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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Class offered skill, new terminology, and Christian fellowship

Class offered skill, new terminology, and Christian fellowship

National Hobby Month gave people an opportunity to showcase their favorite hobby. For me, knitting and crocheting were my favorites. In Wichita Falls, my church had a knitting class, open to any one of any level of knitting or crocheting, where they made sashay scarves which started in August of 2012. It got me out of the house and the Christian fellowship was fun too. Some projects were difficult, so for me choosing an alternative was better ether because the concept or the supplies were difficult to get. In spite of the difficulty, it was fun learning new terminology.

Friday, January 11, 2013

How-to avoid the flu or survive its wrath

The Wichita County Public Health District was altering everyone who had not received a flu shot to get theirs immediately. There had been an increase in emergency room activity for those that had flu-like symptoms in the Wichita Falls area. How one avoided the flu or cared for themselves in surviving its wrath was the key.

Why were so many people getting the flu this year? Unfortunately, that depended on the type of flu strain, which had a lot a lot to do with the great number of people who caught it and suffered from its wrath. Luckily the right strain was isolated. While more people had been exposed to the flu, the Director at United Regional Healthcare Center was hoping that the 112 plus cases wouldn’t be as bad as 2003-2004 in which 48,000 deaths were reported nationwide.