Pneumonia hospitalizations in Canada rose dramatically last respiratory illness season, CIHI says
Newly released data backs up what hospitals were experiencing during the last respiratory illness season: A big rise in the number of people being treated for pneumonia. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says children between five and 17 years old were especially hard hit.
#health #illness #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pneumonia-cihi-9.7097218?cmp=rss

Pneumonia hospitalizations in Canada rose dramatically last respiratory illness season, CIHI says
Newly released data backs up what hospitals were experiencing during the last respiratory illness season: A big rise in the number of people being treated for pneumonia. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says children between five and 17 years old were especially hard hit.
#health #illness #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pneumonia-cihi-9.7097218?cmp=rss

Pneumonia's unwelcome return: Canadian hospital data points to big jump last respiratory illness season
Newly released data backs up what hospitals were experiencing during the last respiratory illness season: A big rise in the number of people being treated for pneumonia. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says children between five and 17 years old were especially hard hit.
#health #illness #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pneumonia-cihi-9.7097218?cmp=rss

Pneumonia hospitalizations in Canada rose dramatically last respiratory illness season, CIHI says
Newly released data backs up what hospitals were experiencing during the last respiratory illness season: A big rise in the number of people being treated for pneumonia. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says children between five and 17 years old were especially hard hit.
#health #illness #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pneumonia-cihi-9.7097218?cmp=rss

Quote of the day, 19 February: St. Zélie Martin

The Last Days of Sister Marie-Dosithée, VHM

Sister Marie-Dosithée (Marie-Louise Guérin, 1829–1877) was the elder sister of Saint Zélie Martin and aunt to the Martin children, including the future Saint Thérèse. Born in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon near Alençon, she helped sustain her family in youth, co-directing with Zélie the Alençon lace enterprise and even traveling to Paris to secure buyers. After recovering from an early bout of tuberculosis, she entered the Visitation of Le Mans in 1858 at the age of twenty-nine, persevering there for nearly nineteen years in religious life, while remaining closely united to her family until her death on February 24, 1877.

In the final week of her life, three letters preserve the essential facts of her decline and Saint Zélie’s response.

On February 19, 1877, Sister M.-Louise de Gonzague Vétillart wrote from the Visitation of Le Mans to Madame Martin:

“For the past two days our dear invalid has grown considerably weaker, and this morning she was unable to rise to receive Holy Communion. Our beloved Sister is in a state of weakness, oppression, and anxiety that leads us to think the end may not be far off… She was deeply touched by your parcel, but she now eats so little that she only tasted it; she asks us to express to you her gratitude for this new kindness, which has greatly moved her.”

Five days later, the Mother Superior announced her death. Zélie transmitted the contents of that letter to her brother:

“It was this morning (February 24), at seven o’clock, that our dearly beloved Sister Marie-Dosithée ended her so edifying life with a death worthy of envy… She lost nothing of her peace, her perfect resignation, and she felt more and more the desire to go and see Our Lord. Yesterday she had the consolation of receiving Holy Viaticum… Her presence of mind and her serenity were admirable to the end… It would be difficult to end more saintly a life so virtuous… This very night… she blessed you all from the depths of her heart. Oh! how she will pray for her two dear families whom she loved so tenderly!”

Zélie added her own response in the same letter of February 26:

“When I received this letter, I never had the courage to open it—I knew too well what it contained… Now I no longer wish to part with it… There are a few lines in my sister’s own hand—the last she wrote—I would like to see them again.”

These letters record Sister Marie-Dosithée’s physical decline, her reception of the sacraments, her serenity at the end, her blessing of her family, and Saint Zélie’s attachment to the last lines she wrote.

We always refer to the website of the Archives of the Carmel of Lisieux for the vast majority of our quotes concerning Saint Thérèse, Saint Zélie, and Saint Louis Martin. If you would like to purchase English translations for the collected works of St. Thérèse, please visit the website of our Discalced Carmelite friars at ICS Publications. 

