Archive for the ‘Medical’ Category

• 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 [...]

• Know when to shut up

  Saturday, September 26th, 2009

  The recent passing of Patrick Swayze from pancreatic cancer after a year and a half valiant fight, has left the world mourning. Swayze was beautiful inside and out. He had a way of reaching the soul of those that watched him. Bringing things into the story he was telling to make you feel [...]

• H1N1 flu is going strong

  Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

  Classes have or are just starting in schools across the country and the worse thing to dread is not that hard grading professor or the bully in the hallway. The H1N1 virus is lurking in the dorms and classroom to infect unsuspecting students and faculty.
   
  We all saw the concern that world [...]

• Who is at fault?

  Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

  Celebrities are a spoiled bunch. It does not matter if they are in sports or the arts. They speak and the people around them jump to do their bidding. I had been waiting to see what the drug report would show following Michael Jackson ’s death. Even though I had a good [...]