4 Weeds Good Enough To Eat

September 12, 2011 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

If you can’t think of anything for dinner, look in your backyard.  These weeds are edible, but do your research and properly identify them (and make sure you or the neighbor’s dog haven’t sprayed them with something) before you put them on your plate.  A tip: don’t try these if you are prone to allergies.

♦ Dandelion.  Add the leaves, which contain vitamins A, C and K, to soup.  The leaves are more tender and less bitter if you eat them before they flower.

♦ Plantain (the weed, not the banana).  Blanche the leaves and sauté with butter and garlic. You also can crush them and use on insect bites.

♦ Stinging nettles.  You must steam or boil these to get rid of the nettles, but they are said to make a nutritious tea.

♦ Purslane.  Eat the young stems and leaves in salads or sandwiches or use them in recipes that call for spinach (the taste is similar).   Purslane contains antioxidant vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids.

Hip Replacement Disasters

September 12, 2011 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

The miracles of modern medicine abound. One of the more recent are mechanical replacements for shoulders and hips.

These devices offer the promise of renewed mobility and freedom from pain. Generally, the results have been amazing.

Unfortunately some recipients of hip replacements have not fared so well. Johnson and Johnson’s DePuy hip replacement product had to be recalled from the market due to defects which were causing many problems to those who have received them, even including the poisoning of the blood due to the metals used in the replacement.

Johnson and Johnson has written to all the recipients, basically offering to pay to have the devices replaced. No offer is made to compensate for the pain and suffering, both physical and emotional, which had been caused by their product.

We are representing several victims of this hip replacement device and we are joining in a national lawsuit against Johnson and Johnson to recover a fair and just amount to compensate for the horrors they have suffered.

If you know of anyone who has been victimized by this product, please have them call me. We will be glad to discuss – free of charge – the ins and outs of this kind of claim.

Tell them to call me at 804-643-4343.