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Chapter 2
Heavenly messengers herald the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem—He is circumcised, and Simeon and Anna prophesy of His mission—At twelve years of age, He goes about His Father's business.
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all
2 (And this
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, unto the city of David, which is called
5 To be taxed with Mary his
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you
11 For unto you is
12 And this shall be a
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with
17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
18 And all they that heard it
19 But Mary kept all these things, and
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the
22 And when the days of her
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of
25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
30 For mine eyes have seen thy
31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.
34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is
35 (Yea, a sword shall
36 And there was one Anna, a
37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with
38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for
39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
40 And the child grew, and
41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the
47 And all that heard him were astonished at his
48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was
52 And Jesus

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Trails, fishing, cross-country skiing, skating, cabins on Willow Lake.
The Wright Woods Forest Preserve located in Mettawa offers 4 miles of scenic trails: a short loop for hikers, bicyclists and skiers that circles a pond, and a 3-mile loop for hikers, bicyclists, skiers and horses. This preserve also has footbridge spanning the Des Plaines River, which links Wright Woods to Half Day Forest Preserve.
Come and see why our apple orchard is the best around! Country setting, peaceful atmosphere with no carnival extravganza! Free parking and admission. Great tasting apples at great prices! Enjoy our apple cider, donuts and raspberries too. Also available: Maple Syrup, honey and garlic.
Wing Park golf course is a classic yet, sporty nine-hole golf course. Established in 1908, it is the oldest nine-hole municipal golf course. This superior golf course offers something for everyone. Expert players with only a couple of hours to spare or the amateur just beginning to learn their swing will all enjoy a day at Wing Park Golf Course.
The Willow Glen Golf Club is home to a picturesque 18-hole layout that provides an enjoyable challenge for all skill levels. The new clubhouse is home to Buckley's Restaurant and Pub making Willow Glen one of the finest golf and dining experiences on the North Shore. Open to the public!
CITY:Great Lakes
The Wildlife Discovery Center is a special place offering programs for people of all ages who have an interest in wildlife and their habitat. Children's classes, adult programs, and school field trips focus on wildlife conservation, field biology, and ecology. The Center also offers self-guided nature hikes, workshops, eco-based summer camps, wildlife ecology trips, group presentations, traveling animal exhibits and exciting volunteer opportunities. You can visit eye-to-eye with over 150 animals including a bobcat, raptors, Kookaburras, and an assortment of venomous and non-venomous reptiles like crocodilians, snakes, turtles and tortoises. The Wildlife Discovery Center is home to one of the largest public exhibits of rattlesnakes in North America, including four species that are native to Illinois. Indoor exhibits hours are Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. The outdoor exhibits and walking trails are open year round.
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Built on the well-known Cuneo Estate in Vernon Hills, White Deer Run Golf Club is an 18-hole public course sprawling over 240 acres of rolling terrain and picturesque lakes with bent grass greens and fairways. Able to accommodate small and large group outings and banquets.
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This beautiful course is set on 240 acres rich in bluegrass, protected wetland environments, and even magnificent rock formations with casading waterfalls.
WhirlyBall is a combination of basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport. The Lake County location also includes a two-level laser tag arena, climbing wall, video games, pool tables and a sports bar. A second suburban outpost is located in Lombard.
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WhirlyBall combines basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport! Whether you're planning a holiday party, corporate outing or meeting, team building session, bar/bat mitzvah, bachelor/bachelorette or birthday party, WhirlyBall is the most complete venue in Lake County offering a variety of entertainment options including WhirlyBall, two-level lasertag, climbing wall, video games, pool tables, complete food & beverage menus, fully-loaded sports bar and flexible event facility that comfortably accommodates 400+ guests.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Eight experienced fishing charter boat captains offering World Class Salmon, Trout and Perch fishing April into November. The Waukegan Charter Boat Association is the oldest and largest charter boat fleet on Lake Michigan. Experience Coho Salmon, Chinook ( King ) Salmon, Rainbow (Steelhead) Trout, Brown Trout and Lake Trout fishing on the western shores of Lake Michigan out of Waukegan, Illinois.
The Water Works is an indoor water park located in the Schaumburg Park District Community Recreation center. It features three water slides, rapid water channel, water playground, diving pool, lap pool, gradual beachlike entry pool, whirlpool, family changing room and a nursery.
Championship 9-hole. Perfect course for beginners and teens. Great practice course for all skill levels. Unique Killian and Nugent design.
Our farm market features a large variety of farm fresh family grown vegetables. Our sweet corn is picked fresh every morning when its the sweetest. Tomatoes, green beans, pickling cucumbers, broccoli, zucchini and other summer squash, a variety of specialty peppers are among the fresh vegetables we grow here on our farm. If fruit is what you are looking for, you will find our homegrown muskmelon, honeydew and watermelon delicious. We also carry Michigan peaches, pears, nectarines and other in season fruit from the Midwest. We are a working family operated farm. We want you to have a day on the farm experience when you stop by during the summer or the fall. Our tractor/sand box play areas are available all during the season. Our own animals are always here for you to visit, but we do bring in more during the fall season. In the fall we have our family grown pumpkins, gourds, corn shocks, Indian corn and other specialty decorations. Of course we will still have the fall veggies, squash and more, plus the continuing of the summer treats. Know your food! Know your farmer!
In fall enjoy farm animals, pumpkin picking, a train ride, seasonal decorations and a craft corner. An annual antique tractor show is held in September.
Just 45 minutes northwest of Chicago is a state natural area featuring the state's only quaking bog with an open water center. Volo Bog State Natural Area was created when the melting of glaciers pushed deep into the ground 12,000 years ago.
Playing a relatively short, sporty golf course like Village Green can be a wonderful experience. For the avid golfer, the expectation to score presents itself at every turn. For the recreational golfer, this Ray Didier-designed track dating back to the early 1960s is pure fun... challenging without being intimidating. Village Green rewards golfers of all ability levels with opportunities to shine and finesse specific aspects of their game.
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Villa Olivia is a public facility. Slope ticket required to access ski and snowboard activities including 7 runs, quad chair lift and 6 rope tows. Villa Olivia has skiwee for kids 4-9 years old, snow tubing, ski, dining, golf, lessons, snowboarding, sleigh rides.
This Killian/Nugent-designed course features five water holes. An Olympic-size pool is available for free to golfers, along with sand volleyball, tennis, a softball area and more.
Vernon Hills Park District Sullivan Community Center
Overlooking park land, the Community Room, equipped with a stage and kitchen, can serve 260 dinner guests or 400 people theater seating. Smaller meeting rooms with a capacity of 10-140 people including a gymnasium rental are also available.
CITY:Vernon Hills
This golf course has been ranked as one of the top ten 9 hole golf courses in Chicagoland. Situated in Vernon Hills, this challenging 9-hole municipal course boasts small greens, rolling terrain, tight fairways and seven holes featuring water. Golfers of all skill levels will appreciate both the playability and the eye-catching views. The full-service clubhouse features a varied lunch menu, which is served all day and a full-service bar. Banquet facilities available for up to 80 people.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills Family Aquatic Center
The Family Aquatic Center offers something for everyone, including grassy areas to relax and catch some sun! Some of the amenities include: zero-depth leisure pool with six lap lanes; a zero-depth leisure pool with waterfalls, sprays & jets; 700-foot lazy river, body slide; body & innertube slides, a fully enclosed body flume, sand play area, 20 foot shade umbrellas, lounge chairs, and more.
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Traditions at Chevy Chase Golf Course
Steeped in history and rooted in old-time service, our country club is perfect for any event and any size group. Built in 1927, the classic, Tudor-style clubhouse harkens back to an era when making guests feel welcome was an art form. Our guest services teams have preserved this philosophy. From the moment you arrive, we encourage you to indulge in the historic surroundings. Your comfort is assured in an atmosphere where respect is understood and your name is remembered. Our full-service facility offers a remarkable and stylish atmosphere in a clubhouse setting. The Grand Ballroom offers available seating space for up to 500 guests.
This public golf facility, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., is one of the most challenging courses in the Chicago area. This 18-hole, par 72 c golf course is nestled on 241 acres of beautiful forest, marsh and prairie. This is the first public course in the United States to achieve Audubon Signature Sanctuary certification. Banquet facilities are available to accommodate a wide range of group sizes from small private outings to a full-course tournament. Golfers can spot bluebirds while playing one of the hottest courses in the Chicago area. Driving Range also available.
