Blah, blah, blah — I mean “To Blog Or Not to Blog!?!?!?”
September 2, 2006
Okay, ok, ok… i get it.. I have to put my thoughts in b&w — harder than it sounds. But maybe easier once I get going! Let’s see…
Like many, I have so many ideas of things to blah, blah, blah about — oops, I meant “blog” about. The challenge, I think is trying to stay focused on one subject, and preferably one that has meaning.
“Confuciously” speaking, (I’m thinking), who’s to judge what has meaning?, and what doesn’t?? Here is a quote I read today:
“We are minor in everything but our passions.”
~Elizabeth Brown
“Confusingly” speaking, (I’m thinking),
I SHOULD:
blog about healthcare/health stories/personal history of our medical records and the portability and accessibility of personal records… (this you’ll hear more about, and hopefully you will give me some helpful info and/or your thoughts… to be cont’d…
BUT I would also have FUN blogging about:
- SAILING– I love to SAIL. I have sailed alot – I would run away and sail to the south pacific if I didn’t have a husband and three kids that I LOVE; (I will continue to try to make sailors out of them though). I am the product of seriously hard-core sailors – my parents have circumnavigated, love to race, and live on a sailboat in San Diego. I think my dad is a guru of nautical knowledge – I could probably make money off of him!
- KIDS –I have three – I could make you laugh, cry, or freak out at the thought of having any (if you don’t already, and if you do then you know what I mean!);
- MARRIAGE– celebrating 20 years of it this month (wow, thats scary – really scary would be looking back on 20 years of hairstyles);
- EDUCATION– like Brandy mentions in her blog,(http://05brandymartin05.blogspot.com/), I too have an insatiable quench for learning and the continual pursuit of knowledge. Maybe I’ll continue the pursuit, and just IF I can stay focused on something “preferably, meaningful” I’ll get my PhD and someday you’ll all call me “Dr.” lol
Who knows??
Did I mention kids??? They think I am soooo cool because I am a Bloggin’ Mom – of course they want me to stay off their MySpace though. They can have their space – I am off to create my own…
- Other random thoughts: T.O. (ref:Cowboys) makes me SICK — hello! Dallas, get some class – kick his ASS — outta here!; my electric bill made me want to CRY (and the TXU CSR (cust.serv.rep) in India didn’t have the right answers to read me off her script – really pst me off!) Medical Insurance co’s really tweak me (who’s big brother are they anyway??) and that brings me full circle to what I am supposed to stay focused on — and that is something to do with healthcare, medical records, and who is really in control anyway, and WHY?? Oh, and one more thing dear to my heart: my Grandfather turns 100! in Feb.’07. He is amazing – healthy, comparatively speaking, lives on his own, still cooks, and a really frightening thought – he still drives! Although not much, just to the grocery store early in the morning…
So, trying to focus back on the purposeful stuff. For your first contribution to my informal research: (since you said you care) please answer:
- a. Do you know what your blood-type is? (yes/no)
b. What type is it? - Do you donate blood? (If yes, Occasionally, Regularly, Just-Once)
- Do you fear avian flu? (No, or if Yes, Mild fear, Mediocre fear, or Extreme fear)
- Do you know what childhood illnesses you had? If so,
a. Which do you remember; or
b. Which are you aware of because of documentation alone, or a story passed down to you? - Do you know when you had your last tetanus shot?
- Are you AFRAID to document your willingness (or desire) to be an organ donor? What are your feelings toward this topic?
(Yes/No answers will give me the “data,” but if you want to elaborate and share your thoughts, that would be great too!)
I’ll stop here because I don’t know how well this forum will work for collecting info like this. I have so many questions that I would like to ask. I would really like to know your answers and stories. Maybe I should ask for guidance from some of you technically savvy people who I sooooo envy (seriously) to help me create an interactive survey, or something like that. Any ideas? Any of you ever create a professional survey? I get the statistical analysis part, maybe I should read a book on survey design. ??
