Posted in animals, authorities, awareness, baby, children, comfort, communication, danger, disaster, disease, elderly, emergency, family, government, health, help, ideas, illness, Impact, law enforcement, medicine, mental and physical health, military, news, observations, organizations for special needs, parenting, pets, power, responsibility, safety, schools, service, special needs, stress, television, Threats, trauma, utility companies, violence, water shortage, weather, well-being on Sep 23rd, 2009
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month; there are things you can do to prepare for an emergency with your family’s survival in mind. Are you ready?
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Posted in Blogging, children, communication, crime, death, disaster, disease, Education, emergency, emotions, family, Fear, Fun, grandchildren, health, home, illness, kids, life, loss, media, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, observations, online traffic, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, protect, relationships, responsibility, safety, school, service, teens, trauma, Uncategorized, violence, well-being on May 23rd, 2009
Well, it is the end of the school year; that means kids and young adults are ready for summer vaction. They are seeking sun and fun. Parents it is a good time to remind them and ourselves to also be aware of safety. Safety can involve many aspects around our summer activities. First and foremost, summer means heat. After [...]
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Posted in Beauty, celebrity, competition, contest, courage, emergency, emotions, encouragement, entertainment, expectations, Faith, Fame, friendship, health, Heart, help, home, hospital, Impact, inspiration, leadership, life, loss, love, marriage, media, medical, mental and physical health, mentoring, Models, news, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, physician, politics, relationships, respect, responsibility, restlessness, expectations, callings, sadness, support, surgery, television, trauma, values, violence on May 14th, 2009
A couple of news items that caught my attention today: the chimpanzee that attacked it’s owners friend, Charla Nash, and horribly caused facial damage as well as causing her to lose her hands, was found to definitely have some levels of Xanax in his system. When the incident first happened, there were some news reports [...]
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Posted in Australia, crime, death, disaster, ecology, emergency, emotions, environment, Faith, family, Fear, help, home, horror, hospital, hospitals, life, loss, murder on Feb 9th, 2009
Breaking news of a horrific nature…Australia has been experiencing some terrible fires, overnight, that has caused major damage to some towns and at least 84 deaths. Although that number may continue to climb as they gain control of the brush fires. There are many who were hospitalized with burns and some of them may yet lose [...]
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Today a totally spectacular emergency landing in NYC. A plane on it’s way to North Carolina from New York radioed the controllers and communicated that the plane was struck by birds twice and the pilot stated that he wanted to return to the airport. This flight was on a wing and a prayer at this [...]
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Posted in children, crime, culture, death, Education, emotions, entertainment, failure, family, friendship, grief, health, Heart, help, Impact, law enforcement, legal, life, loss, meaning of life, mental and physical health, murder, news, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, Passing Away, relationships, Remembering, respect, sadness, suicide, teens, the impact factor, violence, well-being on Nov 22nd, 2008
I remember back when i was in high school, back in the 80′s, we had a class on social issues. In that class we discussed high profile situations in our society; which underscored how desensitized our society was becoming to people in pain and misery. There was a case of a woman who [...]
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Posted in death, emergency, emotions, family, Fear, flying, giving, grief, health, Heart, hospital, humor, Impact, life, loss, medical, miracles, news, Opportunities, safety, surgery on Jun 11th, 2008
This incident had to be a little shocking for the people involved; a 45 year old man from Paris, France had a massive heart attack. His heart had stopped working for over an hour and a half. It appears that emergency personel tried to revive him but wasn’t having great results. They sent [...]
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Posted in emergency, Heart on Jan 19th, 2008
A Detroit 911 Operator was found guilty of a “willful neglect of duty” . She could spend up to a year in jail when sentenced in March. No other operator in our country, from what i understand, has been charged with a crime regarding how they have handled emergency calls except in this case. There was one other operator that [...]
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