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Large crowds gathered outside a complex of residence halls at UMass Amherst Wednesday night to celebrate the Red Sox victory in the World Series. But after students started climbing trees and throwing trash, police used loud speakers to direct the crowd to disperse.
A "raucous celebration" turned into a "disturbance," according to university spokesperson Ed Blaguszewski. He said police used "pepper ball" and one "smoke grenade."
A UMass statement said 15 arrests were made, but no injuries were reported. Most were charged with failing to disperse, but two were also charged with assault and battery on a police officer. All but one of those arrested are UMass students, the statement said.
UMass had set up activities, including free food, outdoor video screens and bouncy houses to try to avoid the types of disturbances – including riots – that have occurred at the university following past major sporting events.
"One inflatable amusement was damaged," the university statement said.
UMass estimated that by the end of the game, 3,000 people showed up at the Southwest dorm complex.
"Most of the night was actually wonderful," Blaguszewski said. "Clearly, if we're making arrests, it's a disturbance. But on relative scale on what has happened in the past, this is not on the same scale."
New England Public Radio's Susan Kaplan and Sam Hudzik contributed to this report.


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It's great to say that a caretaker must take care of themselves. How can you get a good nights sleep when your patient wakes up 10 times a night, needing bathroom, covers readjustment, water, tissue, whatever?
I think it's just not possible to take care or yourself when you are th 24/7 caretaker.
I agree with your comment about the need for caregivers to take care of ourselves. If we don't, who will take care of us? I've been married for 18 years, much of which my husband has been treated for depression. Due to his almost permanent unemployment, I have been the bread winner for my family, financial manager, decision maker, etc. Every day I feel like carrying a big load on my shoulders, uncertainty and must admit, lack of happiness. Still, I thank God for a good job, a house, a car, clothes and decent food. I became a good cook, after many failed attempts to enjoy dinner out with my husband, due to his anxiety disorder and to avoid future restaurant scenes. I am highly educated, fairly intellectual but also have lots of compassion for people. I had thought about the "d" word, but I know deep in my heart that he will not be well on his own or his extended family. Doctor, you asked for feedback on how we cope with these challenges so here are mine --- I watch the sunset; I grow flowers and tell them how pretty they are; I bake home made bread; I sew and sing in my car on my way home :)
I have a mother with demetia and a sister with brain damage from a stroke. Both are in the same nursing home. I go to see them both 3 to 4 times a week. My mom is always in a depressive state of mind and my sister is always going thru something. I am so tired I cant see straight. I want to walk away and never come back help
my husband is only 68 yrs. old now, had open heart surgery 07/2009, started having seizures at that time. started seeing a neurologist. was told that he had Advanced Dementia.
And he does. He has been in 19 different places in the past year - from Psychiatric Hopital's , to Assisted Living places since Jan. 4, 2012.
As a caregiver for my mom I am with her 24 hrs a day and from experience know how sleep deprived you can get.If you are sleep deprived too long you are of no use to your parents.You need to seek help on different levels including nursing aids and if possible friends.
Wow! You are truly a very special group of very special people. As I way the risk and rewards of which path to choose, "Helping the elderly or Helping the lonely children who parents are busy working? Most of my life I've favored the children and now in my mid 60's I will attempt to make a shift and assist a male friend as long as I can. I will do my very best as long as I can and pray the Good Lord tells me when to move on. I think we are all considered veteran's because "while some will give some, others will give all. We really need to find the balance if we are to thrive as a society. God Bless all of you wonderful caring people.
I am an only child and caregiver to both of my parents. My mother is 71 and has dementia. She doesn't just have dementia though, she also has cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and is legally blind. My father has severe depression and anxiety. A little over a year ago, my father tried to kill himself because the stress of caring for my mother was too much for him. So I packed up their belongings and brought them to live with me. While this was happening, my marriage was also ending and I had a huge transition in my job. I ask myself constantly, "Why is this all happening?" but there is never an answer. I am trying to accept my "new life" but it's tough. I think about quitting my job all the time and I am constantly sleep deprived. I recently hired a caregiver to come in once a week so that I would get some respite. I think this is the start of something great. On the flip side though, my father has taken up being angry at me. He constantly picks fights with me and barks orders at me. He blames me for moving them to come and live with me but he forgets that he called me every day at work for 3 months straight to order me to do something and that they were moving in with me because he couldn't do it any more.
Just trying to stay positive and appreciate the time we have together.
A good nights sleep is important to me also. I is a rarely happens however. After putting my mom to bed, I take time for myself. I am greedy for it. It is also very difficult to stay up as long as she because of many naps she has had during the day.Will work on it though!
I am 84 and my doc says if he didn't know me he would think I am 65. That's more than enough background on me but suffice it to say I am healthy and wise but not very wealthy. Please folks when you tell your stories state your age first that helps us quickly gain perspective.
My wife, I will call her Tiffany, is 81 and an alcoholic, smoker and addicted to pain killers. She has been in Assisted Living for the last several years because I could no longer keep her healthy at home and she is now healthy and happy with lots of friends. She stopped the alcohol thirty years ago and the cigarettes ten years ago but she still has the pain pill dependency.
We took care of our four parents until they went to their eternal rewards because none of our siblings lived in town, this did create many problems for us. Thirty years ago one of our children was involved in an horrific auto accident. He is an active alcoholic and not doing well at this writing. This year we lost a grandson in another alcohol-related auto accident.
I would encourage each of you to not only pray more but try desperately to separate yourself from the patient as much as possible. I know we love them but they actually become more independent without our help and we grow greatly from the "divorce". It's like they say in AA "Stop trying to run their program!" I frequently bury myself in my hobbies. Buy a keyboard and play for an hour daily and pretend you're Roger Williams or Dianna K
As a stress management trainer & coach, I insist that clients look first to their sleep for solutions before searching for more esoteric answers. Sleep can make molehills out of mountains!
I've been taking care of my mother for the past two years. in the beginning I thought she just needed someone to fix her meals make sure she took her meds simple things like that. Then she started referring to me as her nurse..then she remembered me again. Lately she knows who I am she's now completely bed bound...this reason I don't understand why. I get help during the week days. NOW for the past three weeks she has been cursing like a drunken sailor, also she is ALWAYS HUNGRY or so she says.I don't give in to her whims, she craves a particular food, of which she should not really eat, and curses me out because I won't give it to her. Even though once in a while I would give her, but she doesn't remember she's had it. She has another child,however I am her ONLY caregiver.Most day I don't want to give a s%!t, but I have too.We didn't have a relationship really. But here I am alone trying to take care of her with no support from her son. Retired 3 1/2 yrs can't do what I want to do!!
I gave up my good paying job in January 2009 to take care of my elderly parents. My father was in the hospital in June '09, back in the hospital in July '09. He was sent to a rehab facility as he had a couple of broken vertebrates in his back for no reason. Long story short, After 5 weeks in rehab and worsening health, I had him taken to the hospital. On September 22, 09 he passed away suddenly and quickly. He was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma less than a week before 8.12.11he passed. My mother and he were married 60 yr and she was in total denial and still is to some extent now. I have been caring for her 24/7 and she just recently had a stroke. I take her to multiple doctor visits with different specialist. Will find out on 8.12.11 the severity of her stroke. I have 3 other sibling that live less than 20 min a day but they never bother calling her, coming down, etc until something bad likes this happens. I end up in the stress center for 3 day on July 5 which they started me on some medication for my anxiety and depression. It's so hard doing this as I live in her home and make no money, do all of the yard work, cleainging, cooking, laundry, grocery shopping, picking up her Rx's and making sure her pill cases are filled, making sure she's taking her meds and insulin (shes a severe diabetic) on time. It's definitely a 24 hour job and I'm exhausted. the siblings can only complain of what I am doing wrong. Had to vent sorry but it feels good since i have no one to talk to.