September 3, 2006 at 12:19 am
Wow, you have a lot going on, but good luck w/ whatever you decide, and I think this would be a great way to do surveys if kept reasonably short, i’ll fill it out if it helps…
1. don’t know my type
2. cannot donate, heart surgery when younger and they are very picky now
3.I had flu last year for first time and it sucked, i don’t know what the “avian” flu is though??
4. Chickenpox diagnosed twice
5.nope
6.haven’t given it much thought really
i’m not super savvy but if i think of something i’ll be sure to let you know
September 3, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Thanks for reading my blog. Thank you VERY MUCH for your survey info! Would it be too personal to ask about your heart surgery? I am curious about how old you were. If not too personal, could you tell me your “story”? Which parts do you actually remember yourself, and what do you remember because someone told you????
I am exploring the idea, that as people get older, they love to share stories and pass down information that they feel might be important to their children and/or their children’s families someday. My emphasis is on capturing the details of medical events as they happen (medical histories) so that the story, someday isn’t full of missing parts that are hard to retrieve.
Glad your surgery was a success!
To be cont’d…
Kim
September 4, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Okay I will play along, I have a tendency of shocking most adults and police officers so here you go.
a. Do you know what your blood-type is? (yes).
b. What type is it? A+
Do you donate blood? (yes, used to regularly, now occasionally)
Do you fear avian flu? (No)
Do you know what childhood illnesses you had? (yes) If so,
a. Which do you remember; Measles, Chicken Pox, Rubella, pretty much all the major stuff.
b. Which are you aware of because of documentation alone, or a story passed down to you? (Documentation)
Do you know when you had your last tetanus shot? (yes)
Are you AFRAID to document your willingness (or desire) to be an organ donor? (no, I’m donating my penis, hopefully someone can put it to better use).
What are your feelings toward this topic? Will gladly donate what I don’t need or use.
I also enjoy sailing, have two titanium pins in my spinal column, exerienced a heart attack, which was not due to life style (Prinzmetal’s angina a syndrome typically consisting of angina (cardiac chest pain) at rest that occurs in cycles. It is caused by vasospasm, a narrowing of the coronary arteries caused by contraction of the smooth muscle tissue in the vessel walls rather than directly by atherosclerosis (buildup of fatty plaque and hardening of the arteries).
I am raising a seven year old boy, so I know what you mean when you speak of your children. People say he will mellow out by the time he is nine and I can’t wait.
September 5, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Thanks for the survey input. We’ll have to talk more later. In the meantime, LIVE to SAIL! Cheers!
September 7, 2006 at 12:46 pm
a. Do you know what your blood-type is? No
b. What type is it? N/A
Do you donate blood? I did but then I traveled abroad to Pakistan and Thailand and I cannot donate blood for 6 months
Do you fear avian flu? No
Do you know what childhood illnesses you had? No
a. Which do you remember; N/A
b. Which are you aware of because of documentation alone, or a story passed down to you? N/A
Do you know when you had your last tetanus shot? Not sure
Are you AFRAID to document your willingness to be an organ donor? No
What are your feelings toward this topic? If it helps another human survive then I am all for it.
September 10, 2006 at 11:02 pm
1. a. Do you know what your blood-type is? (yes/no)
shamefully, no
b. What type is it?
see above
2. Do you donate blood? (If yes, Occasionally, Regularly, Just-Once)
shamefully, no. i get tested for heart stuff, so i get stuck enough. no excuse, though.
3. Do you fear avian flu? (No, or if Yes, Mild fear, Mediocre fear, or Extreme fear)
no. we all will die from something some day. i fear the drunk on the road at 2 a.m.
4. Do you know what childhood illnesses you had? If so,
a. Which do you remember; or
hermia, hit in eye with baseball …
b. Which are you aware of because of documentation alone, or a story passed down to you?
experience
5. Do you know when you had your last tetanus shot?
no.
6. Are you AFRAID to document your willingness (or desire) to be an organ donor? What are your feelings toward this topic?
i am not afraid. i think i am an organ donor. don’t remember, though.
excellent use of the blog for an informal survey. however, you might want to break up the post a little because it gets long and you may lose readers. post surveys as separate. now … how can you expand this blog to cover what you are interested in?
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