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Name: Heidi
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Metro: Goshen
Birthday: 5/21/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: I'm in the process of trying to become a Paramedic, so that I can help people; or at least feel like I'm helping them... Sleeping! (Woo!) Talkin' to the guy I love. Family. Friends. Talkin to God. Horses. Dogs. Playing my music/Writing new music/Playing my instruments. Swimming. Canoeing when possible. Fishing. Guns, the 2nd-Ammendment, hunting/gutting/skinning/bein' kinda gross by most girls standards. Getting dirty in an engine/ driving manual tranny's. Meh... I'm a very unique person y'all... *grins*
Expertise: Loving people to much. I love them, grow close to them and then... lose them. I've been hurt in the past because of it... I try not to, but it happens anyway. I just love everyone around me to much I guess.
Occupation: Student - studying
Industry: Living life... trying to do wh
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AIM:  myaddituderocks
MSN: igotanadditude@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  snapper521
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Member Since:
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| I realized today that i have not posted recently. So... this is me
letting you all know that I have changed my major from Paramedic to
Nursing; and am attending Ivy Tech community college in Fort Wayne.
This semester I'm taking Basic Math and level two English Composition.
Neither
are easy; but the math is kicking my butt right now because I let a
classmate borrow my book since his had not come in yet, so I don't
have it to study from for this upcoming exam; and although it was
stupid of me it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. That was
before I knew we had an exam on Thursday. 
Don and I are
awesome; he's coming home this next weekend. Was supposed to have come
home this last weekend; but it didn't work out so he's coming home on
1-29. If he doesn't; I'm going up. He's supposed to come over and spend
the day with me at home; but we have to go talk to his ex at 12:00
about some stuff so... we'll see how this works out. | | |
| I've fallen in love. Again.
I broke up with Brian and less than a month later a long time friend decided that I needed to be taken off the market and I accepted his idea. And honestly I am absolutely head over heels. Donny treats me so good... I can't even begin to describe it.
Of course as with any relationship, there are the demons that like to scream out bad things but... those are always there no matter what. Always voices saying "It's to good to be true, he's playing you, he's going to leave you, he's using you, he's going to wake up and realize you're nothing."
But unlike one of my friends... I don't get so wrapped up in my men that i threaten suicide and ultimately when it's over... I'm OK.
Honestly though? i hope it works out long term because if he loved me as much or more as he does now for the rest of my life I could be happier than I have ever been. Hmmm wait a minute what am I talking about? I'm already happier than I have ever been...
Pray for us everybody...
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| Her body was 'ice cold' and her heart stopped, but Duluth woman survived
A
Duluth woman falls in the snow on a cold night and slips into
unconsciousness. Hours later, her body temperature falls to a dangerous
60 degrees, and her heart stops beating. But she survives, amazing her
doctors.
Janice Goodger’s body temperature had fallen to 60
degrees – as cold as Dr. Chris Delp has ever seen – and so cold that it
appeared as if she couldn’t possibly survive.
Instead, the
64-year-old Duluth woman will walk back into St. Luke’s hospital for a
simple checkup today, just days after what Delp, an emergency room
physician at the hospital, called an “amazing” medical journey to the
brink of death and back.
“I’m not aware of anyone at this age to have survived [being so cold] and to have done this well,” he said.
And
Goodger, who returned to her apartment just days after her heart
stopped beating for at least an hour as her body temperature fell,
seems to have suffered no ill effects.
“I don’t feel any different, except I can’t yell anymore,” Goodger said.
Goodger,
who has had rheumatoid arthritis for the last 24 years, was caring for
her daughter’s dog on Anderson Road in Duluth on the afternoon of Dec.
27. As Goodger walked through her daughter’s back yard, she slipped on
a slick patch of snow and landed hard.
Goodger’s stiff, swollen
joints made it impossible for her to get up off the ground, leaving her
few options. She ended up scooting along the ground towards where her
car was waiting, only to find that she couldn’t get in the vehicle,
either. She was stuck.
She wrapped a long scarf around her legs,
pulled her long red coat snugly around her body, reclined in the
snowbank, and waited as darkness fell. The night was cold but not
frigid. But as Goodger lay in the slushy snow, she grew colder and
wetter.
She offered one last thought – “well, God, it’s up to you” – and waited. Some time later, she slipped into unconsciousness.
Goodger’s
daughter found her around 9 p.m., after the family returned from a trip
to St. Cloud. Goodger was still alive, still breathing, and her heart
was still beating, but just barely.
