| Care and the caregiver | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:46:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO - Three years ago, Janice Thompson lived an orderly, predictable life of marriage, children and community service. Then her mother got sick and everything changed.After a series of falls that were followed by a diagnosis of a Parkinson's-like disease, Thompson's mother - now 74 - left Arizona for the Illinois home of her daughter. .... | |
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| | | Weight gain a midlife crisis? | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:47:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | That new muscle car in your neighbor's driveway isn't the only clue he's going through a midlife crisis. Check out his spare tire. Depending on whom you ask, this is yet another characteristic of midlife: weight gain. It can be more difficult in midlife to lose or maintain weight, says Mary Dufek, a registered nurse and program coordinator of Blake Medical Center's Weight Loss Solutions. As they reach their 40s and 50s, people become less active and tend to develop a more sedentary lifestyle, Dufek says. Their metabolism and hormones slow down but, even at that age, men tend to have quicker metabolisms than women, and women are more likely to gain weight, Dufek says. She says stress also can contribute to weight gain.... | |
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| | | New Yak City | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:47:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Maybe before bizarrely boasting in the New York Times that its country is home to, among other good stuff, "the planet's largest population of wolves," the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan should have realized this: The intolerant, misogynistic, and backwoods Kazakhstani journalist and the documentary-style film the government is unofficially responding to is fictional. The United States, however, doesn't have any excuses for some of the very real citizens depicted in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat Sagdiyev is the creation of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen of Da Ali G Show, whose sketches involve Cohen inhabiting one of three ridiculous characters (including Borat) around unsuspecting audiences. The concept is a little Candid Camera, is a bit more of Punk'd, and most closely resembles the non-crotch-crunching skits of Jackass.... | |
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| | | Children and their lingo | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 6:47:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | It perhaps was a slow news day, or a far different concept of what constitutes news may have determined styles of reporting, in the early days of the 20th Century. This is suggested by a look at a "society" column published May 20, 1901, in The Carthage Press:"The Tourist Club elected Mrs. Tom Hackney president, Mrs. T.B. Hobbs vice president, Mrs. Charles Turner recording secretary and Mrs. P.J. McNerney treasurer. Cute sayings of the club babies was next on the docket and the following entries were made: Allen Burch said, 'Say, Mama, did you say God made everybody? He surely didn't make those people over in Galena, did He?' Another baby in telling of her grandmother's back pension said, 'Dramma dot her back pinched.' Another one asked, 'Papa, where is the Misterssippi River.' One little three-year-old miss was visiting when she was caught trying to get hold of her hostess' watch.... | |
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| | | Charge dropped in Cartwright man's child abuse case | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:47:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | DURANT - One charge was dropped during a preliminary hearing for a Cartwright man accused of abusing a baby.Ethan Star Ewton, 22, was charged in April with child sexual abuse and child abuse by injury after a 5-month-old girl was flown to a Dallas, Texas, hospital to be treated for a skull fracture and rectal lacerations, according to a probable-cause affidavit by District Attorney Investigator Sam Hernandez.During a preliminary hearing this week, District Judge Mark Campbell ruled there was insufficient evidence that the baby had been sexually abused, and ordered that charge dismissed.Campbell ruled that there is sufficient evidence to hold Ewton on the child-abuse charge, and a formal arraignment was set Nov. 21. .... | |
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| | | Politicians urged to face up to demographic timebomb | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:46:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Social care must be forced back onto the political agenda to meet the needs of the baby boomer generation, a thinktank head warned today. Niall Dickson, who heads healthcare thinktank the King's Fund, said politicians had yet to seriously debate future social care provision as he argued the case for extra funding in light of changing demographics and client expectation. A landmark report commissioned by the King's Fund earlier this year concluded that social care funding for older people in England will have to treble to about £30bn a year by 2026 to meet the needs of the ageing baby boomer generation. .... | |
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| | | Health Canada reminds caregivers that constant supervision is needed while bathing infants | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 10:46:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Health Canada is once again reminding parents and caregivers that infants need constant supervision by a competent adult while being bathed. This is needed even if the child has been placed in a bath seat, bath ring or some other bathing device which is set in any depth of water. Tragedy can occur in seconds. Since 2004, Health Canada has been notified of four separate fatal incidents involving bathing-assistance devices. Since 1991, the Department has received 12 reports of drowning deaths linked to these products with eight occurring in the last five years. Additionally, 23 near-drowning incidents have been reported since 1983. All of these reported infant deaths linked to infant bath seats and bath rings have been the result of the infant being left unattended in the product.... | |
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| | | Babies have room to grow in new hospital wing | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:46:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Visitors to San Jacinto Methodist Hospitals newborn nursery oohed, aahed, and offered congratulations of a different kind Thursday as staff members dedicated a state-of-the-art wing to the maternal childcare department. The $1.2 million facility will replace the hospitals previous nursery, which was built along with the rest of the Garth campus in 1988. With its spacious rooms and updated monitoring system, the nursery will make a more convenient home for newborns, mothers and nurses, said pediatrician Perla Dizon. This definitely is wonderful, she said as she toured the nurserys continuing care room. Its not crowded, and there are all these new gadgets. We used to bump into each other in the old nursery, but this gives us a lot of elbow room. The entire facility was designed to coordinate with the hospitals new color palette of soft purples, lavenders, greens and blues.... | |
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| | | Stuffy nose, watery eyes? There may be a solution | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 12:46:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | They are out there in the millions. Pet owners manqu. They avoid dog walk parks, gaze longingly at cats lurking in windows and pray their children's best buddies don't come from homes with critters. They are the allergic ones. Pet allergies can strike at any time, even later in life. My husband David, for example, had a much-adored cat during his university years. Puddytat went for walks, did tricks and behaved in a remarkably dog-like fashion. Twenty years later, when we bought our rundown 1849 farmhouse in Milton, where the empty whisky bottles littering the fields far outnumbered birds and squirrels, we thought nothing of the fact that 23 cats and kittens went with the property. Seriously 23, each one wild as a cougar. After weeks of trapping and gentling, we found homes for all, keeping three of the kittens, Max, Vanilla and Mozart.... | |
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| | | Two women who faced fear and floodwaters together are honored for their courage | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:46:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- With Hurricane Katrina swirling toward New Orleans, most of the disabled and elderly residents at St. Bernard Manor in Meraux had been scooped up by their families and taken to higher ground. Kimberly Cook, a 24-year-old paraplegic with cerebral palsy, had been in a wheelchair all her life, but never felt so helpless. With her parents deceased, she placed a desperate call to the nurse's aide who looked in on her every day. Patricia Williams had for a year been bathing and dressing Cook and tending to a hundred other details. Now "Miss Pat" was about to become a lifeline as well. Katrina's devastation spawned many stories of courage and generosity, but Williams and Cook overcame more than most. The two women -- one who could barely move, the other who refused to leave -- fled coursing floodwaters, lost all of their possessions and bounced from one shelter to the next.... | |
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