MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cleaning up'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:55:51 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490794&cid=t_232647_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F33twgCbfLEM%2F You say you’re an environmentalist. You use cloth bags when grocery shopping; your house is fitted with CFL light bulbs; and you drive a hybrid. (Hopefully not a Prius, though.) But if you really want to get your hands dirty for the sake of saving the planet, here are 10 ways you can use Earth Week as an excuse to get active in your community. If none of these opportunities are near where you live, check out Serve.org or Volunteermatch.org to find a worthy cause nearby. 1. Phoenix, Arizona Girls For A Green Planet – Saturday, May 1 You can teach Girl Scouts (grades two through six) how to lead greener lives, and help inspire the next generation to be as committed to saving the environment as you are. 2. Los Angeles, California Earth Day at SEA Lab – Saturday, April 24 Spend the morni... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490794 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:02:41 +0100 3490794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2774838&cid=t_232647_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FCoy8E9uqRv4%2F Yesterday we faced the familiar problem of getting the kids to clean up the living room. Ned, typically developing, was the usual sour-faced/hopeless case in this regard, but Alex has shown a willingness to scurry about and put things away if properly motivated. For a long time, I used a pointer (a “stick”), feeling like Patton as I slapped the pointer on toy after toy to be removed from the floor. Image courtesy of Tim Morgan (flickr.com) Yesterday, however, I hit upon a new idea. I sat Alex down by his pile of strewn plastic animals, grabbed an index card and a pen, and wrote, “Pick up the animals, please.” I took his finger and guided it across the words and made him read each word. Those he didn’t know, I pronounced for him. “Pick up the … anim... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2774838 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:45:33 +0100 2774838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2296772&cid=t_232647_133_f&fid=35124&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspergerwoman%2F%7E3%2FioblKDpEOEw%2Fcleaning-up-moving.html This week some cleaning up was necessary. Eh...can you understand the need of saving grocery tickets for over 2 years?? So I got rid of most of them. Some turned out to be warrantee tickets. It was a good feeling leaving the old paper drop off point with an empty car! Cleaning up means making room for new things to come. It's time to reorganize things again. Autism is never the same either, there is a difference between good and bad days and I noticed there seems to be a slightly difference between thoughts about my Aspergers just after I got diagnosed and now. So many things have changed. For instance the support my caregiver gives me every week. Life has certainly become easier for me after I got my official diagnosis and my support network was set up well.Time to move on. But first of a... The Art of Being Asperger Woman blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2296772 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:42:00 +0100 2296772