Good deeds done today

[RoyceConnors]

OMG... someone needs to smack the back of my head.

I spent the day over hanging out with a friend whose just out of the hospital from a knee replacement. Her partner left ne of the kids home to help her today so at 9 am I get a text... I'm hungry & the boys doesn't cook. So I packed up some food & took her over granola bars, bread, ham & swiss then make her a sandwiches. 4 barking dogs, 1 hyper 12 year old, 3 chickens, a bitchy cat and her screaming over a loud TV.

She's crazy. I don't cook for myself & she thinks I am gonna run over to make her bacon & eggs??? Then she only ate 3 bites and was feeling sick from post surgery ick.

some people don't understand the words appreciation or thank you. HUGS

 

[RoyceConnors]

I was in the elevator to head up to the 2nd floor for therapy and heard a loud voice call to hold the door. I opened it and a paramedic crew were coming in and had to get someone who collapsed. I went past my floor to the 3rd where she was and held the elevator for 10 mins while they stabilized her for transport. I rode down to the first and held the door from closing then back up to my floor.

NO biggie, just made it go faster and smoother for them.

 

[starrynightin64]

some people don't understand the words appreciation or thank you. HUGS

She was just wanting the attention but it took me a while to figure that out.

I was in the elevator to head up to the 2nd floor for therapy and heard a loud voice call to hold the door. I opened it and a paramedic crew were coming in and had to get someone who collapsed. I went past my floor to the 3rd where she was and held the elevator for 10 mins while they stabilized her for transport. I rode down to the first and held the door from closing then back up to my floor.

NO biggie, just made it go faster and smoother for them.

YOU ROCK!!!

 

[starrynightin64]

no one doing anymore good deeds???

I did the last big Stealth Elf mission today dropping off hams for the First Responder Christmas dinner
& 2 warm coffee cakes straight out of the oven to the Fire Dept.

I got me some EMT hugs today!

 

[SlightlyGone]

no one doing anymore good deeds???

I did the last big Stealth Elf mission today dropping off hams for the First Responder Christmas dinner
& 2 warm coffee cakes straight out of the oven to the Fire Dept.

I got me some EMT hugs today!

Today ... none ... but the day isn't over ... last week I went to the 7/11 to buy beer (a shorter walk hurts the body less) ... and this lady was outside, homeless, old ... as I was leaving she asked me for money for a coffee .... I didn't have cash, only card ... told her, 'no' and started walking away ... then I turned around and looked at her and thought to myself, 'that will probably be you one day' so I told her, 'lets get you a cup of coffee' ... and so we went inside and then she wanted a sandwich ... haha ... I said okay, I paid for a coffee and sandwich and the guy behind the counter who knows me by the 2am cut off limit finally spoke to me ... his words, 'God bless you sir.'

That's a good deed, not today ... but recent.

 

[starrynightin64]

in today's paper here

USF medical students taking talents to streets to care for homeless

TAMPA — Before they ever don white coats and roam the halls of the nation’s hospitals, some medical students at the University of South Florida say they are learning the most important lessons of their careers on the streets of downtown Tampa.

For a year and a half, about a dozen students from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine have met biweekly on a graffiti-covered parking lot at Franklin and Estelle streets before fanning out to deliver free medical care to the homeless. The Tampa Bay Street Medicine Team, modeled after groups across the country, brings a supervising volunteer physician, physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner from the college to help in extreme cases, but the rest is left to the students.

Last year, the team provided health services to almost 500 homeless patients.

Perhaps the most important service they provide, apart from such necessities as socks and toiletries, over-the-counter medicines, and health checkups, are one-on-one conversations with a population inherently distrustful of medical professionals, the students said.

After building that trust through months of conversation, fourth-year medical student Eric Monaco, 26, persuaded a man who was clipped by a bus to go to the hospital to have his injured arm examined. There they discovered a pressure buildup that could have led to amputation. Instead, the man had minor surgery. Another woman eventually felt comfortable enough to tell Monaco she is HIV positive, and she even came to him with questions when she had diarrhea.

