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I was working on a post … one of my compilations of snark … when I decided to take a little break, give myself a chance to breathe, and I remembered I still had some emails from yesterday to catch up on (actually, I still have emails from two weeks ago to catch up on, but …).  Blogging friend Lbeth, writing as Nutsrok, often posts bits of fun that can evoke a chuckle or even a laugh, so I decided…

Giving me the hairy eyeball Several months ago my youngest daughter graduated nursing school and moved 500 miles from home to work in a hospital.  Soon after she started the job she became more and more anxious about her new career.  She worried that she’d made the wrong decision with nursing.  The patient/nurse ratio was overwhelming, the other nurses were proficient and confident while she…

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back meets G9P3A3

  A recent post on Nutsrok, one of my favourite blogs, reminded me of a story about what I call the straw that broke the camel’s back…. Years ago my 20 month old son had a bad cough that he could not seem to shake, so I took him to his pediatrician.  The doctor checked my son out, then told me to take him to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) for further testing because he…

And Now For Something Completely Different

I Came across a wonderful storyteller and her blog, Nutsrok. This sweet story about her adventures in a broken-down old camper made me smile and think back on a simpler time in my own life:

Fifty dollars would have bought more than two week’s supply of groceries.  Though he gave Mother no end of grief about her extravagant spending at the grocery store, he wasn’t short-sighted and stingy and saw…

Women’s Health Week – Diabetes and It Takes A Family by Linda Bethea RN

diabetes, Industrialised foods, Insulin, LInda Bethea RN, Nutsrok, sugar consumption via Women’s Health Week – Diabetes and It Takes A Family by Linda Bethea RN.

Women’s Health Week – Diabetes and It Takes A Family by Linda Bethea RN

This guest post is by Linda Bethea, who may be more familiar to you as Ibeth of Nutsrok blog. Linda had a long career as a nurse and latterly working with patients and their families who were undergoing dialysis. Working so closely with patients and their families provided Linda with the perfect opportunity to experience the impact family and friends made on a patients will to continue to fight…

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back meets G9P3A3

A recent post on Nutsrok, one of my favourite blogs, reminded me of a story about what I call the straw that broke the camel’s back….

Years ago my 20 month old son had a bad cough that he could not seem to shake, so I took him to his pediatrician.  The doctor checked my son out, then told me to take him to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) for further testing because he suspected…