Richard Ornelas: I Just Want To Cry

I just want to cry.

My life is very depressing at this point, because I don’t make enough money to take care of my family. I am going to school full time for something I really don’t want to do and I work full time at doing a job I can’t stand doing. I have a set of 3 year old twins and one of them is autistic so he is like the plague when we need a baby sitter because he is very wild and destructive. So we are stuck with him day after day. Don’t get me wrong I love my son but the little lady needs a break because she can’t watch him 24 hours a day and clean the house so our house is a total disaster and that is depressing as well. I used be a ready mix driver but when I started my business it was doing real well and I let my medical card laps so I have to take the test all over again if I want my CDL Back and that is depressing. They’re going to turn the dish for our TV off tomorrow and that’s depressing. If I don’t come up the money to pay for my van next month there going to take it away and that’s depressing. We can’t afford diapers for our son so we beg for them from friends and that’s depressing. I have real bad arthritis pain in my back and joints so I’m limited in the things I can do for work and that’s depressing.

The thing is I have a very good talent at writing scores for short films but I am unable to make any money off of it because I have no stamp that says I’m qualified. I can also create and design logos customize blogs and a few other things like this but I can’t make money from it because I don’t have the stamp. I own a ford cargo van that I pay a 2 million dollar insurance policy on and it just sits and don’t make money. I also have a great band that has a new and exciting sound but we can’t play any decent shows because we can afford to go into the recording studio to record an album and that’s depressing.

I have several inventions that I have created but I don’t have the money to patent them and that’s depressing. I have several different money making business ideas but I don’t have the money to get them started and that’s depressing. So I sit here at my desk in a pig style of a home and I just want to cry.

CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME

Vitamin A pills 'could save thousands of children'

August 2011 Last updated at 21:12 ET

The WHO backs vitamin A supplementation

Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, UK and Pakistani experts assessed 43 studies involving 200,000 children, and found deaths were cut by 24% if children were given the vitamin.

And they say taking it would also cut rates of measles and diarrhoea.

The body needs vitamin A for the visual and immune systems to work properly.

It is found in foods including cheese, eggs, liver and oily fish.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, around the world, 190 million children under the age of five may have a vitamin A deficiency.

But despite widespread efforts, supplementation programmes do not reach all the children who could benefit.

Capsules are now distributed twice a year in at least 60 countries, with average annual coverage rates nearing 80%.

However, University of Oxford and Aga Khan University researchers who carried out this work say the effectiveness of vitamin A is so well-established that policy-makers should provide supplements to all children at risk.

'Effective and cheap'

They evaluated studies that involved children aged six months to five years, and compared rates of illness and death among those who were given vitamin A and those who were not.

Professor Wafaie Fawzi, Harvard School of Public Health

They found vitamin A supplements reduced child mortality by 24% in low- and middle-income countries.

They calculate that, considering the estimated 190m children who are vitamin A deficient, reducing deaths by 24% would save more than 600,000 lives each year.

Dr Evan Mayo-Wilson from the University of Oxford, who worked on the study, said: "Until other sources are available, supplements should be given to all children who are at risk of vitamin A deficiency.

"After just one year, children who had taken supplements were less likely to have died than children who received a placebo [dummy version].

Vitamin A supplements are highly effective and cheap to produce and administer."

He said there had been recent criticism of vitamin A programmes - with some saying there were risks that respiratory infection rates could increase, particularly in children who were not vitamin A deficient - but he added there was "little doubt" that vitamin A prevented young children from dying.

Richard Ornelas

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