“That normally wouldn’t be such a big deal, but for someone who is HIV positive, it could mean a life-threatening infection,” said Monaco, a founding member of the group and current co-president. “Being able to talk to her about that and counsel her is huge. It’s incredible to see someone actually trust your advice and know that you’re doing this because you love them, not because you’re forcing something on them.”

The students encounter stories like Monaco’s on every run. They examine people with chronic diseases that have gone untreated for decades. They treat people who are angry at society and unable to afford medical care, said Abby Pribish, 23, upcoming vice president of the street team. Sometimes they call ambulances for people who have overdosed on synthetic marijuana or treat people who have contracted scabies from sleeping in homeless shelters. They have diabetes from eating too much free bread, or bad muscular skeletal pain from sleeping on the street. The students don’t give out food, rides or cell phone calls, but they do conduct complete medical checkups for each patient, clean wounds and teach basic hygiene practices.

The return on that short-time investment is tenfold, Pribish said. After a few minutes of conversation with the street team and care packages of condoms and toothpaste, many of the homeless patients lining the streets on a recent frigid Friday evening thanked the students with hugs and tears. “It can be demoralizing in medical school because everybody is looking out for No. 1, everybody is studying all the time, but it has been really rewarding getting to meet all my classmates who are similarly minded and really want to go into medicine to help people,” Pribish said. “It’s wonderful to get that consistent reminder of why we’re doing this.”

Pribish, a second-year medical student pursuing emergency or internal medicine, has been involved with the group since shortly after it launched. She remembers the overwhelming intimidation she felt on her first run as a medical student. Sometimes the problems can be overwhelming, she said. But founding members give advice that translates to the streets and the doctor’s table: Meet people where they are, get down on their level when you talk to them and look them in the eye. Even if they are reluctant to provide medical history or don’t want a handout, ask how they are doing and listen to what they say.

Even a little help can make a world of difference, said fourth-year medical student and founding team member Michael Manasterski, 27.

“It’s an opportunity to step outside the context of medicine we’re used to practicing and some of the frustrations that keep you from connecting with these folks on a meaningful level,” said Manasterski, who is studying psychology. “We’re kind of making house calls for the homeless and meeting them where they’re at. Often its poor mental health that compounds their problems, and we try to be there to listen.”

Volunteer physicians not only donate time, but resources and advocacy for the group among their influential colleagues.

They also help the students connect the homeless population to other resources in community, such as clinics that provide services on a sliding pay scale and The Well homeless community center on North Florida Avenue. The team also has recently partnered with the USF student organization Project Downtown, which provides food and water to homeless in the area.

The street team and other homeless advocacy groups can use all the help they can get, Monaco said.

Tampa has long struggled with its rate of homelessness, which just three years ago was the highest in the nation. In February almost 2,000 homeless were counted in the area by the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative. It was the disparities and diversity among Tampa’s residents that encouraged Monaco to move to USF from Gainesville to pursue his degree.

“We run into all kinds of people doing their own little things, but I think the big thing missing is a unifying effort because, from a health standpoint, the most effective treatment is getting someone in a stable situation with full social services support, and that requires a lot more than whatever we can give out here,” Monaco said. “Some people you know right away they aren’t able to adjust well in society, but then there are others who say they were never homeless before they came to Tampa, and those are the ones who make me think, why here? What is it about our community that causes people to fall through the cracks?”

Still, the personal relationships the team forms can be achieved without bureaucracy or major funding, Monaco said. It’s those small conversations held under Tampa’s street lamps or rumbling overpasses, in the rain and in the cold, that make the trek through the city’s most economically depressed areas a worthwhile way to spend a Friday night, Monaco said. Even when the highlight of those conversations is a question about diarrhea.

http://www.tbo.com/health/budding-usf-docs-taking-their-talents-to-the-streets-20151223/

 

[Iceprincess12]

I posted in someone's thread that wanted to get pm's and they received 2!!! He was thankful, I was happy for him. I didn't send either of the pm's

 

[starrynightin64]

I posted in someone's thread that wanted to get pm's and they received 2!!! He was thankful, I was happy for him. I didn't send either of the pm's

very cool!
That was a nice Christmas surprise

 

[derek2jack]

Helped someone at the gym today know how to use one of the machines there. They had a big smile and very thankful (I hope) for my help I offered. I made sure to wish them a Merry Christmas as well!

