Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back

Input from Friends From Around the World from Way Back
Column Title – Christian Living's Health Blog JoLeAnet's Health Facts with Uncle Jeremiah & Aunt Deborah Bennett
Theme – Our Health
In the late 1960’s through early 1970’s we started & published a newsletter with articles from persons from around the world. Now that I’ve retired from full time teaching I’m going through many, many boxes of materials that I’ve kept over the years & sorting through it, sending some to missions to use in their educational program, donating other materials to other causes, etc. Some, I need for the curriculum development work that I am still doing or for our camp programs. I just found some of these old news letters which I was looking for. They made me think, “How did I ever get these?? We did not have computers, internet, etc. back then. How did we get this information from people from all around the world??? I had to think a few minutes for the answer. Everything was by mail (it was a lot cheaper to send a letter in those days); starting in high school, I began writing to pen pals. Again, I had to jog my memory as to how I got these pen pals. I remembered, there used to be teen magazines with articles containing pen pal names, addresses, & other information. Also the group that encouraged me to start these new letters was The Faith, Hope, & Charity Missions, which was NaomiLeah’s family’s organization. Many in her family & her friends were missionaries and this was a group that supported them in pray, writing them letters, etc. It was between my pen pals & my writing missionaries, etc. that I was able to collect the information for our newsletters. I am still looking for the boxes with the original letters with snap shots of the pen pals & missionaries along with their last names. I just hope they did not get lost: I’ve been looking & looking for my white nursing Bible which had my family tree in that my grandmother filled in when I first went into nursing. Because of back problems, I later left nursing & went into education. When I went to Bible College I had taken educational classes also. I took nurses training & attended Bible College right after I graduated from high school.  I’m including the ethnic connections, if we have them, as at the time I asked the contributors to try and include information that they sent us that reflected on their ethnic back grounds. Enough on all of that; I just wanted to put some back ground to these articles. Nellie
Topic		Sent in by	From/Ethnic Connection
1.	Herbs	Alina	Poland
2.	Vitamins	Delaney	Scotland
3.	Exercise	Galina	Russia
4.	Relaxing	Llona	Hungarian
5.	Cooking	Karli	Turkey
6.	Foods	Keona	Hawaii
7.	Message	Lowi	Wales
8.	Raising Animals	Marcella	Peru
9.	Growing Plants	Millicent	English from Ohio
10.	Therapeutic	Penelope	Greece
Note – I’ll gradually add the above listed articles as comments, as I get them done; just scanning them is not working as the formats are too old. Nellie

Father Wrongfully Accused in Young Son's Deaath

Meningitis

and the

False Accusing of a Father of Killing his Young Son

On television the other day, there was a news story of a father who had been accused of killing his young child by shaking, allegedly caused from bouncing the child on his knee, which they tried to say was the origin of brain damage that killed the child. The father kept insisting that he was innocent and asked that the results be retested; the doctor kept saying her results were accurate but finally agreed to do a recheck. This time she again said that her results proved that the father had killed his young son.

I wish I could remember more about where and when this happened, but I got involved in researching Meningitis and don’t remember. What does this have to do with Meningitis? Read on.

It had gone to trial and the father was going to be sent to prison. Another doctor asked if they would let her first look at the result testing from the first doctor. She then did her own test using another type of testing that the first doctor did not bother to run and found that in reality, the young boy had died from brain injury caused by Meningitis.

This is a tragedy, not only did this family loose this young child, but the father was also put in prison, wrongfully accused. I am putting this on our health blog because of the health connections.

This young boy had had a cold. Researching, I found that the testing of the results of children dying from Meningitis resembles the testing of results of children dying from causes that violently shake their little brains. Often it is not even known that the child had Meningitis; parents may think the child just has a cold and before it is realized the child has already died.

I am not going to, at least not at this time, quote from my research resources in this writing. As I would rather, if you are interested in this, that you do your own research; this way we may have a larger expand of research articles on this topic. If more resources agree with my research findings, it then is of up-most importance that we watch our children, when they have what we think is the common cold and/or flu. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I on this subject would be so kind as to give us their input. This is not only a problem for young children, but of people of other ages as well; Meningitis also has high occurrence among the college aged.

I will include the following at this time: Research Results – Here are a few of the resource sites I visited in my research, along with a short note on what the site speaks about:

      Bacterial meningitis is a serious infection of the fluid in the spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain.

o   www.dhpe.org/infect/Bacmeningitis.html

      Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that results from bacterial infection of the meninges.

o   emedicine.medscape.com/article/961497-overview

      What is meningitis? Meningitis is an infection of the membranes (meninges) surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

o   my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Meningitis/hic_Bacterial_Meningitis.aspx

      This bacterium is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants, young children and adults in the United States. It more commonly causes pneumonia …

o   www.mayoclinic.com/health/meningitis/DS00118/DSECTION=causes

o   Research Causes of Bacterial Meningitis - Information including Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment,

o   www.bettermedicine.com/article/bacterial-meningitis/causes

      Mar 11, 2011 · Viral infections are the most common cause of meningitis; bacterial infections are the second most common cause.

o   www.cdc.gov/meningitis/about/faq.html

      What are the signs and symptoms of bacterial meningitis? In persons over age 2, common symptoms are high fever, headache, and stiff neck.

o   www.dhpe.org/infect/Bacmeningitis.html

      Bacterial meningitis is a serious infection of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. The disease can be life-threatening,

o   www.ehow.com/facts_5260982_symptoms-bacterial-meningitis.html

      Bacterial meningitis symptoms may mimic those of other illnesses and this may make it difficult for the disease to be diagnosed.

o   www.buzzle.com/articles/bacterial-meningitis-symptoms.html

      Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as ... TBI is the third most common injury to result from child abuse ... skull fractures and penetrating injuries include meningitis ...

o   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury

      Fortunately, none of the bacteria that cause meningitis are as contagious as things like the common cold or the flu.

o   brown.edu/.../Health_Services/Health_Education/common_college_health_issues/meningitis.php

Nellie

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