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Help For Your Grieving Pet

posted by Rodale Mar 18, 2011 4:01 pm

Coping strategies for when your dog loses her best friend
By Justine Lee, D.V.M., Prevention
A Golden Retriever and a Maltese may seem like an odd couple, but Indy and Katie were as close as two dogs could be. After spending their days together, Katie would sleep on Indy’s back each night, her four-pound body rising and falling with his snores. “It was adorable,” says their owner, Karen Wolkenberg of Roslyn, NY. But at fourteen years old, Indy’s health deteriorated, and the family had to put him to sleep. Immediately after, the normally sweet-natured Katie, who at age ten had grown up with Indy, turned nasty, refusing to eat and urinating all over the house. “I’d look at her and think, What’s going on?” Wolkenberg says. “Then it finally hit me that she was grieving.”

Taken from Caring.com

Top 10 Heart Attack Symptoms You Might Ignore

posted by Lara, selected from Caring.com Nov 3, 2010 4:01 pm

By Melanie Haiken, Caring.com senior editor

Heart attacks don’t always strike out of the blue — there are many symptoms we can watch for in the days and weeks leading up to an attack. But the symptoms may not be the ones we expect. And they can be different in men and women, and different still in older adults. Last year, for example, a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Institute found that 95 percent of women who’d had heart attacks reported experiencing symptoms in the weeks and months before the attack — but the symptoms weren’t the expected chest pain, so they went unrecognized.
7 Heart Attack Signs Women — And Doctors — Often Miss
Don’t let that happen to you. Here, 10 heart symptoms you’re likely to ignore — and shouldn’t.

The Truth About Tytler
by Loren Collins

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Another week gone and one week closer to Christmas.

It's time for a deep breath and to just relax.  Hey!  It's the weekend!  No matter what happened during the week, it's time to say, "OK, I've done the best I can do, and let's call it a day."  You may be looking back on the week as a huge success; or NOT.  If you are stressing over a disappointment, possibly an old adage from my brother's childhood Karate instructor may help.  He once said, "Even monkey sometime fall out of tree!"

Have a great weekend!