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| | Light For Others | | | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (2:51 PM)
(I'm feeling optimistic) | | Written by a child, now an adult.
A message every adult should read, because children
are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my
first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately
wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a
stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind
to animals.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make my
favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little
things can be the special things in life.
When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a
prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always
talk to, and I learned to trust in Him.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make a
meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I
learned that we all have to help take care of each
other.
When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you give of
your time and money to help people who had nothing,
and I learned that those who have something should
give to those who don't.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you take care
of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have
to take care of what we are given.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw how you
handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't
feel good, and I learned that I would have to be
responsible when I grow up.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come
from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things
hurt, but it's all right to cry.
When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you
cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.
When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of
life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and
productive person when I grow up.
When you thought I wasn't looking I looked at you and
wanted to say,'Thanks for all the things I saw when
you thought I wasn't looking.'
I AM SENDING THIS TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW WHO DO
SO MUCH FOR OTHERS,
BUT THINK THAT NO ONE EVER SEES.
LITTLE EYES SEE A LOT .
Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend, etc.) play an important part in forming a child's life. Children truly live what they learn from all of us. Pass this on to people
who have made a difference in your life or the lives of others.
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| | Giving as good as one gets | | | Friday, May 9, 2008 (8:03 AM)
(I'm feeling annoyed) | | Having lived as a person with a disability for almost 58 years I have heard all the nasty jokes and been the recipient of snide, unfeeling remarks by uncaring, hateful, and cold people.
These people seem to take pride in cutting down a person who has no control over their disability. Some of these people should take a close look at themselves and imagine what jokes could be made about them in response.
It has been my experience that retorting to these small minded people is useless as they don't have enough compassion in them to grasp the hurt they are purposely doing to people with disabilities.
Giving as good as one gets only perpetuates hatred. | | | | 120 Views | 23 Thumbs Up | 13 Comments | |
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| | Yesterday or Tomorrow??? | | | Saturday, April 19, 2008 (4:34 PM)
(I'm feeling distressed) | |
One million toddlers in the USA are not immunized against polio. Cambodia, Mongolia and Viet Nam have a higher immunization rate than does the USA.
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| | "They Killed My Teddy Bear" - Polio | | | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (6:14 AM)
(I'm feeling angry) | | View video here: http://www.livevideo.com/video/C2285379AED34C38A11F66885C0DFBF2/they-killed-my-teddy-bear.aspx?lastvcid=450628
"They Killed My Teddy Bear"
I think it was for my 5th birthday in May 1950 that Uncle Wes and Aunt Doris had given me a beautiful white mohair teddy bear. That dear bear soon became my very favorite thing in the whole world and in early November he accompanied me to the hospital. After many weeks in the isolation ward they allowed me to go to a regular ward, but told me that my teddy bear had to be "steralized" to kill the polio germs. When they brought him too me finally he was all brown and crispy. He had stood by me all those long and lonely days and nights in isolation when there was no one there who loved me or cared about me. There weren't enough nurses to help everyone, so sometimes I wet the bed, but "he" never told me I was a bad girl like they did. He was there for me when I cried out in pain, they would prop him next to my face so we could be close because I couldn't hug him any more, my arms quit working too. Some days he would get really soggy from my tears. He didn't deserve to die like that, they killed my teddy bear.
The nurses were talking about Thanksgiving, I couldn't remember much about Thanksgiving.
I hadn't been out of isolation very long when one morning I tried to take a bite of a powdered sugar dounut, and my face hurt something awful. I had gotten the mumps from a nurse who had them too, so they put both the nurse and I in isolation all over again and made her take care of me, it was her punishment I think. Mom has never forgiven her for telling me all about the birds and the bees at five years old, I think it was because Mom was pregnant at the time.
Santa found all of us in the hospital, but he was too fat to fit between the beds in the over crowded wards, so we couldn't get hugs from him. I bet the kids that lived in the hallways got hugs from him. Their beds were pushed up against the walls so he had more room out there.
