We'll all stop whimpering about living through the Great Recession once Mary Freitas tells us how she got her first job in 1930, at age 16, doing domestic work for $1 a day in Hartford.
That job during the Great Depression also cost her 50 cents each day for the round-trip trolley ride from her New Britain home.
Freitas, 98, still lives in New Britain and still holds firm the beliefs in hard work and accountability that carried her through the 20th century. She demands as much from others, even when someone comes to work for free at the house she built in 1949, with her now-deceased husband, "just the way we wanted it." Read More.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Senior Living: Sleep Sliding Away
by Maria LaPiana
Ann R. of Fairfied was just on the other side of 50 when she first became aware of her sleep. It happened while she was awake.
“I noticed I was dragging all day. I had no energy, and had to take a nap every single day,” she remembers. “It got so I didn’t want to run errands and I started avoiding people because I was too tired to talk to anyone. It got worse. I found I was eating all the wrong things just for the sugar boost.”
It wasn’t until Ann started snoring (“My husband told me it was getting louder but I didn’t believe it until I started waking myself up during the night”) that she put two and too-little sleep together.
She saw her primary care physician and was tested “for all kinds of things—anemia, low blood sugar, etc.” But when those tests all came back negative, they began to explore the possibility that she might have a sleep disorder. Consequently, she saw a specialist who performed a series of diagnostic tests, including overnight observation in a sleep “lab.”
http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/August-2011/Senior-Living-Sleep-Sliding-Away/
Ann R. of Fairfied was just on the other side of 50 when she first became aware of her sleep. It happened while she was awake.
“I noticed I was dragging all day. I had no energy, and had to take a nap every single day,” she remembers. “It got so I didn’t want to run errands and I started avoiding people because I was too tired to talk to anyone. It got worse. I found I was eating all the wrong things just for the sugar boost.”
It wasn’t until Ann started snoring (“My husband told me it was getting louder but I didn’t believe it until I started waking myself up during the night”) that she put two and too-little sleep together.
She saw her primary care physician and was tested “for all kinds of things—anemia, low blood sugar, etc.” But when those tests all came back negative, they began to explore the possibility that she might have a sleep disorder. Consequently, she saw a specialist who performed a series of diagnostic tests, including overnight observation in a sleep “lab.”
http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/August-2011/Senior-Living-Sleep-Sliding-Away/
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