Quote Of The Day: HOPE September 10th

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day 2013~~

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, believe me I know first hand that it will not fix the problem. As a survivor of several suicide attempts when I was younger, and a woman living with depression for many years now, I can tell you that it will solve nothing. The number one cause of suicide is untreated depression, there is hope! Treatment can make your life feel real again. Much of your suffering is unnecessary. If you or a friend of yours is thinking of ending the pain, it is not a secret to keep. Help is just a call away

1-800-784-2433

1-800 -Suicide

 

 

Keep communication open with your kids and spouse, educate yourself about signs and symptoms of depression and suicidal ideations. It might just save a life.

 

7 Secrets To Success......plus the best secret!

What do you consider success in life?

Just look around you and be amazed at what you might see.

And Pray, Trust God for your success in life always

The Best secret!

TapToTalk :Socially acceptable communication app

It just amazes me how far we have come with technology and the numerous applications that surface daily for people of all levels of knowledge. This technological innovation is also affordable to anyone. As a wife to a husband with disabilities and a nurse that works with all types of patients in the ED, I was amazed by the application "Tap to Talk". A simple application that works on all kinds of devices. It was very easy to install, I put the free version on my iPad and my iPhone. 
The freedom this app now gives a person with a disabled child or spouse is wonderful!
I also asked one of my nonverbal patient's (via pen and paper) at work on day if she would mind looking at the app via my iPhone and telling me her honest opinion of it. Before I knew it she was smiling and laughing with her daughter and they were discussing buying an iPad to add the app. Due to a stroke she had been left without the ability to speak clearly anymore and her family was having a hard time some days understanding her needs. Using the "Tap to Talk" app she was able to tell me, her nurse, that she was thirsty and that she needed to go to the bathroom and I understood her easily. Score one for the team!

TapToTalk Designer enables a user to customize the application to a more personable style and also adds a library of over 2600 photos, ability to add a recognizable voice, upload your own photos, choose the language and so much more. 
The cost is so worth the smile of the person you are helping to be verbal, sometimes for the first time ever. Brochure here 

Give your non-verbal child the portable, customizable, socially acceptable communication app.

Play your albums with any or all of these free TapToTalk apps
iPhone/iPad/iPod, Kindle Fire, Nook Color/Tablet, Nabi, Android, PlayBook
and Web Apps are available free with sample albums

As a blogger, I have been given the opportunity to advertise this material and I am being compensated for my review. Credit to TapToTalk for images and links. Be sure to follow them on Pinterest and other social media sites. 

Our First and Second Responsibilties ~

Our First Responsibility is to be happy, our second is to make others happy. Seems simple enough and a wonderful thought to live by. I was touched by this video and wanted to share. Something so simple yet so hard probably for most people to do, give back to others. Accept change and just do it! Giving back to others is one of my most important life works, my profession as a nurse I guess has lead me to think like this. I teach my children the same thing (when they listen) in hopes that a legacy of doing and caring about others will remain for generations to come.

30 gifts to 30 strangers : how sweet this was to do, celebrate your birthday by making others happy! Do you think we can do this when I am 50? hmmm 50 gifts :)

Enjoy!!

Thank you and big hugs to Lucas for posting on You Tube for people like me to enjoy, made me smile  :)

Here is more of Lucas
Website: www.lucasjatoba.com 
You need to see his work, incredible artist both print and video!! Wow
Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/iamlucasjatoba 
If you liked the video, watch the making of! www.vimeo.com/28850787

Comparing notes on October 5th~ Tom Conway & Steve Jobs

Saddened by the news that a great man had passed away the very same date that my own father passed away October 5th, just goes to show that great minds do think alike and all things may happen for a reason. I bet my father and Steve Jobs are having an interesting conversation right now in heaven, comparing notes, talking over past elements in each others lives and oh yes, talking about cancer, the common bond they both shared. But no more tears at least for now there is no pain. I miss my father greatly but rejoice in the fact that a new body awaited him in heaven and a great new world opened up for him at the foot of his Jesus.

Steve Jobs was a man that I saw in my father, so smart and so strong, full of life and knowledge spilling out from a cup overflowing. My father chose some different paths in life, was never the CEO of a huge company or a multi-millionaire, but in a sense he was all that. With the love of his family and passion for serving/helping others he was a CEO in my mind with a multimillion dollar heart.They both had similar childhood's, born to unwed young mothers who did not want them, or could not keep them.
Both dropped out of college at one time or another, but continued on.
All the money and prestige in the world just does not matter when that nasty word "cancer" decides to enter your life, now Steve Jobs and Tom Conway are on equal ground hopefully both in heaven, comparing notes.

I have always been touched by this speech and wanted to share it , a great thing for your children to share with you as a parent...hint hint.

via NPR "The death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has renewed interest in the commencement address he gave at Stanford University in 2005, which drew considerable attention for its content and because Jobs so rarely spoke in public about himself.

As Bob Boilen writes over at the All Songs Considered blog: "He tells three very candid, uncharacteristically Steve Jobs stories about life, love and death from a guy who's biological mother wasn't able to parent him, was booted from the company he created and battles cancer. Anyone stuck in a miserable job — or anyone trying to figure out what to do with their life — should watch this. He's an inspiring fellow human." Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address

Stay Hungry ~~ Stay Foolish great words to live by!