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Where’s Your Motivation?
Meet *C*. He is my tender hearted, full of hugs, rough and tumble boy! He worried me when he was a baby. He couldn’t latch on or get anything from a bottle. I met with a lactation consultant and I ended up pumping breast milk and then squirting it into his mouth through a tiny tube while he was ‘latched on’. Now, he is the biggest of all my boys on the growth charts. He didn’t start talking till way after the milestone “should have” been met. We were instructed to see a speech-therapist who met with us, made note in his records and said in a couple years he may…
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Down and Dreary … What is your message?
It is a rainy, cold, dark day here in northeast Ohio. I was just scanning my friends’ feed on Facebook and couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit about how irritated most people were this morning. People are just feeling a little down… lacking motivation… ready to throw in the towel… at 10am! Isn’t it a little humorous what the weather does to our mood?! (I know it sure affects mine.) The other thought I had was, most of these friends doing all this grumbling are usually pretty positive. Do you surround yourself with positive people?! I think it is very important to (a) be positive and (b) surround yourself…
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Does the Army have a Problem with Warrior Transition Units? – DoD Roundtable
I think this was one of the most interesting DoD Roundtables in which I have participated as I met with Lt General Eric Schoomaker, the Army Surgeon General and Brigadier General Gary Cheek, Commander, Warrior Transition Command to talk about the Warrior Transition care. The care of wounded warriors (physically, spiritually or emotionally) is always a hot button issue for Americans. The super efforts of the Army to care for their own can sometimes fall victim to easy criticism and of course, some care may need attention to make it even better. It appeared that these two leaders wanted to insure that the care being given was right for the…
