Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Wednesday's Digressions

Chorizo  and Mozzarella stuffed smoke jalapenos over black beans. Have this with chorizo cheese fries at Tequilas in Weatherford and you will be good to hook! 

  • The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
  • Most recent brain rotting, so bad it's good movie I've watched.
  • So over the top and cheesy in every way- they had to know what they were doing but, how could they have pulled it off if they were trying to make it that bad? Very cute movie anyway- you can find it on hulu.com. It would be a great sick day movie.
  • Share it with someone you love
  • or hate.
  • As a nurse you'll find it more true in some settings than others but, I can assure you I've worked areas in nursing where patient after patient (in fact the bulk of the patient population) is only there in front of you due to a history of personal choices they've made from substance abuse to failure to manage chronic disease processes to simply not eating like they have some common sense.
  • I know nurses who flat refuse to waste their breath educating patients about exercise, nutrition etc.. Generally speaking, humans won't change- they will die before they commit to any type of change.
  • Saw an ad for a cat appetizer the other day (no not a tasty treat made of cats for humans) it was an appetizer made for cats by humans. It was sea bass and shrimp flavor in a delicate broth. Can't decide if that demonstrates how awesome or pathetic we are. We have the extra time, energy and money on our hands to be able to worry about the delicateness of our cats appetizers broth while we obliviously spend billions on our pets every year as the world falls down around our shoulders, people on this planet literally starve to death and die of easily preventable (and curable) diseases?
  • Another way to look at this: I've never eaten sea bass in my life and the expense of shrimp is a consideration that makes it a rare treat.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm not a nurse - I work in nonprofit law. But I specifically work with people who are terminally ill, and most people KNOW only too well how they got where they are. That doesn't make the pain any less real, of course, and it doesn't mean we don't do what we can to help.

But people who are in bad straits because of personal choices OFTEN will pick up better habits for short periods of time - usually until the current health crisis os over - and then go back to their old ways.

It's frustrating. It hurts me to see it. but it's true.

el chupacabra said...

Hiya Kate- You're def right on the short term improvements- it doesn't make sense but it makes us what we are. We KNOW better on so many things but are wired for short term benefits.

Yes, doesn't mean we don't help or feel for those folks.