Monthly Archives: June 2013

FMM 6 28 13 Lots of signs

June 28, 2013 · by · in Food and health, Inspirational · 4 Comments

FMM 6 28 13 Lots of signs “I hope that someone reads my message in a bottle” ~ Gordon Sumner aka Sting   In nursing we call them vital signs, the numbers that give us an idea of the state of our health. If they don’t fall within certain parameters, or if they vary from […]

Creating Peace

June 23, 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

Creating Peace.

FMM 6 21 13 One Drop

June 21, 2013 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational · 4 Comments

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.” ~ Lao Tzu. I wasn’t great at Chemistry when I was in high school. Neither Chemistry nor Physics really got me excited. But I never forgot the concept of quantitative analysis versus qualitative analysis. We had burettes […]

FMM 6 14 13 Inner Strength, Inner Beauty

June 14, 2013 · by · in Inspirational · 6 Comments

‘A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.’  ~Eleanor Roosevelt. Our society is very superficial. We place a lot of value on appearances. We try to live up to fabricated concepts of beauty, and idolize athletes and celebrities. Our value system is upside […]

FMM 6 7 13 Beyond 1984

June 7, 2013 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational · 2 Comments

‘Big Brother is watching you’ ~George Orwell.   Technology is amazing. When I started working as a nurse in this country, in order to control the rate of an intravenous drip we had to stand and count drops per minute. You would then be able to work out how many mL per minute, and thus […]