About a week ago one of our Level-2 Training graduates emailed the other grads asking for some assistance with her injured neice:
“Hello everyone, My niece, Janelle, was hit by a car on Tuesday and sustained a severe head injury. She is, at present, in an induced coma, in an effort to help her brain recover. However, her brain is swelling and her parents have been told that the next 2 days are critical for her recovery. I would appreciate any attention you can give her. I’m going to see if I can get a photo, but for now, I’ll just tell you that she is a 29 yr. old women in a Florida hospital. That’s all the info I have for the moment. Any help at all will be very appreciated. Thanks for your time, Kassia H.
A few days later Kassia sent this heartening note:
Dear Thomas, I just got off the phone and Janelle is stable today….that was very good news as the last few days have been touch and go. Her blood pressure and temperature are good and they are feeling optimistic that she made it to today; they are feeling she got over the hump. Makes me feel better.” — Kassia H, Fairfield, Ia.
Healing Stress: It’s an Inside Job
It would appear to most that stress is a natural part of human existence. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all stress is bad. In fact, doctors and scientists make a distinction between good and bad stress. An intensely exhilarating experience can actually be stressful on some level of physiology, just as much as one that we consider intensely negative. However, the “good” stress seems to have a less impactful or lasting effect on physiology and can even have some positive benefit. We seem more able to recover from those stresses than we are from the “bad” stresses that linger and can cause even more distress. Why is that?… Continue reading ‘Healing Stress: It’s an Inside Job’