My first experience at an alcoholics anonymous meeting was very interesting and in a way uplifting. At All Saints Lutheran Church the home group called “The Young People’s Group” there were people who had come from all walks of life. The group meeting that I thought would have been rather small slowly became larger and larger over the course of the night. I was unaware that the AA meetings had been setup with a set of codes or rules for those who struggle every day to fight this addiction. They
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surgery‚ and all I hear is nothing. They put some sort of mask over my mouth. “Just close your eyes and try to sleep‚” the doctor said. I can feel my eyelids finding it hard to stay open. Next thing I knew I was out. I wake up with a lot of questions flowing through my head. I looked around the room only to find a bunch of doctors running around in their greens scrubs. I’m a little confused‚ but I manage to figure out things. My appendix ruptured; I’m in a hospital. Wow. Those are all the things
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in the park to make it to. I’ll be wheeling the barbecue‚ table and chairs over to enjoy some quality time with my neighbors while my kids tear around with their little friends from across the alley. I’m a lucky guy‚ and I can hardly imagine a better place to raise my kids. This is by way of introducing an excellent article which lays out in wonderful detail the social benefits of my kind of street: “How Livable Streets Make Us Happier Humans.” It’s not just for the environmental benefits that our
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Name：Jia Gu Instructor：R‚mitt English 151A Wednesday‚ September 17 The most specific and significant experience in USA Since i can remember‚there are many things have been gradually forgotten‚ but there is one thing that i will always remember.It has impact on my life and helps me walk along the right road. I flew to America in 1998. When I first landed on the world”s famous city—los angeles. I thought it was very beautiful: blue sky‚ white clouds‚ grass and trees. The streets also seemed
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emergency travel to my country this July‚ which was too unexpected and cannot imagine the situation at this point. We lost our Mom (56). She had struggled with SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) since past 8 years. During this time period‚ she was regularly followed by the Doctors advice and medicine with acute care. But‚ everything effort went in vain this July. She was admitted in the hospital 25 days before this was happened. We were in regular touch about the health condition of my Mom and was quite
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Returning to school at this time in my life has been a great challenge‚ I’m 29 years old and I know I have a long ways to go but I’ve had so many dreams ans aspiration that I wanted to complete before I turn 29. I plan to be done with college at 23 years old but ended up becoming pregnant at 22 years old and a mother at 23 years old so that shifted things for me with returning to school fully committed to my studies. During that time I just stayed working and making me and my son’s life a little easier.
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help and care for people. My mom is a nurse and has been for 20 years. She never pushed me towards nursing‚ I think she wanted me to figure out who I wanted to be. I think with her experience as a nurse I have learned through her what it takes to care for a person and the sacrifices she makes in order to be the best nurse possible. I think she worked hard to be where she is at now. I am grateful for her showing me what my calling is also. I want to be a nurse; I believe with my compassion and caring
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I have had plenty of adversity in my life‚ but I never knew it. I only realized this aspect of my life when a family member said it. Epilepsy is something that my family and I have dealt with for about twelve years; since I was about six years old. We never gave up on pushing seizures out of the picture. We have driven three hours to Cincinnati‚ Ohio for the years in which I have known about epilepsy. I have taken countless types of medicines for the issue‚ and recently got the VNS implant. As
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Today began the second clinical experience here at Avalon Care Center. I was feeling confident from my last clinical experience and I was also excited to see what today had in store for me‚ what I was learn‚ what I would be able to participate in and what I would take away from today experience. Today clinical assignment was in the Alzheimer’s/Dementia care unit‚ where I had the opportunity alongside of Colleen. Our morning had gotten off to ruff start due to difficulties with accessing their
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clinical was pretty emotional for me. This is the first time I didn’t wanted to say goodbye to my patient. I kept thinking about him and his wife after my clinical day was over. Before I have the chance to meet with my patient this week‚ the regular nurse already informed me that this is the worst patient in the whole unit because of his wife. The regular nurse told me that she probably is the last nurse in this unit that is willing to take this patient; she also told me that actually is not the patient
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