It is a new day, a new opportunity to do something to improve your situation, whatever that situation might be. If for some reason you were not nice yesterday, be nice today, you can give a smile to someone. Before you go anywhere, sit down and look around you, see how fortunate you are to be able to open your eyes to see, to have a nose to breath, or if you have a tracheotomy to breath through that tube, to be able to sit down to read, you have many gifts given to you, you can walk, exercise, you are able to eat and enjoy your food, you can taste and smell. Count your blessings, your health, your family who loves you, or at least one person who loves you, a friend or many friends. Notice that true friendship is as a phosphorescent light, it only shines and radiates when everything is dark. You will be able to see who your friends are when you are going through hard times. If you believe in God more power to you! Then you know more about you, you know where you come from and where you are going. Just remember that the most important elements in life are relationships, because money comes and goes, but friendships are here to stay. The best friendship you can have is with God.
Archive for May, 2010
Many things to be grateful!
Monday, May 31st, 2010Proteja a su familia contra SARM !
Sunday, May 30th, 2010Si ultimamente ha ido de visita al hospital y le han prohibido paso a sus hijos menores de 18 anos de edad, no estan ustedes solos. Esta regla es para evitar contagio y propagacion de la infeccion concocida como SARM o como MRSA por sus siglas en Ingles. Se preguntara que es SARM, pues es una infeccion causada por el estafilococo (Staphylococcus aureus) que es muy resistente a la meticilina. La bacteria que causa esta infeccion se encuentra en la nariz o en la piel de las personas sanas, generalmente no le causan problemas.Hace mucho esta infeccion estaba limitada al hospital, pero se ha descubierto ultimamente que la infeccion de SARM tiene su origen en la comunidad. La infeccion comienza en la piel, aparecen granos o forunculos rojos, inflamados y dolorosos con pus u otras secreciones. Las infecciones que causan grave problema afectan los pulmones, el corazon, el torrente sanguineo o infecciones en las heridas quirurgicas.
Es importante que proteja a su familia y austed mismo (a) contra SARM de la siguiente manera:
La manera mas importante es la higiene personal, lavese las manos, no comparta sus articulos de uso personal como toallas, peines, ropa. Cuando lave la ropa, sequela en la secadora y oriela en el tendedero esto mata a las bacterias. Hable usted con su doctor. Cuidense mucho!
PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN AGAINST MRSA!
Sunday, May 30th, 2010Healthy people carry this bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus). MRSA refers to Methicillin-resistant Stahylococcus aureus. If you acquire this infection or not, you need to know that this bacterial infection is highly resistant to the action of some antibiotics. Various degrees of infection attack the body, the infection could be minor and local; an example of this could be a pimple, a more serious could affect the vital organs, the heart, lungs, blood or even bones. If the person has a weak immune system he or she is more susceptible to this infection, people receiving dialysis are particularly infection prone.
How can you protect yourself and your family? If you are not sick, stay away from hospitals. Preventive measures are key to avoiding MRSA infections.
Hand washing, before and after visiting in a hospital. Make sure all health care providers wash their hands before they touch you for an examination. Your personal items are just that, do not share them with anyone, these include towels, razors, combs. If you go to the gym, clean the equipment with an antiseptic solution before you use it. Avoid saunas or whirlpools if other people in your party has an open sore. Public showers or baths are to be clean, you are your best protection.
See your doctor if you have redness on your skin, swelling, pain . Other symptoms to watch for are fever, skin abscess, drainage of pus from the site. More serious symptoms are chest pain, chills, cough, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, shortness of breath and rash. See your health care provider.
Do parents influence their children?
Saturday, May 29th, 2010The answer is a resounding YES! Whether parents are aware of it or not, they do play a very important role in their children’s lives. Generally speaking parents do have much to do in how their children relate to the world. The parent-child relationship is a key to your children’s future and how children respond to authority.
