Archive for the ‘health’ Category

• Oh heck no

  Friday, September 3rd, 2010

  Now I must admit that I have been a big girl all my 60 plus years and most likely will stay that way. But when I read an article about a woman that was not hired by Weight Watcher because after losing 118 pounds and now only wearing a size 12, she was still too [...]

• How much is love worth?

  Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

  Recently I read an article about a couple who spent over three thousand dollars for surgery for their six month old puppy who had made a meal out of some cds. I know that there are families with children that have no health insurance or some lacking meals. It may seem shallow to some. But [...]

• No good deed goes unpunished

  Thursday, June 17th, 2010

  I am sure that when Dan Coyne donated his kidney to Myra de la Vega, a single parent he hardly knew, he never expected the fall out he has gotten.   Coyne is a teacher in Evanston Ill. and the people there have declared him a hero. The school there even had a day specially [...]

• Bad luck my freaking #$%!

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  Sorry for the expletives but this article has put color in my pale face which is now red with anger. An eighty-three year old man went into the hospital for a gallbladder surgery and ended up having his kidney removed! I will admit that my many years as a nurse wasn’t spent in the operating [...]

• My look Back at 2009

  Thursday, December 31st, 2009

  I am going to take a last look at some of the events of 2009 that have affected me. As an African American, I have to first and foremost mention the election of a Black man, Barack Obama, to the world’s most prestiges position, as president of these United States of America. I, like most [...]