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Many of us have developed high blood pressure, enlarged hearts and heart failure. The one thing that these all have in common is that they can be improved if they have sleep apnea and it is treated. Each time a patient either stops breathing or has their airway partially obstructed it causes an increase in pressure in their chest. This also puts pressure on the chest. The results are obvious...

9 Tips Before THEY Amputate Your Legs Below the Knee! By Dan Wimer, RN, MPLC I am a RN with 22 years of IV knowledge and I have been in the hospital 3 times in the past year. Two of the times I was on the receiving end of poor nursing care. The first stay, in May of 2009, the nurses managed to infect me with Staphylococcus aureus. The nurses at the hospital did not follow established...