My neighbor called this morning in a panic and asked if I could please drive her and her teen-aged daughter to the hospital. She didn’t want to call an ambulance, but she had no transportation until her husband got home late tonight with the family car. Of course I agreed to drive her. Her daughter looked very pale and sweaty and I was very concerned for her health. I suspected heat exhaustion – but it could have been something even [...]
I ran into some friends today at the Tractor Supply Store. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, so we decided to have coffee together at the local diner before we all headed home again. We started talking about how tonight was the full moon and swapping stories about how the full moon sometimes effects them or people that they know. Bob said his wife is a nurse in the local Emergency Room and that they get a lot [...]
One of the hard things in getting older is the fact that our parents are getting older as well. It seems that I’m hearing more from friends these days about the bad health or the death of one or more of their parents. As some one that recently lost both of his parents I can relate to how horrible those times are. Seeing your parents grow old and sickly is heart breaking, something that no one looks forward to and [...]
It is all most 4 a.m. and I am still awake and plugging away on my computer. I have been having a bought of sleeplessness this past week for some unknown reason. Even though it is Saturday night and most people wouldn’t think of it being too big of a deal since most people are able to sleep in on their Sunday mornings. We, the farmers of the world, on the other hand have to get up with the chickens [...]
I’ve decided to find some nice looking discount scrub sets for my sister’s birthday gift, for her up and coming birthday April 21st. Seems she is always looking for new clothes to wear to the hospital where she has been working at now for all most a year now. I’m so proud of her for going back to school and doing what she knew she had to do in order to gain employment in the medical field like so many other people [...]