My mother was fairly depressed after my father died after 63 years of marriage and so I stayed on with her to be a companion which probably was a mistake. Now, she had to have a pace-maker put in and is doing fairly well.She is in her own home and I live with her. I am a social worker by training and tried to serve as best as I could to be her advoacate.However, I had previously been involved with a brother(62)who suffers from mental disabililty and I spent 9 years ,helping him to get off drugs.I am worn out andmy parents have always helped me but I would like a life and need to work and dont know how to talk with my mother except in harsh words. She says that she is fine and that I should go a head with my life. I am not sure what to do because I have two other sibllings who have significant needs. Any suggestions. Thankyou Carolj
Sadly, my mother is in the position you describe. She has been admitted to the hospital, but there is no family for her to go home to. We aren't able to provide the level of care that she needs and our homes don't accommodate her multiple disabilities and healthcare needs. I feel so guilty because she does not want to go to a nursing home. I hope I can at least be the kind of advocate that she needs. I would love help or advice.
I am staying with my grandmother and acting as her care taker. I love her like she were my mother, but I AM TIRED. I have been sleeping alot less. My mind feels like it's on a roller coaster. I am exhausted both physically and mentally. I am not getting any relief from anyone else. It is left solely up to me. What can I do to destress?
As I work with patients, I do notice that those patients who are taking care of loved ones tend to have more stress in their lives. They also tend to not heal as fast as most other patients. Learning how to handle and avoid stress is an important part health.
I am a caregiver. My husband is COPD, post CVA, extreme pain ussues. He needs hip replacement and not good canidate. HE IS ON HOSPICE. hAS BEEN GREAT. VA has been helpful as well. Allows me to get out twice a week for ME time. I recently had gastric bypass. Began working on myself. Have lost 30 lbs so far. Hard dealing with his declining health. With God in my life, he helps me endure all the difficulties and helps me to cope.
I found myself as a caregiver about a year ago when my mother came to live with me and my family. She was diaganoze with alzhimer a few years ago. she was living alone in her on house, although it was next door to my brother. My brother was getting overwhelm with mom, and we decided she should come live with me for a while. It can get stressful, especially when she have her moments and start call my aunts back in georgia saying I am abusing her or have her living in a basement. She watching television all the time and lovers "Dirty Harry" and she told my aunt I slapped her and was on drug, she took that scene out of "Dirty Harry" and place herself into the situation. The bad part of is my aunt in georgia believes her. But the younger aunt who works with alzhimer patient came to my rescue because she understands the disease and the symptoms. I was ready to pack her up and send her back home to georgia. I ask my why she told such a lie and she honstly belive it happen. Until I talked to a support group I was just outdone ready to give up. but now I understand that mom don't mean to be mean and a liar, she can't help it. The support lady advice me to look at mom as a 2 year old and that is what I have started doing and it has really help. Now when she get in one of her afternoon moods I just walk away until she comes back to herself. Its like nothing ever happen. At lease i have my husband and daughter and my sons to come and take her for awh
I never imagined there was a pleace to talk to other caretakers, what a wounderful idea.
If there are people out there like m self then the workd is not as bad as I though it was.
I am a 47 year old man struggling with m own disabilities and for the past 7 years I accepted my role as my moms caretaker and it has been such a wounderful experience thus far.
I had some personal issues that I was dealing with and thought I would die from them but these past few years watching my Mom getting closer to her journeys end I have chosen to give up all my vises and give her 105% of my time and to do for her what she can no longer do for herself is a feeling that is undiscribable and a shame because to be chosen to have this experience is like living all over again.
We are a chosen few and I would like to honor al caretakes because it takes a special kind of pereosn to be happy da in and day out.
I am that special person, I never look for a pat on the shoulder and I am always there for my Mom.
Jesus is Lord..
God is Almighty..
Rocco from Bayonne
I have been home with my son for almost five years.
He has seizures & all kinds of trouble with his medicines.
Although his situation has improved in the past 3 months I am afraid to leave him alone if case of a seizure. He has grand mal seizures.
It has been a lonely road for my family and hope to have all this behind us some day, but I will be here
for my son as long as I am needed.
I do find that exercise helps quite a bit & get out
of the house as much as possible.
Be good to thy self. Thanks
god bless everyone who takes care of another who is ill or incapable of taking care of themselves. remember to keep yourself well and rested so you can continue to do the good work you do. try to remember to 'walk a mile in their shoes' to understand why they say and react the way they do. to lose your independence is horrible (as an adult). remember how happy you were when you became independent as a young adult/child. how horrible it would be to lose that, after you have experienced it. again, blessed be to all those who care for others. keep the faith you are doing the work of angels.
I am the caregiver for my 77 year old husband of 56 years, who has advanced COPD. I am 73 myself and often find it difficult to manage everything: his many meds and breathing treatments and refills (must stay ahead two weeks so as to receive by mail), my meds. also, and all the care and repairs of our home in the country. Our daughters and husbands live 250 miles away and try to help when they can make it here. My husband's Drs. have begun to tell him that there is no more improvement to be had, as he is on oxygen full-time now. He is frail and weak, unable to care for himself. His care comes from the VA, which is 100 miles away. They have taken good care of him as far as meds. but offer no help for ME. As he grows weaker, my days become more difficult. It is often lonely, as he sleeps a lot and is only able to read or watch TV. I sometimes am able to get out to Church activities and grocery shopping, but know this will become more difficult as he grows weaker. I am considering some kind of hospice or at least home health care. Any advice from other COPD caregivers would be appreciated.
I find that just a few minutes a day with something "new" helps me to keep going with only a few hours of sleep. A interesting book, learning a new skill (I'm learning about bee keeping now), exercise. Things that take me away mentally from the daily stress of caregiving. Keeping a positive attitude - when his snoring wakes me up, I know he is still alive and with me!
my mom passed away little over a year ago. married 57 yrs to my father. He cannot get over her passing. He is depressed layes around in bed all day, wants to die, acts like a feeble old man,refuses to help himself..has become extremly rude to friends when they come over..result they don't visit any longer...
I fly, so i commute up/stay @ his home..do the house cleaning, cook meals when their, have basically taken over the roll of my mom. he can at times be very rude towards me verably, refuses any help or suggestion in snapping out of his by way.
I have two sister who live near by and do nothing in helping out, even when I have asked!
I have suggested getting someone to come in once a week to clean..his comment back is he already has a house cleaner....He has told me that i need to by the mother know to my siblings...which i said NO...at times when i do this for him and alter my life/marriage/work he does not appreicate it only to snap rude things towards me when I get frustrated..
I have suggested that he needs to have physcial therapy,( because of doing nothing his hip and legs are in need of PT) have suggested that he get out and get involved in things only to be shot down.
My marriageis in trouble now because my husband is tried of my being away...plus I am at witts in..I am ready to throw in the towel. I need some hlp please..thank you
You are so right! My husband suffered a tramatic brain injury 14 years ago. He can do nothing for himself and that requires a lot of hands on from me and carries with it a lot of stress. His sleep cycles are very abnormal,and if he is awake he wants me awake!(He is like a small child since the accident.) If I don't get enough sleep I am more stressed and it is much harder to think clearly and make decisions. With sleep,I can face the day without being somewhat agitated and drained the minute my feet hit the floor.The days roll along much more smoothly!
Taking care of a loved one during cancer is so frightening. Crying is not allowed as it is seen as negative energy. I am getting to the point that I cannot remember anything. Every minute of the day is involved in moitoring Drs. appts., medications, treatments, work schedule. How do people relieve this stress level. So many friends say "Let me know what we can do to help", they would not want to begin to help. I cant blame anyone for staying away from sick people. Just sending out my prayers to those who are in such stressful situations. I am not a particularly religious person but hope that my prayers reach someone.
My beloved mother had Alzheimer's for the last two and a half years of her life. I made an immediate decision, upon her diagnosis, to take care of her rather than put her in a nursing home. In addition, her twin sister, who was most difficult to live with, even when she was well, needed care. To manage their situation, in addition to teaching fifty music students and working in three nursing homes, I decided to hire around the clock care takers, a decision which was not popular with my aunt. The ensuing tension for those two and a half years was horrendous. Kudos to those wonderful caretakers from Lutheran Senior Services, Joyce and Lena, who stepped up to the plate. Even with their help, I had 24/7 tension in dealing with the situation. Crying in my therapist's office one day, I heard her say: "Your stress levels are way too high. You need a monthly break from this. I made the decision to take one weekend a month at a local park. Actually, I've written this comment already in another blog. But it's worth repeating in this one. This was a lifesaver. Thank you Caroline for suggesting this! I was able to return home refreshed and ready to go for another month.
