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Martin Brodeur has scored the most NHL goals by a goaltender, with two in the regular season and one in the playoffs.
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Falls kill more than 18,000 older adults each year.
20-30% of older adults that fall suffer moderate to severe injuries such as fractured hips and head traumas.
20-30% of older adults that fall suffer moderate to severe injuries such as fractured hips and head traumas.
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I have a question that I'd like to know the answer to. Do older adults fall and fracture their hips or is it that they have brittle bones and their hip breaks causing them to fall? Inquiring minds wonder.
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All I've ever heard is its the fall that breaks the hip for multiple bone and joint geezer related reasons. We don't bounce well unless short and round.
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Multi-faceted -- not just did the fall break the bone or did the break cause the fall but also did the heart attack cause the fall and the break or did the fall cause the break and the heart attack? Etc.
You old guys need to be careful. You don't heal like you used to.
As people age, they lose muscle tone and reflexes slow. Add to that poor eyesight that makes it easier to miss trip hazards and joints that refuse to work well and you have a recipe for more frequent falls.
Our local hospital sponsors a gym that specializes in programs for health. Every day there are low stress, low impact programs to strengthen the core and improve the leg and ankle strength.
The objective is to make falls less frequent since broken hips and other bones can lead to months in bed and very long PT to follow. Stuck in bed can lead to bed sores and other complications that lead to death.
Our local hospital sponsors a gym that specializes in programs for health. Every day there are low stress, low impact programs to strengthen the core and improve the leg and ankle strength.
The objective is to make falls less frequent since broken hips and other bones can lead to months in bed and very long PT to follow. Stuck in bed can lead to bed sores and other complications that lead to death.
There is a program called Silver Sneakers that has programs for we highly experienced individuals can join. Give free memberships to local gyms and also exercises that can be done at home to help with maintaining, and regaining, strength and balance. Check with your Medicare supplement carrier as most sponsor the program.
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The USA suffered up to 20,000 cases of paralytic polio each year until the early 1950s. One of my classmates' father built a wooden iron lung so his child could breath....as there weren't any iron lungs left for her.
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Yep, I had three friends growing up that had polio. Something I'd not thought about for many years. I also remember mumps, double mumps, chicken pox, small pox and measles. Why people don't vaccinate their kids today is beyond me, having lived through and having most of them.
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There is apparently a conspiracy among those that have taken the Hippocratic Oath to do harm to people by giving them vaccines.
Just as dumb a theory as most of the conspiracy theories are...
Don't get me started on why 97% of environmental scientists are actively conspiring to give your kids a better world, and why this is apparently a Bad Thing....
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Steve McQueen was demoted to private 7 times before he 'squared himself away' and received an honorable discharge after his stint in the United States Marine Corps.
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I joined up when I was 17 but I was an old timer compared to this fellow!
In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn’t enlisting infants,” and turned him down.
Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier’s pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment’s officers.
The next April, at Shiloh, Clem’s drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as “Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer”. A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his size.
In one of the Union retreats a Confederate officer ran after the cannon Clem rode with, and yelled, “Surrender you ****ed little Yankee!” Johnny shot him dead. This pluck won for Clem national attention and the name “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.”
Clem stayed with the Army through the war, served as a courier, and was wounded twice. Between Shiloh and Chickamauga he was regularly enrolled in the service, began receiving his own pay, and was soon-after promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He was only 12 years old.
After the Civil War he tried to enter West Point but was turned down because of his slim education. A personal appeal to President Ulysses S. Grant, his commanding general at Shiloh, won him a 2nd Lieutenant’s appointment in the Regular Army on 18 December 1871, and in 1903 he attained the rank of Colonel and served as Assistant Quartermaster General.
He retired from the Army as a Major General in 1916, having served an astounding 55 years.
General Clem died in San Antonio, Texas on 13 May 1937, exactly 3 months shy of his 86th birthday, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn’t enlisting infants,” and turned him down.
Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier’s pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment’s officers.
The next April, at Shiloh, Clem’s drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as “Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer”. A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his size.
In one of the Union retreats a Confederate officer ran after the cannon Clem rode with, and yelled, “Surrender you ****ed little Yankee!” Johnny shot him dead. This pluck won for Clem national attention and the name “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.”
Clem stayed with the Army through the war, served as a courier, and was wounded twice. Between Shiloh and Chickamauga he was regularly enrolled in the service, began receiving his own pay, and was soon-after promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He was only 12 years old.
After the Civil War he tried to enter West Point but was turned down because of his slim education. A personal appeal to President Ulysses S. Grant, his commanding general at Shiloh, won him a 2nd Lieutenant’s appointment in the Regular Army on 18 December 1871, and in 1903 he attained the rank of Colonel and served as Assistant Quartermaster General.
He retired from the Army as a Major General in 1916, having served an astounding 55 years.
General Clem died in San Antonio, Texas on 13 May 1937, exactly 3 months shy of his 86th birthday, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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That is incredible. A person clearly born for a life of military service. Salute!
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To save fuel etc. for the war effort in WWI, President Woodrow Wilson had sheep brought in to keep the white house lawn trimmed down.
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Snowflakes come in 35 different shapes. While probably true no two are exactly alike on a molecular level there are many that are the same.
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90% of the average American household spends $3,000 per year on gasoline.
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I only spend about a third of that. I guess I'm far be;ow average.
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Don't eat clowns...they taste funny!
The average American household is composed of 3.14 people. Unless they're cannibals with grampa's leg in the freezer I don't think there are very many average American households
Also,we don't pay for gas at our house. We pay for the beans, but the gas is free
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The average American household is composed of 3.14 people. Unless they're cannibals with grampa's leg in the freezer I don't think there are very many average American households
Also,we don't pay for gas at our house. We pay for the beans, but the gas is free
Frank
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