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FMM 6 3 2022 Sandhill Cranes and Manatee
“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock. One of my enduring memories is of a dream I had as a child. We were driving through the night to get to our summer vacation home. That sounds a lot more glamorous than it was. As poor church mice, we had […]
FMM 9 10 2021 Tethering
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~ Mother Teresa. Today is the 101st anniversary of my father’s birth. My mother very cleverly gave birth to their first child on his birthday the year after they got married. I’m sure he loved sharing his birthday with […]
FMM 5 6 16 Cold Comfort Clichés
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” ~Norman Ralph Augustine. I learned more about muscle groups and their functions in the gym than I ever did in nursing school. To be honest, forty years ago, my hospital based nursing school had a system designed for you to learn on the wards, caring for real live […]
FMM 10 18 13 Be on the Lookout
‘Never fall in love with your disease’~Luis Gaviero I used to joke that education is expensive, thinking of the high price we have to pay for some lessons rather than the cost of schooling. Whether it is a relationship that turns sour, or an adventure that puts us behind bars, it may be hard at […]
FMM 6 28 13 Lots of signs
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 […]
Friday Morning Messages 