When my mother died, I made the decision not to be the caretaker for my aunt. My reserves had been exhausted. It was not a popular family decision. Eventually she did move into a nursing home and I got my life back. Barbara A. Author of Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery, soon to be released.
I wanted to share my friends story with everyone.. she is a dear friend who has a disease called wegener's granulomatosis. She had insurance through her hospital she worked at for over three years.. When my friend found out about her disease, she had to quit her job.. She went on long term disability and was paying $495. a month to cobra insurance. After 18 months, cobra dropped her coverage due to an 18 month contract. My friend still has wegener's due to no known cure.. Her medicines run around $1400 a month without insurance.. This does not include the chemo drugs she has to have, which runs her now $75. instead of $15. She has tried to find help.. She gets Social Security Disablity.. But that does not pay all of her bills and medicines.. I really am tired of all the phone calls day after day from people trying to collect more money.. More test from Doctors who can't understand that she no longer has insurance.. I am mentally and physically drained not only because of my part in her healing, but day after day of watching her stress over how she can pay for her meds and doctors.. She can't get medicaid, medicare, etc. until the end of this year.. Because of no help out there, she has become very depressed. I do not know how to help her. Since she has no insurance, she can't drive anymore because of a defibulator transplant, new outbreaks, she can't work anymore.. She has no family to help her.. So, I have become her caretaker, it is overwhelming sometimes..
i appreciate your blog on this subject. I am now faced with caring for my mother who is only 60 years old and I am 34 with bipolar disorder. My family members are not available except my twin sister who's time is limited for this matter. I have help from a friend but my stress and anger is telling me she will not last long, she's gonna get tired and burnt' out from helping with my mom, i am grateful for her don't get me wrong, but I am reallly angry with our healthcare system. It is very scewed when it comes to long term care for disabled adults. Everything is too expensive and Kiasar Permanente told me to go down to Social Services to get medical when this hospital is a big entity and can't provide a home for my mom? It's ridiculous and scary and I am very mad about this. i have school and a life to live and now I feel it's been ruined.
I don't know what to do! I am taking care of my grandfather that I barely know (have been for almost two years) it seems his children don't want anything to do with him and he says he wont tolerate a home...I take one day a month to go out with my very tolerant fiance....but it doesnt seem enough...I don't sleep (right now I'm awake at two am and my fiance is sleeping) my doctor said I was stressed and wanted to prescribe me narcotics to make me sleep but I dont want narcotics....there is no help here...I wish there were...depression is seeping in :(
i've taken my mother in two years ago when her alzheimers progressed. i had to hire 24 hour care. my husband and i gave up half our space to make a small living area to try to keep our privacy as much as possible. my siblings completely abandoned me. my mother has been extremely lucky with her care. now i find myself completely empty and it's taken a strain out on my marriage. we've lost our life somewhat and can't remember what it was like to be free anymore. i'm having trouble with depression.
any help out there?
I think w/ such a lack of community that exists in most places (in America anyways), it is extremely challenging to be a caregiver. I would say don't be a martyr--take care of your own mind, body and spirit. Get respite and professional help if need be. What I've seen happen so often is that one person in the family gives and gives and gives, while the rest stand by. Then, when the ill person dies, the caretaker starts to suffer various illnesses. There is nothing worth your health and sanity. Help, but be mindful of where you begin and another person starts. WHen you can't take anymore, say so. It's a tough issue.
I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Creagan's comments. As a gerontologist who primarily works with caregivers of Alzheimer's sufferers, I see the statistics - half of all caregiver die before the person they are caring for! I therefore strongly advocate stress management in a 2-pronged approach. First, anything that I can offer the caregiver that will simplify their life is indeed making their life less stressful: support groups, adult day care, home health, etc. Second, are things that the caregiver can do that will work directly on the stress in their body and eliminate it: simple exercise like walking around the block, or prayer and meditation. However the most powerful stress buster in my arsenal is 'guided imagery'. For those that don't know, Guided Imagery is a mild form of hypnosis, and extensive research has demonstrated its effectiveness over and over again. In fact in studies where Guided Imagery is one of several modalities, it invariably ends up being the most effect of all them. The beauty of it, is it is easy to use, you need only a quiet place for 15 minutes and a CD player or computer.
My mom is in stage 4 cervical cancer that has metastisized to the lymph nodes...Long story short...she moved in with me for 4 months right after the diagnosis...She decided she wanted to go back home and wanted to take care of herself...well she has since then went downhill...she has lost 30lbs(she weighs 88lbs now) and has began smoking again...she started to get very depressed and had a psychotic breakdown...she has been in a psychiatric facility for 2 weeks now...she has no will to live and has been trying to kill herself....Well they are releasing her to me tomorrow and she is going to come live with me again...but my husband does not want her here...what am I suppose to do in a situation like this...he is completely unsupportive and is bold on her not being here...my moms life is limited and she cannot take care of herself....I just need some advice on this situation...it has me completely stressed out and I have enough on my plate having to take care of 4 children at home...thanks for reading...
In response to Nancy, I too am coping with my mother being admitted into a long term care home 3000 miles away! I have siblings in the area, so thankful for that, but they do not understand how difficult it is for me to be far away. I visited her during her transition into the home, and spent 8 days with her for all meals, but had to leave to return home. I am feeling depressed and extremely sad about this - and trying to cope. The sad part is I keep thinking of how my mom 'used to be'..very active and healthy. She has a degenerative disease, that is ravaging her body and leaving her weak and in pain. She is cognitively fine and very aware.
I am wondering what to do.
My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 non small cell lung cancer, last year, is on the chemo rotation, is insulin dependant diabetic and I'm it for his care. Can't leave him alone overnight nor very long in the daytime and that presents a problem; so I am looking for a person who can come. Might have to hire someone so I can have a weekend away, once a year.
Marlene, There comes a time when you just have to tell your Mom "No, not today or tomorrow. With your health, I'd be scared for you living alone"
After I had Mom move in, due to moderate-stage Dementia, she'd want to go home. She'd insist around 4pm daily. I'd tell her, "It's and 8 hr drive and much too late to go today. I've got work scheduled for tomorrow. We'll go another time, just not now." Eventually we did go back to visit my brother, who still lives in the family home, but I brought her back to my home after the visit.
Over my career I have cared for many ill and dying people to allow them to stay in their homes. Now that I am disabled, others expect me to continue to care for them and nobody helps me, including my spouse of 40 yrs. Any ideas? Yes, I've asked and been turned down
As an independent caregiver for over 40 years I can relate to the need to take time out for us. At the age of 68 I am still taking care of others. Time away from the clients has to be or I get "burned out". That is not a good thing as a caregiver cannot give the right kind of care if that happens and it is important that a caregiver realize when that time is at hand. It is time to shorten their week by a day for awhile or if possible to have a sub come in, take a week off. It is hard as I well know, but it is as important for the client as it is for the caregiver.
In response to Dotty, has Zoloft ever been suggested for your husband? It has done wonders (along with Namenda) for my husband's mood.
Caregiver stress is something that I, as an RN for the past 28 years, was unaware of, until I was told that I had it by a colleague. She could sense it in my voice over the phone! Caregiving is one of the most difficult and energy-stealing things to have to go through when dealing with older parents. My mother is 88 y/o, in a nursing home, 2,000 miles away from me, and has a plethora of problems (dementia, legally blind, MRSA, c-diff, had bilateral endocarditis, and inadequate pain control following a total hip replacement which caused delirium). My siblings are all local and they have been good, but they do not see that I undergo a different kind of caregiver stress being so far away. One thing that I know for certain, is that one sister in particular is undergoing extreme caregiver stress but will not acknowledge it. This has led to her being very distant to our mother, non-communicative, and embittered. For all that are reading this, I would advocate talking to someone who is not involved immediately with your situation, someone who can be objective. This could be a professional counselor, therapist, or case manager. It isn't enough sometimes, to work out, eat right, and go out and have fun. You need to be aware that you have it. By not recognizing caregiver stress, you risk losing precious time left with your loved ones by carrying a huge chip on your shoulder due to being so burned out that the loved one is 'blamed' and no relationship exists any longer.