At home parents adopt the type of rearing style, with which they are most familiar. It is important to be able to distinguish the right kind of rearing style to adopt. Some rearing styles are detrimental to parent-child relationship. Some rearing styles are beneficial, allowing the parent-child , relationship to grow and the child to have a strong healthy outlook in life.
Two key concepts to balance, control and support: the best one includes high control and high support, the next one not so good high support and poor control, an authoritarian style has as its elements low support and high control,lastly some parents exert, out of negligence low support and low control.
Parents must have a good handle on how to deal with life situations, they are setting an example for their children. When their children become parents will use the tools they have learned from their parents to parent accordingly.
It is best if the children have learned from their home experience to set limits, to have consistency, firmness, patience, to be loving , reasonable, considerate, warm, and to have self control. Great parenting tools!
A recipe for a disastrous relationship, breeds hostility: Inconsistent demands, extreme force and punishment, uncaring, harsh and dictatorial unsympathetic and cold.
Make more deposits into your love bank account!
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Who is keeping score? There is no need to keep score regarding the kind things you do because you love each other, however those nurturing things are deposited into your love bank, whether you know it or not. If you are nasty to your partner, or if you do things that hurt your partner, or your partner sees you hurt someone else, your available balance diminishes. Frequent withdrawals of this nature affect your account negatively. You must be aware of this fact. You do not want to end up in the red.
If you love one another and always do what is best for the other person, you do not even have to give it a thought, your love bank account will always have a positive balance, will have an increment and gain interest over and above all your expectations. The nice thing about this account is that no thief can steal or transfer any of your points, you are the only one who can manage this account.
Things are difficult in the outside world, so when you come home and your partner comes home, make sure it is a safe heaven for him or her, and if you have children the same applies. Create a loving atmosphere that attracts your partner and even your children. Do this and you can bank on it, your deposit will pay high dividends!
More ideas to spice your love life!
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Invite your mate to “one enchanted evening together” Go together, or meet at the restaurant where you had your first dinner date. During your dinner date be prepared to play footsie under the table and reminisce. This can take you way back when you were so in love. Perhaps you can remember when you watch the sun set followed by some hot and heavy make out session. Do you remember when you fogged up the windows?
After your dinner date you can go home and give each other a 15 minute back rub, be creative.
You may also plan a romantic sunrise viewing for two. Perhaps you can visit the Grand Canyon or somewhere spectacular, bring your blanket. Fabulously romantic, it sets the mood for the rest of your day!
You can make a deal with your partner, receive two kisses, get two or for more free… must be specific where the kisses may land. Meet in the bedroom for some melted chocolate, strawberries dipped in chocolate, and feed each other, no napkins or towels allowed, a great way to get messy!
Go to the beach together, wear your bikini, do not forget your biggest towel, have your partner spread sunblock all over, skip your eyes.
Have fun as you spice your love life!!!
Have U lost the spark in the bedroom?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Sometimes married couples take each other for granted. This could be the cause of your lost of spark.
When you were dating you wanted to be with each other, even if you were not doing anything in particular. Do you remember those times when you were expecting the phone to ring, hoping you could hear his or her voice? Hearing the other person on the phone was enough spark to get your “fire going”!
If you have lost that spark, you can re-candle it. You can surprise your partner, deposit a few points in your love bank, it pays high interest. Do something sweet for your partner, such as washing the dishes, or cleaning the toilet, taking the trash out on garbage day. These may sound like insignificant things, however women find it sexy. You may also try giving your partner a foot massage after a hard day’s work, or a shoulder massage including the head. Sending flowers can be very expensive, if your budget is tight, buy one flower. Find out if you do not know which flower he or she likes the best. Make a date for a romantic evening, find a theme and get dressed accordingly, cowboy and cowgirl night. Invite him or her to have a make-out session.
You will not be lacking any sparks! Try it, you will enjoy it!
Are Your pregnant? Do not drink alcohol! Esta embarazada? No tome!
