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Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Saturday, April 01, 1995 to Friday, April 01, 2005
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In November of 1997 at the age of 24, I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Several months before I was diagnosed, I had given birth to my third child, a son. I was excited and so happy to have a full term and happy bouncing baby boy. One day I was lying down on my couch relaxing while my baby was having his nap, when I looked down upon my chest and noticed a lump protruding out on the left side of my breast. It was hard and not moveable. I asked my boyfriend at the time to look at it. He said should see the doctor right away. So called my gynecologist to sched ...continued...
- By: Anonymous
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 8:31:00 PM
- updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015 4:24:00 PM
Hamster Wheel
Sunday, April 13, 2014
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Today we woke up to more of the same. A howling wind and violently flapping tent walls. We discovered that the wind, which is from the north, is rapidly pushing us back to our start location from yesterday. We call it a hamster wheel when the ice beneath our feet moves as quickly south as we move north. Since we are tent bound I have felt a survival mode kick in with both of us. I found myself hoarding the last of my Pop-Tarts as I secretly tried to eat them inside my sleeping bag, denying their very existence when questioned by Mike over the noisy wrappers giving me up. From the crunching ...continued...
- By: Mark Andresen
- Monday, March 24, 2014, 11:06:00 PM
- updated: Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:35:00 AM
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Hamster Wheel
North Pole
Riding Life's Rollercoaster
Sunday, July 20, 2014 to Wednesday, July 30, 2014
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Riding Life’s Rollercoaster by Carolyn Unruh as told to Sally Jadlow My husband, Dave, and I graduated from K-State in Manhattan, Kansas in June 1967. We married that same month. Dave had been a member of the ROTC program at KSU and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Dave finished graduate school in 1968. He got a 1-year deferment from Uncle Sam. We moved to Kansas City so Dave could accept a marketing position with IBM. One year later, Dave received his papers to report for active duty. At the outset of our marriage, we wanted children. I knew from ...continued...
- By: Sally Jadlow
- Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 12:39:00 PM
- updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:08:00 PM
Non-Ethnic Groups
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 to Friday, April 21, 2017
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I found this week's module very interesting. I am personally apart of both the disabled and LGBTQA community. I have always experienced the client's perspective and not the providers perspective so it was eye-opening to me. I think it is important to put people before their disability, especially since everywhere else you go, it seems you are defined by your disability. Cultural competence is being, not "tolerant", but understanding and sympathisizng for every cultural difference. Being tolerant sounds too negative. Since I work in IT, I need to work with all different people ...continued...
- By: Key Burns
- Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 1:47:00 PM
- updated: Friday, April 21, 2017 12:37:00 PM
Chapter One
Monday, November 24, 2014 to Thursday, December 04, 2014
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Chapter One Matt Dalton held his breath. The doctor removed his glasses, and tapped them against the document in his hands, his blank face conveying nothing of the opinion he was about to render. “Mr. Dalton, based on this report, I’d say there’s about a ninety-nine-percent chance this boy is your son.” Matt’s pulse raced. It’s what he expected, but the doctor’s words of confirmation made it real. Holy Christ, he had a son. He was a father. Nothing so profoundly life-changing had ever happened to him, and it took his breath away. He s ...continued...
- By: Darlene Deluca
- Thursday, December 04, 2014, 10:48:00 PM
- updated: Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:58:00 PM
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Unexpected Legacy
Cover
Self-assessment of understanding of cultural diversity issues
Thursday, January 19, 2017 to Sunday, January 29, 2017
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I have been a certified nursing assistant (CNA) for the past 6 years. I have many responsibilities as a CNA regarding all patient’s physical, emotional, and mental well-being. I am expected to handle culture and religion issues with respect, kindness, and understanding. I have been in situations where my clients believes in a different religion then I do, and they contact my boss to tell them that that they don’t want me to be there caregiver anymore due to differences in religion. As a CNA I recognize and believe that spiritual beliefs are different, in which r ...continued...
- By: Paige Schultz
- Sunday, January 29, 2017, 2:26:00 PM
- updated: Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:49:00 AM
Second Meet
Friday, April 21, 2017 to Friday, April 28, 2017
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We meet again for the second time on the birthday of his closest friend my cousin and cousin is also his bestfriend they are together in playing basketball, roaming around and do stupid stuff... On that day something happened unexpectedly, he is seating beside me, when I'm already drunk I tried to touch him in his private parts... He didnt react he just let me of what I'm doing... I thought he is the kind of guy who wants play with me... But I guess I'm wrong after that drinking session he told me that he wants me to go at the lodge with him I answered him& ...continued...