I am a lone caregiver for my husband, who has Alzheimers. My kids have disowned me, and I have no one to help me. He used to be a very sweet man, now he cusses at me and is nasty to me 24/7. I had him in a Nursing Home from 1/9 to 1/22, but had to bring him home, as I couldn't afford the $100 I had to pay. Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get help. The Alz Assoc won't help, they say I am doing everything they would normally do. I take Antidepressants and sleep aids, which I don't like doing, but have to, to survive. Thanks for any advice you can offer. He's also has had 10 brain surgeries for Hydrocephalis, 4 heart attacks, and 3 strokes.
Fortunately I require very little sleep. I never have, but now I find it more important to get some "rest time". That may be just going to the store, a quick chat on the phone, putting Mother down for a nap or going out to feed calves at the barn. It can be anything that gives me a break and lets my mind wander elsewhere for a few minutes.
Although this is true why is it that we disregard our health and push our limits? Why do we think we are immune to burnout until we are past the point? As a nurse I see it all the time and have recently experineced it. Wanting to do it all had a huge affect on my health. After a two yr absence I have returned to my job with a differnt outlook. Self care and happiness make me better at what I do. Too bad I've only learned this after 33 years of nursing. Why aren't we teaching this in school to our care givers???
My husband has been disabled for 16 years. He is relatively independent. I take several trips per year without him and some with him. He encourages me. I also work out and get plenty of exercise. We have some interests in common so we have lots to discuss. I try not to dwell on the negative aspects of our lives. I am not a good sleeper but nap, if needed, shortly in the afternoon.
I have Fibromyalgia and suffer from it daily. This past year has been so stessful with my husband losing his job of 35 years, my son who is a quadrapaligic having a 3 month battle to live from an infection in his body and being in intensive care for 6 weeks, my Mother's 6 week stay in the hospital and then losing her, another son who died unexpectedly at 39, and now preparing to lose my father in-law who is seriously ill. I had a panic attack last week trying to deal with seeing my father in-law's condition and knowing I have to go to this level again and go through another death. I am afraid and fearful this panic attack will stay with me and will be hard for me to face more crisis in my life. I work full-time also with trying to handle everything in my life. I have always taken care of others but my body and mind are shutting down. I need to stay strong for my son who is a quad as we have had many crisis in his life and will continue to. My husband suffers from severe back pain also and has had surgery and seems depressed from his back pain and the pain we have been through in our life. Any suggestions? I feel fragile.
Marlene, Have you considered talking to a doctor about something to help you mother's mood? Perhaps a mood elevator or an antidepressant. People reach an age where they may be rational, but physically unable to maintain. They have lost their independence and resent this terribly. Loss of their independence is a major void, emptiness, which can be compared to that of a loss of a loved one. Depression can be expressed in a number of ways, not just crying. All the stages of grief are present. Talk to a good gerontologist who can recommend the appropriate dose for the elderly to minimize side effects. Talk to nurses at local hospitals and see who they recommend, believe me they know the good ones.
I may have a unique problem in todays world ,I am a caregiver for my 88 year old Mom,and I am having a great deal of difficulty in convincing to stay with me. She lives alone in a trailer park in Florida and has literally no support system there. In the last several years, she has had bouts of congestive heart failure that forced her to live with my husband and myself for six monthes at a time, but she is so fiercely independent, that I am left with no alternative but to drive her back to Florida. My friends and other family members tell me that at her age, I should insist she stay with me, but as long as she is able to rationally decide to go home , I can not in all conscience refuse her.
yes how i can relate. what i do not understand is why so many children throw their parents away and go on with theeir everyday lives. I am that caregiver of a preious man whom i have looked after for several years now he has only me to love respect and adhere to his wishes,so at this time i have made this my mission not only has it been very hard as i have had really no one to help me i gave up my job so far it has been three years. i think i understand a little more now as i am not his child nor part of his family thankfully i worked for him before all of this started and he made all of his wishes known to me. I love him as my own father.there are times when i have been so exhausted that my own health was put into jepordy.i finally have doctors nurses healthcare professionals that support me in what i am doing and i am finally able to breathea sigh of relief and get the rest i need . what amazes me is you can throw your loveones in a home or whatever you want to call it and they get paid thousands of dollars yet i do not get a dime and only through the grace of GOD HAVE I MADE IT THIS FAR .i will never throw him away i will always be there.
Yes sleep is very important. I have been caring for a husband for five years with vascular dementia. His short term memory is a challenge for him. he goes to bed at 6p and gets up 3/4 times night to go to bathroom. I am a light sleeper so I wake up but I go to bed early so I get eight hours of sleep. I get up early in the morning and relish that time alone to just think and veg.
this is a note to AJK, whose husband had a stroke 5 yrs. ago and stays up 'till 2am to watch t.v. and wants her to stay up with him. Learn to say "no". Perhaps make it a Friday/Saturday nite thing. You have to look after yourself and if he was in a care facility, he would not be allowed to do that. Perhaps "no" would also benifit him in many other ways. As the saying goes: sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind, so be cruel to yourself and to him and get your proper sleep. Actually, it sounds to me like you are crying out for help and my dear, you are the one that has to help yourself. You have a very heavy load. Get hubby to do the wash and fold the clothes from the dryer. If vacuming is too much for him, get a swiffer sweeper and a swiffer duster. Plus, He needs a hobby.How about a cooking classes? My mom was dying and she taught my dad to cook when he was 80 years old and he loved it, I could tell some funny stories about his procedures. They were very surgical. His pies were great!! There are loads of ideas, get crackin' and all the best to you both. Hope you both get a proper nights sleep real soon. Margaret from Canada
YES! REST! My husband just had two heart attacks. I rest as much as I can. I have us both on a very good schedule for day and night. I have certainly told our friends and Family, and all of them do understand and respect our times to chat on the phone or to visit. Yes, it is a long road back for us both.We pray each day that God does not give us more than we can handle. :)
I care for my elderly mother with Alzheimer's, my husband with progressive MS and an adult daughter with multiple disabilities.
Sleep is a number one priority for me.
Without the necessary sleep I couldn't function.
There are too many important decisions to be made on a regular basis.
If I were sleep deprived it would have a very negative impact.
I took care of my husband for 9 yrs.after he suffered 2 strokes. Sleep is very impt.but sometimes very interrupted. I found joining a support group, which met once a month was very helpful. Listening to other caregivers really helped me. Sometimes their stories made me feel that I had an easier job then many others. I also felt that prayer helped me when I was really stressed. Sometimes just going outside in my yard & talking to the sky helped me, when, I thought I can't do this anymore. My dear husband is now at rest, but, I would do anything to be back in the role as his 'caregiver'.
I work the night shift, going on 20 years. I try to be disciplined about keeping to a routine and I aim for 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep. I KNOW that 6 hours is a magnic number--with less than that, the cortisol/insulin/leptin chemicals play havoc with my mood and ability to function. I mean even my most basic ability to drive the car is negatively affected. Scary.
It was when I had gone 10 days without a 6-hour block of sleep that I knew that I had to put my own mother with Alzheimer's into a nursing home. I said I would never put her in a nursing home--but without sleep, I just could not go on caring for her.
My husband is 5 years post-stroke. It has been a long rocky road to come to what everyone calls a "new normal". He was always a night owl and I'm not. But now that he's home 24/7, he wants me to stay up with him and watch TV until 2am. I still do the bulk of the home repairs, work part-time and take care of the bills, taxes, errands,etc. so I NEED my sleep. And I need my time out of house and away from him. And him sleeping till 11am really cuts into the time I can work on the house. We've started hiring some stuff out because I'm just getting drained. Sleep is definitely very important but so in any type of self-care.
I agree with what was in your article,my wife is a care give for a couple in their 90's. But in addition to that my wife has ADD and ADHD, which compounds everything. I have tried being very supportive, loving and making sure that we turn off the tv and communicate every night, my says it is very helpful to do that. She has also been under the care of a psychiatrist for the last 10 years and takes various meds for that, what else can I do ?
