Tag: life
member name: donna f.
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July 21, 2006 07:33 PM EDT --
Last weekend, my daughter Jamie, and Eric, her boyfriend of five years came to dinner. They were acting a little sheepish., hanging around longer than usual, giving each other sly looks, grinning . . .
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May 13, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
I have noticed something of a trend on Gather in the past few weeks, and I am posting this to query if others have my same concerns, or am I just being hypercritical, as I am wont to do.
When I joined . . .
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April 14, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
Your Granny's Nurse: Dateline 2027
Life in the Nursing home has changed a great deal since I first started writing this column, way back in aught six. For me, the most major . . .
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April 27, 2006 05:11 PM EDT --
This weeks column delves into the world of natural healing. To be more specific, foods that heal. I have long been a believer of the therapeutic affects of certain foods in our diet. . . .
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May 25, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
Living in a Nursing home is expensive. The average cost of Long Term care in The U.S. is enough to break all but the most prosperous of us. On average, a semi private room in a home today runs between . . .
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June 05, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Gun metal gray and sunset crimson
Shades of life
Emotion
Pain, despair
Joy , elation
Swirling, blending
Competing
No singular hue
Hoping in shades of tangerine
For a few . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
For-Profits versus Non-Profits
In my twenty three years as a Nursing Home Nurse, I have spent the majority of my time in non-profit facilities, working in one, and traveling to numerous others as an . . .
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April 13, 2008 09:25 AM EDT --
When I received my copy of Marilu Henner's "Wear Your Life Well", I was excited. I have been an admirer of this amazing woman for decades. I can remember, not long after "Taxi" . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Being a nurse, dying is part of my everyday life. I see death in many forms. Quick and unexpected, slow and lingering, peaceful, and agonizing. Recognizing the signs of impending death are a learned . . .
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August 29, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
I am a pariah in my chosen field, Nursing. Do I care? Not a whit. In fact, I relish the role, and will tell anyone who asks why I chose to work in the dregs of the nursing profession, the (cue sinister . . .
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March 10, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
Good Morning my friends.
Last Week, on March 6, 2008 I posted an article about my "gatherversary", but I have not been on the site much since. This is why:
At 6:30, that fateful . . .
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April 29, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
Free
Debt paid to society
Free
Mama's home cooking
Free
Lovin' my woman
Free
Do something with my life
Free
Can't work here with a record
Free
No Grant for my education
Free
Home . . .
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June 04, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Who gets to say "When"? When is enough, enough? Personally, I want to make that choice for myself. I do not have any desire to have my life held in the balance by anyone other than myself.
What . . .
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April 09, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
"She called me the "F" word" Carol cried, as she exited Mrs. Griner's room. Tears were streaming down her usually rosy cheeks. It was almost expected. Mrs. . . .
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May 13, 2006 08:20 AM EDT --
Every day
I think of you
Too young to be taken
You could have told us, ya know?
Cancer
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June 04, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
"The choice is yours, my love." he whispered tenderly into her ear. How she had longed to hear those words.
Years of self denial were now, in an instant, dissolved, as was her will . . .
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May 07, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
Hi everyone. This Thursday evening, at 8:00 PM EDT, Gather will be hosting a LIVE chat with actress, singer, dancer, and most importantly, author of "Wear Your Life Well", Marilu Henner. . . .
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July 02, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Independence Day Memories
Seven pictures, for those with dial up. Thanks to Bill's Spirit, who was the photographer.
I have always had a sharp sense of patriotism. As a child, I can remember getting . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:45 AM EST --
As a child growing up in Kentucky and Southern Ohio, all Christmases were joyous times. I do not have many exact memories of some of those years, but I do remember that sense of family togetherness, camaraderie, . . .
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April 05, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
Aware
Of light, of breath
Unable to find peace
Restless sighs as day breaks anew
I yawn
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