donors spend anywhere between four to six hours, but because my patient is twice my weight and i have particularly small veins, i was there for nine. thankfully, the nurses were very attentive, my hospital bed had a television monitor with great programing, they gave away free snacks, and...
When Gary came home, we all went into crisis mode and were ordering things on Amazon left and right – to turn the home into a hospital. We got the drinking cups with straws like they had at the hospital, and bought all kinds of bed pads, and night gowns and special sheets for the...
When it’s time to donate, you’ll sit in a comfortable chair or lie on the bed. A nurse will clean part of your arm and use a needle (针) to get the blood into a plastic bag. Several minutes later, the process is over. The doctor will place a small bandage over the needle ma...
What activity is possible should be kept below the patient’s anaerobic threshold at all times, and severely affected patients often have to spend most of the time resting in bed: attempts to mobilise them too soon can be disastrous. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been advocated by ...
AS Elen Meirion's life ebbed away on her hospital bed her family, although racked with grief, knew that her death would not be in vain. They knew that her legacy would be to give the gift of life to five others. Exactly a year ago today the schoolteacher sister of opera star Rhys...
"Stairs would kill me," Olson said. "Doing a load of laundry would send me back to bed for the rest of the day." But as she slowly recovered at home, Olson was developing a super power. On April 19, she went to the American Red Cross in Farmington to donate blood plasma. She wa...
“Please donate and we can keep cooking — and delivering donated meals to the medical workers on the frontlines at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, UCLA Westwood, Children’s Hospital LA, St. John’s Hospital, to the needy who are in self isolation, to the elderly...