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Are you a worker? Today is International Workers' Day. But I have a doubt, is it the day of all workers in the world or only of paid workers? Or those who work in a company? Because I prefer to congratulate all types of workers on this day, from the paid worker to the one who does not receive physical remuneration. I congratulate the farm workers who receive remuneration from nature with their harvests but who live and support their families because what they produce is…
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My memories come back to my forgotten memory. I didn't remember, I forgot all about it and suddenly someone called me and made me remember. How could I forget this important date, I can't explain how it happens but I always forget about it. Approximately 25 years ago I graduated as a medical surgeon at the prestigious *University of the Venezuelan Andes*, *ULA*. This wonderful memory that I always forget comes with a sad memory. I spent many years studying and for so many…
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Remembering my road trips. The trips that I made across my beautiful country on many occasions were made because I was traveling to my daily activities. Such as when I traveled for more than 17 hours by road from my home state to get to the state where my university was located, or when I traveled to different places of work and, in some other cases, it was to pick up relatives who lived in other cities. For example, I’ll tell you some things about when I went on vacation…
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Something more about my perception of life. Life is full of surprises. Who would have thought that after I lost all my contacts last year thanks to my phone breaking down one night, because I didn't take the necessary precautions, I would later be included in a group with the 25 colleagues with whom I studied the last year of my career. In other words, the 25 medical colleagues and friends with whom I worked in the rural internships so I could obtain my degree. Right now I…
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The conflicts of others. The way we live life depends on our own vision of how we see things around us. What for someone is a serious problem, under their own vision in relation to the solution of their problem, for others it becomes a simple obstacle. Trying to get people to change certain details of their lives in order to direct their energies to solve a conflict that to someone doesn’t matter is simply frustrating. Everyone has a personal vision at home, in their family…
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Mother's Day. Yesterday was the day that many people use to celebrate mothers' day. I want to say that I’m not against this celebration, because I’m not, I am against the fact that, for many people, this is the only day they remember to give gifts to their mothers. I never liked to celebrate this day. I always showed my mother, while she was alive, that gifts are always given. I didn't even give her gifts on the same day, weeks before this date she received gifts from me and…
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A very exciting hobby I have loved fishing all my life. In my childhood I remember that my father taught me to fish with glass containers, the technique? It's very easy… We take a glass container that is deep and not too wide. This means that the container should be sized so that the fish can get in but can't get out by turning around. This technique works for small fish like sardines. You place small pieces of bread at the bottom of the container, add water to it so that…
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Why don't we learn to live? We always tell ourselves that all human beings are equal but do we really believe it? We live in a society that is always looking for ways to divide itself. Everyone belongs to a different group. If we are not in a group we feel like we are not accepted and that damages our self-esteem. In this way, if we are not in a group, there are different problems in society. If student groups do not belong to pre-established groups they will be vulnerable…
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Many thanks to @telesfor and @lerkfrend for their upvote, they are much appreciated. God bless you. Long time no see but I see you are back and with lots of energy. You are very generous with your important contribution to the users' articles.
