There are so many great health stories swirling around the press, but I just have not been up to blogging. I’m lucky that I can walk up and down the stairs without getting too out of breath. Being sick really sucks, which is why I probably just kept ignoring the fact that I was getting sick, hoping that it would just vanish.

I’m managing to get my medical writing work done, albeit slower than normal. But it is still an effort to do anything else. I guess all those weeks of lost sleep are catching up with me, as well as my body screaming that I need to rest so it can continue healing.

But here’s something for weekend reading. This sounds like a really weird case, and as usual in a mainstream media story, there is a lot that remains unsaid.

From AP:

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — For months, the nurses complained that they were subject to demeaning and unfair working conditions — not what they were promised when they came to America from the Philippines in search of a better life. So they abruptly quit.

But in doing so, they put more than their careers at risk: Prosecutors hit them with criminal charges for allegedly jeopardizing the lives of terminally ill children they were in charge of watching.

The 10 nurses and the attorney who advised them were charged with conspiracy and child endangerment in what defense lawyers say is an unprecedented use of criminal law in a labor dispute. If convicted of the misdemeanor offenses, they face up to a year in jail on each of 13 counts, and could lose their nursing licenses and be deported.