Exercises from the team of Margaret Fitzpatrick - the late Nicholas Joseph Breslin

Margaret Fitzpatrick

1. Walk, walk, walk...   
  
 
  * It's easy to forget to walk the recommended 10,000 steps every day when we're staying at home more, but it's important to get those steps in for improved blood flow. Try to spend 20-25 mins every day walking around the house if not outdoors, taking the stairs up and down an extra time, and staying as active as possible.     
    
 
  2. Standing back bends   
  
 
  * This is one of the best and most effective exercises for reducing back pain and tension. Stand with feet shoulder width apart with hands on hips. Gently lean back, arching your lower back, and then return back to standing. Perform 10 reps especially after prolonged sitting- at least once per hour.     
    
 
  3. Sit to stand
   
  
 
  * This exercise is a great way strengthen your legs without equipment. Simply sit at the edge of a sturdy chair and try to stand up 10 times without using your hands for assistance.

Margaret asked me for some newspapers where she could get the word out. I sent her 6.

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I was noodling around on Hektoen International, which publishes stories, poems and essays about healthcare and medicine.

Read an outstanding story by W. ROY SMYTHE, MD - readers, how would you pronounce this, SmYth or Smith?

Wanted to write him, but he's taken a new position in Boulder, Colorado. He's a professor of surgery and 

surgery and mesotheloma.

Hope I got that right.

Anyway, here's the great story he wrote. Click here. 

W. ROY SMYTHE, MD is chairman of surgery for the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and the Scott & White Healthcare System, as well as professor of surgery, molecular, and cellular medicine, and the holder of the Glen and Rita K. Roney endowed chair in surgery. He has been a prolific writer on diverse topics, writing and publishing manuscripts, editorials, essays and abstracts related to his clinical and research activity, as well as surgical history, education, health care delivery, and medical human interest.

Sure has some smarts, don't he?

This tea is delicious but not hot enuf for me.

I can sleep like a baby after drinking tea.

But not from Maxwell House Coffee, which Scott bought me. I told him Decaf. 

REST IN PEACE, Dear Nick Breslin.

He'd had a series of strokes and was taken care of aides at his home on Wanamaker Blvd. He used the term posseque, to describe a relationship he had with Faye. 

No such word, according to the Internet.

Here's Nick Breslin in 2013. He brought delicious stuffed mushrooms to a party I had.