I completely agree. I visit my mother who's been in a nursing home for several years with advanced Alzheimer's disease, three or four times a day. Luckily I live only four blocks from the nursing home. This way I can keep tabs on everything that's going on, and she sees a friendly face all during the day, just as if she were "home". I run three small businesses from my home office, so I've worked things out so that everything gets accomplished. One thing I know though is that sleep and a feeling of well-restedness makes all the difference in the world to being able to handle all my various duties daily and give my mother the smiles and caring that she deserves.
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Worst food poisoning you ever had
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Does alcohol poisoning count?ReplyCancel
The one and only time I ever visited a Carl's Jr. I blame Wonky McValtrax.ReplyCancel
White fucking Castle, Port Huron, MI, 1981. I didn't really want it, but it was the only thing open. I ended up so sick. I still gag when I see the logo still.ReplyCancel
Fried eggs. Took a couple of bites and 30 seconds later I was violently ill and then sick as a dog for a few days. After that, in a cake or something – fine. On their own I wouldn't touch eggs for more than ten years.
Then there was the Southern Comfort episode but that wasn't exactly poisoning. Or food.ReplyCancel
Taco bell, and of course I went back, different location though lolReplyCancel
@Rhysie you are supposed to wind up sitting on a toilet after eating 10 or 12 White Castle bombs. BUT you aren't supposed to eat there until after closing time and nothing else is open.ReplyCancel
First and last time, Sandybrook!! That stuff is nasty! And, to get sick after eating it: insult to injury!
I don't understand the appeal of that crap. I'd rather eat can cat food. I'm serious. lolReplyCancel
Worst actual food poisoning: cheap sushi. Still love sushi, just pay for quality now
Worst what I initially thought was food poisoning: Burst appendix. Really glad I don't have a second one of those
@ninotchka: 20 + years later and I still can't stand the smell of Southern ComfortReplyCancel
Im still not sure till this day if it was food poisoning or the flu but its when I was consulting and in the process of packing allmyself to get to the airport and fly home. I was puking so much I couldnt pack anymore and very weak also… Long story short, couldnt fly and stayed in the hotel bed all weekend longReplyCancel
Sloppy Joe's at a campground we were staying it. I was the only one that got sick, but I was sick enough for all of us. Won't ever eat them again.ReplyCancel
Whippy and by that I mean soft serve ice cream was at an all inclusive resort & went off site. Didn't even occur to me that dairy would be processed differently than back home. ( you do remember only drink bottled water!). Had to fly back in 2 days and thought the agony was never going to end. How could I manage to get on a plane and hog and destroy the toilet I was worried but luckily it stopped just in time. Now I will not eat anything of the sort while I am away.ReplyCancel
Time Magazine calls the White Castle slider the "Most Influential Burger Of All Time" @Rhysie 🙂
(Because they are the first fast food empire)
Swordfish, viciously sick. But yes I still eat it.ReplyCancel
The Manor in North Jersey. My secretary had been raving about the place, so I went with a group of ladies from work one Saturday night for the $25 buffet. All the lobster you can eat, right? Well, they leave that lobster out on a table for hours and it's friggin' LUKEWARM. Get the picture? Plus massive amounts of anisette shots. I spent Sunday morning praying to Saint Theresa because I knew God was busy working. By Monday, when I went back to work I was still sicker than a dog. My boss took one look at me and asked if the dog died.ReplyCancel
And I will never do buffet or salad bars again. At this point in my life, I don't even eat out anymore. I stopped after I saw the sandwich guy in my neighborhood on his break picking his toejam. Seriously.ReplyCancel
Sour/skunked beer from a dirty tap. I had hallucinations better than any acid I ever took. Totally shit myself while puking in the bath tub. Why was I puking in the bath tub? Because I was sitting on the toilet when the urge to puke came on, and I wasn't putting my face near that horror emanating from the bowl. From about 11:30 at night to 6:30 in the morning I was waking up every 45 minutes to puke or poop or both. Never got tap beer in that joint again.ReplyCancel
Bunky Burgers at O'Hare airport.
I was with my high school Spanish Club on our way back to Michigan from Mexico. 16 of us were sick, but didn't want to tell our parents because we all thought we had alcohol poisoning from partying crazy hard our last night. It took us two weeks to figure it out and get to the doctor.ReplyCancel
One Christmas in the 80s my gay uncle did the cooking and instead of traditional fare served lots of trendy hors d'oeuvres.
The Swedish meatballs were the belle of the ball, which was unfortunate, as they sent everyone running for the loo within an hour.
The whole family was in, so there weren't enough bathrooms to accommodate everyone, I think I ran outside to vomit in the snow.
I have no interest in eating meatballs ever again.
Not sure if it was oysters or something else but after a weekend of eating 4 dozen the size of hamburgers, I had some horrid lower g.I. issue that lasted months! Adore oysters still.
Worst was first night in Paris where I had some pasta that had me vomiting all night long much to the chagrin of our hosts. Was sick.in bed for the next 4 days and literally.missed all the beauty of the city.ReplyCancel
@Sass, I have never eaten at Outback (blooming onion? Gross!) but I have made Alice Springs chicken with this recipe. It does look horrible, but everyone said it was better than the restaurant's version. Mushrooms, bacon, mustard, yum! (I halved the amount of cheese, though. Chicken shouldn't be slippery.)ReplyCancel
That would be the time I discovered I'm allergic to olives … throat swelled up; body was covered in the worst hive-type spots that appeared out of nowhere; body was pulsating; was covered in sweat and couldn't talk … thankfully someone – who was allergic to mushrooms – found me writhring around a corridor at work, recognised the symptoms and called an ambulance. And no, I've never touched them again. But the irony is, we have an income-generating olive grove here at home! LOL …ReplyCancel
Guess I'm lucky that I've never had food poisoning. Either luck or I have an iron stomach.ReplyCancel
I've just had regular food poisoning from eating rotten/expired food( vomiting and diarrhrea) but my cousin had it really bad from the food at a Chinese wedding; he had it so bad he had to go to the hospital and be on IV fluids!ReplyCancel
A now closed middle eastern place. I went for dinner on a Saturday night. Middle of the night, throwing up wishing for death. Sunday, even worse, but nothing left in. I went to work on Sunday, and looked like death. My employees actually sent me home. They thought I was going to die on them. I had a minor ear infection at the time that decided to spread to my sinus,then throat,then lungs.Then kidneys. I couldn't eat or drink. Fever spiked to 105f. By Tuesday, I was in the hospital. I actually don't remember going. Just remember going to bed on Monday night, and bits and pieces til Thursday.ReplyCancel
Hot wings in Burbank – since then I've only had them when I make them myself.
Also had a bad bout with a McDLT back in high school. The hot side was hot, but the cold side was not so cold. Only eat McNuggets (I know) or an Egg McMuffin if I have no choice other than McDonalds.
Tequila and I had a rough patch in college. Now I can only have the occasional margarita, and only with the good stuff (no Cuervo). Can't really even stand the smell.ReplyCancel
Oh yes, I also got mono from an unwashed fork at a fancy restaurant at the Bellagio in Vegas. Lovely memories…ReplyCancel
Never had food poisoning! 😀
No, that's not exactly true… I have severe IBS, which means everything I eat turns into food poisoning.
A couple years ago, I FINALLY!!! got it mostly under control, but it took so many hard drugs that I'm fairly certain I personally kept the economy of Afghanistan afloat for the past 20 years.ReplyCancel
Stepforded – Sometimes that happens, you become allergic to things the more you're around them. Like beekeepers, the more they get stung, the more sensitive they get to it over time.