“When a heart gets that cold, the electrical activity is so fragile, that anything you do will just stop it,” Delp said.
It’s
called hypothermia-induced cardiac arrest, and it’s fairly uncommon,
said Dave Johnson, operations manager for Gold Cross Ambulance of
Duluth and Superior. Simply moving a severely hypothermic person can
cause cardiac arrest, he said.
Delp praised Gold Cross
paramedics and the Duluth Fire Department crews that arrived at the
scene for recognizing that. The heart muscle must be warmed before
there’s even a chance of getting it beating again, Delp said. Shocking
a chilled heart, or dosing a patient with cardiac drugs, won’t make a
difference.
Once in the St. Luke’s emergency room, doctors worked to bring Goodger’s cold body back to life.
“She was ice cold,” Delp said. “She felt, literally, like a corpse.”
As
doctors set up heated IV drips and a machine to pump heated air into
Goodger’s body, her blood began flowing to her extremities again.
Extremely
cold temperatures can protect some body functions – particularly brain
activity, Delp said – but are damaging to others. After about 20
minutes in the emergency room, Goodger was transferred to the operating
room, where cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Mary Boylan used a special
machine to drain Goodger’s blood out of her chilled body, warm it and
pump it back in.
Emergency responders kept up CPR on Goodger’s
body for at least an hour before she was warm enough to make an attempt
to start her heart, Delp said. Surgeons shocked the muscle, and it
began beating normally.
From there, Goodger’s recovery was quick and, apparently, complete.
The first thing Goodger can remember after the ordeal is her daughter whispering in her ear on the morning of Dec. 28.
“She said, ‘You can go and see your sister in heaven, or you can stay and watch your grandchildren grow up,’” Goodger said.
Soon enough, Goodger was sitting up in her hospital bed and licking an orange Popsicle to soothe her throat.
“I
went and visited her the next day, and they had already taken her off
the breathing machine,” Delp said. “I did not expect her to be able to
talk to me; my jaw hit the floor when she smiled at me.”
Delp
said that “everything came together perfectly” to help Goodger make her
recovery – from the paramedics and firefighters who treated her just
right, to the constant CPR she received, to the care from Boylan to
help warm her heart.
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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/108944 | | |
| As you all know, I broke up with my boyfriend (Brian Blanda) on Dec.
3rd. What you don't know, is that a friend (Donald) from my childhood
has decided that he wants me so for the last 3 days or so we've been
talking about getting together. And I was very seriously considering
it. He's a good man with good background who is absolutely fantastic to
his women.
But tonight I got online and Brian (who hasn't been
online in a long time, and who hasn't talked to me at all) is online
and 'pounces' on me as soon as he can. In customary Brian style,
leading up to his point by chewing the fat and talking about
not-important stuff. Then he drops the bomb. I said some stuff to
instigate it. Such as "Just before I dumped you; Why didn't you want me
anymore?" He responded to the effect of "I do want you" along with what
I have compiled into a paragraph below.
"Heidi, I'm sorry that
I've been such a jerk to you lately. When you dumped me I thought that
it wouldn't be that big a deal. That you were just a woman. But I am
going crazy without you. I never realized what a diamond you are until
you weren't there to light up my life anymore. I want you to come back;
and this time I want you to be my one and only woman. I can't do this
without you. Please come back?"
All the while that he was saying
all those things I compiled up there, I was reading him the riot act. I
was beyond upset because up until he did this, I was not doing to bad
with the break up. But now its really bothering me. Not the fact that I
gave him an ultimatum, or that I laid out the requirements for us to
make it work out on the table for him to push around and think about.
No, what I am upset about is that just when I find a really sweet man
(Donald) and he starts to believe that he can trust me and
everything... this goes and happens.
Opinions would be welcome. Though I can't promise I will follow all of the advice given. | | |
| I went shopping at this awesome bargain book store!! Woot woot!!! If I had gone shopping at a normal book store, like Barnes & Noble or Borders I would have spent close to 4 times more. At either of those stores, these books would average a price of around $20. At this bargain store we found; each book is $5 or $6 depending on if it is hard or soft cover.
I bought this for a friend and his fiance'. I have no use for it right now. However for the record I have one of their other books, which I bought under suggestion by the friend, and its a superb book. I can't apply it to my life but it's still a very good book.
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Then as if I hadn't bought enough books and things from the bargain book store; I went with Mom and my sister to the Salvation Army and found a bunch of other things and another book. 1 that is a cookbook and the other is moms. Listed in order.
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