Health Posts

Last Minute Accommodation Issues

Let’s face it we can not always plan the way things are going to happen. I don’t care if you were a Boy Scout, you can’t always be prepared for what life throws at you, no matter how hard you try. You see my sister is a  “planner” where I am the type that takes one day at a time, just trying to get through the day. I don’t think that there is a right or wrong way, just different strokes for different folks.

My sister just received news that her mother-in-law’s health is failing and that she may not have a lot of time left on this world, so she is trying desperately to find last minute flights that she can afford. As we all know isn’t always an easy task to find cheap flights on short notice. At least finding last minute hotels isn’t as big of deal, although advance notice is best all the way around. Thank goodness for the Internet, which has been very helpful during this stressful time for her and her hubby in her search for last minute accommodation needs.

The Importance of Mailboxes

Commercial Mailboxes, Residential Mailboxes and Apartment Mailboxes have come a long way in the past few decades. It has come to the attention to the masses that having your mailbox display your last name and the street numbers on your mailbox and in plain sight for the emergency personnel to utilize is in your best interest.

There has been so many stories in the news about people seeking assistance from our police or fire departments that have not gotten the help that they needed because these emergency personnel can’t find their location due to the lack of necessary information available to them on our mailboxes.

If we rely on this people to come to our aid, it seems the least we could do is make it easier for them to find them and have our Mailboxes have the right information displayed for them to find us in our time of need. They have a good selection of mailboxes for us to choose from these days. Justcommercialmailboxes.com has a good amount of products to check out they even have Cluster Mailboxes there, if you have the need.

Fitness Alliance

Now that the holidays are really over and done with I really need to take action in order to get myself back on track with my healthy eating habits that have gone by the wayside with all of the good treats and food that have been a plenty since November. I only have 4 months in order to get my Beach Body in order, so I have been checking into an Extreme Body Workout that I have been hearing and reading about online.

I am also looking into a 90 Day Review program that my sister sent me the link to a few months back that I seem to remember was a good fit for me as well. I really don’t want to go to the beach this summer feeling bad about my body, although not many folks feel totally comfortable with what the good lord gave us. And I can’t afford plastic surgery or any of those other new technologies that people with a lot of cash flow are turning to in order to get their body to a shape that they are content with.

This is a guest post provided by Fitness Alliance.

24 hour health care

One of the things that has always made me wonder about this community is the fact that although the hospitals in the area have emergency rooms that are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, the towns do not have any pharmacies nearby that are open 24/7.  So if someone that lives out in the country is released from the ER after the local stores close, they will have to make a special trip back to town the next day to get their prescriptions filled. I don’t know about you, but I think that is really terrible customer service. I guess the local pharmacies don’t make enough money staying open the entire 24 hours, and it is all about profit, but I think that the big chain pharmacies could find room in their good-will department to keep one pharmacy in town open if there is an ER in town. What do you think?

Posted by Monica in Business, Health, Life, Local, Opinion, Shopping

My poor, “backed up” hubby

Since my hubby was injured in a car accident a few years ago, he has been on a lot of pain pills.  As a result, he has become very “backed up.”  By that, I mean constipated.  He has been trying to eat every food, and drink every juice, and take every pill he can think of that might resolve that issue.

Because he is in so much pain, he stays awake much of the night, in his recliner, watching late night television.  Apparently he has been watching a lot of infomercials, too, because I keep finding notes around the house about what number to call, or what website to go visit in order to buy the product that he was “sold on.”  One of the more frequent notes that I find on the kitchen table are about products that claim that they will perform a Colon Cleanse, which is something that he apparently has decided will fix his problem.  I don’t know if he has ordered any of it not!

Posted by Monica in Family, Health, Life, Shopping