Forever grateful

I am happy to be off work today, especially since I thought I was going to be wearing a cast on my dominant arm. Let's just say walking up hills and wearing certain footwear is hazardous. (I wasn't going far, so I thought I was immune). Nevertheless, after a quick trip for an x-ray and eval, I found out, I was scraped, sore and suffering from a really bad bone bruise between the bones of my arm.

I raise my glass today in honor of those who have come before us, who died and were disabled on the job to give honor to a hard day's work.

The honorable today includes all of you: nurses in the EDs, in the ORs, in the rehab units, in the clinics, in the every inpatient, outpatient, consultant and administrative role.

Your work is honorable and I salute you! Happy Labor Day wherever you are.

Spot on

I do have to say, despite not considering myself a politico of any sort, I do enjoy political debates. Some of the personalities, however, drive me nuts.

As a student in the 1980s, like a lot of people my age, I thought Bill Bennett was the crazy schoolmaster intent on robbing us of having a good time and simply thinking up more rules we didn't need.

He even has his own conservative radio show. I don't listen to Rush or Bill or any of the other characters either. But while perusing my nightly off-topic reading (my escape from work life and school), I ran into this article William Bennett wrote about the "Aurora Three", posted today.

It made me realize that this is not a conservative value he's talking about...it's a human one.Those young guys really were heroes, especially to their girlfriends. They are also a reminder of the potential hero in everyone of us.