Sepsis Awareness Month - September 3, 2020

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Celebrate Sepsis Awareness Month

September has been designated as Sepsis Awareness Month by Sepsis Alliance since 2011. Every September since, the organization has invited healthcare professionals and individuals in all areas of medicine, as well as businesses and organizations, to help raise awareness of sepsis and save lives. The month is all about letting people know about the symptoms and signs of sepsis so that people can act quickly and get the help that they need.

What Is Sepsis?

Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection. It can happen due to any infection, but the germs that most commonly trigger it are bloodstream infections, kidney infections, abdominal infections, and pneumonia. It is sometimes referred to as blood poisoning or septicemia. It occurs when your immune system has an overreaction to an infection, and so it begins damaging the organs and tissues in your body. You cannot catch sepsis from another person.

There are three stages of sepsis. There is sepsis, severe sepsis, and sepsis shock. A lot of people experience sepsis while they are in the hospital recovering from a procedure. However, this is not always the case. 

Sepsis Symptoms

One of the most important things to do in honor of Sepsis Awareness Month is to educate yourself about the different sepsis symptoms so that you know what to look out for. You could potentially save a life!

Symptoms of sepsis…

There are a number of different sepsis symptoms. This includes the following…

• A confirmed or probable infection
• A breathing rate that is above 20 breaths per minute
• A heart rate that is higher than 90 beats per minute
• A temperature that is below 96.8ºF (36ºC) or a fever above 101ºF (38ºC)

Symptoms of severe sepsis…

Severe sepsis happens when there is organ failure. Some of the symptoms that are associated with this are as follows…

• Extreme weakness
• Unconsciousness
• Chills because of a fall in body temperature
• Abnormal heart functions
• Issues breathing 
• Low platelet (blood clotting cells) count
• Changes in mental ability
• Decreased urination
• Patches of discolored skin

Symptoms of septic shock…

Septic shock symptoms include all of the symptoms that have been mentioned above. However, the individual will also have very low blood pressure. 

Why Education Yourself About Sepsis Is So Important

It is no exaggeration to say that you can save lives by educating yourself about sepsis. Sepsis is potentially life-threatening. The illness ranges from mild to severe. In mild cases, there is a much higher rate of recovery. Therefore, by educating yourself about this condition and spotting the signs early, there is going to be a much better chance of a recovery being made. 

Cases of severe sepsis are very worrying, to say the least. Plus, even those who recover are going to have a higher risk of infection in the future as well. Plus, complications can arise due to septic shock or severe sepsis. This can include the formation of small blood clots, which can block the flow of oxygen or blood to your vital organs and other areas in the body. This can increase a person’s risk of tissue death and organ failure. 

Shocking Sepsis Statistics

• One in ten deaths associated with childbirth and pregnancy are because of maternal sepsis.
• It is estimated 1.2 million children and three million newborns suffer from sepsis around the year per year.
• Sepsis is believed to impact more than 30 million people around the world every year.
• It is believed that sepsis leads to six million deaths per year worldwide.

(World Health Organization)

Joke of the Day

thanks, Mollie

Word of the Day

chivalrous

MEANING:

adjective: Having quality of chivalry, such as courtesy, honor, bravery, gallantry, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French chevalerie, from chevalier (knight), from Latin caballus (horse). Earliest documented use: 1374.

USAGE:

“Having been ensnared by talk of work as ‘fashion models’ or ‘dancers’, a growing number of such women are rescued by semi-chivalrous male customers, who alert the police.”
A Tragic Crossroads; The Economist (London, UK); Aug 16, 2008.

Idiom of the Day

Achilles' heel

A person's weak spot is their Achilles' heel.

This Day in History

1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.

1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.

1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1942 - Frank Sinatra started his solo singing career.

1966 - The television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" ended after 14 years.

1967 - The TV game show "What's My Line?" broadcast its final episode. The show aired over 17 years on CBS.

1967 - In Sweden, motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.

1976 - The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

1992 - David Bowie appeared on the cover of "Architectural Digest." He was the first human on the cover in 4 years.

2013 - Hunters in Mississippi caught a 727-pound alligator.

thanks, Anita



DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, September 3

You are success-oriented and willing to work hard for what you want. You appear confident, and you are certainly passionate, but you don’t always feel as strong as you look to be. You have a good head for business, and you are also quick to respond to changes. You are known to be hard-working and dedicated in whatever job you choose to do. While you get along with others generally speaking, it is probably better for you to be in your own business or in a managing and leading position, as you prefer not to feel limited by others and you prefer not to be told what to do. Even so, you have a strong need for security so that whatever you do, you would fare best with a trusted partner or confidante. You reach out to others and love to share your ideas and opinions with others. Yours is a passionate and friendly approach to love. While you are generally quite decisive, in love you are not always as certain. You are attracted to sociable, creative, and sensitive mates. Famous people born today: 

1856 Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1926)

1905 Carl David Anderson, American physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), born in NYC, New York (d. 1991)

1955 Steve Jones, rock guitarist (Sex Pistols), born in London, England

1965 Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estévez], American actor (Wall St, Platoon), born in NYC, New York

1986 Shaun White, American snowboarder (Olympic gold: 2006, 2010, 2018), born in San Diego, California

READERS INFO

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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

The last woolly mammoth died after most of the major pyramids were built. Most woolly mammoths died out 10,000 years ago, but a small population persisted on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 1700 BCE. By this point, the pyramids in Giza had been around for several hundred years – they were constructed in 2550 to 2490 BCE.

After his death, Albert Einstein's brain was stolen by a pathologist and cut up into 240 pieces. Thomas Harvey was the pathologist on call at Princeton Hospital when Einstein died there in April 1955. Einstein wanted all of his remains to be cremated and scattered, but Harvey had other ideas. He took the brain without permission, and eventually it was carved up into 240 pieces, preserved, and stored in Harvey's basement.

