dmrh3's Blog

This is the time of year for giving. Most of us are blessed with having our families around us.

Wouldn't it be nice if while we were sending some Holiday cheer, we sent a card to a recovering soldier.

I came across this address and want to share it with all of you in hope that you would add this to your Christmas card list.

God Bless and Happy Holidays

A Recovering Soldier

c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center

6900 Georgia Ave, NW

Washington D.C. 20307-5001

"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter... don't mind...
And those that mind... don't matter."
~~Dr. Seuss

1) Invest in fans. Even power-hungry fans cost less than $10 a month to use for 12 hours daily.

2) Never leave kids or pets in a car alone. Temperatures can reach up to 125 degrees in the first 20 minutes.

3) Use skin products that contain mint. They help refresh the skin and create a cooling sensation.

4) Plant trees near your house. They can save you anywhere from $100-$250 a year.

5) Don’t dry yourself off after your morning shower. Let the hot air do the work for you! It allows the water to evaporate off your skin, removes the heat from your body, and helps you stay cool for a long time.

6) Keep your protein intake low. Eating meals low in protein reduces the amount of heat created by the body due to metabolism.

7) Try wetting your wrists with cold water or ice wrapped in a cloth. This reduces your core body temperature as much as three degrees. The relief is almost immediate and can last as long as an hour.

8) Wear Sunscreen! It will protect your skin from the sun and helps your body stay cooler. Studies show that sunburn makes it harder for your body to cool down.

9) Don’t fan yourself in hot weather! Waving a fan burns more calories and can raise your core temperature. Let fans and air conditioners do the work for you.

10) Keep your air conditioner covered. An air conditioning unit that’s covered uses 10% less electricity than those operating in the sun.

Last week, as my husband and I were driving to the Soul game, over the Walt Whitman Bridge we were involved in a hit and run accident.

We were in the middle lane at the top of the bridge going about 50 mph, when out of nowhere we were struck from behind and struck hard.  We have an  Expedition that was in perfect shape, and the vehicle that hit us was small and hit us so hard that it messed up the truck all the way to the driver and passenger doors. The drivers window will not go up and down anymore. It's stuck open. The left  rear passenger door cannot be opened. Our hitch is now totally upside down under the frame of the car. Our vehicle looks really bad in the back.  And we have some injuries as a result.

After the accident accured, being our vehicle was driveable, we drove to the end of the bridge and pulled over. Looking back in the rearview mirror, the little white or silver car had traffic stopped.  But the traffic started to flow again and a few cars slowed down and asked if we were ok. In the mean time, as we were waitng for the Police to get there, the driver left the scene. POOF! Gone! No one remembers a smashed up car going thru their toll booths. No immediate camera pics were available.  Amazing, we went from having a beautifully taken care of 10 year old vehicle that we were very proud of, to a piece of junk that makes me want to cry every time I see it. Its just not fair! How can some one live with themselves knowing they caused an accident and left the scene?Will the Police watch the camera shots and find this person? Do they really care? Maybe I'm just to nieve!

This is an email that was sent to me. I thought it was important to let you know. I checked it out to make sure it was true, although this story may not be a total account it is true. Purell and Germ-x have 62% ethyl alcohol. They said ingesting as little as an ounce or two can be fatal to a toddler.

May 16, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject Dangerous for children!! Must Read!!!

I don't know where to begin, because the last 2 days of my life have been such a blur. Yesterday, my youngest daughter Halle who is 4, was rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for being "very VERY sick." He told me that when he arrived that Halle was barely sitting in the chair. She couldn't hold her own head up and when he looked into her eyes, she couldn't focus them.

He immediately called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to the ER. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint Francis for further test.

Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to the ER and after questioning Halle's classmates, we found out that she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things in their mouths.

When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to check her blood alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from it but they did it. The results were her blood alcohol level was 85% and this as 6 hours after we first took her. There's no telling what it would have been if we would have tested it at the first ER.

Since then, her school and a few surrounding schools have taken this out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes but what's to stop middle and high schoolers too? After doing research off the internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high was to compare
someone her size to drinking something 120 proof.

So please PLEASE don't disregard this because I don't ever want anyone to go thru what my family and I have gone thru. Today was a little better but not much. Please send
this to everyone you know that has children or are having children. It doesn't matter what age. I just want people to know the dangers of this.

Thank you

HI

JUST WANTED A NEW POST! (he he)

ENJOY THE DAY!

Hello,

    I have been thinking about what I could write about. Well, one of last nights news stories  made me want to scream, as stories of this nature always do.

    How can anyone just take their baby somewhere and leave it.  There's NO reason for that kind of behavior. There are so many different people and places that can help. These acts are not just spur of the moment acts. If they can think about leaving the baby somewhere, take it to the church, talk to the pastor. Take it to the Hospital, talk to a nurse.  Take it to a friend, just don't leave it anywhere, or kill it. Babies are so precious.

There are so many couples in the U.S. that want a child and can't have on , or have a child who is very, very sick  and they take care of  the babies 24/7 ,but they still die. What about that kind of heartache.

Any kind of story about a child just being left somewhere, or a child being shot or, being born and put in a trash bag really gets me deep in my soul. I love children, and it breaks my heart when others do these things to them. ...Donna