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Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack’s sermons.

Thistle. The name itself brings up all kinds of derogatory images in my head. Thistles are bad. At least that is the knee jerk reaction for landowners who spend hours and a lot of money trying to eradicate the darn things.

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

A bacterial infection. I hadn’t thought of a bacterial infection. I was sure, with my internet medical degree, that I had a viral infection, the flu or Covid. My symptoms were a low-grade fever and fatigue, and occasionally, when I would cough, a short-lived headache. All the things I had when I had Covid…so I was sure it was viral.

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She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, 'But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!' I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper goodbye.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on Oct. 24 in the church.

Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services.

My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing until the team arrived. Later the doctor told me I saved the patient’s life, further convincing me that medicine was my life’s purpose.

There were 20 migrating white pelicans on Lake Helen last week. The birds overwinter along the Gulf Coast and then nest in the northern Great Plains. They pass through Nebraska both during the spring and fall, and some even stick around all summer long. During migration, you can see large flocks of them circling and riding the thermals. They are graceful flyers.