Shaving Creme

Well..Today I was thinking again about the flu (and the swine flu) and I wanted to share a little something with you all. Barbasol, the shaving cream is a really a hidden secret with more uses then just shaving.
Let me tell you how: It can be used as a disinfectant, a cleanser, and a softener for the skin. It can be used to wash your hands, clean baby bottoms, (and elderly adults with incontinence problems) it also takes out the odor of anything from the smell of cutting on onions on your hands to the nastiest wounds and even helps remove grease! (Is also useful for treating burns)

Sells for about $1-2 at your local dollar store and is a cheap multipurpose item! Give it a try, you have nothing to lose!

Handwashing is most important in the prevention of the flu!

What is a hippie?

For those that can read and had comments for me on Facebook, good for you! To answer your questions, yes I was a legal licensed nurse...do I give a damm about most people? Not really, the poor, the innocent ones, and the people without education or means to survive is who I care about. Was I a hippie? Well that depends on your definition of a hippie. I come from the midwest and the city that had the first HARLEY DAVIDSON SHOP in the USA. I jumped on choppers with real bikers, not wanna be bikers. It was the 70s, and I went to hospitals with my white uniforms and white shoes riding on the back of a chopper. I do not believe the men and women I bathed and fed, and yes, even gave bedpans to and cleaned human waste did not care how I got to work. I am sure they were glad to have someone who cared and did not judge them, nor was I judged as today's society does. For those who commented on my blog, you do not have to read it...and for the people who think I do not have insurance, or that I was never even a nurse, well go fuck yourself!
I have the best medical insurance you can have. I started to write to vent and maybe someone can get a little advice for free.. No I am not a DR or trying to be anything other than someone who wants to help someone in need, the only way I can anymore! I can not work any more due to a work-related injury that ended my career, not by choice! I was only 16 when I started in the nursing homes, probably too young, yet determined to be a nurse. I saw death 3 days after I first started and have held the hands of many people as the died alone in the nursing homes.. Maybe I should have quit and not dealt with death & dying everyday, but I always felt GOD had given me a gift... and I know the gift of mercy only comes from GOD! Yeah I do swear, my grammar isn't perfect, but then who are you to judge me? There is only one man I answer to and that is God!
For the man who is terminal my prayers are with you, and I know you would rather work than be in the pain and agony that you are in. I am glad you find relief from smoking pot.Oh and to the smart ass who said give me a joint....go fuck yourself! I hope that someone will show you pity or mercy if you ever need it.
One walks many roads, and with that being said, my roads took me to places people only dream of. People who touched my lives and I in turn helped them through the worst part of their lives. BUT no one as much as MISTER K...RIP I still mourn him and it has been 9 years. Yes he was my patient for 9 years, but he was also my best friend. He was paralyzed from professional racing and broke his neck at 185 miles at a race track in cali in 1986. I came to be his nurse in 1991 and took care of him until his dying day! He was like my child, I bathed him, shaved him, dressed him, transferred to bed, to wc, fed him, cried with him, and also laughed with him and was at his side to the end. He knew me and all my secrets as I knew his. Out of my 30 year career, this was the best 9 years of my career! His front yard was the atlantic ocean and every morning I watched the sun come up and every night I saw the stars looking down on the water.
I must go my heart feels heavy.......

How the drug companies are Raping America!

What is wrong with health care? Well thousands of reasons, but first and most important let us start with the drug companies. Prescription drugs are so expensive you almost need to sell a kidney to pay for them! Example; Nexium, the little purple pill, sells for about six dollars a pill, a thirty day supply is almost one hundred and eighty dollars. Are the drug companies insane? Lipitor for high cholesterol is about 160 dollars for a month, sleeping pills, for example Rozeram, they run you about 150 to 180 dollars for a months supply.
Well this is my rant of the day. Thank the good lord I have insurance, but what about all those that do not and have no funds to get there medications? I guess no one cares about them... I do and think every one should begin to address this issue with the drug companies.
Also one more note.. drug reps give a lot of samples to the doctors to push their drug. How many docs give samples or just the staff gets the samples? I have a new doc thank you GOD! He gave me some samples and I almost cried.. JOIN the rant on drug companies!
For today I want every one to start asking for samples from your doctors office. Since new drugs might not be for you, before spending money you have or do not have get samples! Plus write letters to protest drug prices. Hell the truth is street drugs to some degree are cheaper than prescription drugs, now that is sad, but true!

flu shots

Well today my future son in law went to the ER for an elbow problem... while talking to him, I asked did they offer you a flu shot? "No" was his response, i slowly felt my heart race, my BP go up and again knew what fuck heads are working are ER's!! We are looking at a major out-break of the flu.... It is on TV every time you hit a news channel! whatever... you would think all ER's in all the hospitals would offer the shot. Precaution is 90% OF not getting the damm flu.. now how smart must one be to not think that the ER is the perfect place to get the shot since you are already there. BUT the medical people have there heads up... well you know ... why would you not offer this to people in need?? and most important people who go to ER usually do not have insurance, where are they to get the shot?? Mind you if you do not believe in the damn shot, okay fine, but do not deny those who want it or need it and cannot afford it! what about those folks?

my first of many more to come.