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How to Recover from an Unexpected Accident
An unexpected accident can happen anytime, and when they do it’s easy for it to feel like your whole life has been turned upside down. If you live out in the countryside, or enjoy an active lifestyle, the risk of an accident occurring is even higher – whether it’s tripping over, falling off a bike, or even more dramatic possibilities like falling trees or danger from wildlife. It’s important to take care of yourself out there! Of course, injuries can happen to even the best of us, and sometimes there’s nothing you can do to prevent an accident – it’s just very bad luck. Injuries are commonplace; in the average year, over 29 million people visit emergency rooms following accidents. After the initial shock and recovery period has passed, it can be difficult knowing how to get back to normality, meaning the effects of the injury on your life continue for far longer than they should. To help combat this,…
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CDC Zombie Apocalypse preparedness 101!!
CDC Zombie Apocalypse offering: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse. Everyone needs a Zombie plan!!! The concept of zombies, the CDC helpfully notes, has Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins and refers to “a corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead.” But even though science can’t answer that gnawing question “Why do zombies like to eat brains so much?” there is much that everyday Americans can do to prepare themselves in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse. “That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.”That’s from the author of this particular medical treatise. Clearly, CDC’s quite concerned about zombies as they’ve brought in the big guns here. In this case, Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General and Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response How It Started…
