As you heal, an iron-rich substance in your blood -- called hemoglobin -- breaks down into other compounds. This process makes your bruise change colors: It's usually red right after the injury. Within a day or two, it turns purplish or black and blue. Why bruising matters and what th...
A bruise can be caused by a bump into some dangerous thing or when something with a potential of causing harm bumps onto a person’s body. Bruising will appear as the blood around the damaged vessels below the skin collects near the skin’s surface. ...
Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depre...
I get it. I finally get it; being sick; especially with cancer, along with being sick for a long period of time not only takes a huge physical toll on a person, but a huge emotional one as well. At first, mom was afraid to call herself a cancer survivor because she wasn’t sure ...
It makes me smile to watch these two men enjoy a quiet night together. Just to think that 100 years ago these two men would not have been allowed to sit in a public place peacefully. It is amazing to me how far we have come yet I know know we have a very long way to go. I ...
This trip was a great adventure for my son and me. I believe it is so important to travel, to see the world and experience it though other’s eyes. It’s especially vital for children. My son’s world opened up. I truly believe that travel makes you open to different ideas, and cr...
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I’d asked a friend who’d moved last year to Seattle with a cat if they were glad they’d driven and she said in hindsight, it would be better to fly. It would be 1 bad day vs several not great days for the cats, if that makes sense. Turns out, 1 bad day is still…bad. ...
If the arch of your foot is like a bow, think of the plantar fascia as the bow’s string. The plantar fascia, along with several muscles both in the foot and in the leg, supports the arch and makes it springy.16 Too springy, and the foot flattens out, overstretching the plantar fa...
The proof of the doctrine has, however, a much wider foundation. When one person assigns a stipulated work to another person with the promise of a reward upon the condition of the performance of that work, there is a covenant. Nothing can be plainer than that all this is true in relation...