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- 50+ beautiful breakfasts from all over.
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- Lies Your English Teacher Told You
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- Redifining life's purpose.
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Author Archives: Dr. Afaq Ahmad Qureshi
Profile of a poor family in Pakistan
(Names and places are real like poverty. In one US$ you get approximately 100 rupees). Tufail and Razia got married some 30 years ago. At that time they lived in Kasur. They both belonged to poor families and when I … Continue reading
Posted in Pakistan, poverty, Uncategorized
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PAKISTAN – as of October 2017.
A resume of life in general in Pakistan as observed in October 2017. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Life, Pakistan, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged culture, current affairs, NawazSharif, Pakistan
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Freshly Pressed Ideas: (Not a manual for being freshly pressed).
1. Photography: Use the lens to capture the following. A bicycle or its parts. Any other machine / machinery parts are also FP worthy. So take heed and give importance to the old parts lying in and around your dwelling. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, fiction, Freshly Pressed, Literature
Tagged American, art, blog, blogs, Crafts, Flowers, Freshly Pressed, manual, satire, United States, Wordpress
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How the time flies. How it stops when it’s a holiday.
I do not make ‘to do’ lists. They scare me as I know I would not be able to place tick marks on at least 90% of the listed items. Remaining 10% to me are never so important and therefore … Continue reading
Posted in Disease, Literature, Relationship, relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged ammi, Appliances, breakfast, brunch, coffee, cooking, death, food, fresh, funny, getting up, health, holiday morning, kitchen, lazy morning, life, Literature, lunch, Maid, mom, mother, Newspaper, noise, sleep, sounds of kitchen, Tap water, Tea, to-do-list, tragedy, Urdu, war-on-terror, Washing machine, writing
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On getting up in the morning with a severe headache.
A life experience. Headaches are pretty common on getting up in the morning. An account of a morning like that and what happened to the author on that day. Continue reading
Posted in Disease, Headache, Migraine, Pain, Uncategorized
Tagged Aspirin, autobiography, Bhai, Bursting, Diazepam, dull ache, early morning, excruciating pain, Hamza, headache, life, Literature, migraine, morning, pain, painkillers, satire, Splitting headache, Tea, Tearing, Urdu, Valium
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2. How do I know the Dengue fever has become dangerous? Dengue in Lahore: Serious symptoms.
Dengue fever can become very serious if the element of hemorrhage sets in. If the following symptoms are observed, take immediate steps. SYMPTOMS: 1. Abdominal pain 2. Persistent vomitting 3. Weakness, increasing sleepiness 4. Cold sweats 5. Shortness of breath … Continue reading
Posted in CurrentAffairs, Dengue Fever, Lahore, Pain, Pakistan, Viral fever
Tagged abdominal pain, Dengue, Dengue-fever, fatal, Haemorrhage, Hemorrhage, Lahore, News, Pakistan, red spots, temperature, Vomitting
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What do I do if I have swelling in the neck: Mumps, Lymph nodes, Goiter, Thyroid enlargement.
A person with neck swelling has enlargement of the soft tissues that covers the neck. A neck swelling can also occur as accumulation of fluid, lymph, or inflammatory, or tumor cells in an area under the skin of the neck. … Continue reading
Posted in Blood cancer, Disease, education, Health, Lymph Nodes, Neck Swelling, Thyroid disorder, Uncategorized
Tagged aspiration, benign, biopsy, Blood, blood cancer, causes of neck swelling, cervical, common, cyst, disease, excision biopsy, fine needle aspiration, fluid, gland, goitre, hodgkin disease, hodgkin's disease, hormones, inflammation, leukemia, lipoma, lymph gland, lymph node, lymphoma, malignant, Neck, saliva, salivary glands, Sonography, surgery, swelling, T3, T4, TB, Thyroid, TSH, tuberculosis, Ultrasound, Ultrasound of neck
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What do I do if I am told to have a radioisotope scan: Things to know about Isotope scan & nuclear medicine.
A radioisotope scan (also known as a nuclear medicine test) uses a small amount of radioactivity to produce pictures on a special camera. The radioactive dose is usually injected into a vein in your hand or arm. The radioactivity circulating … Continue reading
Posted in education, Health, Isotope scan, Medicine, Nuclear medicine, Radiation
Tagged Bone scan, Cardiac scn, Gamma camera, Gamma ray, health, Iodine, nuclear medicine, Positron emission tomography, Radiation, Radioactive decay, radioactivity, radionuclide, Thallium, Thyroid, Tissue (biology)
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How do I know I have Hypothyroidism: (Myxedema).
Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is under-active (it is producing an insufficient amount of thyroid hormones). Hypothyroidism is the most common thyroid disorder. Severe hypothyroidism can lead to a condition called myxedema, characterized by dry, thickened … Continue reading
Posted in CurrentAffairs, Disease, education, facebook, Hyperthyroidism / Toxic Goiter, Hypothyroidism Myxedema, News, Uncategorized
Tagged Ankle edema, baldness, Bradycardia., brain tumors, brittle nails, coarse skin, confusion, Decrease in sex drive, Edema, endocrine, endocrine glands, endocrinology, hormone imbalance, hormones, hypothalamus, Hypothyroidism, infertility, isotopes, larynx, Lethargy, Libido, Memory loss, Myxedema, Neck, nuclear, nuclear medicine, Physician, pituitary gland, Puffiness, radioactive Iodine, radioactivity, Sex drive low, surgery, T3, T4, Treatment, TSH, voice box, Weight gain
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How do I know I have Hyperthyroidism: (Grave’s disease or Toxic goiter)?
INTRODUCTION TO THE THYROID GLAND: All of us have a small gland in our necks called the Thyroid gland. Normally it is not visible and we cannot feel its presence inside us. It sits comfortably in its bed and does … Continue reading
Posted in CurrentAffairs, Disease, education, Hyperthyroidism / Toxic Goiter, Medicine / Health / Glands / Neck, Pain, Pakistan, Uncategorized
Tagged Anxiety, arrythmia, body and joint pains, bulging eyes, chest pain, Excess hormones, exopthalmous, Goiter, Graves disease, heat intolerance, hyperthyroidism, Iodine, iodine 131, Irritability, medicine, menses, miscarraige, Neck, nuclear medicine, palpitations, prominent eyes, radioisotope, radionuclide, shortness of breath, T3, T4, tachycardia, Thyroid, Thyroid Disease, Thyroid hormones, Toxic goiter, TSH, weight loss
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