Community Corner
Mapquest on Your Finger: Etsy Seller Gives La Mesa a Ring
Also: Recognizing aging norms and Sharp Grossmont Hospital makes TV history with live birth
Who wouldn’t want La Mesa at your fingertips? Etsy seller Victoria Camp Designs is relying on someone’s love for San Diego to prompt the purchase of a ring featuring a vintage map of San Diego.
The map, which includes La Mesa, is coated in multiple glazes. The ring base is silver plated and adjustable to fit a variety of fingers.
Victoria decided to start offering map rings after realizing how many map pieces were left over from cutting sections for similarly created map cuff bracelets. As stated on its site: “In an effort to reduce waste and continue recycling the map, I have started cutting out circular sections of these small 'leftover' map pieces that are perfect for map rings!”
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It costs just $15 plus $3 for shipping to have San Diego and most of La Mesa wrapped around your finger.
SENIOR MOMENTS: Forgetting where you put your keys may be normal, but forgetting where you live is another story. Program coordinator Andrea Holmberg of Sharp Grossmont Hospital Senior Resource Center will present “The Aging Process: What is Normal, What is Not” Feb. 23 at the Grossmont Healthcare District’s Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library.
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The session, which runs from 10 to 11 a.m., will include a discussion about factors that affect how we age, normal changes to be expected, and how to increase well-being later in life. Handouts will be provided and refreshments will be served.
OH, BABY!: Speaking of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, last month its women’s health center took part in the first-ever live taping of a birth on daytime TV for ABC’s The Doctors. John Missanelli, a Sharp Grossmont Hospital-affiliated OB/GYN, narrated the birth for the show’s hosts and in-studio audience through an Internet feed, while Yvonne Goff, a Sharp Grossmont Hospital-affiliated OB/GYN, delivered the baby via C-section.
A couple from Santee welcomed their first baby on the show, which aired Feb. 7. If you missed it, you can see snippets on the show's website. Some of the video content is for more mature audiences, so viewer discretion is advised.
