02/15/2006
College Funds
Pleas help me pay for College, by donating. Any amount is apriciated, and every little bit helps, thank you.
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11/03/2005
Mesothelioma, what it is

Mesothelioma is a cancer that develops in the lungs. Mesothelioma is mainly caused by people working in houses and places where there is an abundant amount of asbestos. It mainly forms around the pleural layer of the lungs, making it hard to breath, destroying the lungs, and causing serious damage. Due to this condition, if you've been a victim of this, you need medical help. You also need a lawyer to help you with reparations for the dangerous exposure to this toxic substance. Here's a link for some more info:

Here is a picture of a normal lung. It shows the different parts of the lung. The white part is where the oxigen enters the lung. At the tip there are alveoli which allow the lungs to oxygentat the red bloodcells. Your lungs are the human bodies most important organ. The lungs take priority in any medical emergency, including your brain and your hear. So when Mesothelioma starts to occur, it's imperative that you het help. Mesothelioma occurs on the plural space, the sack that protects your lungs. As it's affected, Mesothelioma may cause damage to the alveoli aswell. This way mesothelioma causes problems breathing, and can even be fatal. Taking care of this can be hard and expensive. This is why aquiring a lawyer is important, if you, or someone you know have sufferd this great tragedy.
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10/27/2005
Liposuction vs Gastric Bypass Surgery
Surgery, the way to a new you. Being thin is one of the most important things in society these days. Nothing is better than loosing a few pounds. Just the feeling alone is worth it. It's always an incredible feeling. At last, it's never enough. Loosing just a few pounds is rarely what people want. Most people need a lot more than that. Loosing the weight doesn't always mean looking thinner. Even though there is a change, we are disappointed when we see such a small result. So people resort to surgery. One of the most popular surgeries out there is the gastric bypass surgery. Getting your stomach stapled, or reducing the volume of your stomach some how. This surgery is quite dangerous. Not only is the surgery dangerous, but also afterwards. Keeping the diet, and exercising. Not eating the way you're use to. Basically starving yourself. Not only that, but the weight alone makes it hard to work out. Having to lift your own weight and everything, having all that bulge in your way, making it harder to move.

A person that weighs 95 pounds not only just has to Carry 95 pounds to run, but a person weighing 200 pounds, has to carry an extra 105 pounds while they run. There fore, making it harder, and making that person get tired faster. So if you're willing to go through all this, why not try and diet. I know it's hard and it's been really hard before, but with this surgery it's different. Not only do you now have to diet, but you also have to deal with paying for the surgery, and suffering through the recovery from surgery. Plus also there's no way you can mess up your diet, cause if you eat to much, you can end up bursting your stomach. If you're going to decide to go through it, then just go ahead, and get a 1500 Ada diet.

It will help you loose your weight gradually, and it will work. You will starve some, but it won't be as bad. Also, messing up your diet won't hurt you as much. Also if you want to do a real drastic weight change diet, just go for a renal dialysis diet. It's one of the hardest diets, and believe me, you will lose weight. The one thing about gastric bypass surgery, you will not only loose weight, but you will improve your overall health. The other alternative to weight loss surgery, is liposuction. This surgery doesn't require you to starve, but it also doesn't improve your health any.

So your cholesterol stays the same. So why would you choose this. Well for one thing, you won't have to starve, but you will have to diet. You will also have to exercise, but not having to carry all that extra weight. Also you will have the instant gratification of seeing the weight not be there anymore. How great is that. Of course you will have to go through the post surgery recovery, but it's a small price to pay. However the best way to do it is to change your eating style, and just follow the guidelines of my previous post. So liposuction, gastric bypass surgery, or new eating lifestyle, you decide.

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10/21/2005
PRODUCTS THAT USE SONY MEMORY STICKS
This are great Items to buy together. They all use the same memory stick, so you can interchange the memory stick between them. This make it easier to transfer info, and media, and saves money on buying memory sticks, as well as space, or the need to keep track of them.
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Being a Medical Technician; The Begining.
Well, I finished techschool, and now it's time for on the job training. We all go around 8pm to a room where our training instructors are. The first day, we are given a book with a list of tasks we must accomplish by the end of the training. Some are simple like taking someone's blood presure. Some are gross, like putting someone in a bed pan, and taking them off. Then there are some a bit more invasive, like inserting an IV. We are then given our assingments for the day. Assignments can include a ward that holds anywhere form 20 to 50 beds of patients. The wards are a bit different, for example there is 9D, which is the ward that takes care of all the patients that are there for a Medical dicease. There is 7A which was the one I unfortunately ended up in, but I'll talk about that later. This ward holds patients that have gone through sometime of trauma, like a motorcycle accident, or a big fall. This ward, also holds patiente that have gone through complex surgery, like gastric bypases, and othere surgeries. Also we get patients that go through radiation surgery.

Then there is the cancer ward, 6C, and the heart ward, 3A. There is the obserbation ward 3C, the children's ward 4A, and the Materninty ward, 2A. We also have OB, where the births occure. Also ICU Intensive Care Unit, ER Emergency Room, OR Operating room, and the PACU Post Anesthetic Care Unit. Then there are Family and Medicine clinics, and the OB clinic. So we go through each one off these places to get our on the job training. The rule of thumb is see one, do one, and teach one. Which means watch someone do something, like insert an IV, then you do it, and when your good at it, teach the next person how to do it. So my first stop was 3A a pretty easy ward, you just go around helping the patients with what ever they need. You get the occasional bed wetter, or patient that you have to feed, but thats about it. TO BE CONTINUED...
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