 

[tolyk]

Volunteered to take a coworkers shift on Christmas Eve.

 

[Iceprincess12]

very cool!
That was a nice Christmas surprise

Thank you! I try to post lit good deeds

 

[starrynightin64]

Volunteered to take a coworkers shift on Christmas Eve.

That was so awesome of you to do that.
There are not many people who would do that for others...

 

[starrynightin64]

Helped someone at the gym today know how to use one of the machines there. They had a big smile and very thankful (I hope) for my help I offered. I made sure to wish them a Merry Christmas as well!

Dude where were you when I needed to figure that monkey stuff out!!!?!
Awesome. Keep an eye out for more people like me who have no clue & could get hurt!

 

[Leigh81]

Slim pickings today. I guess making breakfast for my hubby & GF.

L

 

[igoliquid]

I bought milk, bread and eggs for the old lady next door so that she didn't have to walk up and down the stairs. No elevator in the building.

She gave me cookies when I returned

 

[cascadiabound]

We are contributing today towards a fund to remove a swastika painted on a bronze statue at our local synagogue on Christmas eve.
I am so saddened that this vandalism occurred in my community and I want to express my solidarity and support to my Jewish friends and neighbors that this kind of hateful symbolism is not okay.
I think this barely counts as a good deed. An attempt to smear away at some of the darkness and restore things to right.

 

[sogrl90]

Took my elderly neighbors trash to the dumpster for her and volunteered to babysit my nephew and niece tonight so my sister and brother-in-law can have date night.

 

[derek2jack]

Took my elderly neighbors trash to the dumpster for her and volunteered to babysit my nephew and niece tonight so my sister and brother-in-law can have date night.

That's awesome! Way to go being the best person you can.

 

[sogrl90]

That's awesome! Way to go being the best person you can.

Thanks.

The neighbor gave me lemon bars and the nephew and niece are my hearts..so its a win for me.

 

[starrynightin64]

We are contributing today towards a fund to remove a swastika painted on a bronze statue at our local synagogue on Christmas eve.
I am so saddened that this vandalism occurred in my community and I want to express my solidarity and support to my Jewish friends and neighbors that this kind of hateful symbolism is not okay.
I think this barely counts as a good deed. An attempt to smear away at some of the darkness and restore things to right.

I think you are awesome for helping step up to fix it back.
We had the Nam wall attacked in DC.
Some Ass hats took acid and ran splattering it along the wall messing up as many names as they could.
Seriously.. the kind of karma that will come back on them is well deserved.

 

[starrynightin64]

Not an easy good deed day today.

Tried to kick some butt for 3 employees who were left grossly understaffed by a company who should have known better. I reported it to their corporate and also my insurance company

Got a surprise visit from my favorite cousin and her family down here on vacation. Sent them home with some of my art and they also took a box for my mom for her Xmas & birthday. Then ran a drop off to the post office for a sick friend so her eBay sales were shipped out on time.

 

[starrynightin64]

One of my friends posted this today...
We need to keep an eye out for our older people...


In line at Winn Dixie yesterday,I witnessed an rather older very thin ragity ( I just made that a word). His belt on the last hole,proubly made by him, counting out change. Than the cashier started taking stuff out of his bag. Pasta , spaghetti sauce. All stuff to make a meal to last for awhile. Put it back in his bag Ma'amI said I got this. We all been there, I said to the elderly gentleman. Happy New Year. As I left the store he was tying his groceries to his bike. Remember , to still try and do a good deed once on a while..

 

[iamincognito45]

Had breakfast at IHOP this morning with a friend and left a 50% tip. I always do when I eat at a diner. Those ladies work harder than waitresses at high end restaurants and don't make a third the money in tips. She needs that money more than I do. And I am fortunate enough to have plenty.

 

[RubenesqueAphrodite]

I bailed a friend out of jail so he could be home for Christmas last week. Yesterday, I sent some $$ to another friend who is sick, missed work, and down to about $10 to last until the 8th.

I know, I'm an idiot, but, they both appreciated the help.

 

[Bigcoat]

I have had a twinkle put in my eye.