Peng Zhang on November 21st, 2009

We went to the H1N1 clinic in Pickering Town Center for the vaccine on Saturday. We left home around 2:10pm as we knew the clinic would close at 4:00pm and Sundays are not open.
We were given some foam hand cleanser by staff at the door who were providing information and doing some prelimiary screening. We [...]

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Peng Zhang on September 13th, 2009

I have been toying with the idea of joining a fitness club because it will benefit my health and also because such membership cost can be 50% reimbursed by the company I work at. The problem is that the one facility I like out of several I visited in the last several weeks is like [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 15th, 2009

I have been a non-believer of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). But today a young western TCM practitioner, for the first time ever, explained TCM in a way that made some sense to me. She is LizBeth, if I got her name correct. The scene is a bit funny – a western girl trying to explain [...]

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Peng Zhang on June 14th, 2009

I took Snow to Ashcott Veterinary Clinic past noon. The doctor gave her two shots: one for rabies and the other for several other common dog diseases. He also cleaned his ears and applied an ointment in her ears. So the total bill for the ointment and vaccine shots came to $93 something.
This clinic is [...]

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Actual swine flu cases in Canada should be much higher than what is announced. This is because they are not even testing for it. If a person has flu symptons and sees a family doctor, they are not tested to see whether they have swine flu or regular flu unless they have other complications like [...]

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Peng Zhang on June 7th, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, his temperature measured at 38.8 at one point. Then he took Tylanon at around 5:00pm. Around bed time yesterday evening, his temperature was 37.2. And today his temperature stayed around 37.1 to 37.3 at various points.
He appeared recovered from the flu, and wants to go to school Monday. He played games and watched [...]

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