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

  TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL I was at home, sick with troublesome and worrisome symptoms, symptoms which accelerated with time and were progressively worsening. I was gasping for breath frequently. I would be wiped out doing simple tasks that just a month ago, I did with little effort. Movement and mobility became difficult and required a significantly increased amount of effort and stamina. I tired easily and I needed to rest often. I rested many times throughout the day. I slept for hours after a visit with a friend, after eating a meal in our building’s dining room with my friends and after attempting to accomplish simple tasks. I was also totally exhausted after participating in any activity. All of the things I enjoyed, especially being with my friends, became less frequent because it took so much out of me. It reached the point where even talking, which I have always had a zest for, was my worst enemy, where I was getting increasingly out of breath short...

To my loving family and my dear friends, I am still an inpatient at the hospital I go to for my medical care. I want to thank every one of you for your prayers, kind words, your love and your concern. All of you had sent a light into the midst of being so sick in the hospital. I feel and I know that God has not only been with me in my struggles, my God sees me. I only wish my assigned doctor would honestly talk with me, preferably with visual prompts that I would comprehend better than using words that are confusing, unsettling and weird. I, being a computer geek, follow the only recourse that’s available to me. I go onto my own My Chart account and I read all of my doctor’s, nurses’ and everyone that’s connected with me in this hospital admission, well, I read all of their notes. Then there is this magic tool called “Google” where I research all of the problems that I am said to be plagued with and go on from there. This would not be the optimal way of knowing my own medical condition...