A friend of mine grew up in Arizona, US desert, and has completely different allergies than people around here; hers are all things found in AZ.ReplyCancel
Sushi in Myrtle Beach. Was in a van and had to stop every five minutes to vomit. Took me 15 years to eat sushi again.ReplyCancel
Ethiopian food! I really thought my life was ending for 2 days. And I have eaten it again because my SO is Ethiopian, I have no choice LOLReplyCancel
They are supposed to be the best burger place in Los Angeles, but the last two times I got food poisoning was from an In N Out Burger. After the first time, I swore I would never eat there again. But about a year later I was craving their fries (which are the best I've ever eaten), so I decided to give them another try. Bad idea! I got food poisoning again. I guarantee I will never go back. But I don't have problems eating burgers at other places.ReplyCancel
Not food poisoning, but I was in the kitchen of a Turkish restaurant, and the cook gave me a pinch of meat and said to try it. I asked what it was and he said it was raw beef or lamb, I forget. He said you eat it raw, and the spices cook it in your stomach. He was a nice guy, and I didn't want to insult him by refusing, so I ate it. It didn't taste bad, but was the first thing I ate since breakfast, about 10hrs before. It was about the worst heartburn I ever had.ReplyCancel
@Count, LOL! Skunky beer cleanse!ReplyCancel
@Violet, same Malibu aversion here, for the same reason. When I was buying the bottle I had to ask for help because it was on a higher shelf. I wish I'd just walked away…ReplyCancel
I was 18 and in a new city and going thru hell as it was. Ate pizza from a fast food Italian chain that I hope goes out of business, absolutely hate them. I got botulism because they used expired spoiled tomato sauce in the pizza. It took me years before I could eat pizza again, and then it was because I made it myself. Very rarely did I order pizza to my house, even though I didn't get food provisioning again. The one good thing about being diagnosed with celiac disease a few years ago is that I never can eat in a restaurant again. If it's not made by me or my mom I don't eat it.
I wouldn't wish food poisoning on even Blohan. It was a nightmare, and traumatized me for years. I'm almost 40 and I still remember how terrifying it was like it was yesterday.
There are two types of people in the world…those who have had food poison and those who haven't. I was 17 years old. It was a bit late so I stopped at this convenient store that was also a deli. I was buy a BBQ sandwich when the guy at the register gave me the sandwich for free. I ate it and it tasted fine. About two hours later I had projectile vomiting. I threw up 15 times! My mother ran in to see what was wrong and witnessed me throwing up. I drank some water before my mother got the chance to tell me not to do it. I then threw up 15 more times. No, I have had a BBQ sandwich ever since that night. That was 27 years ago.ReplyCancel
I got salmonella from what I thought was chicken fingers but that shit must have been undercooked or mishandled in some way because I've never been sicker. Puked almost every ten minutes, had to sleep by the toilet because I was too weak to move. I seriously thought that I was going to die. And fuck no I'd never eat that shit again.ReplyCancel
I got massive food poisoning from the disgusting "pizza" at Chuck E Cheese when I was six. I was so sick I refused to eat pizza for over a year, even if it was from a place other than Chuck E Cheese.
I haven't had food poisoning since then but I'm sure it's only a matter of time since I do eat out about once a week.ReplyCancel
Spoiled, sun-rotted Mayo as a child. I haven't gone near it since. Blue cheese. Tried it once; got super sick. Can't even stand the remote smell. Will. not. Take a bite of food that has touched it briefly. The perfume of it invokes gag reflexes. That'd be it.ReplyCancel
i got it at my rehearsal dinner for my wedding from a salad. so did my grandmother and aunt. mine was way worse because i had a couple of glasses of red wine that night. i was in the hospital spewing until two hours before the ceremony began.
the er doctors saved my wedding! they put the two ivs i needed up to the ceiling so i could rush out of there. i froze my butt off in the warm july california sun because of the ivs, but i made it to my wedding. i survived the day (no food or cake but i did rally for a shot with my husband!!!) and so did my grandmother's dress.
still hate that place but i still eat salad.ReplyCancel
Bad Chinese food 🙁
I thought they cooked it fresh on a Monday, but apparently at this place I went to, they recycle what didn't get sold on Saturday for Monday and Tuesday, then cook a new batch up mid-week. To keep it looking fresh and glossy they pile all the food up with MSG and food colouring.
Never again 🙁ReplyCancel
Disneyland 3 days ago. Pizza for lunch in fantasyland. Leaving an extra big tip for housekeeping. They should just scrap this room and start fresh.ReplyCancel


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HUNTINGTON - Elam Derk Jones, age 29, passed away March 22, 2013 in Huntington in a coal mining accident. Elam was born Sept. 26, 1983 in Provo, Utah to Derk and Julie Justice Jones. He married Jaqlynn Tolley on Jan. 21, 2006 in Price, Utah. Their marriage was solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple on Aug. 22, 2009.
Elam obtained the rank of Eagle Scout. He was a proud coal miner for many years and was a member of the Rhino Mine Rescue Team. He enjoyed raising his pheasants. Elam loved the outdoors, especially hunting and fishing, and he was an avid snowmobiler. He had no fear of anything. But most of all, he loved his wife, boys and his dog.
Elam is survived by his wife, Jaqlynn; sons, Kelsen and Dacyn Jones; parents, Derk and Julie Jones of Huntington; in-laws, Roger and Leslie Tolley of Price; sister, Mindee (Lance) Maki of Ephraim; three sisters-in-law, Jill (Mark) Emerson of Price, Jenile Tolley of Price, and Jessica (Brady) Lund of Redmond, Utah; grandparents, Karren Justice and Blake and Wilda Jones, all of Huntington; and great-grandparents, Robert and Colleen Potts of Price.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Orson Justice; cousin, Courtney Justice; and grandparents-in-law, Glen Morris and Josephine Tolley.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Huntington LDS Stake Center (240 North Main Street). There will be a viewing Tuesday, March 26 at the Stake Center from 6-8 p.m. and on Wednesday from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. prior to the services. Interment will be in the Huntington City Cemetery. Services are in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Family and friends may sign the guest book and share memories of Elam at www.fausettmortuary.com.


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Married Actor Denies Trying to Hit On Live-Tweeting Model During Red Eye Flight
Actor Brian Presley, whose alleged attempt to hit on model and seatmate Melissa Stetten during a recent flight from LA to New York was live-tweeted by the latter and has since gone viral, posted a Facebook message last night denying Stetten's version of events.
"None of what this person said happened is true," Presley wrote to his 1,683 fans. "I guess in today's age you have to be careful who you say hello too [sic]."
The married actor, best known for playing Jack Ramsey on the canceled ABC soap Port Charles, claims he spent 10 minutes engaged in a "friendly conversation with the person sitting next to me, had some food, and went to sleep," only to learn today that "this person has been tweeting about me drinking beer in the airplane bathroom, and trying to commit adultery with her on the airplane."
He humblebraggedly commended Stetten on her fiction-writing skills, saying "I was on a soap opera for years and never did the writers write something this good."
The 34-year-old Texas native, whom Stetten says was drunk during their public tete-a-tete despite his self-professed commitment to teetotalism, insisted in his post that "sobriety, God, and My Family are the most important things in my life," adding: "My Wife Rocks, My Kids Rock, and Sobriety Rocks!!!"
Presley is not the only one claiming Stetten may be telling tall tales.
When this story first began to gain traction, ShortFormBlog recommended that its readers take Stetten's tweets "with a grain of salt," noting her recently concluded relationship with shock jock Anthony Cumia of The Opie & Anthony Show, as well as previous tweet wherein she attempted to fool her followers into believing she had won March's historic Mega Millions jackpot.
Responding to Presley's denial, Stetten tweeted a screenshot of his Facebook post accompanied by the words "now THIS is funny."


