Prevent Getting Staph Infection – Health Care Workers Getting Sloppy!

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During a telephone conversation on February 25, 2012, with a very close friend whom I will refer to here as Martha (for privacy reasons), I discovered that she is suffering from a staph infection (staphylococcus aureus).

Martha had been to visit a local therapeutic clinic only a few days ago, and then developed what first appeared to be a nasty rash. Not realizing what she had contracted, Martha neglected to visit her medical doctor straight away.

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Rescuing a Recipe Gone Bad… – TIP for Saving Food!

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Being only about 16 years of age at the time, my mother let me go ahead and mix up a BIG batch of Banana Bread… which I had done on several occasions.

So much so that this recipe became one of my “specialties”… I loved to bake!

Having several mouths to feed and raising a rather large family on one income, my parents resorted to cost cutting measures such as purchasing things like every day baking products in bulk.

My father had re-modelled a cabinet to fit a small hallway just off the cooking kitchen.

This cabinet had two large bins in it, one which held a large bag of flour, the other held a large bag of icing sugar and brown sugar.

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