Category Depression

I was reading a story recently of a woman who was basically an invalid until the Pearl Harbor strike. It took that horrific event for her to get out of her bed and stop wasting her life. Up until that day she had spent more than a year in bed with a “bad heart.” She spent 22 out of every 24 hours in bed and claims, “I would never have really lived again if the Japanese had not struck Pearl Harbor and jarred me out of my complacency.”

The part that really disturbs me is when she says, “The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies in American history, but as far as I was concerned, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.”

One of the best things that ever happened to her? Really?

I can understand her comment only in the sense that it changed her life for ...

My family was hit by a nasty bug over the last few weeks and so my husband and I were on high alert for fevers. What we discovered about our own body temperatures floored me though. We always came back with low temps. And I figured, well that’s good – at least it isn’t a fever.

But when our temperatures were consistently WAY below the normal 98.6 mark I went online and did some research. I was astounded to find out that not only is a HIGH temperature bad, but apparently a LOW one can be just as bad!

It makes sense though, it is normal for a reason – it means things are working properly and you are GOOD. Swinging in either direction can be an indication of something being wrong.

Now, my husband and I are under some pretty good stresses (aren’t we all?!) and I’m certainly not going to say, “...