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Saturday Morning Parenting Diary
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers. Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:
View ArticleNurse Kelley sez: Washing your hands is not enough
As I write this, Sixty Minutes is broadcasting a frightening segment about the rising number of deaths due to H1N1 flu. Very few people have access to the vaccine so far, so it is up to every...
View ArticleNurse Kelley sez: stay moist this winter (w/ poll)
It snowed in Colorado yesterday. Sideways. My boiler seldom shut off, and you couldn't entice my pooties away from the fireplace with fresh sardines. Autumn will be back by tomorrow, but yesterday it...
View ArticleHINI UPDATE: Fingers Crossed
 Today is V-Day,  Vaccination Day for the HINI, Swine flu. Beginning at 4pm,  at our Primary Care Clinics in San Francisco, the Department of Public Health, will start vaccinating our patients and...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Even Democrats Get Constipated
This is not a diary about conservadems. This is not a diary about [fill in the name of your most-hated Democrat]. This, folks, is a diary about constipation. If you get up in the morning, toss back a...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: All I did was break my leg
Eight years ago this month I was a 53 year old NICU and Transport RN. I was fit and healthy and enjoying a new chapter in my life after a divorce, an empty nest, the deaths of my parents, and a move to...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Take Your Medicine
It has come to my attention that many of you are taking a LOT of pills, so today's diary is for everyone who takes prescription medications, vitamins, dietary supplements, OTC medications, and etc. It...
View ArticleIt Only Takes TWO Liberals To Control 40 Republicans
I often joke/mention here when I attend family events I am the only liberal in a room of 40 folks. It is not a lot of fun, cause I don't have the ability to STFU. They say something stupid or...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Open Thread
Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! How are you this morning? I just got back from a trip to Orange County to visit my best friend and her family. What a lovely Thanksgiving. Here are some...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Insomnia keeping you up?
I'm amazed - and worried - that so many of you can't sleep. I was hosting WYFP last weekend when someone came in and talked about their problem with insomnia, asking me if I could help. I promised to...
View Article14,000 Kennedy-Sanders-Cardin Clinics to serve 45,000,000 Americans
25,000,000 more people served -- another $10-billion on-site, $4-billion personnel. Sanders-Cardin makes the Kennedy CHC program the single best thing to happen for America's working poor since food...
View ArticleThis HCR Bill: 45,000,000 Get CHC-Single-Payer Vermont Health Care
45,000,000 get CHC-single-payer care =vs.= 3,000,000 P.O. tickets ??? -- Cummon folks. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Ted Kennedy's existing CHC program expands along lines developed by Bernie Sanders and Ben...
View Article$1.5-Trillion for Chronic Care & 14,000 Kennedy-CHC Clinics
Last Tuesday "This HCR Bill: 45,000,000 Get CHC-Single-Payer Vermont Health Care" made the REC List. Bernie Sanders and Ben Cardin got HCR money to expand to 14,000 FQHC clinics. Moving ahead, VHA...
View Article133,000,000 Chronic Care Patients & "Pin Ball Machine" Medicine
Last Tuesday "This HCR Bill: 45,000,000 Get CHC-Single-Payer Vermont Health Care" made the REC List. Bernie Sanders and Ben Cardin got righteous money to expand from 4,000 to 14,000 non-profit Kennedy...
View ArticleHow the "Dr. Bernie Madoffs" Conquered McAllen, Texas
(Off Broadway diary trial....) You live in McAllen, Texas, and you got insurance. You still got cash for co-pays. You can get more meds. Heart, Big C, diabetes... for what ails you. You're going to...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: Oy Vey! I lost a tooth <sniff>
Last weekend I told the WYFP congregants that I was suffering from writer's block, mostly because I couldn't decide on the topic for my next healthcare diary. There are things I should write about,...
View ArticleDisaster Nursing
This diary is for the people helping in Haiti, caring about Haiti, making decisions about Haiti. This is for the people of Haiti!
View Article133,000,000 People: Chronic Care Exploitation
The word "exploitation" brings to mind Karl Marx. But when Karlsie punched out his 1867 pot boiler, "Capital Volume 1," he was lifting usage from the American anti-slavery movement. "Exploitation" is...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: NOT! Know your numbers edition
NOT! (Nursing Open Thread) is a community forum hosted by Nurse Kelley to provide folks with a regularly-scheduled interactive place to discuss their health problems, share remedies that have worked...
View ArticleNurse Kelley Sez: NOT! More aching backs edition
NOT! (Nursing Open Thread) is a community forum hosted by Nurse Kelley to provide folks with a regularly-scheduled interactive place to discuss their health problems, share remedies that have worked...
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