Archive for February, 2009

• Why should I feel sorry?

  Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

  I started writing this blog to talk about my life, news, and medical articles of interest. But my life’s journey is also made up of what goes on around me. I was raised around sports and love them. I also am a lover of animals, especially dogs. When Michael Vick was sent to federal prison [...]

• The Battle rages on

  Monday, February 16th, 2009

  If you have read my blog before, you know that I have a number of health problems from being a cancer survivor to a sufferer of Fibromyalgia. Most people and doctors acknowledge my other problems, but when it comes to the Fibromyalgia, even my orthopedic doctors say there is no such thing. I respect this [...]

• Valentine’s Day

  Saturday, February 14th, 2009

  Tomorrow is Valentine’s day and I think of the loves of my life, my kids. Mothers love their kids but do they all like them? Can they hold their heads up high because their children grew up to be fine, upstanding people? Well I can. Are they perfect? NO! And do they drive me crazy [...]

• Surprise Surprise: A litter of babies revisited

  Thursday, February 12th, 2009

  The recent birth of eight babies to an unemployed, unmarried mother receiving public assistance, brought out anger in me to a level I try to avoid. How can it be justified that a mother with six other children, from seven to two years old, needed anymore kids? Why should we, the taxpayers, be saddled with [...]

• Why Work?

  Thursday, February 12th, 2009

  If you have read some of my earlier posts, you know that I have worked long and hard for many years as an RN. Most of the time I would pull overtime and worked parttime selling Amway, Herbalife, and stockings to fellow nurses. I even collected aluminum cans and had a small paper route. What [...]