Archive for the ‘Medical’ Category

• The saga continues

  Thursday, November 17th, 2011

  The verdict in the trial in the death of Michael Jackson has been in a little more than a few weeks old and now there is new drama. For now Dr. Conrad Murray is on suicide watch! I watched, with a large portion of the world, the trial of Conrad Murray, the personal physician of [...]

• We are winning

  Monday, October 4th, 2010

  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is the time of year when women are asked and encouraged to go get their mammograms. But better yet, they should get theirs while taking someone they love with them. All around the country there are activities to bring to the forefront the need to save lives.   [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]