ME-as I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called: "LIFE"!

                                 Message of Love On My Hospital Room Board I am still in the hospital. Being a patient in the hospital, I face much more than life and death struggles. I am forced to realize my own mortality. Being very sick, the   indefinte   seems to jump out at me! The hospital is definitely not a fun place. I would like to tell you something though. I am cared for by some of the most compassionate, caring, loving, intelligent and amazing people who work at my hospital. Someone   working at the hospital left this message of love   on my hospital room board. Though ill, and not where I want to be. I’m blessed and I am where I have to be, for now. With sincerity, love, graciousness and gratitude,            Evelyn Pinto            July 29, 2019

                             Nora's Gifts                                                             Nora’s Gifts I have been recently discharged from the Medical ICU at the hospital I go for my hospital care. I am still in the hospital, on a medical telemetry unit, where I continue to receive treatment and care from hospital personnel. This has been a traumatic ordeal for me. It begins with 1 st being sick enough that I had to be in the ICU, then spending 2 days and 2 nights in the ICU. I am still trying to process it all. What I do remember frightens me and what I don’t remember terrifies me even more. In the midst of this dark, life threatening turmoil, I’ve been shown an overabundance of compassion, kindness, generosity and love. These magnificent feelings toward me came from the nurses, doctors, hospital chaplains, respiratory therapists, patient care assistants and all of the people who have been part of my treatment and care in the hospital

I don’t know how I got through this acute health crisis. I don’t remember much of this traumatic ordeal. I do know that I was in the Medical ICU for 2 days and 2 nights. You see, I had Pneumonia + I was in Septic Shock, with barely a blood pressure. I had an access IV line in my neck, sutures in my wrist (for blood pressure and blood gas), a catheter and other medical paraphernalia in me and coming out of me. The doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and other hospital personnel worked with efficiency, experience and competence to save my life. I was given an abundance of fluids, several IV antibiotics, medications to raise my blood pressure + other treatments and medications. I remember very little of what happened to me of those 2 days and nights in the medical ICU, at the hospital I go for my medical care. I am, now, having difficulties processing what happened to me. I do know this medical dilemma happened quickly. It began with me being abnormally

I’m “HOME!” I was discharged from the hospital last night. I will continue my recovery, from this aggressive pneumonia, at home. Home is where I am most comfortable, in my own apartment, where my friends are, and close to my family and other friends. This hospital admission has been difficult, traumatic and needless to say, I was not at my best. I was extremely sick and I learned that when a person is that sick, emotions are all over the place. I still do not feel well. I am exhausted, fatigued, wiped out, low on energy and in pain. Recovering from pneumonia takes time and if you knew me, you’d know that I’d want to be all well, yesterday! Patience is not a virtue that easily comes to me. Being sick and suffering from this pneumonia, needless to say I am utterly impatient. Lord, please give me patience, strength, courage, stamina and all I need to recover from this illness. God, I know I cannot do it on my own. As I ready myself for today, my 1

It’s a rainy, thunder filled and lightning emerged evening. It is also my 6 th day as a patient in the hospital. Yes, there have definitely been difficulties and trials for me. This hospital admission has been no different. The power in the city went out. This included the hospital where I am staying and where I’m receiving care and treatment for an aggressive pneumonia. This experience of the power outage yesterday was frightening, especially since I knew little of what was going on. When my heart monitor stopped working, I was more than a bit anxious. My needed oxygen continued to flow, which I was grateful for. For hours, much of the power that keeps the hospital going, did not work. Case example, there was no air conditioning for approximately 7 hours. Being a person with, among other medical issues besides serious respiratory problems, air conditioning is a necessity. It was devastating to be in the hospital and without air conditioning on

I am in the hospital (again). I have pneumonia (again). I am being treated medications and treatments inclusive of IV antibiotics. My fever was extremely high. I am sick, tired, weak, totally exhausted, in pain, experiencing a potent headache and I’m in the hospital. I realize I am where I need to be for right now. I am also in a more magnificent place, in the Mighty and Protective Hands of God. And there, my good friends, is no better place or no better protection, than in God’s Hands!                Evelyn Pinto                 July 2, 2019