A monster lived in a big room with a big kettle in it that boiled after he put me in it on the big wooden paddle and he pulled on my arms and legs until I screamed, cried, and threw up in the kettle. That's when he would get really mad and tell me I was a bad girl just like the nurses did when I wet the bed. He did this every day, I think he really hated kids.
There were these big silver cookers that the nurses put grey wool rags into, then they would make them very, very hot, and tell you that it wasn't going to hurt one bit when they put those hot rags on your arms and legs, they lied about that many times a day.
At Easter some football personalities came and passed out real stuffed ducks, web feet, feathers and all. I wonder if it hurt the little ducks when they killed them?
The girl in the noisy iron lung went away, she never came back..., she died.
The nurses said I was a bad girl because I wouldn't eat, so they said they were going to put a bottle by my bed on a tall pole and stick a big needle in my arm and that it would really hurt.
Daddy came in one night with a blanket and had a big fight with the head nurse, she told him he couldn't have me, that I had to stay in the hospital some more, but he pushed her out of the way, wrapped the blanket around me, and took me home.
Five year olds don't know how to use calendars. | | | | 83 Views | 14 Thumbs Up | 8 Comments | |
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| | POLIO "NIPP IT" WEEK - APRIL 19-26 | | | Sunday, April 13, 2008 (7:42 AM)
(I'm feeling frustrated) | | INTERNATIONAL
POST-POLIO TASK FORCE
International Centre for Post-Polio Education and Research
at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, New Jersey 07631 USA
877-Post-Polio 201-894-3724
PostPolioInfo@aol.com
PostPolioInfo.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lisa Gordon 1-877-Post-Polio
AS POLIO RETURNS TO THE US
POLIO “NIPP IT” WEEK ANNOUNCED -- APRIL 19-26
International Post-Polio Task Force and Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Announce Polio Vaccination Campaign
to “Nip” America’s Next Polio Epidemic in the Bud.
April 12, 2008: ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY USA -- Today, the 52nd anniversary of the development of the injectable polio vaccine, the International Post-Polio Task Force (IPTF) announced National Immunization for Polio Prevention in Infants and Toddlers - or "NIPP IT" -- WEEK, April 19-26.
“NIPP IT” WEEK, supported by Rotary International and Every Child by Two (ECBT.org), cofounded by former First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers to promote immunization of all children by age two, is intended to prompt parents, healthcare professionals and state health officials to ensure that all American children receive four doses of the injectable, inactivated polio vaccine.
Alarming Drops in Polio Vaccination in Border States and Ports of Entry.
Between 2005 to 2007, the Centers for Disease Control reported drops in polio vaccination in twenty states and in ten large US cities, along with importation of poliovirus across borders into the US that caused polio infections in Minnesota and Arizona.
"The return of polio to the US and drops in polio vaccination are very disturbing," said Dr. Richard L. Bruno, Chairperson of the International Post-Polio Task Force. CDC estimates that more than one million US toddlers are unvaccinated. "While there was a small nationwide increase in polio vaccination of about 1%, twenty states had an average reduction of more than 2%, while in ten cities polio vaccination dropped by an average of nearly 3%," added Bruno, who is also director of The Post-Polio Institute and International Centre for Post-Polio Education and Research at New Jersey's Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
Even more disturbing, states with the largest drops in polio vaccination are on the borders with Mexico and Canada. Arizona, Texas and New Mexico reported an average drop of one and one-half percent. Seventy percent of the states that border Canada reported average drops in polio vaccination of about 3%. Montana had a 6% decrease and Maine dropped 7%.
“Even Minnesota had a decrease, which is frightening,” said Dr. Bruno. Five Minnesota children caught polio in 2005 after coming in contact with someone importing poliovirus from outside the US.
Dr. Bruno is also concerned about cities that are major points of entry into the US -- New York, Philadelphia, Houston and Seattle -- where a nearly 4% average drop in polio vaccination was reported.
