Getting Healthy with Sadie

What is dirty? What is clean? Picture this. You are walking through the produce aisle at your favorite grocery store and you see the most gorgeous peaches you have ever seen. They literally look like an advertisement! You immediately start thinking of all of the delicious things you can make with these peaches! You’ve got a parfait in mind and grandma‘s peach cobbler! How exciting will it be to bite into that juicy goodness?! Before you get to the peaches a woman walks up to the area and starts picking up each peach to inspect it and then setting it back down. She then reaches to her backside and scratches inside of her pants. With the same hand she goes back to those peaches and inspects them to find the perfect one! OMG!!! One of the most disgusting things a person can do! But unfortunately this is a society we live in! And what can you do but just pretend that this type of stuff doesn’t exist? Well I’m here to ease your mind a little bit on how to care for your produce and when to b...

 Preventable or Inevitable? Disease or Life Sentence?     When I started my journey into health care as a certified nursing assistant, I began in a skilled nursing facility which was state funded and essentially became a dumping ground for people to spend their last years on earth. It was a sad sad place. Understaffed, underfunded and full of people who were once full of life, laughter and purpose. It was almost too much to see this happening and perform my duties with dignity and respect under these conditions.      I noticed one thing that really stuck with me, how can the man in room 101 be 62 and barely able to function while his neighbor was 98 and still managing bingo every week? As I learned in nursing school to go through patient's history and understand the function of each medication I started to piece together that many of these things are in fact preventable and were caused by a hard/unhealthy life. I would see the calluses on the hands of ...