I’ve been a nurse for 35 years and don’t recall ever caring for someone dying from the flu shot. I have taken care of plenty in the ICU on ventilators who did not take the flu shot. My 95 year old grandfather got the flu shot every year until he switched his insurance to an HMO. He never got his reminder to get his shot and got the flu that February. He never went home, had pneumonia, and developed multiple other infections. He died that May.
Nurses & other healthcare workers were not Covid vaccine enforcers, we were forced to get the vaccine or be out of a job. Many had to work while having Covid themselves because the hospitals were so short staffed (Covid patients taken care of by nurses with Covid). Add to that mandatory overtime/extra shifts, and having to reuse the same PPE over and over because of shortages of supplies.
@VigilantFox This is actually a pretty common occurrence for people to see loved ones prior to passing. I’ve been a nurse for 35 years. There’s also been recent research that also concluded this.
My son was on Covered California for insurance. They sent him a voter registration, by mail, and that they send this to everyone on CC. There’s a yes/no question if you’re a citizen, & that’s it. How many of these are completed by illegal immigrants? They’ve all been on CC/medicaid!
@terryschappert I love seniors. I had my 3 girls until each passed at 12, 12, & 13. I now have my nephew’s dog who is 11. Seniors can have their own challenges, but so do we, and they’re so worth it💕
We move so fast through life that we forget the deepest truth:
Every elderly person we pass, the slow-walking man with the cane, the woman sitting quietly on the porch was once young, just like us.
They fell madly in love. They stayed up all night chasing dreams. They built careers with calloused hands and tired eyes. They held their babies, laughed until they cried, buried parents, celebrated victories, and survived heartbreaks we can barely imagine.
They had passions, inside jokes, favorite songs, and wild ambitions.
Now their bodies are slower, their skin is softer, their steps are careful… and somehow we reduce them to “just old.”
Getting older doesn’t negate the life they lived. It carries it. Every wrinkle tells a story. Every tremble in their voice holds decades of laughter, tears, and wisdom.
Let’s remember to see them. Really see them.
The young souls still living inside bodies that have carried a lifetime.
They deserve our respect, our patience, and our tenderness.
Because one day… that will be us.
When was the last time you sat and talked to an older person? Ask them about their lives and their story?
On March 6, 1945, as the Battle of Iwo Jima still raged with explosions, gunfire, and smoke covering the island, Navy flight nurse Jane Kendeigh stepped off a transport plane into one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
She became the first Navy flight nurse to land on an active Pacific battlefield, arriving not to fight, but to save lives.
The volcanic black sands of Iwo Jima were filled with wounded Marines and sailors who desperately needed evacuation.
Working under the constant threat of enemy fire, Kendeigh helped organize and load injured servicemen onto aircraft so they could be flown to hospitals for urgent treatment.
During those weeks, nearly 2,400 wounded men were evacuated from the island by air, a groundbreaking effort that saved countless lives and changed the future of battlefield medicine.
Jane Kendeigh later recalled that when reporters asked how the soldiers reacted to seeing a woman there in the middle of war, she smiled and said, “Like everywhere else, they whistled.”
It was a brief human moment of humor and normalcy amid unimaginable destruction.
Her story remains one of the most powerful reminders that bravery is not only found in combat.
Sometimes courage looks like calm hands in chaos, compassion in the middle of suffering, and the determination to carry others toward survival when the world around them is falling apart.
Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.
Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.
Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.
Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.
Watch the whole thing.
Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.
Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.
Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.