Community
Only hours left to win an $800,000.00 home in Red Deer Hospital Lottery
From the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation
Tickets are 90% Sold! Some packages are no longer available, but the most affordable tickets are still up for grabs. Click below for more information. And check out that beautiful home!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Canadian junior hockey team invites 41 players to development camp
The Results have Convinced Me
I have been diabetic for a while but have never cared much about monitoring it. Finally, my doctor got upset at me and suggested I pay more attention and referred me to a Family Nurse to help me get focused. The nurse was very understanding and she listened to me. She made suggestions. However, I wasn’t really convinced this would make any difference. She asked me to write down everything I ate or drank and take my blood sugars regularly and write them down. I started to see trends and the errors in my ways. I decreased my intake of sweets and pop.
My A1C went from 15.8 to 7.1. I got more involved in activities. Now I walk 10,000 steps almost every day. The walking seems to help me keep everything else in line. And then the nurse suggested that I start doing regular blood pressure readings and I saw my blood pressure improve. An average reading for me now is 122/54. My doctor is really happy. My pant size decreased also. I was forced to retire a few years ago due to back issues, but I find when I exercise regularly I have much less back pain. I no longer needed pain killers.
You can see how I have become convinced that I can make a big difference in my health through my lifestyle choices. I would highly recommend anyone not paying attention to their diabetes to see a Family Nurse.
Read more success stories from real people.
Click to learn more about the Primary Care Network.
from the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation
Peter von Tiesenhausen, a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 2015 Distinguished Artist, spent the past six months hunkered down in Demmit Alberta building a deluxe playground for the community center – and musing about connectedness, the importance of social interaction and his role as an artist in the social contract.
Peter’s last project prior to the March 2020 COVID-19 lockdown was the installation of Things I Knew to be True in the newly renovated Stanley A. Milner Public Library, part of the City of Edmonton’s public art collection.
Watch Live: Premier Kenney declares state of emergency in Alberta
New measures expected in Alberta and pandemic weight gain: In The News for Nov. 24
Alberta researcher gets award for COVID-19 mask innovation
A complete list of Alberta’s New Enhanced Emergency Measures
-
Central Alberta1 day agoNew home for the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre
-
COVID-191 day ago17 hospitalized in Central Alberta, 4 in ICU with COVID19 – Update from Mike York
-
Alberta1 day agoAlberta’s chief medical health officer publicly criticizes staffer who leaked info
-
Alberta1 day agoAs Alberta’s COVID-19 cases rise, so does tension over world junior championship
-
Alberta24 hours ago‘No crying’: Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic
-
Opinion11 hours agoMaking Your Opinion Known: To Petition or Not to Petition?
-
Alberta1 day agoPublic health officers walk fine line between public and politicians, scholars say
-
Alberta1 day ago
PETER VON TIESENHAUSEN’S EPIC ART