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In reply to the discussion: What's the most disappointing technology of the 21st century so far? [View all]Demsrule86
(71,033 posts)We have great candidates this year and will wipe out some GOP would-be dictators. We have concerts, movies, TV, radio, music, the theater, gyms, swimming pools, and football. We have access to thousands of free books (ebooks are great). My daughter married this year to a wonderful guy and I am a Grandma. Life is good...too good to catalog what you 'hate' or what is the 'worst'...a self-fulfilling prophecy of unhappiness awaits those who follow this path..so Happy Monday folks. It is a new week with many possibilities.
PS...I wanted to add Medicine and lifesaving treatments.
When I was 16, I wanted out of school badly and nurses' aid training was offered in the afternoon. I had no desire to be a nurse but hello...I got to leave school. So there I was in a time when nurses still wore caps and men shivered in terror when they saw a 16-year-old with a thermometer (All temperatures were taken rectally on my floor). On a Monday, I still remember the day clearly all these years later, I walked into a pediatric room. I had been 'borrowed' as they were short-handed in pediatrics. A seven-year-old boy sat up eating Cheerios- his favorite cereal. He had a sweet smile, dark hair, and dimples. He looked perfectly healthy but he wasn't; he had Leukemia...for weeks later he was dead. In those days nothing could be done. I still tear up when I think of him. Today in the 21st century, more than 95% of kids survive Leukemia. So I kind of think the 21st century is sort of a miracle.