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How to Buy & Customize Crutches
You need crutches and want to know where to start? If you are recuperating from injury or surgery, and need them for a couple of weeks or months, you want to make the right choice without breaking the bank. Crutches are not all the same and choosing wisely will make...
How to be Happy by Living Life Backwards
I just had a wonderful visit with an old friend and realized that life is pretty great. I forget that sometimes, don't you? Everybody is trying to figure out how to be happy, or to find happiness. I found it by Living Life Backwards. Is finding happiness possible or a...
Hospitals & Doctors
Surgery Day – Administration of Anesthesia
Administration of the anesthetic varies based on the type of anesthetic. Knowing what anesthetics will be used gives you a good idea what to expect. This is all based on personal experience, so you should discuss the process with your anesthetist to understand what to...
Surgery Day – Types of Anesthetic
There are many types of anesthetics. These are chosen based on the type of surgery you are having. One of the greatest risk factor in surgery is the anesthesia, so it is important to use the minimum necessary to complete the surgery. Local Anesthesia Locals numb only...
Surgery Day – Hospital Check-In
All hospitals have their own process, but it is pretty common to be asked to check-in two to three hours before your scheduled surgery. Be on time; this scheduling provides some latitude for things to go wrong, but mostly it is to give enough time for you to sign...
Caregiving & Friendship
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Rest & Recuperation
Rest & Recuperation
If you are recovering from surgery, illness or injury rest and recuperation are critical. You need to be careful when you are recovering. Set up your home to accommodate bed rest, and a schedule to keep you on track and practicing healthy habits. I have spent the...
Happiness & Resilience
Your Life Binder – First Steps
Check out the other Life Binder Posts and Printables Your Life Binder is a road-map for your life. It is a tool to achieving your life goals. It can take whatever form works best for you, although there are some templates below to help if you like. Start Anywhere...
Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
This is a question everyone asks us when we are little, but somewhere along the way they stop. But why stop? Are you done? Life change is essential to our long-term happiness. Sometimes companies will ask you what you want in an interview, or during an annual...
Your Life Binder – Alternative Vision Board
If you have heard of a vision board, then you are already familiar with the Life Binder. Maybe you have your act together; you're healthy, fit, have a great job, a wonderful family and everything you ever dreamed. Odds are this is not you. If it was, you probably...
Family & Home
Simple Packing for Summer Day Camp
First sending your kids out that door on their own can be scary. But knowing that they have everything they need will make it a lot easier. Packing for summer day camp sounds simple and mostly is, but there are a few tips and tricks that will save you some time. Make...
Sending Your Kids to Summer Day Camp
Every year I send my daughter to summer day camp. We started when she was three, not quite sure if she was ready. But she loved it and so do I. It has its drawbacks, I know, but we have found so many more advantages that it will always be worth it. It's more than just...
10 Best Recipe Sites for Working Moms
Meal Planning... You've done your meal planning for the week and now you want to get your recipes organized and ready to go. Or Meal Panicking? It's 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. You just got home with the groceries and dinner tonight is chicken thighs (they were...
Firing Your House Cleaner
You've read Improving Your House Cleaning and you're sure It's Not You, It's Them. It happens; like everything else in life, there are good matches and bad matches. Let me tell you a few stories about bad matches: The cleaner who was always in such a hurry that she...
Expanding Your House Cleaning
If your routine house cleaning is going well, it won't be long before you want to expand it. In my experience this can be met with mixed reviews by your house cleaner. If you are working with a service, they may not provide custom services AKA "we don't do windows"....
Classroom Beading Workshop
Recently I did a bead bracelet making workshop with a class of 4th graders (30 10-year-olds). No, I am not crazy, yes I knew what I was getting into to. I have volunteered in the school before, several times. Some of it I hated and wouldn't do again. Other stuff was...