Thursday, January 17, 2008
The windows to your soul
A few days ago someone came up to me and says" You are smiling, a beautiful smile...but there is so much sadness in your eyes."
I was taken aback by the comment and when I got home, I went straight to my bedroom and had a good look at myself in the mirror.Really !I can't recognised the pair of eyes that are looking back at me.
I remember my GFF used to tell me ' If a picture paints at thousand words, a face launch a thousand ships, your eyes rocked a thousand hearts!.
I recall many a times, my course participants says my eyes could laugh and talk to them even in silence.
If you had to go to bed with sadness in your heart and wake up with tears in your eyes each day for 8 months....now they are talking sadness that I just can't hide.
The pair of eyes are truly the windows to your soul. They speak the truths in silence!
I am going to change that. I am going to get the sparkle back into my eyes.The sadness of 2007 has gone. In 2008 I am going to get out of the circle of sadness. I am going to focus on activities and projects and stay happy.Everyone is well. We are all moving forward. Be courageous and "LIVESTRONG"!
I was taken aback by the comment and when I got home, I went straight to my bedroom and had a good look at myself in the mirror.Really !I can't recognised the pair of eyes that are looking back at me.
I remember my GFF used to tell me ' If a picture paints at thousand words, a face launch a thousand ships, your eyes rocked a thousand hearts!.
I recall many a times, my course participants says my eyes could laugh and talk to them even in silence.
If you had to go to bed with sadness in your heart and wake up with tears in your eyes each day for 8 months....now they are talking sadness that I just can't hide.
The pair of eyes are truly the windows to your soul. They speak the truths in silence!
I am going to change that. I am going to get the sparkle back into my eyes.The sadness of 2007 has gone. In 2008 I am going to get out of the circle of sadness. I am going to focus on activities and projects and stay happy.Everyone is well. We are all moving forward. Be courageous and "LIVESTRONG"!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Bacteria Infection
The New Year greeted our household with a Bacteria known as "PSEUDOMONAS" caused by any of several types of the gram-negative bacteria .
These bacteria often invade the blood of people with burns and those who have cancer. Without treatment, an overwhelming infection can lead to dangerously low blood pressure (shock) and death.
Serious Pseudomonas infections are difficult to treat. Malignant external otitis, internal infections, and blood infections require weeks of intravenous antibiotic therapy, usually with a combination of antibiotics.
The bacterium is naturally resistant to many antibiotics.
In hospitals the organism contaminates moist/wet reservoirs such as respiratory equipment and indwelling catheters.
The doctors made a decision to removed the "Hickman line" immediately.The Next two days is centred around managing blood pressure, wriggles and shivers.
A combination of antibiotics meropenem and ciprofloxacin were used to treat the bacteria for 7 days. A new line "PICC"was inserted for the remaining intravenous medication.
Our "Lion Heart" fought off the Bacteria, bounce back and now he is home watching the series " LOST" and at the same time brainstorming with all of us on the courses he would like to apply for his University next year.
His uncle Patrick just call to speak to him, after a good long conversation with him , he said to me :--he is a "Wonder Boy".
These bacteria often invade the blood of people with burns and those who have cancer. Without treatment, an overwhelming infection can lead to dangerously low blood pressure (shock) and death.
Serious Pseudomonas infections are difficult to treat. Malignant external otitis, internal infections, and blood infections require weeks of intravenous antibiotic therapy, usually with a combination of antibiotics.
The bacterium is naturally resistant to many antibiotics.
In hospitals the organism contaminates moist/wet reservoirs such as respiratory equipment and indwelling catheters.
The doctors made a decision to removed the "Hickman line" immediately.The Next two days is centred around managing blood pressure, wriggles and shivers.
A combination of antibiotics meropenem and ciprofloxacin were used to treat the bacteria for 7 days. A new line "PICC"was inserted for the remaining intravenous medication.
Our "Lion Heart" fought off the Bacteria, bounce back and now he is home watching the series " LOST" and at the same time brainstorming with all of us on the courses he would like to apply for his University next year.
His uncle Patrick just call to speak to him, after a good long conversation with him , he said to me :--he is a "Wonder Boy".
Friday, January 11, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the highest mountain in the world
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
Well George, we finally knocked the bastard off."
– Hillary's first words, to lifelong friend George Lowe, on returning from Everest's summit
Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they became the first human beings to set foot on the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest point on earth.
(I had always remember Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain- Mount Everest. One of our teachers got us interested by telling us about him. As`we were not born then, this particular teacher of ours is so passionate about mountain climbing as such she discusses the mountain and the man during our geography classes. My two other friends and I got so interested . We were so inspired and started to build a scrapbook about him. We felt as if we knew him and wanted to be like him . From then on we had always harboured an inner desire to climb Mount Everest too. Two years ago when we met again, we were still laughing at our dreams about climbing the mountain.)
Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in New Zealand that he became interested in mountain climbing. Although he made his living as a beekeeper, he climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and finally in the Himalayas, where he climbed 11 different peaks of over 20,000 feet.
At 11:30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tensing Norgay were the first humans to reach Earth's highest point: the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit, 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest spot on earth. Climbing back down from the peak was another feat.
Edmund Hillary (left) and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to summit Mount Everest
(1919-2008 RIP the most famous New Zealander in the World ... an explorer, a champion , a hero and a legend . You are one of the few people in the world that I admired.)
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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