Keeping Pace With Wanda

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I Wish I Had a Nickel For Every Time My Husband Has a "Patent" Idea...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 10:59am

...Remember the sitcom Home Improvement? I often refer to my husband as "Tim, the Toolman Taylor"...he loves to construct things and usually likes to create them to the extreme. He also takes pride in doing it himself versus buying something or paying someone to do it.

Keeping Pace With Wanda

Stating the Obvious
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:45pm

I read an article recently in "Modern Healthcare" indicating results of a research study...people who participate in healthy behaviors were 63% less likely to die early. Mmmmm-I wonder how much it cost to administer the survey? I would have been happy to offer them this insight by stating the obvious, and would have only charged a minimum fee.

Something is Weird...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 4:55pm

My husband and I returned from a very relaxing vacation this last week. We were in Indiana at a lake house that has been in his family for many years dating back to the mid 1930s.

One evening we were out on the front patio area playing checkers...both of us are very competitive and so we were intensely focused on the game and did not even realize until the next morning that we were being eaten alive by pesky mosquitos! Well, at least my husband was...

New and Improved
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 4:28pm

The Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital is getting a new 256-slice CT scanner and we are so thankful for the opportunity to offer this advanced technology to the community.

When the Hospital opened in October of 2003, the cat's meow was the 16-slice CT and so that was installed as the latest and greatest. Oh my goodness...fast forward to today and despite that thing being a good workhorse, she finally gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago and we all thought it was amazing timing.

Hey, What's the Big Deal about a Couple of More Trillion Dollars?
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 10:35am

I guess the US is on track to spend $2.7 trillion on healthcare according to projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). But, hey, why stop there? It's estimated that by 2020 the US will spend $4.6 trillion in one year. Today, about $8600/person is spent on healthcare...by 2020, it is estimated to increase to $13 thousandish per individual. Yikes!

Stinky Socks Prevent Disease?
Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 7:43pm

Well, just when ya think you've heard it all...

I was reading an Associated Press article that featured research funded by The Gates Foundation. Scientists in Kenya believe that the odor of stinky socks attract mosquitos that carry malaria...four times more than just the typical attraction to human skin. Okay, so now what? Well, apparently they are developing traps with the "stinky sock smell" to attract the pests and then eradicating them with poison.