Frank Rodriguez

11/17/2022

11/17/2022

Over 250 MILLION people 🌍 suffer from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) globally.
It is not curable. However, treatment can relieve symptoms, improve quality of life and reduce the risk of death.

The main causes of COPD are:
🔻Tobacco smoking (including passive exposure) 🚬
🔻Indoor air pollution 🔥 🥘
🔻Outdoor air pollution 🏙
🔻Occupational dusts & chemicals 🏗

11/17/2022

Every year, exposure to air pollution is estimated to cause 7 million premature deaths and result in the loss of millions more healthy years of life. In children, this could include reduced lung growth and function, respiratory infections and aggravated asthma. In adults, ischaemic heart disease and stroke are the most common causes of premature death attributable to outdoor air pollution, and evidence is also emerging of other effects such as diabetes and neurodegenerative conditions. This puts the burden of disease attributable to air pollution on a par with other major global health risks such as unhealthy diet and to***co smoking.

11/17/2022

WHO published new guidelines to improve survival and health outcomes for babies born early (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) or small (under 2.5kg at birth).

The new guidelines advise that skin to skin contact with a caregiver – known as kangaroo mother care – should start IMMEDIATELY after birth, without any initial period in an incubator.

11/17/2022

Today is World Diabetes Day.
Language around diabetes is critical to end diabetes stigma, blame and shame. There are too many rumours and misinformation around diabetes. We need to adapt how the media, organisations, policy makers and the wider public talk about it.

11/17/2022

👉What will the future of health look like?
👉What can we expect and what will be some of our biggest challenges?

Watch WHO's Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan explain in - Science in 5.

11/17/2022

Got a welfare check call of a 92 yr old woman, who sometimes walks up and down the road and doesn’t know where she is. Sometimes forgets her door is open so thinks she is locked out.

Neighbors call and said, she forgets a lot of things and her hands are ice cold to the touch. So they let her warm up in their home.

We go by and check, she has 2 sons who just forget about her. No food in the fridge, only milk and old lemonade. Only eating a bag of Cheerios, place hasn’t been cleaned recently. All she wanted to know is why her sons don’t bring her food or check on her. She said she just need a couple sandwiches or something to least not be hungry.

Without her knowing, we left and got her some groceries for her home. Big rotisserie chicken, some sandwich items to last a week or 2, some chunky soups, bunch of chips and meat, some waters. Knocked on her door and she was all smiles and in disbelief someone actually cared enough about her to even help.

Not always about running and gunning catching bad guys. Sometimes just showing someone they aren’t alone can change their lives.

Like I said from day one, “changing lives one smile at a time”

Credit: Marquis Hines
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11/17/2022

There was an old man who was admitted in a hospital.

A young man would visit him every day, and sit with him for more than one hour. He would help him eat his food, and take his shower.

He would then take him walking in the garden of the hospital.

After that he would bring him back to his room and help him to lie down.

He would go away after reassuring himself that the old man was doing well.

One day the nurse entered his room, to give him medicine and inspect his condition, and said to him:

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The Taste Of The Candy Is Still In My Mouth  There was an old man who was admitted in a hospital.A young man would visit him every day, and sit with him for more than one hour. He would help him eat his food, and take his shower.He would then take him walking in the garden of the hospital.After tha...

11/17/2022

There was a man who had three girlfriends, but he did not know which one to marry.

So he decided to give each one $5000 and see how each of them spent it.

The first one went out and got a total makeover with the money.

She got new clothes, a new hairdo, manicure, pedicure, the works, and tells the man, “I spent the money so I could look pretty for you because I love you so much.”

The second one went out and ...

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Men Being Men – Humor  There was a man who had three girlfriends, but he did not know which one to marry.So he decided to give each one $5000 and see how each of them spent it.The first one went out and got a total makeover with the money.She got new clothes, a new hairdo, manicure, pedicure, the...

11/17/2022

While teaching religion class one morning Sister Bridgette was speaking to her 3rd-grade class and she asked the question, “When you die and go to heaven… which part of your body goes first?

Suzy raised her hand and said, “I think it’s your hands.”

“Why do you think it’s your hands, Suzy?” said Sister.

Suzie replied, “Because when you pray, you hold your hands together in front of you and God just takes your hands first.”

“What a wonderful answer!” the nun said...

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When Go To Heaven…  While teaching religion class one morning Sister Bridgette was speaking to her 3rd-grade class and she asked the question, “When you die and go to heaven… which part of your body goes first?Suzy raised her hand and said, “I think it’s your hands.”“Why do you thin...

11/17/2022

I had to pass this along...my belly hurts from laughing!!!!📷
How grandchildren perceive their grandparents
1. I was in the bathroom, putting on my makeup, under the watchful eyes of my young granddaughter, as I'd done many times before. After I applied my lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, "But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!" I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye....
2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 72. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"
3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"
4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like. "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo and I said, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied.
6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story.
"What's it about?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color i