From a statement made by Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg dated Thursday, August 12, 2021:
Mercy is operating at near capacity with significantly strained resources. While we continue to balance outpatient surgical cases with our normal acute practices, the dramatic increase in COVID rates at the community level, has translated into an enormous rise in Emergency Department utilization, and a high volume of infected unvaccinated patients being admitted to the hospital for intensive treatment. Continue reading
Many of you have been asking about the return of the PotHeads group. Here it is. As of August 17th, the PotHeads will return. We will be meeting monthly on the 3rd Tuesday at 1:30 in the dining room.
The Landscape Committee members were hard at work on Friday morning clearing out the stingers in the blackberry vines to make it easier and safer for you to pick those yummy berries. Thank our volunteers when you see them. You will be able to identify those wonderful, dedicated workers by their battle scars and poison oak rashes.
Note: The berries are beautiful and ripening very fast. With the heat and lack of water the berries may not last as long as a normal berry season, so don’t wait too long.
Rita and I had a wedding photography business. We worked everywhere from the firehouse to the country club. After working one very long day at a country club, we found out that “ the help “ , dj and photographers were not to be fed. We didn’t care much for that so we took a few “ candid “ shots of the bride demonstrating her nastiness. We were fed. Blackmail? Hell yes ! 
It has been quite awhile since I last reported on my Cancer journey. There was supposed to be a story on the radiation treatments that were to follow the chemo. I bought the creams and lotion. Dug out the most comfortable bras. But continued to do my research. Not just with Dr. Google but with a couple of support groups I found on Facebook. My concerns were my age, (I am the oldest member in one of those group,). I am very fair skinned, I will say that I can get a sunburn from 100 wt bulb, not true, but you understand. And it is the left boob that is involved, so close to my heart and I am also an a-fib patient. I read all the directions and tips. Did you know that a cabbage leaf makes a perfect bra liner? Keeps all the ointment and lotions on the boob and not your clothes. But then I read from two different sources that radiation on seniors, 70yrs plus, had little or no benefits. That is when I decided to refuse it. One Dr. admitted it would not change my numbers, and my Primary Dr. was glad. Said there was no reason to put myself through that.