Bees can sense a flower’s electric field and use it to find pollen. Yup, flowers have electric fields around them. And bees, which become positively charged as they flap their wings, use those electric fields as cues to work out where the nectar is.

2.

1967 -

The final episode of the original What's My Line? game show, hosted by John Daly, aired on CBS. The show debuted in 1950 and included a four-person panel who asked questions to determine what job or line of work the contestant had. The show typically featured regular panelists, but guest panelists would appear frequently. The show's regular panelists over the years included: Dorothy Kilgallen, Louis Untermeyer, Arlene Francis, Hal Block, Bennett Cerf, Steve Allen and Fred Allen. The show also featured a famous mystery guest each week whom the panel tried to identify by name. The game show was noted for the dressy clothes worn by the panelists and the question, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?"

3.

Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent

*adult*

Rum Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Pictures of the day

Craigdarroch Castle is a historic Victorian-era mansion in  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, built in the Scottish- baronial style in the late 1800s. The wealthy coal baron Robert  Dunsmuir intended it as a family residence, but died before it  was completed. His widow sold the Craigdarroch estate to a  speculator, who subdivided the land into building lots. To  stimulate sales during a slow real-estate market, he announced  that the home would be the subject of a raffle, to be won by one  of the purchasers. The winner mortgaged the house to finance  speculative ventures, and when these failed, the ownership  passed to the Bank of Montreal in 1919. The house was used in 2015 as the filming location for The Boy, a horror movie.

Dead Vlei, Namibia

Withered trees hundreds of years old anchored in a white-clay pan, standing in striking contrast to an intensely colored, towering sand dune 



knit
thanks, Dawn

Biker Beanie pattern by Erin Christman

knit
thanks, Violet

lolo poncho pattern by Noura sabbagh

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Knitted Punchinello Caps for Knitting Needles, c1890 pattern by The Ladies Treasury

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Wilder Wein pattern by Christa Hartmann

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Optic Blanket

Crochet Pattern of the Day: 

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Look, It's A House!

The Stephanie Sweater

crochet
thanks, Joy

easy apple crochet coaster

crochet

thanks, Alexa

The Patchwork Cardi, an Oversized Layering Top

crochet

Fairy Tale Square Pillow

crochet

Rover Bag

crochet

Fluffy Meringue Blanket

Quarantine Cooking Recipes

thanks, Debbie

The upcycled nature of kartoshka cakes made them extremely popular in the Soviet Union, where food shortages forced canteen managers and home cooks alike to make ingredients stretch as far as they could.

Pirozhnoe "Kartoshka" - Chocolate Sponge Cake Pastries

RECIPE

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

A slightly lighter version of the all-American classic, this satisfying meatloaf uses chicken broth and soaked panko to stay moist, and a mix of fresh herbs for flavor. It’s the best turkey meatloaf you’ll find!

The Best Turkey Meatloaf

CROCKPOT RECIPE

thanks, Marge

Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches

VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE

Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.

thanks, Alice

Borscht is a delicious steaming bowl of nourishing soup to brighten your mood. Beets give this soup an earthy sweetness (and a vibrant color), while a dash of lemon juice and fresh dill add a hint of freshness.

Borscht Recipe (Beet Soup) {Easy to Make}

COPYCAT RECIPE 

thanks, Jenny

Copycat Nutella

SWEETS

thanks, Denise

Here's a Homemade Recipe for Cronuts,

Half Croissant, Half Doughnut

ADULT COLORING ... Mary Cassatt

FUN

Think you have what it takes? Give it a shot! 

1. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

2. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

Answers: 

1. $0.05. If you guessed 10 cents, you’re not alone. However, if that were the case, the bat and ball would cost $1.20—not $1.10. On the other hand, purchasing a 5 cent ball and a bat priced at $1.05 (which is $1 more expensive than 5 cents) would total $1.10, instead.
2. 5 minutes. Although you might have answered 100 minutes, the actual time is a little less than that. Since the question reveals that it would take 5 minutes for 1 widget machine to make 1 widget, you can determine that it would take 5 minutes for 100 widget machines to make 100 widgets.
3. 47 days. At first, your gut might tell you it would take 24 days. But remember: Since the area of the lake covered in lily pads doubles every day, a patch that covers half the lake would fully cover it in just one day. Subtract one day from 48 days, and what do you get? 47 days.

CRAFTS

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Paper bag baskets are:

• Not valuable, and they don’t hold up in the quite the same way as reed baskets, but they have a certain charm and durability.

• Free, and if you don’t have paper bags you can substitute other paper.

• Good for teaching you a little about basket weaving without any of the angst of working with new-to-you materials.

• Kid-friendly, although the younger ones may need your help to get started. If you have really little ones, they can color on the paper bags before you cut them up to see how their designs look woven.

• Fun to weave.

• Useful

Paper Bag Basketry

CHILDREN'S CORNER

thanks, Cindy

DIY Fall Leaf Bowl

PUZZLE

Bloom Yellow Daiz Jigsaw Puzzle



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SUDOKU ... hard

solution:

QUOTE

Calendar Castle

CLEVER 

Data visualization artist Matt Shirley took an unscientific poll of his approximately 400,000 Instagram followers on what they considered the worst landmark in their state.

"This map is made from answers from a poll on my IG story," Shirley explained. "I took the most popular answers and slapped them on a map, so don't blame me."

EYE OPENER 

thanks, Dana

Visualize the things you’re trying to remember. Try to snap a mental image of your sunglasses when you’re putting them down ... 

Top 10 Tricks to Boost Your Memory and Remember Anything

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. -Sarah Orne Jewett, poet and novelist (3 Sep 1849-1909)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

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