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

... kind of messaging that we are facing. Pure #denialism. It is a severe #mental #illness that the people that succumb to it become powerless over. My first ex-wife could not tell the truth to save her life, literally. #Epstein Files

Some kind of infection seems to be tearing through the population in my general area. It's a sinus thing that comes with a very scratchy throat. It's not the flu and it doesn't seem to come with a fever, but it's annoying.

Guess I'll be living on hot chicken soup with a squirt of lemon juice and hot tea with honey for a while!

#Sick #infection #Illness #Cold #CommonCold

I put up an explanation why I will be taking a break from blogging at this time https://open.substack.com/pub/richmagahiz/p/taking-stock?r=gnwin&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#illness #lifedecisions

I'm symptomatic. And I knew it was coming. Its been about a week or so now. I can almost always sense it coming. It just works that way. That is normally to my advantage as I can adjust medications or contact my doctor if their are medication adjustments I need that I don't have immediate access to. The problem now is I am on so many medications already I can't imagine what changes could be made. I have always taken front point with my medication adjustments for the most part. After 28 years of living with disability I have just learned what to do and how to do it. Most of the time. Sometimes symptoms keep me out of managing my own symptoms. But I've caught this quick. I could feel it coming, but I guess I didn't really prepare for it. Now that I'm fully conscious of it I can just tolerate it, or contact my doctor and risk getting the wrong meds that make things worse, or think hard and come up with my own my med plan.

#disabled #disability #medication #medications #illness

Quote of the day, 16 February: St. Teresa of Avila

For since my arm has been in the state it is, I am very careful in this regard. It is still swollen, as is also my hand, and covered with plaster, which looks like armor, and so I get little use out of it…

Saint Teresa of Avila
Letter 230 to Father Jerome Gracián
Avila, 16 February 1578

From her youth until the moment of her death, Teresa was assailed by bodily illnesses; sickness was one of the great battles of her life. Keenly observant, she has written of these illnesses with impressive objectivity, precise description, and great simplicity. […]

A further difficulty in the Mother Foundress’s case, exacerbating an already delicate condition, was the penchant to take lightly any need for rest and care. It is somewhat surprising to us that the doctor had to tell her that her head would be in a better condition if she did not stay up until two in the morning writing letters and also warn her never to write after midnight [Cf. Letter 182 to her brother Lorenzo].

If her trials could affect her physical state, her bodily illnesses, by the same token, could affect her psyche. She confesses:

“Often I complain to our Lord about how much the poor soul shares in the illness of the body. It seems the soul can do nothing but abide by the laws of the body and all its needs and changes” (Cf. The Book of Her Foundations, 29:2).

To add to her infirmities, on Christmas eve in 1577, Teresa fell down the stairs at St. Joseph’s in Avila and broke her [left] arm. Since it did not set properly, a well-known but unlicensed practitioner from Medina del Campo performed an osteoclasis. In thus breaking her bone again so as to correct the deformity, a most painful procedure, he not only failed to remedy the matter but made things worse. Teresa’s arm was left maimed and useless; for the rest of her life, she needed help, even for simple tasks such as dressing and undressing.

If Madre Teresa shied away from caring for herself, her own experience of bodily infirmities and spiritual trials heightened her capacity to feel compassion for other suffering people.

In a letter to Gracián, speaking of how a soul can have no better sustenance than trials, she also makes it clear that this conviction does not remove the pain of seeing others suffer. “I mean there must be a whole world of difference between suffering oneself and seeing one’s neighbor suffer” (29 April 1579).

Thus, she orders that the sick, especially, should be cared for with fullness of love, concern for their comfort, and compassion.

Kieran Kavanaugh, o.c.d.

The Collected Works, Introduction to the Foundations

Teresa of Avila, St 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The relic of the incorrupt left hand of St. Teresa is venerated in the Church of La Merced under the custody of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Ronda, Spain. This is the same relic that the Prioress of Ronda was forced to hand over to the Communists in 1937; the relic that Generalissimo Franco reportedly slept with and even wore until he died. Image credit: Teresa de la rueca a la pluma

And let's not forget this...

