Did you know?

I learned a lot of interesting stuff going through Paramedic school. Well at least I thought they were interesting:)
I remember some of the names of certain parts of the body had really wierd names and interestng details. One thing I learned was the name of the clear jelly/liquid like substance in the eye. The eyeball is fill with a substance called Vitrous Humor (VH). Funny name huh? From what I learned, VH is a clear jelly like substance that fills the eye ball and gives it its round shape. If someone's eye gets punctured (OUCH!) and they lose VH than they will be blind in that eye forever, because VH is the only liquid that the body cannot remake or replace. It is also the only liquid that doesn't spoil or ruin after death. So the medical Examiner will uses a needle and seringe to take some VH from a corpse for testing. The VH will show traces of drugs or other substances that were in the eye at the time of death. Also, do you know what the largest organ of the human body is? (no not just men)
The largest organ is our skin. Yes the skin is an organ. I had that question on a test and i got it right because I remember reading it in my text book and thought it was interesting, so I never forgot it. More later....

Raising children

While raising my kids, I was always afraid of screwing them up. And in someways I may have actually screwed them up, although I desperately didn't want to. I remember always trying to think of ways to bond with them. I thought it would be best to try to think of things that I needed when I was a child growiing up that I didn't receive. And things that did happen to me that wasn't good for me. I realized that my parents were probably just as confused as me. I know that while growing up I really needed more comunication with them. I needed them to explain little things to me. Like show me how to cook or let me help cook. Take me grocery shopping. I usually just stayed at home. I almost feel like they just let me hang in limbo kind of. I had absolutely now worldly clue about anything. And I was a very nieve child. I believed everything people told me. I also got my feelings hurt very easily. Believe it or not, I was an introvert. I was terrified of talking to people. And I didn't have any idea of how the real world really was. I just followed other people and did what they did whether it was right or wrong. I remember being very depressed and sad all of the time in my preteen. I had very low self esteem and low self confidence. I thought I was ugly and hated by everyone. I don't want my children to go through what I did. So as a parent I tried think of what could have made a difference in my childhood. After all your only a kid once. I wanted my kids to have a fun childhood and I wanted to teach them things that would make them wiser growing up. So I tried to give them lot's of attention and make them feel important and worth much more than just a kid to be ignored.