Love when a guy hands you their sweater.
(Source: cutiebaoo)
“it’s better to love someone you can have than love someone who doesn’t know your worth.”
health quotes
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
(Source: quotegarden.com)
protein in urine
Definition
Protein in urine (proteinuria or microalbuminuria) is an abnormally high amount of protein found in a urine sample. A test to analyze the content of your urine (urinalysis) checks for several substances in your urine, including protein.
Your kidneys filter waste products from your blood while retaining components your body needs — including proteins. However, some diseases and conditions can allow proteins to pass through the filters of your kidneys, causing protein in urine.
Low levels of protein in urine are normal. Temporarily high levels of protein in urine aren’t unusual either, particularly in younger people after exercise or during an illness. Protein in urine discovered on a microalbumin test may often be the earliest sign of diabetic kidney damage.
Causes
Conditions that can cause a temporary rise in the levels of protein in urine include:
- Cold exposure
- Emotional stress
- Fever
- Heat exposure
- Strenuous exercise
Diseases and conditions that can cause persistently elevated levels of protein in urine include:
- Amyloidosis (buildup of abnormal proteins in your organs)
- Certain drugs
- Chronic kidney failure
- Diabetes
- Glomerulonephritis (inflammation in the kidney cells that filter waste from the blood)
- Goodpasture’s syndrome
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Hodgkin’s disease)
- Kidney infection
- Leukemia
- Lupus
- Malaria
- Multiple myeloma
- Orthostatic proteinuria
- Pericarditis (inflammation of the sac that surrounds the heart)
- Pregnancy
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis (development and growth of clumps of inflammatory cells in your organs)
- Sickle cell anemia
Flying Without Wings
Everybody’s looking for a something
One thing that makes it all complete
You’ll find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be
Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lover’s eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you’ve found that special thing
You’re flying without wings
Some find it sharing every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You’ll find it in the words of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry
You’ll find it in the deepest friendship
The kind you cherish all your life
And when you know how much it means
You’ve found that special thing
You’re flying without wings
So, impossible as it may seem
You’ve got to fight for every dream
Cos who’s to know which one you let go
Would have made you complete
Well, for me it’s waking up beside you
To watch the sunrise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
In any given time or place
It’s little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine
And it’s like flying without wings
Cos you’re my special thing
I’m flying without
And in this place I long to be
You’ll be where it ends
I’m flying without wings
And that’s the joy you bring
I’m flying without wings
Christina Perri - Arms (Official Lyric Video) (by lovemspenny)
Digital Painting of Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Jana Schirmer and Johannes Voß
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