Archive for the ‘health hazards’ Category

• Ghost ridding the whip

  Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

  In my nurse’s journey I have reached some extreme highs and lows. The highs have come from watching a patient overcome a difficult health challenge which even the doctors gave little hope. The lows have come when a patient comes into the hospital with injuries that were self inflicted through stupidity. The latest trend of [...]

• Don’t tune this message out!

  Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  The television has become a constant backdrop to our busy lives. Most of us have learned to only snap to attention when key words alert us to information we want to watch. This year like so many others, public service messages are encouraging us to get our flu shots. But this year there has been [...]

• Supersizing is killing us

  Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

  Southern girl that I am, I must admit that I have a love of good food. Even though I was not brought up on fast food, I love it. I have in the last few years come to have an adversity to some fast food because of the need to supersize everything. Or when looked [...]

• Wow, Book me a ticket on Virgin Airline

  Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

  Recently the passengers on a Virgin Airline flight from Los Angeles to New York’s JFK airport were treated to sixteen hours of hell. The flight had to be detoured to another city where they spent long hours on the tarmac. The travelers sat for hours and were told if they left the plane they would [...]

• Dying to be thin

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  I have chronicled my fight with weight and know what its like to want to be thin. I have gone to some extreme methods to try to lose weight due to the pressure I put on myself and the pressure I received from society. I can remember a fad that was going around in the [...]