Nuggets for May 16

Here are a few interesting and silly tidbits I've found on the internet and in some of my favorite blogs. Enjoy the ride!

In the rehab and sports category:
Disclaimer: I love reading the New York Times. I've been a reader since the 1980s (yes, I'm dating myself!) when I discovered it in my high school library. I'd read the Sunday Magazine from cover to cover each week.

I particularly enjoyed this story about wheelchair racers called A blur of hands, spokes and determination (from www.nytimes.com)

As a spinal cord rehab nurse, I'm always thinking about what Dr. V. used to say about wheelchair athletes and clothespins...that some athletes use them to increase their blood pressure during events.

Some fun and some sobering facts:
JustCallMeJo of Sinus Arrhythmia, an escaped from rehab to ICU nurse, has had some great posts of late. Here are two of my favorites:

The fun:
...and then there are good days (about the patients you enjoy)

The sobering:
If you haven't seen this you need to discusses medical triage and what might happen in here in a pandemic or other mass casualty situation.

For silly stuff:
In the e-mailed joke category, DisappearingJohn has a good one this week. Let's just call it...
Going to third grade.