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When our abdomen hurts. Today a 34 year old male came to my office. He says that he has been having abdominal pain for a long time and he has also felt pain towards his pelvic area and back. This is what is known in medicine as *referred pain*. This is because this patient's gallbladder is presenting alterations. The gallbladder is a hollow organ that is in charge of lodging a liquid produced in the liver called bile. This human viscera is located in a pit below the liver,…
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Learning more about lithiasis. I was pleased to read the comments of people who read my article on abdominal pain. I decided to answer in a more detailed article the questions that seemed to me to be the most common and most worrisome for patients and their families. Abdominal pain has many causes, ranging from a simple inflammation that only requires a special diet and analgesic treatment, to a surgical pathology. In other words, it requires immediate surgery. In this…
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Learn about pancreatic steatosis. Today I bring you medical information about fat in the pancreas. Have you heard about *pancreatic steatosis*? It’s a pathology on the pancreas. But first I want you to know something about what it is and what the pancreas is for. The pancreas is an organ located behind the stomach. It’s in charge of producing a triple function in the organism. One of its functions produces pancreatic juices that then pass into the intestinal tract through…
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The unforgettable. While talking with some of my university classmates, we started to remember situations that we lived through in our youth as students. We found many episodes that we realize were bitter experiences with some professors who gave us important subjects about health. Among them, the professor of internal medicine was a very scary person. All of us high school graduates did not respect him, but feared him. He had a reputation from when he got into a fight with…
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I like to walk! Walking is a very important daily activity for me to do. Actually, before the pandemic I used to walk a lot more. I usually did it for one or two hours a day. Then came the pandemic, the isolation and all this situation prevented me from going out for my daily walks. In my country regulations are made that allow one week to have a little less restriction, letting people work and go outside, while the next week is a total restriction and so on. During the…
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Do we live alone or in company? Although I have repeatedly read that we were born alone and we must understand that this is true, my mind does not end up believing it. I search the world for facts that make me change my mind, my particular way of believing that we didn’t come alone, we are not alone and we will never be alone. On the contrary, I am more and more convinced that we have come into the world accompanied and that we are leaving in the same way. I have seen some…
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Live dying or die living. It was an unusual day but at the same time it was one of those days when the feeling you get when you wake up is that you are broken inside. You feel the negativity in the air… or is it just in my mind that everything is so black...? It doesn't matter! Whether it's outside or inside my mind I feel it's one of those days.... To feel sad, miserable, abandoned, you just have to be on this plane. Otherwise you wouldn't feel anything but bad or good. I…
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Clarifying doubts. I decided to write this article thanks to two responses I received on my previous article. My article simply refers to a person who is bitter, that feels frustrated and for her all things in life are dark. Nothing gives her a sense of life. Until she meets a person on her way through the park, while complaining about the air, the trees and the fallen leaves. This person, my lead actor in this tale, meets a very happy person who is grateful for everything,…
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Stages of life. I remember when I was a child of 9 to 10 years old. I was a leader for my younger siblings, my two brothers followed me wherever I went. I would always guide them along the roads we were to travel. We lived in a big house with all the services and minimum comforts a family of 7 people needed to live with their basic needs covered. My father would buy a goat or a pig every year and on some special occasion like his own birthday he would send for the animal and…
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Odysseys to reach achievements. An untimely move. When I started nursing school, I didn't do so well. I had a hard time from several points of view. We had just moved into our own house, which was far from my place of study. I had to take two cars to get there. On the other hand, I had no way to finance my school expenses, I had no one to buy what I needed. On the other hand, I had to put up with verbal abuse from my father who did not support me in my decision to become a…
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To smoke or not to smoke. I almost forgot that I had a vice. I got it when I was studying in my first profession. I was a girl who had no knowledge of many things in life because in my home I was separated from all reality and I could only live according to the reality that my father had built and, as time went by, I realized that everything he said was false. When I studied at the nursing institute there were many girls, from all over the country. Older girls, married girls…
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My story of freedom. I have been invited to write about freedom. Should I write about my life? All my young adult years I decided to live it freely. I grew up in a family where the prevailing regime was military style, and not because my father was a military man but because rules and discipline of the household was very strict. In a way I don't think anything he did was with evil intentions, he just liked to feel the power and that we all obeyed him, including my mother. He…
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Own thoughts and advice from others. We all have different ways of thinking, of living, of directing our lives. Very often we tend to have opinions and disagree about the way of life of people or other families around us. I used to have that habit. I didn't like how someone spoiled such and such a person, I didn't like how some people behaved with others and so I criticized many ways of others. Until a thought came to my mind... who assures me that I am the one who is right?…
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Thank you @TruSuccessXpert and @alther for renewing my sponsorship. I hope you continue your success and God bless you abundantly.
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He was my father. He was a strong man, perhaps tormented by his own demons. He lived the way he wanted to, never following anything but his own rules. From what my mother told me, he was a terrible son and an even worse brother. He just wanted to live fighting with everyone. Somehow, he got in a dispute with his relatives and so he decided one day to leave his country to come to a different one where he knew nothing and nobody, not even his own language was spoken, so that…