Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

Fortunately we have not had many experiences in the E.R.!  A few trips for stitches I have taken my dad in for various things - the most significant was when we discovered that he had a broken neck!  The guy had been walking around for years with a broken neck and didn't know it!  We got him into surgery at the University of Utah and he is good as new. I took Kim to the E.R. when he was having chest pain and he threw a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot to the lung).  While in the ER in Ogden we were kind of having a party with Kim's whole family there!  He was feeling pretty good then, and we were waiting for a Paramedic transport to Brigham.  However by the time he got to Brigham he wasn't feeling so good any more.  The next week was awful! We took mom to the ER when we discovered that she had gangrene in a wound in her foot.  They admitted her to the hospital where they ended up removing two toes. The worst trip to the ER with...

T here have been many of fun and/or funny trends through the years!   My younger years were spent in dresses,  Junior high I remember was an era of wide leg jeans - the wider the better, and if they weren't wide enough material was stitched in to make them wider!   H ot pants and mini-skirts were in, but I didn't really get into that.  Platform shoes were just making a debut.   I had a pair of navy and white heels that I loved! In high school we had to wear HASH jeans or LAPD's.   Everyone had Farrah Faucett Hair.   If dresses were worn they had to be floor length, and Gunny Sax was the brand to wear.    A fter awhile the midi-skirt came into style, usually with boots.   Of course the white three-piece suit was all the rage after "Saturday Night Fever" was released.  Perfect for going to the Disco! After the Farrah Faucett look, the afro became th...