Promoting FREE Naloxone/Narcan day. Luke, the Rite Aid pharmacist, was great. Gave me my free box of 2 with no questions asked, no prescription, and showed me how to use.
As a Michigan Prescription Drug Abuse Commission member, we learned that 130 people a DAY die from opioid abuse in the U.S. This nasal spray can reverse an overdose while happening. I added link to an article with how-to-use video and a list of pharmacies providing free kit today, Sat. 9/14.
Naloxone / Narcan kit
Today is the National Day of Encouragement!
There is still time to offer a word of hope
or a gesture that will have a
positive impact on a person’s spirit.
Who knows?
Your acts of encouragement may have the effect of uplifting you as well!
Look beyond the grey of rainy days to find the beauty blossoming because of them…I spotted these delicate beauties after this week’s rains. 
Hope. Always.
“We do what we must” is the motto of the 2019 Coraggio Spirit Award recipient. “Assuming this is my one life and one chance to fight for it, so I must keep trying.” is her message. “I must keep trying.” is a foundation of the Coraggio theme to take charge of any aspect of a dire situation. With 5 intubations for breathing and 8 weeks of hospitalization because of myasthenia already this year, Ashley uses humor and positive messages in Facebook posts or with those she meets. For her courageous determination do what she must to take charge for her one life and one chance to fight for it, Ashley Cotten is awarded MG-MI’s 2019 Coraggio spirit award!
MI Council of Nurse Practitioners, so honored to offer welcome Coraggio message of Envisioning a Future of conquered pain and to be inspired by your courageous leading the way!
It is minus 32 degrees!
Warm up in an arthritis-friendly, nourishing way…Turmeric Ginger Butternut Bisque!
Be gentle on joints by pre-baking a butternut squash before cutting, peeling and deseeding.
Use onions and garlic your grocer chopped. Lightly sauté fresh ginger and turmeric for a jolt of natural anti-inflammatories.
Substitute soy (almond) milk and silken tofu for bone-building and instead of fat-saturated cream.
A hand blender saves hand and elbow joints from heavier blender or processors.
Butternut squash brings cozy, filling warmth to the tummy and packs minerals and vitamin A.
Caldo & Delizioso!
Use courage to co-create empathy in relationships,
to be that person who will Inspire!
Grateful to The Right Door for the invite to talk about Coraggio! The Courage to Inspire at their annual retreat. Yet I was the one inspired by their commitment to the important people they serve!
The Right Door Retreat Coraggio Courage to Inspire 11-12-18
Remembering Great Grandpa Genaro Rizzo on the 100th Anniversary of WWI end. He fought bravely in the rugged and cold terrain of Northern Italy and the Alps, for a war believed to end all wars…
As Uncle Jimmy adds details of valor to the story, Genaro Rizzo was “Knighted (posthumously) for saving an officer from drowning while fording a river on horseback.”
Genaro Rizzo Italian Cavalry WWI
May courage be stoked within each one of us as we remember the Courage of our Ancestors!
Stayin’ warm as the first snow flies with this fall harvest of
Scotch Bonnet peppers.
Petite yet potent, they have the habernero beat! Their high level of capsaicin helps to reduce inflammation and pain.
Feeling good from taste buds to toes!
Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.
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