#Venezuela #weapon #illness

https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2026/01/12/how-20-us-soldiers-made-hundreds-of-venezuelan-fighters-puke-blood-delta-force-massacred-maduro-s-guards-claims-survivor.html

‘Miracle’ supplement recalled nationwide over death, diarrhea risks

A supplement described as from a “miracle tree” by a nutritional therapist has been recalled because of possible contamination with Salmonella, which can cause death in vulnerable people. Ambrosia Brands LLC volunt…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #CDC #fda #Foodpoisoning #foodrecall #Illness #nutrition #Salmonella
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2514056/miracle-supplement-recalled-nationwide-over-death-diarrhea-risks/

The incredible 35-year love story of Chetil Preseedharan and Bindu, a testament to unwavering devotion and care https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/inspiring-couple-love-vadakara-devotion-by2uakwv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #lovestory #devotion #illness #family

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

In his infinite goodness, God invented rheumatism and gout and dyspepsia, cancers and neuralgia, and is still inventing new diseases. Not only this, but he decreed the pangs of mothers, and that by the gates of love and life should crouch the dragons of death and pain. Fearing that some might, by accident, live too long, he planted poisonous vines and herbs that looked like food. He caught the serpents he had made and gave them fangs and curious organs, ingeniously devised to distill and deposit the deadly drop. He changed the nature of the beasts, that they might feed on human flesh. He cursed a world, and tainted every spring and source of joy. He poisoned every breath of air; corrupted even light, that it might bear disease on every ray; tainted every drop of blood in human veins; touched every nerve, that it might bear the double fruit of pain and joy; decreed all accidents and mistakes that maim and hurt and kill, and set the snares of life-long grief, baited with present pleasure, — with a moment’s joy. Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears. And yet all this is but the prelude, the introduction, to the infinite revenge of the good God. Increase and multiply all human griefs until the mind has reached imagination’s farthest verge, then add eternity to time, and you may faintly tell, but never can conceive, the infinite horrors of this doctrine called “The Fall of Man.”

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #Christianity #curse #death #disease #divineanger #divinejustice #divinelove #divineplan #divinepunishment #divineretribution #divinewill #divinewrath #Eden #fallofman #foreordainment #GardenofEden #Genesis #God #humancondition #illness #mortality #omniscience #originalsin #predestination #problemofsuffering #revenge #suffering #theodicy

A quotation from Horace

Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for MORE.
A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins,
Have never been able to lower the sick man’s fever
Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well
If he plans to enjoy the good things he’s gathered together.
 
[Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet.
Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto doniini deduxit corpore febres,
on animo curas; valeat possessor oportet,
Si conpertatis rebus bene cogitat uti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82038/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #avarice #cure #enough #greed #illness #mentalillness #money #more #property #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth

02/12/2026
Hot Toddy; to tea bag or not to tea bag?
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16945
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#HotToddy,#illness,#SickDay

Nebraska school district shuts down due to number of sick students

Shelby-Rising City Public Schools, located about an hour north of Lincoln, closed through the end of the week due to several sicknesses plaguing students.
About a quarter of the 400 students were absent Tuesday, prompting the district to cancel school Wednesday and Thursday.

#illness #Nebraska #health

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-school-district-shuts-down-due-to-number-of-sick-students/

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

Woman With MS Educates And Empowers The Chronic #Illness
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/youtube.html#56

Vaibhav Suryavanshi emerges as #India's highest
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/sports.html#14

#Jamaica Integrity Commission moves against 10 public
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Georgetown

I Tried These Turbocharged Sunglasses at #Disney and
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#17

Scope upgrades #Cyprus’ credit rating to ‘A’
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Nicosia

#China's Gu reflects on resilience and pressure
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/cities.html#35a