WELLNESS BLOG vs BLOG WELLNESS

A ‘wellness blog’ does what it says: promote health and wellness to an audience who ignores their own health and wellness.

If you’re reading a blog for ‘wellness,’ if you’re doing your own ‘research,’ be sure better ideas come from credible sources.

Taking medical advice, or simple health advice, from a moron is not the way forward.

Which is why I don’t give medical advice beyond applying direct pressure to an awful wound gushing blood.

If you believe the Mayo Clinic is a credible source, and I do, this is their advice:

 

Cover the wound with sterile gauze or a clean cloth. Press on it firmly with the palm of your hand until bleeding stops. But don’t press on an eye injury or embedded object. Don’t press on a head wound if you suspect a skull fracture.

Wrap the wound with a thick bandage or clean cloth and tape. Lift the wound above heart level if possible.

 

But if you’re reading from Portland and the surrounding area, this is from OHSU:

 

OHSU Trauma Program is hosting monthly Stop the Bleed classes.  They are free of charge and open to anyone.  We will teach you how to control life threatening bleeding and how to use a tourniquet.  Classes are one hour and include a lecture and hands on skill session.  Email traumaeducation@ohsu.edu to register.

There are two class times offered: 1:00-2:00 pm and 2:30-3:30 pm.

Learn more about Stop the Bleed at www.stopthebleed.org.

 

Former Army Medic Chimes In On Wellness Blog

My medic skills were proven effective during my caregiving time with my father in-law Kenny.

Six of us, wife, two kids, and both in-laws, decided to move in together after Kenny got Parkinson’s.

We set him up with a lift chair that the kids played around on after I put him to bed and my mother in-law read him Zane Grey stories.

In those days I had one major goal: prevent the expected death from Parkinson’s, either a fall, or choking.

And no bed sores.

For good measure we got Kenny a lap dog. Except doggo like sleeping near his feet when they were raised on the lift chair.

It seemed like it happened overnight, but no: Kenny got a pressure sore on his ankle from the dog.

Home nurse came and dressed the wound, which went all the way to the bone.

I felt like an ass.

“These things happen,” nurse said. “And they never heal.”

Now I had three goals: no falls, no chokes, and get that damn ankle healed up.

The reason stage four wounds like this never heal in a nursing home is patient to nurse ratio, patient to staff ratio.

One person could have ten people to care for; I had one at home.

The nurse packed the wound and wrapped it up.

I repeated the process every other day.

And it healed instead of getting infected, immobilizing him further, and speeding up the inevitable end of caregiving.

Score for wellness blog. And Kenny.

All I did was keep a sterile field during the unpacking and packing and not focusing on the bone, or neglect. Or blame.

 

What Blog Wellness Means

A wellness blog is personally helpful, as it should be.

Blog wellness?

That’s one you can trust and pass links on without worrying if it makes you look ignorant.

My goal isn’t to make anyone look or feel ignorant, but to show the outcomes of ignorance.

Copy and paste my links and your friends will think you’re a genius. At least that’s what my spam-friends say.

 

“I find this blog both academic and entertaining.”

 

Boomerpdx Has A Finger On The Pulse

If you’re not bleeding profusely, don’t have a bed sore crater, and don’t mind tea from a bag, at least you’ve got something to work with.

Speaking of work, I should say that boomerpdx accepts donations.

If one of my posts helps you breakthrough a barrier you’ve been hitting your head on, feel free to send me a C-note.

Or, copy and paste the link to others.

Or, find a worthy place to send money.

Since I know how to spend money, it won’t go to waste.

Do I follow my own advice? I just signed up for a year’s membership to the Oregon Historical Society.

It makes me feel like the better man when I do that, and they do good work.

 

The Better Man

The better man focuses on goals.

One of my goals is writing habitually, consistently, with verve and vigor.

There are others.

While it’s a work in progress, it’s work worth doing.

There’s no wellness blog, or blog wellness, with a sick blogger.

Then you get malignant shit-posts from some hack with a URL they don’t deserve.

Okay, they deserve it, but not your attention.

Instead, you deserve a writer who keeps you in mind, who shares tips and experience good and bad.

So let’s bulk up together.

If you know anyone with a birthday today, send them your wishes in comments.

Call someone you know if it seems like they need a boost up.

I’ll be over here scheming and plotting and planning the next post for blog wellness.

That’s what a wellness blog is all about.