Feeling Great

It is a brand new year and I am feeling great! Productive, efficient, organized, energetic, joyful, enthusiastic, and spirit filled are all good words to describe my current state of mind.

Perhaps it is the sense of opportunity that a new year brings. Perhaps it is the sense of peace carried over from my recent holiday vacation. Perhaps it is the new multi-vitamin kicking in. I'm not sure, but I am enjoying the burst of energy and joy.

On a more somber note, a warning for those of you who wear the yellow "live strong" Lance Armstrong bracelets. It seems that in many states yellow coded wristbands applied by the EMTs/nurses in the ER mean "do not resuscitate" . That is, when the patient is admitted their records are checked and if there is a DNR order on file a yellow coded wristband is put on the patients arm. Apparently there have been a few near miss cases where doctor's have seen the Live Strong bracelets and assumed they were DNR orders. Major mistake! Read all about it in the article here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071218122409.htm

Finally, a side note for those of you reading this blog through a syndication channel, such as on a livejournal feed. Blogger does not allow images to be linked from external sources, so you won't see pictures I post in this blog (including all of those lovely Christmas trip pics) unless you click through on the syndication link to my actual blog on blogspot.com to read the entries.

Comments

Anonymous said…

you should watch this -- it's just funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFF7QkwRaI

January 6, 2008 at 10:14 PM

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