Oscar the therapy cat

In July 2007 David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, in the New England Journal of Medicine features an article of Oscar, he started to gain attention. Dr. Dosa never had any intention to  give the people negative thoughts of the cat but just to share the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat. Oscar was adopted and raised in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The hospital is known as a "pet-friendly" facility because there lived six cats including Oscar. But before Oscar became the therapy cat there was also a pet who became the first therapy cat and named Henry(named after Henry J. Steere). Oscar is just an ordinary cat who was gifted with a talent to sense which patient will die.

He was raised to be a therapy cat and it was a success after the staffs noticed that Oscar would curl up to patients who are next to die because Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre is a hospital who treats patients with diseases and illness' which are on the final stages of life. Some explanations say that he observes from the lack of movement of patients or that the cat smells ketones which is the biochemicals released by dying cells. He would make his own rounds like a real doctor, he would sniff the patients and curl up and sleep with them. To whoever he sleep with the staffs would call the patient's family members because of the sign that the patient would die soon. And as predicted, the patient will die for about an hour or so, but im not sure if ever time he does that the patient would really die. Even when he is removed at the patients bed he would stay at the door and meow for protest wanting to get inside and sleep with the patient.Many animal experts and veterinarians say that Oscar may have the smelled the patient or observe the patients lack of movement. But there are also many claims that Oscar has any weird skills. But we don't know what the cat really is. Many thinks that Oscar is the grim reaper or the angel of death but some of the patient's families that Oscar for giving them time to comfort their loved ones in their last hours.No more further studies was researched about Oscar's abilities.

What do you think about Oscar?Is he a miracle or just a big joke? 
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Bullying

 Many kids all over the world are being bullied right now. I was also once bullied too but I moved on really quick.And the bullies became my friends now. I was really glad to overcome being bullied through my confidence. I remember that one time i went home crying and asking my parents if i could just quit school because the bullies gossiped bad things about me all over the class that wasn't even true about me and that time i had no courage to tell my teacher what is happening.It hurt my feelings so much that it made me tear up while i was closing my eyes while praying. After the prayer i rushed home and cried.I had no confidence to fight back because the bullies were the beautiful and popular girls in our class so i thought if i would fight back the boys who like them might just defend for them and i will become the outcast or the exiled person in our class.The next day my mom went to school and reported to the teachers while i was in the computer room. In the afternoon the bullies came and said sorry...i wasn't sure if  we would go on like that. Afterwards one of the bullies became my best friend but the others,i think they are going back being a bully again. But the bullies became my friends. So if you're being bullied be confident to tell them to your teachers or your parents for they will help you. It may affect your studies maybe even your health.Don't just sit there and cry, save yourself .

 How about you? Were you ever been bullied? Whats the worst things they've done to you? Leave a comment below...thank you.

My annual visitor

Here in Manila, we only have two seasons. We have hot & cold, wet & dry or summer and rainy season, whatever. But every time this season comes, this friend of mine I call it friend because it visits me every year and I hate it very much. But I remember my parents hear them say that I have completed my vaccines when I was just a baby.

After I got back from school, it started off just as a sore throat. So I bought strepsils thinking this might prevent the on-going process but did not. Then the next day I woke up in fever, feeling so weak, headache, dizzy, no energy at all. I got FLU. And one thing we noticed in our community, neighbors have also. You can hear coughing and even the medicine at the drug store became out of stock.

After the fever is gone, here comes the sweating...all my towels and t-shirts will be piled up just because of sweat. Imagine my back becomes reddish because of wiping out sweat so many many times...then I feel pain. Good thing there's internet where I can research for cure or if there's no cure at least a soothing words to calm me down.

According to the article I read, the whole way to get rid of the flu is to sweat it out. Get lots of sleep, lots of water, wear flannel pajamas and stay in bed. In other words REST. Just follow the advise, in three days and you'll be fine. Stay at home in 3 days, to really get the flu out of my system. I still had a head-cold for a week, but the flu was gone.