City Children Living in Poverty Have Lowest Polio Vaccination Rates.
Toddlers living in poverty have the lowest polio vaccination rates -- below 87% in Boston, Indianapolis, Memphis and Phoenix, and below 85% in Detroit, Houston and Seattle -- rates lower than in Western Pacific countries that include Cambodia, Mongolia and Vietnam.
"The children who had polio in Minnesota are canaries in the mine shaft," said Dr. Bruno.
“Young parents don't vaccinate because they don't remember the terror that was polio or realize that the vaccine did not ‘cure’ polio.” Polio has never come under control in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. And, the poliovirus has been reintroduced to ten African and Asian nations that were polio free.
"With the ease of air travel,” asked Dr. Bruno, “What will happen when a polio-infected individual lands in one of America's potential polio pockets, like New York City, and passes poliovirus to the estimated 24,000 infants and toddlers in that city who are not immunized?"
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter agreed, saying, "Our country has come so far to protect against polio through universal vaccination. We cannot afford to relax our efforts because polio is still a real problem in parts of the world and can easily be transported back to the US We cannot risk a single child to this terrible disease."
"We need “NIPP IT WEEK” to raise awareness of the need for polio vaccination and hopefully ‘nip’ America’s next polio epidemic in the bud,” said Dr. Bruno.
Said Betty Bumpers, Former Arkansas First Lady, "I have seen the ravages of polio here in the U.S., prior to the development of the vaccine, and its current victims in Africa. It is imperative that we keep our polio vaccination rates high to make certain that not one person in the US suffers polio's consequences."
Dr. Bruno agreed, saying, "The polio vaccine has been a victim of its own success. We must do more to vaccinate America's children against this deadly and disabling disease. America's next polio epidemic could be just a car or plane ride away."
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| | "They Served In Silence" | | | Thursday, April 10, 2008 (8:45 AM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | | http://www.nsa.gov/museum/museu00037.cfm | | | | 70 Views | 8 Thumbs Up | 5 Comments | |
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| | I know the truth | | | Sunday, April 6, 2008 (6:38 AM)
(I'm feeling content) | | I know the truth about myself, I like who I am. I strive daily to show caring and love to those around me, and to be fair and honest in all I do.
I was asked again yesterday in a comment left on someone else's video to unblock someone (with no apology) who purposely set out to hurt me over and over and over and over again. I have no forgiveness to give this person. I have "zeroed" them out, I carry no hate for them, nor do I believe they have anything positive to add to my life; that's all I can give them, and more than they deserve. I will not waste my precious energies on these types of people. | | | | 137 Views | 26 Thumbs Up | 17 Comments | |
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| | Fornicating Under Consent of the King | | | Thursday, April 3, 2008 (1:35 PM)
(I'm feeling amused) | | Fornicating Under Consent of the King, or Fuck, dates back to the middle ages when people had to ask permission from the king to have sex.
I so wish young people would use correct terms and not abbreviate all the time.
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| | Needy People | | | Wednesday, April 2, 2008 (6:34 AM)
(I'm feeling pensive) | | All of us are needy in some way and seek validation of our existence. Some people, however, only know how to do this through negativity, they don't have self worth or self assurance to seek positive reinforcement.
Some people are so insecure that they only feel whole when their "numbers" are high and they are on the "most whatever" page. It could be assumed that many of these people get there by cheating in many ways. One way is to run the s - c - r - i - p - t program to artificially inflate their number of views, etc., thereby thinking that they are fooling the people with their popularity. When the "most discussed" lists show a few friends commenting many, many times, this is indicative of cheating as well. Still others have many sock accounts where they leave comments for themselves over and over again. These people are to be pitied.
Other people seek numbers of subscribers and friends to fulfill their needs. They may only wish to use others to listen to their negativity, and not try to uplift others.
One must value themselves and not expect others to do that for them. | | | | 103 Views | 20 Thumbs Up | 14 Comments | |
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