in order to fix the problem and then enable the insurance company to pay, which I have a $7050 deductible.

If I use the other tax-subsidized insurance policy, then they can seize my bank account or any assets for the full amount they pay, and if that's $66,000, then so be it.

This is your politically created Healthcare Dot Gov and Medicaid tax-subsidized scams at work here, folks.

The Feds jumped into Medicaid's lucrative cash cow, and now they are fighting back.

Just because one government agency couldn't check with the other, or more likely, not cooperating with each other because now they are competitors.

About 25 million people signed up for a Healthcare Dot Gov plan when it first started subsidizing based on one's income. That's a lot of people suddenly disappearing off the Medicaid rolls. 🙄

Then I had the cancer hospital mysteriously send me a check for $200. For what? To find my bank account to seize?

And here I was supposed to be dead this year, and nothing's happening. 😆

 

 

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IGGIE
Nov 26, 2024 11:40 am
Reply to oldtimer

G-Day Oldtimer,  I lost my lady 10 years ago and I know how its going to hurt you to put your Husband in a Nursing Home. But it sounds like you have a very caring son, tell him from me if he doesn't look after you I will come over and kick his butt. Only joking you tell him from me he is a 100% gentleman and I admire him for looking after his Mother & Farther. I hope you like the Coconut Water and that is keeps you Hydrated. Regards IGGIE

IGGIE
Nov 26, 2024 11:42 am
Reply to Shamrock

Sorry mate, but this one was all about Oldtimer.