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SURGERY SUPPORT!! ANGEL ALERT!! WE CARE!!
Dec 20, 2006
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1. Contact name/ messageboard name
2. State or area you are located in
3. How you would like to be contacted
*your OH blog can be used also
4. Quick note about yourself
5. If you have a preference, what you may be
able to do (emails, cards, phone, visits,
prayer, etc)
Please allow me to thank all of you for joining in this and for being such caring friends! This will make a difference in lives, people heal faster just knowing someone cares!
????ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL????
>>>>>>>You choose and contact the person yourself :)
If you are nearing your surgery date or have had surgery recently >>> click on the "33 comments" listed directy below this entry and choose someone you would like to contact. Every person here could be a wonderful & caring friend for you.
>>CLICK BELOW TO BE ADDED OR IF YOU NEED AN ANGEL<<<
1. Contact name/ messageboard name
2. State or area you are located in
3. How you would like to be contacted
*your OH blog can be used also
4. Quick note about yourself
5. If you have a preference, what you may be
able to do (emails, cards, phone, visits,
prayer, etc)
Please allow me to thank all of you for joining in this and for being such caring friends! This will make a difference in lives, people heal faster just knowing someone cares!
????ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL????
>>>>>>>You choose and contact the person yourself :)
If you are nearing your surgery date or have had surgery recently >>> click on the "33 comments" listed directy below this entry and choose someone you would like to contact. Every person here could be a wonderful & caring friend for you.
>>CLICK BELOW TO BE ADDED OR IF YOU NEED AN ANGEL<<<
BLOG ......... WHAT'S A BLOG ? ? ? ?
MEDICAL ID JEWELRY:If I could share something with you, prior to ordering any ID jewelry or cards, please think about what might be important info and what isn't.
As a Paramedic speaking from experience in the emergency field, I would like to say something about the medical ID's.
Jewelry that looks like a medical emblem or tag will be found the quickest by emergency persons, wallet cards might be found later, we don't usually start digging through purses & wallets when we get to an ill or injured person!
EMS persons do surveys on your body. We discretely undress people when needed, we look for scars, bruises, marks, all kinds of things. We are medical detectives, we take your blood for sampling, test your oxygen levels and test your heart when we can. We USUALLY know more about you than you know about yourself by the time we're done with you!!
The information that will be the most important to saving your life will be:
1. ALLERGIES TO MEDICATIONS - SO IMPORTANT!!
2. MEDICATIONS YOU ARE CURRENTLY TAKING
3. IMPORTANT MEDICAL HISTORY, YOU CAN INCLUDE WLS HERE
4. YOUR NAME & FAMILY CONTACT INFO
5. YOUR PHYSICIAN & CONTACT INFO
Obviously, everything can't be put onto your jewelry so you might want to put the most important info there and keep everything else in your purse or wallet. You can refer to your wallet card on the jewelry.
Always tell your family the above information about yourself incase you can't talk and they are called upon. Make sure they know your doctors info as well as your medical info.
Ok, you might get upset here but, these are things that ARE NOT needed on your jewelry:
Blind NG tubes - Nasogastric (NG) tubes are placed blindly. In most places, there isn't another way to do this procedure outside of the hospital and if you need it, it will be done but ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY. It is a tube that is measured on the outside of your body and inserted into your nose, down to your stomach. They are usually used by EMS for stomach pumping to get out toxins. In the hospital, you can tell them about your surgery or they will have asked your history and take precautions. IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON A NG TUBE, YOUR LIFE COMES FIRST.
Blind Intubations (ETT) - First off, you are probably unconscious if the Paramedics are entubating you. The tracheal entubations are usually done with a scope unless there is a reason that your vocal cords can not be seen and than it is blindly inserted but will be checked to make sure it isn't in your esophagus prior to inflation. If an ETT has to be inserted blindly, you really need it bad and you aren't conscious anyway! IT WILL BE YOUR AIRWAY, YOU CAN'T STOP US unless you have a DNR ... WITH YOU!!
Well, I feel better.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you DO criticize them they'll be a mile away & you'll have their shoes!!! ~ Jack Handey ~ Get your own countdown at BlingyBlob.com
SNORKELING ~ I think it's funny :)
My family and I went to Hawaii for vacation, everyone wanted to go snorkeling, sounded fun to me ... We got to the ocean, got in ... I couldn't go underwater! I couldn't have touched the bottom if my life depended upon it! The salt water makes fat more boyant than usual and my body fat content was high enough that I out-floated my heaviness and I absolutely could not go under water. I had to pick sand up with my TOES to touch it! I could look under the water but if my feet came off the sand, my butt floated like a giant cork! And, of course I had a black bathing suit on so you COULDN'T MISS IT!!
NOW, THAT'S FUNNY STUFF!! You don't have to laugh, I still think it's funny.
BURPS & CHIRPS ~ I think this is funny! :)
I have to sleep with a CPAP mask, at night it will make squeeky, burping noises. Sometimes they are loud enough to wake me up. Pretty unique noises can come out from under that mask I'll tell ya! Well, my husband has learned to sleep through my burps & chirps but I've had a secret admirer ... my AFRICAN GREY PARROT!! He LOVES the sounds my mask makes, he makes the noises exactly. We laugh and laugh at him mocking these farting, squeeking, whatever noises ... well, that's all fine and dandy until someone COMES OVER! One night we had company, YEP, he had to show them his noises! HOW EMBARASSING IS THAT? It was actually really funny after I cooled back down to room temperature.
NOW, THAT'S FUNNY STUFF!! You don't have to laugh, I still think it's funny.
I hope none of you lose your sense of humor, laughter is fun, it's healthy and it help us handle difficult situations. I hope I never lose my sense of humor, I just want it to be better and better as time goes on
Buttprints in the Sand
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some strange prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat,
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tone,
"For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXERCISE IN CONCENTRATION...
MIND EXERCISES INCREASE THINKING CAPACITY...
HELP RELEASE TENSION AND RELAXATION...
This is a search and find, you will be finding DOGS
Do not scroll down until you have done the following relaxation techniques!
Take a deep breath, relax ... think in BLACK and WHITE
Think about finding the dogs, no rush, just relax...
Close your eyes for a second, take another deep breath, hold-hold-hold, exhale
keep your eyes closed, relax, relax, relax
I know you didn't do the last two, how could you read with your eyes closed??? LOL
Dogs, you will be searching for dogs. Find as many as possible in the shortest amount of time.
Get ready to start your imaginary timer...
Don't scroll down untill you are ready...
See how long it takes you...stay focused
Get set...
Are you relaxed?...
Slowly scroll down, GO!!!!
I LOVE YOU, BYE ~: )
