It’s Monday and I suggest that this week we all do one nice
thing so that together we can make the world a better place.
April is National Donate Life Month so I am asking you to help
save a life by becoming an organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donor.
Here’s how you can help:
Register with your State Donor Registry, if available.
Say
YES to donation on your driver's license.
Tell
your family, friends, physician, and faith leader that you want to be a donor.
Fill
out and sign a donor card, have it witnessed, carry it with you.
As of today there are 95,998 individuals waiting for a
kidney transplant in the United
States.
Kidneys are the highest-demand organ, comprising nearly
two-thirds of the organ transplant waiting list. In 2005, nearly 15,000 kidney transplants were performed,
with nearly half of those coming from living donors.
The first kidney transplants were performed in 1954 in Boston and Paris
by Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990.
While approximately 77 people receive an organ transplant in
the United States
each day, another 17 people on the waiting list die because there are not
enough organs available.
According the United Network for Organ Sharing and the
National Kidney Foundation, the demand for kidney transplants is continuing to
rise at a record pace. More than 73,000 people are registered on the Organ
Procurement Transplant Network waiting list. If the demand continues to
outstrip the available supply of kidneys, only about half of the 73,000 will
receive a transplant.
In 2004, 3,823 listed candidates died while awaiting a
kidney. Kidney transplantation is performed on patients with chronic kidney
failure, or end-stage renal disease. Without long-term dialysis or a kidney
transplant, end-stage renal disease is fatal.
Recent studies have shown that a typical patient will live
10-15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if they stay on dialysis.
Doobie Brothers n. ['Hind. dub; Sans. durva, a kind of pasture grass; L. frater; G. bruder, Sans. bhratar; AS. brothor, male sibling']
1. Music group known for blues based songs with a rock edge, often with lush vocal harmonies (see also rock 'n' soul).
2. Assemblage of musicians specializing in country based rock featuring instrumentation such as violin and finger-picked acoustic guitar combined with electrical instruments and drums.
3. Musical entity recognized for incorporating sophisticated jazz stylings into "popular hit" songs.
4. "Rock" band, origins circa 1970, with reputation for exciting live performances and skillful musicianship.
Don’t you feel it growin’, day by day
People gettin’ ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make ’em smile
It ain’t so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh now mama, don’t you ask me why
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Well I know, you know better
Everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We’ll be happy
And we’ll dance
Oh, we’re gonna dance our blues away
And if I’m feelin’ good to you
And you’re feelin’ good to me
There ain’t nothin’ we can’t do or say
Feelin’ good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List’nin’ for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
I have had a great week, I’ve been feeling emotionally and physically charged. Last night I went to a free jewelry making class and made a pretty bracelet. So now I am going to buy some supplies and make a few more things.
My daughter and I went shopping and out to lunch since she is on spring break this week. We wound up having a serious discussion about her father.
He lives about 45 minute away in the next town. When we first got divorced I would meet him half way when my daughter was going to spend the weekend at his house twice a month. But he has lost his driver’s license for 10 years due to 3 DUI’s. So far it’s been 4 years. Due to my dialysis and all the medication I take I am not comfortable with that long of a drive, by the time I am on my way home I get too sleepy, so the task has fallen to my husband. I feel bad that he has to do it, but I felt that it was important for my daughter to maintain a relationship with her father. On the plus side, it also gives us a weekend to ourselves.
The problem is now my daughter doesn’t want to go, she is 16 and likes to do things with her friend’s on the weekend. If she goes to her dad’s they spend the whole weekend in the house because the woman he lives with can’t drive either.
She hasn’t been there for 2 months now and her father sent her an e-mail complaining, saying that he is unhappy with her.
Many of you know this already, but for those new people here’s the situation. Her dad left me because he found a rich woman, and now he doesn’t have to work, they pay a guy to drive them around to stores, and bars and places they need to go.
So why can’t they pay him to pick up my daughter? Because the rich woman is a selfish bitch and only pays for things that directly benefit her.
I figure that if he really wants to see his daughter, then he could take the bus into my town on a Saturday afternoon, I would drop her off to meet him, they could have lunch and then he could take the bus back home and I would pick her back up.
Another reason my daughter doesn’t want to go is because the rich woman is rude and my daughter doesn’t like her. Over the years I’ve told her that in life we have to deal with people that we don’t like so that’s not a reason for not going over there.
But my daughter takes challenging classes and works hard and deserves to have a social life.
So I told her to talk to her dad and just be honest.
What do you think? Should I strongly encourage my daughter to spend a weekend at her dad’s, even if it means my husband has to drive her there?
He’s the one that chose to drink and drive, so shouldn’t it be his responsibility to find a way to see his daughter and not mine?
The WeatherPixie is a little graphic that shows a
representation of the weather using data reported (mostly) by airports and
aerodromes around the world.
As the weather in a particular location changes, the
characters clothes will reflect the weather and the graphic will show
rain, snow, airborne particles and changes in cloud cover. Daylight,
sunset and current moon phase are also displayed.
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