I HATE IT WHEN MY SLEEVE GETS WET FROM WASHING MY HANDS AND THEN IM COLD!
I hate that too… but I hate it even more when I get wet from washing the dishes!!! ;__;
(Source: funsize112)
Yes, I know Feb 1 has come and past, But being originally from Pennsylvania, I was feeling a bit nostalgic for traditions like Groundhogs Day. lol only in Pa.
Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog resident of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. On February 2 (Groundhog Day) of each year, the town of Punxsutawney celebrates the beloved groundhog with a festive atmosphere of music and food. During the ceremony, which begins well before the winter sunrise, Phil emerges from his temporary home on Gobbler’s Knob, located in a rural area about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of town. According to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter. If Phil does not see his shadow, he has predicted an early spring. The date of Phil’s prognostication is known as Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada. He is considered to be the world’s most famous prognosticating rodent. During the rest of the year, Phil lives in the town library with his “wife” Phyllis.
Sign an organ donation card and save a life:Here is the translation to the previously posted video
Ella Lois Pechony-Levy
Ella is a happy 27 year old, and next week she might die. That is the truth, and that is the grim reality of those on the long organ donor waiting list. Despite the rising public awareness, there are still very few donations.
Mother: You’re strong. I promise you it will be OK.
Narrator: There is a lot of love around 27 year old Ella Pechony’s bed. She had CF. She is unconscious and on an ECMO machine since her lungs collapsed, but her relatives believe she can hear them.
Mother: I promise you that you can come home, and you can do everything.
Ella has fought this terrible disease, which kills most patients before the age of 40, all her life. Fighting, and at the same time studying, getting married and succeeding at everything.
Narrator: Weren’t you afraid of getting into arelationship with someone who might die young? John: Maybe. I was in love. I still am.
Ella’s one chance of survival is a an urgent lung transplant from a deceased who agreed to donate his or her organs.
Prof. Mordechai Kremer, lung unit manager: She is in a very critical state. Her lungs do not function at all. We have about a week’s window of opportunity in which, if a donor is found that will give his lungs, we can save her.
Narrator: And if that doesn’t happen?
Prof: If that doesn’t happen she will die.
Narrator: Do you think she’ll win?
Doctor Blau, Lung and CF unit manager at Schneider Hospital: Yes. Narrator: But you’re a bit teary eyed now.
Doctor Blau: I’m teary eyed because I know the clock is ticking.
Narrator: Dr. Jonathan Cohen and the devoted team at Beilinson Hospital’s ICU are keeping Ella alive in the hope of finding a lung donor. The CF organization is outside, supporting the family. This is what these struggles really look like. And they far too often fail. 70 Israelis are currently waiting for a lung transplant. Unfortunately, about half of them will die, because there are not enough donors. The Israelis have a big heart and they love helping – but they draw the line at organ donations. Only 11% of the population have signed organ-donor cards. Much less than in Europe.
Prof: People don’t donate. They don’t understand the importance of a donation. We don’t have a solution for all these patients. If we had a lung ten days ago, this patient would not be in this situation.
Narrator: Before we left, we asked Ella’s relatives if they wanted us to hide her face. They insisted we didn’t, since it is important for them that we all understand that behind the sad statistics of organ donors in Israel are people who want to live.
Sign an organ donor card and save a life.
Sign an Organ Donor Card and Save a Life
I’ll provide a translation later. But, in short, if my friend doesn’t receive lungs by next week she will die.
A Sad Day for Language Learners
Closing the Smart.fm Service
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Yet another reason for my love/hate affair with my computer. They want to charge 12$ a month for their service, that’s a 144$ a year. For that kind of money I can buy my own study materials. Time to return to book learning and anki.
“The creatures I draw only come alive on somebody’s skin. This is why I never show my designs as so-called art. I draw simply for fun and to have samples to show my clients so they can pick a new design. The creatures depicted take the person’s breath away once they are on his or her skin — and then the two start breathing together, in unison. Human history alters the look of the animals and plants I paint, and when the person wearing them dies, so too do they.”
—Horiyoshi III, Words to Live By, The Japan Times Online.
(via fuckyeahirezumi)
“I can’t believe I was/am this close to dying. “
I can’t get these words out of my mind. They were written four days before she slipped into unconsciousness.
The wife of a friend of mine, X “is in the intensive care, unconscious, intubated, and on a heart-lung machine which oxygenates her body for her. Her own lungs have lived out their usefulness; they can no longer supply oxygen to her body.
She apparently develop an infection and crashed as a result. They need to stabilize her, get rid of the infection, and only then can she be eligible for transplant. The heart-lung machine is a temporary solution, and has its risks as well. She will stay unconscious until her transplant.”
X is a sufferer of Cystic Fibrosis. She just celebrated her 28th birthday. Due to a lack of donated organs in this country, her husband and his father will each donate a lobe of their lungs to her next week. Why do I post this? For two reasons 1. to highlight the fact that most of our frustrations are petty and 2. to encourage everyone, who has not done so already, to fill out an organ donation card.