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Es muy importante que se proteja el cuerpo materno, para que proteja por consiguiente el cuerpo de su feto. El buen desarro del feto depende de la madre para todas sus necesidades. Si la madre toma farmacos toxicos, esos afectal al feto. Por ejemplo el desarrollo del rostro del bebe es afectado si la madre consume en forma cronica y grande etanol o alcohol. El cerebro del bebe tambien sufre danos.
El alcohol o etanol tiene efectos llamados TERATOGENOS.
Cuando la madre abusa alcohol cronicamente durante el embarazo afecta de manera negativa a su feto. Se ha observado que el hecho de que la madre toma alcohol afecta al feto causando abnormalidades multiples. Hay un sindrome conocido como Sindrome de Alcoholismo. Este sindrome afecta a su feto o futuro bebe de la siguiente forma: retarda su crecimiento corporal, la cabeza es muy pequena con respecto al cuerpo esto es llamado microcefalia, no tiene buena coordinacion, su carita tiene apariencia aplanada, tambien defectos en su corazon y retardo mental.
La mujer debe tener mucho cuidado si tiene planes de embarazarce y tener hijos, sea buena con usted misma y con sus futuros hijos. Cuide su cuerpo y el de su bebe, para que disfruten de una vida mas feliz y placentera. No tome alcohol!
It is very important to protect yourself and your unborn baby from the effects of alcohol. The development of your fetus depends on you. If you take drugs and alcohol these can hurt you and your baby.
For instance alcohol afects how your baby’s face develops, as well as how his or her brain is formed. Alcohol has TERATOGENIC effects.
When the mother chronicly abuses alcohol during pregnancy the fetus suffers a tremendous damage. It has been observed that in fact mother’s alcohol use causes multiple abnormalities. There is a syndrome known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a leading cause of mental retardation. There are manymanifestations of FAS: Cardiac defects or serious problems, cleft lip or palate, language development delays, delayed motor development, increased irritability and infections,very small head in reference to the body, prenatal and postnatal growth delay.
Why would you want to suffer all the above? Do not drink alcohol, it is the best thing you can do for yourself and your baby.
Frightened by Asthma?
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010It is frightening to experience and asthma attack, but also it is frightening to be present when someone else is experiencing it. During the asthma attack the muscles around the airway get very tight and the airway swells, becomes inflamed causing the airflow to be reduced causing the very familiar wheezing sound. Much mucus is produced. The attack can last a few minutes or linger for days, it can be life threatening.
If you have allergies, the allergens which could be cat, dust cockroaches, pollens, molds can trigger the asthma symptoms, sending you to the emergency room. You must know what to do, and be ready.
What to do to take care of yourself? Avoid the allergens, do not smoke, if you are planning to replace your carpet choose wood or tile floor instead. Consult your doctor regarding your exercise routine, and medication to help your bronchial tubes muscles relax, inhalers.
In one word asthma is dreadful, if you have an attack is hard to breath, without breath life is not possible, so we could say that breath is life. There are some reflexes in your body that can relieve an asthma attack, with one finger find the lower part of your neck, follow the line straight down your Adam’s apple until you come to spot just above where the collar bones form a V. Press and hold for a few seconds and pull down and inward, massage downward. Your back has on the sides of the spine important pressure points to relieve the asthma attack instantly. Do not be frightened by asthma.
Children are a gift and a loan from God!
Friday, May 21st, 2010There is a big difference between a 7 year old and a 9 year old, their thinking process is different.
Parents are to protect their children, and they are responsible for their children’s safety. Someday they will have to give an account to God of what they did or did not do to guide and teach their children how to keep themselves safe. As parents we are charged to encourage children to be independent thinkers. This age group between 7-10 year old are extremely realistic and literal and require clear cut guidelines of what is right and wrong. This is the best time to teach them to be morally responsible.
Children need a strong foundation on which to build their lives.
This is the time when they need the opportunity of making good choices. Parents need to be available to help the children understand why the decision they have chosen to act on is good or bad.
They need to be made very aware of choices and consequences.
Children generally speaking are aware of the fact that there are consequences to their actions, even very early on, however when they are older 7-10 years old, they will remember even more, and learn from their experiences in life.