Gastrointestinal Esophageal Reflex Disease symptoms, or GERD, is a very common disease (heartburn). Some people can manage it with simple antacids like calcium carbonate. Others may need proton-pump inhibitors like Prilosec. I was one of those who needed Prilosec since 1996. I took a daily dose of 20 mg, and I was fine since then until a few months ago, specifically last November (2025) when I began feeling pain upon swallowing. The pain first persisted for a few days, then a few weeks, then it would come and go, I finally consulted with an ENT physician who told me that my problem was not my throat, but rather my GI track that was producing too much acid. I even did an endoscopy, the test revealed inflammation of my esophagus. I began taking 40 mg of Prilosec daily, 20 mg in the morning and another 20 mg in the evening. This controlled my GERD better, but pain would still come and go. Finally, my PCP told me to take all 40 mg in the morning and to take Pepcid (10 mg; chewable) in the evening. So far, and for the last 10 days, no pain in my throat at all. Knock on the wood, so far so good. By the way, I initially thought it was the nasal saline I was spraying in my nose daily to avoid allergies that caused the pain. It was not. Nasal saline is fine. It was that silent GERD that I thought I controlled it well with 20 mg Prilosec for some 30 years. My PCP, laughingly said, "You are NOT that young guy, my friend, anymore." I guess not!
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Life throws at you many curves. You think you are catching up and something happens to knock you down again. From unexpected car repairs, to a leaky water heater, to a dishwasher that decided to stop in the middle of its run cycle, to a microwave that stops heating your food, to a refrigerator that refuses to keep your food cold, and so on and so forth. You've got the idea. I started in April of 2019 accumulating debt. I thought I almost was able to pay it off by June of 2021, and of course, more debt started to reappear. I reached my maximum debt in October of 2023, and since then I began to get hold of it until June of 2024, and then again, more debt showed up. It seems I am heading now in the right direction. But wait, my real estate tax bill will be here in July, and I had some car engine problems recently that will knock me down (or up in the curve) again. Life happens, and that is why they call it life. It is crapshoot.
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The Ten Commandments
"Now the Lord spoke all these words, saying;
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me; but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: neither you, nor your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, your cattle, nor your stranger who sojourns with you. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed it.
Honor your father and mother that it may be well with you, and your days may be long upon the good land the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his house, and neither shall you covet his field, nor his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, any of his cattle, or whatever belongs to your neighbor."
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