Jul

1

Tip Of Taking Care of Sick Person At Home

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Warriors,

I still remember when the hospital asked us to took our father home because of his conditions, we are quite messy at first. The preparation of the room is done last minutes with everything seem scattered. Luckily one of my sister is working as a nurse and she has experience in dealing with patients. But we managed to arrange everything up to his convenient after all. So, today I would like to share with you how to prepare the room for the sick loved one.

1. Make sure to allocate one room at the ground floor of your house for easy accessibility for everyone especially during the emergency.

2. The room should has a good ventilation and if possible ensure the windows always open during the day. This will provides patients with fresher air and better view if he/she want to look outside the house.Its also help him/her to feel more relax.

3. The room must have/easy access to bathroom and toilet. If the patient could not walk, ensure the there are bedpan or diapers available. But make sure the patient choose which way is convenient for him/her.

4. If you have kids - make sure their play area is far from the room. The disturbance from the kids also might increase the stress level of sick person.

5. Remove any unnecessary furnitures or accessories from the room. Give more spaces for the medical equipment if required.

6. If you have pets, do not let them enter the room. Any dusts or furs from pet might cause unexpected side effects to patients.

7. Get a bell or you can also buy a baby monitors. So you do not have to sit by their side all the times or walking back or forth to know what they need.

8. Stick all the emergency phone no on the wall because when you are panic, you might get confused with stored numbers. Or when someone ask you, just pointing at the wall.

There are lots of stuff that you need to learn before deciding to take your loved ones home from the hospital. The preparation not only involved home but also your emotion. The sick person emotions is sometimes unpredictable and might cause stress to you. If you think you need day off, just get an assistant for you. Keep yourself free of stress too…

Nov

14

Potraits of Children Fighting Cancer

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I love photography especially kids and baby photos. My 1 year old baby boys have more than hundreds photos and looking at the photos bring smile to us especially during our sad days. Its was their innocent face with honest face impression. We do not have to ask them to be ready or posing for us to take the photos. But how about looking on the faces of the innocent kids who suffers from cancer? Are they looks ill and sad? Do we have any opportunity to see their smiling face? While looking for an ideas for my next photo shot session, I found Flashes of Hope - non-profit organization dedicated to creating uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Their photos are excellent and its not the faces of sad and frustrated kids, they look happy like any other kids. They did not stop being a kids even when they are sicks. Lets look who behind this wonderful photos of those kids.

Allison Clarke

Allison Clarke previously a model and while taking care of her 18-month-old son who was diagnosed with cancer in the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, she get the ideas to create beautiful and empowering photographs of those kids. Only after few weeks with helps from her previous agency model and few professional photographers, she launched Flashes of Hope.

Her Say:

“About once a month, we set up photo shoots at the hospital for about 10 to 15 kids. We’re able to reach a lot of families at a time when they wouldn’t think to do something like this on their own. I can’t cure cancer, but I can give the children and their families the gift of a cherished photograph, and my job is to give as many gifts as I can to as many children as I can. Often, I will get a call from a nurse or a doctor saying, ‘I want to tell you how much this meant to this family.’”

A Gift for Survivors, Too

“(My) son is six years old now and considered cured, which is fantastic. I also have a four-year-old little girl and a two-year-old little girl. I was two weeks away from having our second baby when we found out Quinn had cancer.”

“A lot of these kids make it… cancer survivorship among young children is close to 75 percent. These images are just as important for those kids because they have lots of long-term survivorship issues. Years later when they look back, the photo is not one that their parents took of them with bad lighting and hollow eyes. It’s a beautiful image that approaches survivorship from a position of strength.”

We have to model how this great kids battling for their life by having an extraordinary strength - by being yourself and forget about your sickness.

Nov

11

Free Home Cleanings for Cancer Patients

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When reading what Elaine Gordon Evans did to help cancer patients and her rags - to - riches story almost make me cry. How this strong women who grew up on welfare, start working at age nine while taking care of her heart disease mother and being a single mother at age of 19 started her own business that would become Elaine’s American Maid (www.elainesamericanmaid.com) in Seattle and its all happen because she believe one thing. She teach herself the principles of being successful through her mothers’ words and love. ‘Elaine, you can do whatever you want to do. I believe in you.’

It all started when she was ended up in hospital with a collapsed lung (from breathing in fumes of a cleaning chemical). Strong will and responsibility to support my 18-month-old baby and to serve for her customers make her called all her single moms friends for help to clean her customers’ homes. Within 6 months, she had 95 people working for her servicing 156 houses a week. Finally, a job becomes business for her and its works. Now she through her entrepreneurship, Evans traded welfare for a million-dollar home in Redmond, Washington, where she now lives with hubby and hydroplane racer Mark Evans. Daughter Shavawn, 32, is a nanny and clothing stylist for Madonna; son Paul, 24, is an accomplished filmmaker and author; and son Jonathan, 20, studies at The Master’s College, recently arranged and recorded a rap CD with positive lyrics.
Not only did Evans launch herself and her children out of poverty, but she has also taken on about a gazillion other things…

Elaine’s Maid for Life
Her non-profit organization, Elaine’s Maid for Life, gives away free maid service to women with cancer and breast cancer. They also clean homes for men who have lost their wives due to cancer, and for moms whose children are also stricken with the deadly disease.

Morale :

1. You can do whatever you want. You must believe in yourself.

2. Your love of your life such as mother & children can change how you live your life.

3. Even when your are bedridden due to sickness, if you never give up, God will give you more than your expectation. Never, never give up.