Global Citizenship

My first week as a student nurse in the hospital was a few weeks ago.  I had a few weeks of intensive training in order to teach me how to take vital signs, like blood pressure, pulse, heart rate etc, proper patient care rules, and then how to assess the heart and lungs.  So the first day in the hospital my clinical instructor reviewed everything with us, and then kindly pushed us in the direction of our patient rooms.

Submitted by Dana Huttlin, FG Pitt, Featured Blogger

 Christmas is by and far my favorite holiday. It has been as long ago as I can remember. Now, I'm not one of those people that starts listening to Christmas music in October, or pointedly celebrates Christmas in July, but I go pretty far out of my way to make the most out of the few weeks squeezed between Thanksgiving and December 25th. 

Submitted by Tricia "Big Dreamer" Selin, FG4L Co-Chair, Featured Blogger

Since my move to Pittsburgh I have had a wealth of opportunities! I get be a student member of Feelgood again, at the University of Pittsburgh*
(* side-note I highly recommend including Feelgood as a reason to pick a grad school, it makes a new campus feel like home - or start a feelgood at your grad school if there isn't one -props to Leah Grossman - she just accomplished this at the University of Washington) and a few weekends ago I was able to attend the Feelgood/Hunger Project Hunger Summit in New York City.  It was an incredibly inspiring weekend, and I wish everyone involved in Feelgood, no actually anyone in the least bit interested in Feelgood, attend. 

Submitted by The "Flawger", FG4L, Featured Blogger 

MDG…

Do you know what MDG stands for?  No, not Miller Genuine Draft… that’s MGD.  MDG stands for Millennium Development Goals.  Still don’t know what I’m talking about?  Then you probably are new to FeelGood…

Every FeelGooder should know what the Millennium Development Goals are.  In fact, you should know them so well that you could more or less rattle off all 8 goals from memory.  Why you might ask?  Because knowledge is power!

Submitted by Samantha Ethridge, UVM FG, Guest Blog

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Submitted by Dana Huttlin, FG Pitt, Featured Blogger

I recently went out to breakfast with a woman who served as my mentor when I went through confirmation at my church. Over the past seven years, we’ve kept in touch off and on, and I’ve have continually looked forward to our talks about anything and everything over breakfast at our town diner. Alright, so this is all fine and good, but why am I writing about this? Because my mentor, Mrs. H., has a knack for telling me stories that just don’t just make me feel good, but revive my hope in the world. So for this blog post, I figured I would share one of the stories she told me at our last breakfast.

Mrs. H., now in her late sixties, went on a pretty incredible European trip sometime in her early twenties. During her trip, she visited an old professor who was spending a year as a visiting professor at the University of Paris. Keep in mind, this was way before the days of instant communication, and letters were the key to meeting up with anyone. Mrs. H took a train into the city, fully expecting to meet the professor and his family at the station. But when she got in, at ten pm on a Saturday night, no one was there to claim her.

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Submitted by Tricia "Big Dreamer" Selin, FG4L Co-Chair, Featured Blogger

Leah Grossman and I participated in the 16^th annual Swedish Summerun this past weekend.  This is an annual fun run/walk to raise money for the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research.  Each year a woman who is battling ovarian cancer is picked as the honoree of the event. This year it was a woman named Leslie.  Last year it was a woman named Lisa. The year before it was a woman named Mary Anne. The simple act of empowering an individual and honoring these women inspires incredible results.  Each year the number of participants and money raised keeps rising.  Lisa and Mary Anne lost their battles with ovarian cancer, but their friends and family are still fighting, if not even harder now, to find a cure for the next generation of women.  This year’s the honoree Team Leslie, in combination with Team Lisa’s Angels and Team Mary Anne raised over $70,000 and inspired over 400 people to participate in their honor.  This is only part of the whole, there were another 30 survivors and in total over 3600 people participating in the event, raising over $426,000 for ovarian cancer research this year.

Submitted by The Flawger, FG4L, Featured Blogger

Submitted by Tricia "Big Dreamer" Selin, FG4L co-chair, featured Blogger

 Submitted by Emily White, FG Clemson, Featured Blogger   

Birthdays. For many youngsters, their days of birth have come to represent heaps of presents, cheesy Hallmark cards stuffed with checks and outlandish birthday cakes with whipped frosting covering every last crumb. For the older crowd, birthdays are less of a celebration, and more of a dreaded reminder of how fast time flies.