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Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (Elsevier, 1996)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T18:41:26Z 2006-01-10T18:41:26Z 1996 Annals of Tourism Research 23 (4): 950-953 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2091 International tourism is now the dominant force in the world economy and consequently, is heavily promoted as a source of funding sustainable community development. Developing and marketing communities as tourist destinations rarely comes without human costs, however, including a transfiguration of the inhabitants' social history and the dynamics of their place. As a result, there exists tremendous need for additional research on the long-term effects of tourism on emergent destination communities. In response, this study presents the preliminary findings of research among residents and visitors to the twin Alaska "ghost" towns of Kennicott and McCarthy and the implications for a new direction in tourism studies, one that recognizes a socially-defined landscape often overlooked in the traditional literature of tourism and outdoor recreation in protected areas in Alaska and worldwide. 263631 bytes application/pdf en_US Elsevier Alaska Tourism Environmental perception Cognitive images Wilderness National parks Kennicott (Alaska) Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve (Alaska) McCarthy (Alaska) Wilderness images of tourism and community Article
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (June , 1998)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T19:03:11Z 2006-01-10T19:03:11Z 1998-06 Swara: East African Wildlife Society Nature Watch 6 (1998): 1-2 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2093 Perhaps more than any other region of the world, Africa's dependence on natural resources makes it especially vulnerable to environmental change. To confront the growing social and natural problems, many sub-Saharan countries are now turning to ecotourism, with governments and residents alike attracted by suggestions that ecotourism can simultaneously sustain communities and the natural environments which surround them. Indeed, the success of nature-based tourism in Uganda — now the fastest growing sector in the country — makes clear its potential for economic development. Such windfalls do not come without social costs, however, and the manner in which ecotourism develops directly affects the sustainability of local areas. Yet, tourism proponents throughout East Africa continue to stress upscale facilities and the desires of affluent international visitors over the quality of choice afforded indigenous people in conserving their natural heritage and traditional practices. The challenges and opportunities of such an approach are highlighted in this examination of sustainable tourism and wildlife protection in Uganda's newest protected area and former game preserve, Katonga. 140286 bytes application/pdf en_US Africa Ecotourism Uganda Environmental conservation Natural resources -- Management National parks Sustainable communities & ecotourism in Uganda: the Katonga Wetlands Conservation Project Article
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951-; Robinson, Alan (World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature-Indochina Programme & Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, November , 1999)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- Robinson, Alan 2006-01-10T19:31:07Z 2006-01-10T19:31:07Z 1999-11 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2095 This management proposal is intended to establish guidelines for the design, development, management, and marketing of ecotourism and environmental education activities, attractions, and facilities in Con Dao National Park and Con Dao District, in southern Viet Nam. As such, it provides specific recommendations and policies for developing and managing ecotourism and environmental education as tools for sustainable biodiversity conservation in the marine and terrestrial areas of CDNP, and for sustainable community development for the people of Con Dao island and by extension, the Greater Mekong Subregion. The major objective of this Ecotourism and Environmental Education Management Proposal is to create a flexible framework in which ecotourism and environmental education are viewed as part of a comprehensive planning and management process for Con Dao District and the National Park. 1364929 bytes application/pdf en_US World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature-Indochina Programme & Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Southeast Asia Con Dao National Park (Vietnam) Vietnam Tourism Natural resources -- Management Environmental education Con Dao National Park Ecotourism Management and Environmental Education Proposal Technical Report
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951-; Hall, C. Michael (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- Hall, C. Michael 2006-01-08T17:51:42Z 2006-01-08T17:51:42Z 2000 In Hall, C. M. & S. J. Page (eds) TOURISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST ASIA: ISSUES AND CASES, pp. 178-194 0750641282 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2068 The emerging Southeast Asian nations of Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma) are undergoing substantial change. Desperately seeking economic growth, these impoverished nations have been ravaged by decades of civil war from which they are now only beginning to recover. Tourism is a significant component of economic development which also has important political overtones in terms of the degree to which tourism is seen to give legitimacy to government, particularly with respect to Myanmar in which people have reported to have been forcibly used as labour for tourism-related developments. This chapter briefly outlines some of the key development issues associated with each country and the role that tourism plays in the economic and political life of residents and visitors. 1003711 bytes application/pdf en_US Butterworth-Heinemann Tourism Southeast Asia Cambodia Terrorism Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar: from terrorism to tourism? Book chapter
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-08T17:30:16Z 2006-01-08T17:30:16Z 2002 In Harris, R.; T. Griffin & P. Williams (eds) SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, pp. 221-237. 0750689463 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2066 The phenomenal growth of tourism experienced by the East Asia-Pacific region in the 1990s, nearly double the world average, has played a formative role in reuniting and empowering countries long fragmented by conflict and genocide. Stimulated by an increase in disposable income and leisure time, greater political stability and openness, and aggressive promotional campaigns, tourism is further credited by proponents with discouraging unsustainable practices in environmentally sensitive areas, while simultaneously creating greater opportunities for women and ethnic minorities to participate in the development process. As a result, governments throughout the region are now busy (re)positioning their countries as "authentic" destinations for visitors interested in local culture and nature. However, not every country or community in Asia will succeed as a tourist attraction, and those that do may discover the economic benefits less consequential than the social costs, as residents find their governments more intrusive and traditional practices rendered inauthentic for tourists' consumption. The challenges of balancing such development with environmental conservation – and the possibilities offered by tourism in reconnecting an area long defined by its history of conflict, through expanded networks of travel and communication – are the focal points of this case study on Con Dao National Park in southern Vietnam. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Indochina Programme. 776029 bytes application/pdf en_US Butterworth-Heinemann Tourism Southeast Asia Vietnam National parks Convicts & Conservation: Con Dao National Park, Vietnam Book chapter
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (Environmental Studies Association of Canada, 2002)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-08T17:42:50Z 2006-01-08T17:42:50Z 2002 Alternatives Journal: Canadian Environmental Ideas and Action 28 (4): 16-19 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2067 Only a few years after the murder of eight foreign tourists in 1999, kidnaped while on an Abercrombie & Kent tour of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda, the country is finally, albeit slowly and rather tenuously, experiencing a rebound in international travelers. Where only recently, "adventure tourism" referred to the possibility of abduction and death for foreign tourists, the term once again suggests the possibilities offered by a country whose national parks and protected areas remain among the world's most significant, culturally and ecologically. Like much of sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda has endured decades of ethnic violence, institutional mismanagement and international neglect, poverty, and disease. Yet, recent increases in disposable income and leisure time, improved political stability and openness, and aggressive tourism campaigns have fueled the boom in tourism both locally and intra-regionally. As a result, tourism – and more specifically, culture- and nature-based ecotourism – is now one of the most important sectors in the regional economy, and governments throughout East Africa are busy (re)positioning themselves as international destinations. Certainly, not every country or community in Africa will succeed as an attraction, and those that do may discover the economic benefits less consequential than the social costs, as governments become more intrusive and traditional practices are rendered inauthentic for tourists' consumption. Nonetheless, ecotourism may play a critical and formative role in reuniting countries and a continent long fragmented by genocide and politics. Ugand Wildlife Authority; ACDI-VOCA 255146 bytes application/pdf en_US Environmental Studies Association of Canada Tourism Uganda Africa Gorilla tourism: Uganda uses tourism to recover from decades of violent conflict Article
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, April , 2004)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T18:50:51Z 2006-01-10T18:50:51Z 2004-04 The Journal of Pacific Studies 26 (1-2): 131-150 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2092 Tourism has grown to become the dominant service industry in the world in the 21st Century and a common prescription for funding sustainable community development throughout the East Asia-Pacific region. Certainly, there can be no denial of tourism's potential to provide meaningful economic alternatives for indigenous residents. However, the marketing of rural communities and island nations as tourist attractions may also transfigure the dynamic historically and socially-constructed landscapes of the destination through the reformation of local identities and cultural patterns of behaviour. To encourage a proactive approach to tourism, planning must therefore be sensitive to the social morphology of the destination community and the intersect with tourist activities. To encourage such a process, this paper adopts a geographic perspective to examine the qualitative effects of ecotourism on the Micronesian island of Kosrae as it moves from a subsistence-based, conservative, patriarchal society to a tourism destination in the global economy. In this manner, the cognitive perceptions and practised lifestyles of residents and visitors and the recreational space of the destination are distinguished from the inhabited place of local people, and the social structure, meaning, and cohesion of Kosraean culture more meaningfully clarified. UO Micronesia & South Pacific Program 804062 bytes application/pdf en_US University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Tourism Federated States of Micronesia Cognitive images Environmental perception Gender & womens studies Geographies of tourism and place in Micronesia: the 'sleeping lady' awakes Article
Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- (Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses & Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, October , 2004)[more][less]Ringer, Gregory D., 1951- 2006-01-10T19:16:50Z 2006-01-10T19:16:50Z 2004-10 Household Survey Report, 10, pp. 23-39 1451-4850 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2094 This report briefly outlines the concerns and recommendations of a rapid assessment project undertaken in April 2004, with the support of the Montenegro Business Alliance and the U.S. Consulate in Podgorica. While admittedly limited in scope, due to both time and financial constraints, the ideas presented are intended to reflect the current and potential status of tourism development and marketing in Montenegro. Montenegro Business Alliance and the U.S. Department of State, Podgorica 1163199 bytes application/pdf en_US Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses & Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Montenegro Tourism -- Montenegro Community development -- Montenegro Montenegro sustainable tourism assessment Book chapter
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