Alex Reid

Misericordia is the first hospital in Winnipeg to offer free Internet access to patients while they wait for medical attention. Patients receive the network password when they register and hose without their own computer devices can use one of two computer kiosks.

From CTV:

Professor Neil Boyd, a criminologist at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University, told CTV’s Canada AM on Monday that Insite, the five-year-old safe-injection site, has not had a negative impact on its community.

“We looked at crime rates in the area surrounding Insite, and we talked to business operators, we talked to service providers, to police, to residents in the surrounding vicinity. We found, overwhelmingly, people had very positive sentiments,” Boyd said.

St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, has dropped its ban on cellphone and BlackBerry use. Other hospitals in the city have also decided to permit them, but only in hallways, waiting rooms, and cafeterias.

The move follows the recent study findings by the Mayo Clinic that tested cellphones and PDAs from two different carriers with 192 pieces of medical equipment. The study concluded that “when cellular telephones are used in a normal way, no noticeable interference or interactions occurred with the medical devices.”

“… in a normal way”?

Ernest Gallo, of Ernest & Julio Gallo Wine, passed away yesterday, a mere three weeks after his half-brother Joe passed. It’s not all bad, he was twelve days short of his 98th birthday.

And they say wine is good for your heart.
Cheers!

I’m finding that the morning is the time I get the most pain with my bruised ribs.

So, this morning, after waking up to a leak in the roof a couple hours before I had to get up, I decided to take an ‘Extra Strength Advil’ and go back to sleep, so that when I did wake up, I’d be numbed of pain. And it worked. I woke up for the first time without much pain. There was still pain, but not as much and it was refreshingly different.

So refreshing, I went outside for the most in the last five days.

It was nice to wake up without pain, even if it was artificial.