Archive for October, 2008

• Fiction is now fact

  Monday, October 27th, 2008

  Ten or fifteen years ago we can all remember standing in line at the grocery store and reading the headline of someone losing half their face to a killer infection. Well it’s no longer fiction. It is now here, going strong in our hospitals, schools, and gyms.
  MRSA or Methicillian Resistant Staphylococcus Aurous, was once [...]

• Looking Back 3

  Saturday, October 25th, 2008

  I am now living in my sixth decade, retired and have time to look over my life. I had the dream to become a nurse and made it. I went to the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing diploma program. I was strongly encouraged by my husband to go and get my BS in Nursing. A little thing called [...]

• Thirty-five years sleep deprived and I lived to tell about it

  Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

  Have you ever done something so stupid that later you had to just sit and shake your head? Well today after watching the new television show, The Doctors, which has condensed but often good medical subjects, I was left shaking my head and going Oh My God!
  I worked thirty-five years on the 1100 to 0730 [...]

• Tuberculosis - An old enemy in a new form

  Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

  San Diego and other cities are being attacked by Tuberculosis. What was once an easily treatable disease is on the rise and becoming harder to cure. This is because there are now strains of TB that have become resistant to the usual treatments.
  Tuberculosis is an airborne disease. It can only be spread from person to person through coughing, sneezing, [...]

• Stress is not your friend

  Monday, October 13th, 2008

  Gas prices are at an all time high, food prices are going through the roof, and the money market is leaving us all with less to count on in a pinch. How is a person going to stay cool calm and collected?
  The question is what can we do to stay in a calmer state of [...]