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 'fence'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734209&cid=t_108493_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F19%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-april-19-2011%2F Have you ever read A Parable by author Barbara Stanny? It’s a story about a farmer who was terribly afraid of an ugly, horrifying monster that lived in the forest near his home so he spent his life building a fence to keep it out. But all that time he devoted to building walls to protect himself prevented him from spending time with his friends and family. When he was finally fed up with being afraid, a fairy godmother appeared and told him how to make the monster disappear. For that to happen he needed to find the monster and embrace it. The farmer was frightened and paralyzed with fear and thought the godmother nutty for suggesting it and himself crazy for thinking of doing it. But, “his pain had gotten worse than his fear.” And he so he faced it by finding the monster,... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734209 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:05:36 +0100 4734209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451877&cid=t_108493_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F292906475%2F In Terre Haute, Indiana, Barbara Sollers needed a fence and Quality Fence built one. Sollers’ five-year-old son, Zach, is autistic; her husband is in a wheelchair and Sollers is only person who could be with Zach outside. The Terre Haute News reports that Zach’s school aide, Nancy Alkire, called Quality Fence. Owner Matt Dillon and a crew built 270 feet of a five-foot-high galvanized chain-linked fence, so Zach can roam in his yard. Since we’re living in a (second-floor) condo now, we don’t really have a yard (we do have a parking lot, which is not exactly a great play space for Charlie, though traffic is minimal). We used to have both front and back yards in our old house; one reason Jim and I were drawn to the house is because it had a very nice fenced-in back yar... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451877 Sun, 18 May 2008 16:05:43 +0100 1451877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=925479&cid=t_108493_134_f&fid=36049&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FDiabetesNotes%2F%7E3%2F164962449%2F Would you be willing to give up 8 years of your life to do away with your diabetes regimen? Do you feel like your medications and treatments are an enormous burden? If your answers are yes… and yes, then you are not alone. A group of researchers conducted face to face interviews with over 700 type 2 diabetics and found that they equate their diabetes with kidney disease and angina. Many diabetics say the burden of constant therapeutic vigilance and daily insulin injections have as much impact on their lives as complications. And over 10% of the patients polled were willing to give up 8-10 years of their lives to live without these everyday burdens. Wow! How do you feel about this? Would you be willing to give up the final decade of your life to live without prescription bottles and ... Diabetes Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=925479 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:54:40 +0100 925479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=659394&cid=t_108493_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F122329925%2Ffrom_a_street_in_calcutta_into.html Back in 1982, I interviewed Mother Teresa’s right hand man, Brother Andrew. He led  a large group men who chose to follow a similar path as Mother Teresa - to help the poor on the streets in downtown Calcutta. Andrew happened to come to Victoria, British Columbia, while I was there and a  magazine asked for an article about why his work was so successful. Even after 25 years I still remember Andrew’s key statement when I questioned him about the poor people that consumed his sphere of influence …. “In many ways these people are far richer than people in your nation,” he said, lowering his eyes as if embarrassed to tell me this. When I asked how this was so … he added "The people I work with live on the street but they... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=659394 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:26:25 +0100 659394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=511171&cid=t_108493_133_f&fid=35098&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclub166.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fheights-we-go-to.html Photo credit-Bob ReckIn a story out of North Carolina that will sound familiar to all who have lived in suburban America, a local homeowner's association has forbidden an owner to put up a 6 foot fence (which is prohibited under their covenant).What's unusual (probably not to most reading this list, but in general) is that the reason the homeowners wanted to put up a higher than allowed fence was to keep their young autistic son from eloping from their yard.This is one of those common problems that we often have to face. In our family, we decided to put dead bolt locks on all of our outside doors (as well as our mudroom door) in order to keep Buddy Boy from eloping when he was younger. This is against our local building code, and if the city catches us, we'll likely be forced to remove the... Club 166 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=511171 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:53:00 +0100 511171