- By: Anonymous
- Saturday, January 06, 2018, 11:49:00 AM
- updated: Friday, January 12, 2018 6:48:00 PM
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Second Meet
Private Parts
Slice of Memory
Wednesday, January 01, 1969 to Sunday, January 01, 2012
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- By: Michael McKinzy
- Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:19:00 AM
- updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:21:00 AM
Slice of Memory
Monday, July 01, 1996 to Saturday, July 01, 2006
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I'm disabled and live on a low monthly fixed income!Life has never been easy for me as it still isn't!I do the best i can with what little i have!In 2006 was the worst year of my life because i was thrown from the back of a truck and in the hospital for 3 months in a coma with several broke bones,punctured lungs,heart stopped twice,given 6 pints of blood,lip was ripped off and jaw crushed,i had to have reconstruction of my face!I had to learn to eat,walk,and talk again.Leaving the hospital i asked where my youngest brother was and was told that he was locked up facing a death penalty for murde ...continued...
- By: Lisa McCullough
- Saturday, July 16, 2016, 2:09:00 PM
- updated: Sunday, July 24, 2016 4:58:00 PM
MY LIFE
Saturday, May 26, 2007 to Wednesday, June 06, 2007
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THIS IS MY LIFE STORY <p ...continued...
- By: FUSHONIA ARTIS
- Thursday, January 31, 2013, 11:48:00 AM
- updated: Friday, April 26, 2013 11:40:00 AM
Jesus' Return
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 to Saturday, October 25, 2014
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This is taken from my first devotional book, Daily Walk with Jesus available on Amazon.com. Jesus’ Return Galatians 1:4 “Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.” As the day of Jesus’ appearing in the sky draws nearer, we see a more definable difference in those who truly have Jesus as their Lord, and those who don’t. For those who have put their faith and trust in Jesus, there is special protection in this scripture even in calamity and a promise of delive ...continued...
- By: Sally Jadlow
- Friday, November 18, 2011, 7:16:00 PM
- updated: Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:19:00 PM
Self-assessment of understanding of cultural diversity issues.
Thursday, February 09, 2017 to Sunday, February 19, 2017
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Although I never thought of myself to be 'prejudiced' or 'biased', I do understand that my beliefs would great impact my work as a healthcare professional. When I had taken the Cultural Competence Self Assessment Survery, I quickly came to a scary realization that I did know as much as I thought I did. For example, there was a question regarding non-verbal communication (pointing fingers, thumbs up, etc) that I had thought was universal. In fact, I was wrong, as I did not realize there are many different ways facial expressions and gestures could be interpreted as. Not surprisi ...continued...
- By: Reema Hamdan
- Sunday, February 19, 2017, 1:51:00 PM
- updated: Sunday, February 19, 2017 7:57:00 PM
Why do you want to be an Accountant?
Wednesday, October 05, 2016 to Saturday, October 15, 2016
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This question was often asked of me while I attempted to get my first “serious” job. It was a difficult, philosophical question to answer. Looking back on those times, I wonder if the enquirer had asked it because he could not remember why he himself had chosen to become an accountant. Nearing retirement, the job interviewer hoped that this young, fresh-faced interviewee might retrospectively give meaning and justification to the previous thirty years of his working life. Unfortunately, there was no blinding flash of wisdom from the mouth of this babe accountant. Shortly after I ...continued...
- By: Daniel M Doyle
- Monday, August 11, 2014, 5:49:00 PM
- updated: Saturday, October 15, 2016 10:11:00 AM
You Become What You Think About
Saturday, March 10, 2012
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Throughout the history of the world, philosophers and religions have disagreed on many things. But they have all agreed on one thing …only one! You become what you think about. Read that sentence again. Most people hear it, but don’t truly understand it. You become that which you think about most of the time. We place value on material, replaceable things and very little value to the most irreplaceable thing of all. Our freedom of thought. Thoughts establish Habits, Attitudes, and Emotions&hellip ...continued...
- By: Anonymous
- Friday, October 21, 2011, 7:20:00 PM
- updated: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:46:00 PM
the first years
Monday, May 02, 2016 to Thursday, May 12, 2016
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Our story Our family is a small and new family, whom has been thru a lot. Mother: Kelly, Son: Tony, and Father: Val. Family's Past history. Kelly and Val meet years ago. And moved onto a Tiny boat together 50sq ft trimaran. As time went on they lived on a number of small boats trying to find something that fit them. Presented with a job offer and good life in HI they moved onto a 75' yatch, that was well equipped for the trip to HI. Then Kelly got pregnant, when she was about 6 months along during the move, About 150 miles out to sea the frame of the boat started to brake due to poor ...continued...
- By: valery tozer
- Thursday, May 12, 2016, 4:41:00 AM
- updated: Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:09:00 AM
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our first boat
our first boat