Care Transitions can’t stress enough how important it is to get your yearly physical. Put aside all your excuses and go, but before you do, be sure to right down all that you are feeling or have felt. It is so easy to go to the doctors, get caught up in conversation or think that your concerns are crazy. Speak up.
This month is American Diabetes Month, and Yahoo! has a great article on the disease (can you take a guess which one) most American’s have, and don’t know.
Click here to read.
I personally never know when to go to the doctor, let alone the ER or walk in clinic. MSN published a great article with guidelines of when to go to the Doctors versus the Emergency Room. Click the image below
Click here to read and spread the news! You must always be cautious when mixing any two drugs together, let alone drugs and supplements.
New studies come out all the time. Some contradicting past studies, others bringing facts to light that we never would have thought. It is important to take these studies with a grain of salt (just think butter). This article links two total different illnesses together and somehow there is a common link.
What do you think? Do these studies create unnecessary panic?
It’s hard to eat healthy as it is, add the bad habits of other household members and it can be more difficult to stay on track. Check out this article to help your parents get on track with healthy eating and exercise.
Just like the Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Entirovirus 68, H1N1, SARS, Ebola has now risen for its 15 minutes of notoriety, unfortunately claiming the lives of thousands of people over in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Ebola is now threatening to make it’s way to the US.
My phone is constantly sending me CNN and New York Times updates on the latest development of Ebola. “BREAKING NEWS” is the headline that cried wolf, or is it? Is the media blowing Ebola out of proportion? Is it really a concern more so then the flu or cold? The symptoms (please take the time to look them up) are very similar to the Flu or Cold. The media has come out to say to the General Public, please do not lie about your symptoms. I think lying isn’t a concern as much as lack of symptom awareness as well as confusion. Is it just a scratchy throat? Or is it a symptom of more concern?
Now, this may be hypocritical of me to post an article published by one of the main sites who have put Ebola on spotlight, but I think this article raises awareness that Ebola isn’t the only illness you have to worry about, but rather there are other illnesses, (i.e. the flu) that have been around, will continue to rear its ugly head once every year. It is important to understand the illness, and take proper precautions to stay healthy. Get your flu shot, eat healthy and stay hydrated (and I am a HUGE fan of carrying Wet One’s/ Purel, just saying…)
Regardless, please stay safe and healthy as we enter into the holiday season. Click on the image below to read about other infectious diseases your more (or just as) likely at risk. Please also bare in mind that this is a post not to scare you in to eternal hiding, or to raise argument of the severity of Ebola. This is just a post, to maybe ease your mind, that if it isn’t Ebola, something else may come along and to remind you, prevention is key.
Joseph Andrey was 5 years old in 1927 when his impoverished mother sold him to the manager of a popular vaudeville act. He was 91 last year when he told the story again, propped in a wheelchair in the rehabilitation unit of a nursing home where it seemed as though age and infirmity had put a different kind of price on his head.
Craning his neck, he sought the eyes of his daughter, Maureen Stefanides, who had promised to get him out of this place. “I want to go home, to my books and my music,” he said, his voice whispery but intense.
He was still her handsome father, the song-and-dance man of her childhood, with a full head of wavy hair and blue eyes that lit up when he talked. But he was gaunt now, warped like a weathered plank, perhaps by late effects of an old stroke, certainly by muscle atrophy and bad circulation in his legs.
Now she was determined to fulfill her father’s dearest wish, the wish so common among frail, elderly people: to die at home.
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