As My Patiences Grows

Recently, my brother and I decided that it would be better for my parents that I go up there and help them because I have a medical background.My brother is an graphic designer so he kind of do not know what to do. My mom has been a diabetic for some years now. She was managing it ok but recently develop fibriods on her ovaries. These fibroids are SO huge that they are pressing down on her uterus and causing her to bleed a lot. Well she was bleeding so much that on Valentine's day she was admitted into the hospital. She had to recieve 3 pints of blood through a blood transfusion. She go out that following Wednesday but she went back for a D & C on that Friday. While she was in the hospital, her blood sugar flucuated a lot. Now she is on insulin and on a very strict diet, something she is not use to. My dad spoils my mom by giving her whatever she wants to eat which is not good. So, I am here in Cleveland while my husband and son is in Columbus. I am helping my dad pick foods and showing him how to cook certain things to help my mom diet. She cannot have NO fried foods! I feel bad for her. We are Hispanic and love fried foods. Soon She will be ok. Her blood sugar has been lower than it has been. It's still kind of high but at least it is under 200. She is taking less and less booster insulin shots, which is great! Soon she will have a total hysterectomy or a Salpingo-oophrectomy with a hysterectomy. This kind of put me behind in my school work a little more but that is okay. My parents need my help and I can always make my classwork up. I do not like to be behind but stuff happens in life that we cannot control like this situation. And that is okay.

I like that I can write what I feel in this format. It helps me a lot with stress and expressing my feelings. I think that I will keep blogging after this class.

Peer Reviews

I like peer reviews. Now, I haven't always did. At one point, I thought my peers were just criticizing my work in a negative way. I thought of it of putting my and my work down instead of helping me. I was stubborn and did not like people telling what was wrong with my work. That has all change for me now. I know that peer reviews can help me. I like it because people can catch things in my work that I may have not notice. Also, others can help me just make my paper better. Some peers that had review my work in the past had help me by giving me tips on how I can fix things in my work.

People that do peer reviews need to have an open mind and remember that this can help them more than anything. It always help me especially when I had an open mind.

Issues!

For the last 6 weeks, I have been going through some stuff. In my last post, I posted some of the stuff that had been going on. But there is much more. My refrigerator decides to die after we just bought food. We end up throwing out a lot of the food. Then the computer starting acting up. My car got fix and broke down again from a different problem. My brother-in-law (that is 30) is living with me and my fiance' for the past 3 weeks. He eat up a lot of stuff and don't budget. My fiance' is irritated from this situation and his job lost. So he has this issue with redirect anger and I am the one that gets it. He yell about the dumbest stuff. I am use to it. I just ignore it and move on. I just started working and trying very hard to catch up on bills and rent. The good thing is that I finally got help on rent and that is good enough for me so I can catch up on the bills! I know that everything will be better eventually. It has already started !

Challenges

I had many academic challenges lately. First, my internet started to act funny. Then we had a huge snow storm, so I could not go to the library. Then my brother-in-law was shot in the foot from a bounce-off-the-ground bullet. Then he had to stay with us because the assailant was still out the police want him to safe (whatever). It just have been 3 crazy weeks. I am happy that now I can catch up and get everything up to par again.

Plagiarism

I think that the internet do blur the lines of plagiarism because people can copy other people stuff and add to them without stating where they got the information from. People can go on wikipedia and write whatever they like and copy others information without giving those individuals the due credit.

If someone used something that I created and did not gave me the credit, I would be angry. I would not know what I would do, honestly. If it was in a school atmosphere them I will tell the administrators what had happened and confront the person.